Former president of the United States Donald Trump is facing criminal charges over hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels to avoid a scandal ahead of the 2016 US election. He was indicted this Thursday.
Here are five facts about Stormy Daniels.
- Stormy Daniels is an adult actress whose legal name is Stephanie Gregory Clifford.
- According to her, she met Donald Trump during a golf tournament in July 2006 and the two had what Stormy Daniels said: “may have been the least impressive sex id ever had”. She made the claims in her book “Full Disclosure”.
- Stormy Daniels has a daughter and got married for the fourth time last year to adult film actor Barrett Blade. She grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and started working at strip clubs during high school to support herself financially, according to The Guardian.
- The adult star was raised by her mother after her parents got divorced. Stormy Daniels, in her 2018 memoir, wrote that she was neglected by her family and was sexually abused at the age of nine by an older man, reported Al Jazeera. In 2009, Stormy Daniels announced her plans to contest the Louisiana Senate seat in the 2010 US Senate election.
- Donald Trump's personal lawyer admitted that he arranged a $130,000 "hush money" payment to Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 US presidential election to cover up the former president's 2006 sexual encounter with her.
