So Stormy Daniels returns to the limelight as the woman linked to Donald Trump’s possible arrest. She was widely talked about in 2018 when she said she was threatened not to tell about her sexual relationship, which she had 12 years earlier with the tycoon-turned-president.
Stormy Daniels, pseudonym of Stephanie Clifford, has become famous around the world for admitting to having had a sexual relationship with the future President of the United States, Donald Trump, and in October 2016 (a month before the election) $130,000 from Michael Cohen, the Donald’s attorney at the time, not to reveal the news.
But how did Stephanie Clifford, an aspiring Louisiana journalist, become Stormy Daniels, the hardcore actress who got Trump in trouble and sent her former attorney, Michael Cohen, to jail? We know that she grew up with her mother, divorced, with serious economic problems – sometimes even without electricity because she couldn’t pay the bills, she says in her biography Full Disclosure. As a young girl at school, she ran the institute newspaper, a dream that was soon shattered. Her debut in the world of porn comes when she was a minor: when she was 17, a stripper friend of hers persuaded her to do a cameo on stage with her at a club in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. But she likes it so much that she is signed right away. From the apprenticeship in the club to the red-light cinema: Stephanie /Stormy was the star in over 150 erotic films. Equipped with entrepreneurial skills, she also became a director, screenwriter and producer. From 2003 to 2010, she married three fellow actors one after the other. In 2011 she had a daughter with the third, Brandon Miller. Two years earlier she had tried to leave the hard world behind by jumping into politics: she ran with the Republicans for the Senate in Louisiana, but withdrew at the last moment.
At that time, the affair with Trump was already over: the two are said to have met in 2006, when the New York tycoon was already married to Melania and the future First Lady had just given birth to her son Barron. The story surfaced in 2018 when the Wall Street Journal reported that the president’s personal attorney paid Stormy $130,000 never to tell her story. But the actress has already been chased by other newspapers because the rumor had been circulating among her colleagues for some time. Stormy Daniels spoke up, in part because the agreement she paid to keep her mouth shut was never signed by Trump, so it wasn’t valid, her attorney Mike Avenatti said. The case heated up when, despite the President’s attempts to block the broadcast, Stormy agreed to an interview on CBS and revealed that she was approached by a stranger in a Las Vegas parking lot, whom she threatened to harm her mother, if she did. Don’t leave Trump alone.
After managing to pin Trump down and send his attorney to jail, Stormy Daniels’ latest “victim” is his (now former) attorney Mike Avenatti, a controversial California attorney. The woman accused him of cheating on her by stealing nearly $300,000 paid by a publisher as an advance on the $800,000 for her memoir Full Disclosure. Money Avenatti used to lease a Ferrari and for expenses indicted to be personal. Last year, while already in prison on another fraud conviction, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison.