Adult film star Stormy Daniels, who has been embroiled in a legal battle with President Trump over an alleged extramarital affair, has expanded her lawsuit to the president’s personal attorney Michael Cohen who she says has defamed her for insinuating she has lied.
The amended complaint on Monday claims that a previous statement from Cohen implies that Daniels has lied about her relationship with Trump — a development that comes just after Daniels’ interview with CBS’s ‘60 Minutes” aired on Sunday.
“Just because something isn’t true doesn’t mean that it can’t cause you harm or damage,” Cohen said in a statement on Feb. 13.
As a result, the amendment claims that Cohen’s statement has defamed her by suggesting she has been dishonest, according to the Washington Post.
Previously, it was revealed that Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 in hush money so she would not discuss her alleged relationship with Trump. Daniels signed a nondisclosure agreement in 2016, but filed a lawsuit earlier this month claiming that it should be nullified because Trump didn’t sign it.
The amendment on Monday also argues that the confidentiality agreement was unlawful since it did not include the signature and says the payment disobeyed federal campaign laws.
Earlier this month, Cohen accused Daniels of violating the nondisclosure agreement 20 times — and argued he should collect at least $20 million in damages as a result.
The White House has denied Trump was ever involved in an affair with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.
In the “60 Minutes” interview Sunday, Daniels claimed that she was threatened by a man in a Las Vegas parking lot in 2011 to keep quiet about the relationship, just after she tried to sell the story to a tabloid.
“Leave Trump alone. Forget the story,” Daniels said the man told her. She said he also told her she had a beautiful daughter and it would “be a shame if something happened to her mom.”
In response, Cohen’s lawyer Brent Blakely urged Daniels to cease making “false and defamatory statement” and said that Cohen “had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with any such person or incident, and does not even believe that any such person exists, or that such an incident ever occurred,” according to the Washington Post.
The amendment to the lawsuit does not mention the incident Daniels referred to in the interview.
