Stormy Daniels
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Stormy Daniels (born Stephanie Clifford, March 17, 1979, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, also known as Stormy Waters and simply Stormy, is an American pornographic actress, screenwriter, and director. She chose her stage name to reflect her love of Mötley Crüe whose bassist Nikki Sixx named his son Storm. In 2009, a recruitment effort led her to consider challenging incumbent David Vitter for the 2010 Senate election in her native Louisiana.
In 2018, Daniels became involved in a legal dispute with U.S. president Donald Trump and his attorney Michael Cohen. Trump and his surrogates paid $130,000 hush money to silence Daniels about an affair she says she had with Trump in 2006. Trump's spokespeople have denied the affair and accused Daniels of lying.
Biography
Daniels is an only child whose parents were divorced when she was four. She was subsequently raised by her mother. Daniels attended a magnet school in Louisiana and was the editor of her high school paper.
She began stripping at age 17 at a club in Baton Rouge then expanded to become a feature performer in September of 2000. While working as a feature she met with Devon Michaels, who was doing girl-girl scenes in a pair of upcoming movies-one for Wicked Pictures and one for Sin City, and invited Daniels to accompany her. Daniels accompanied Michaels to her Wicked shoot, where she met Brad Armstrong and co-starred with Michaels in her Sin City scene, which was American Girls Part 2. Afterwards, Armstrong invited Daniels to stay out with him where she continued doing girl-girl only scenes.
Appeared in an episode of Real Sex were she is seen participating in 2001 Miss Nude Great Plains Contest.
In July 2002, she was cast as the lead in a feature film for Wicked called Heat' where she did her first boy-girl scene, and in September of the same year she signed an exclusive contract with Wicked. In 2004, she won the coveted Best New Starlet Award from Adult Video News, which came as a complete surprise to Daniels as she was so sure Jesse Jane would win she made a $500 bet with another porn starlet. From 2004 to 2006 she went on to direct for Wicked while continuing as a leading performer.
She has appeared in several popular men's magazines including Playboy, Hustler, Penthouse, High Society, GQ, and FHM. She has also written for FHM.
She appears in the film The 40-Year-Old Virgin as the main character watches her in the video Space Nuts: Episode 69-Unholy Union. She also plays a Las Vegas Strip lap dancer in Knocked Up, alongside fellow porn star Nautica Thorn. A deleted scene on the Virgin DVD includes her having dinner with producer Seth Rogen in a parody of My Dinner with Andre'.
In early-2007, she appeared in Dirt on the FX Network, where she played a stripper who helps to set up a basketball player played by Rick Fox. Later in 2007, Daniels appeared in Maroon 5's music video for their song "Wake Up Call" as a pole dancer.
She married fellow porn actor Pat Myne in 29 August 2003, and was divorced in 2005.
Legal affairs
- Wikipedia article: Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal
In October 2016, shortly before the presidential election, Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 in hush money to deny that she had an affair with Trump a decade earlier in 2006. Trump's spokespersons have denied the affair and accused Daniels of lying. On behalf of his client, Cohen denied the existence of an affair between Trump and Daniels, but he later stated: "In a private transaction in 2016, I used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford."
On March 6, 2018, Daniels filed a lawsuit against Trump. She said that the non-disclosure agreement that she had signed in reference to the alleged affair was invalid because Trump had never personally signed it. The suit also alleges that Trump's attorney had been trying to intimidate Daniels and "scare her into not talking". A day later, Cohen initiated an "ex parte" arbitration process which resulted in an order that barred Daniels from disclosing "confidential information" related to the non-disclosure agreement. The order itself, which Daniels' lawyers called bogus, was supposed to remain confidential.
In a March 25, 2018, interview with "60 Minutes", Daniels said that she and Trump had sex once, and that later she had been threatened in front of her infant daughter and felt pressured to later sign a non-disclosure agreement.
On April 9, 2018, FBI agents raided Cohen's office and seized emails, tax documents and business records relating to several matters, including payments to Daniels.
On April 30, 2018, Daniels filed a lawsuit against Trump on libel charges because he called her statements "fraud". It related to Trump's statements on Twitter saying that Daniels had invented the story of the man who threatened her after she decided to tell journalists about their affair. In October 2018, the suit was dismissed on First Amendment grounds, and Daniels lost her appeal in August 2020.
