Stormy Daniels ordered to pay Trump $120,000 in approved prices. Here’s why

Stormy Daniels, whose precise determine is Stephanie Clifford, alleges she had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006 and was paid $130,000 as part of a non-disclosure settlement days sooner than the 2016 presidential election.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Apr 5, 2023 16:23 IST

Stormy Daniels ought to pay virtually $122,000 of Donald Trump’s approved prices. a courtroom dominated on Tuesday (Photo: AP)

By Associated Press: Stormy Daniels ought to pay virtually $122,000 of Donald Trump’s approved prices that had been racked up in reference to the porn actor’s failed defamation lawsuit, an appeals courtroom dominated Tuesday. The decision in California obtained right here at in regards to the an identical time that Trump turned the one ex-president to be charged with a felony offense.

On Tuesday, a commissioner for the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals dominated that Trump’s attorneys “reasonably spent” larger than 183 hours on an enchantment of the case nonetheless denied a request for yet another $5,150 in numerous prices on account of it wasn’t itemized.

Trump pleaded not accountable in a New York City courtroom to a 34-count felony indictment accusing him of falsifying enterprise info in a scheme to hush up allegations of extramarital affairs with Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal that broke all through his first White House run.

Daniels, whose precise determine is Stephanie Clifford, alleges she had an affair with Trump in 2006 and was paid $130,000 as part of a non-disclosure settlement days sooner than the 2016 presidential election.

She sued him for defamation after he dismissed her claims of being threatened to take care of quiet regarding the tryst as a “total con job.” A determine threw out the case in 2018.

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In all, Daniels has been ordered to pay larger than $600,000 in Trump’s approved prices, tweeted Harmeet Dillon, one in every of his attorneys throughout the case.

That consists of some $300,000 in authorized skilled’s prices that Daniels beforehand was ordered to pay.

After a federal appeals courtroom upheld that award remaining 12 months, Daniels acknowledged: “I will go to jail before I pay a penny.”

Messages looking for comment from her authorized skilled, Oklahoma lawyer Clark Brewster, weren’t immediately returned after hours Tuesday.

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Apr 5, 2023