In August 2018, Cohen reached a plea deal with prosecutors, saying he paid off Daniels "at the direction of the … candidate" and "for the principal purpose of influencing the election". In September 2018, Cohen offered to invalidate the non-disclosure agreement with Daniels if she would refund the $130,000 Cohen's company paid to her. Lawyers for Trump have declared that Trump will neither enforce the non-disclosure agreement nor contest Daniels' claim that it is invalid.
Columbus, Ohio arrest On July 12, 2018, Daniels was arrested in Columbus, Ohio, by undercover vice cops in a sting operation. Authorities accused her of "fondling" patrons and police officers in violation of Ohio strip club law. While Daniels was booked into the county jail, two other female adult entertainers who were arrested at the club for the same alleged violations were given summonses to appear in court and (unlike Daniels) did not have their mugshots taken. Daniels retained Columbus defense lawyer Chase Mallory, who worked with prosecutors to dismiss the charges less than 12 hours later, saying that the law did not apply to out-of-town performers.
Daniels' personal attorney, Michael Avenatti, vowed to sue the local police on the grounds that the arrest was politically motivated.[75] It was later revealed that the lead detective on the vice squad in charge of the arrest was a supporter of Donald Trump.[76] Emails belonging to another vice squad detective who made the arrest reportedly showed that days before Daniels arrived in Columbus, the detective had already obtained pictures/videos of Daniels and the location of her planned performance.
A day after the arrest, the Columbus police chief declared that "a mistake was made" during the arrest, as "one element of the law was missed in error." In January 2019, Daniels filed suit in federal court against the City of Columbus, alleging police were politically motivated when they arrested her and seeking $2 million in damages. In March 2019, an internal police investigation found that Daniels' arrest by the four undercover officers was improper, but not premeditated or political in nature. In August 2019, Columbus Division of Police interim chief Tom Quinlan announced that five Columbus police officers faced departmental punishment for their roles in the arrest for violating rules of conduct. In September 2019, the parties agreed to settle the federal lawsuit, with Daniels receiving $450,000 in compensation.
Awards
- 2003 Adam Film World Contract Babe of the Year
- 2004 NightMoves Best Actress
- 2004 AVN Award for Best New Starlet
- 2004 "Space Nuts" won the AVN Award for Best Extras. These included a video commentary in which Ms. Daniels masturbates while watching the DVD.
- 2005 NightMoves Best New Director
- 2005 CAVR Star of the Year
- 2006 CAVR Best Feature Director
- 2006 NightMoves Best Actress
- 2006 Exotic Dancer Adult Movie Feature Of The Year
- 2006 Temptation Awards Best Actress
- 2006 F.A.M.E. Award for Favorite Breasts
- 2006 AVN Award for Best Supporting Actress (Video) – Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre
- 2006 AVN Award for Best Screenplay – Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre
- 2006 Adam Film World Crossover Performer of the Year
- 2006 The X-Rated Critics Organization Award for Mainstream Adult Media Favorite
- 2007 CAVR Best Feature Director
- 2007 Fans of Adult Media and Entertainment Award for Favorite Breasts
- 2007 Golden G-String Award
- 2007 AEBN Performer of the Year
- 2007 AVN Award for Contract Star of the Year
- 2008 AVN Award for Crossover Star of the Year
- 2008 XBIZ Award for Crossover Star of the Year
- 2008 Adam Film World Actress of the Year
- 2008 The X-Rated Critics Organization Award for Mainstream Adult Media Favorite
- 2008 The X-Rated Critics Organization Award for Best Director - Features
- 2008 Fans of Adult Media and Entertainment Awards Award for Favorite Director
See also
External links
- Stormy Daniels – Official website StormyDaniels.com ( X site active 09/20 R/ )
- Stormy Daniels at MySpace.com
Interviews
- Audio Interview at Adult DVD Talk
Interview at Luke Is Back- Q&A: Stormy Daniels at the Winter Music Conference Clubplanet, March 21, 2005
- ContactPornStars.com: Monstar's Interview May 02, 2005
References
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