Playboy Model Sues To Get Out Of "Catch And Kill" Deal Regarding Alleged Trump Affair

Karen McDougal (image via Instagram)

The New York Times is reporting a second woman, former Playboy model Karen McDougal, has filed a lawsuit to invalidate a non-disclosure agreement she signed regarding an alleged extramarital relationship with Donald Trump.

The model, Karen McDougal, is suing the company that owns The National Enquirer, American Media Inc., which paid her $150,000 and whose chief executive is a friend of President Trump’s. The other woman, the adult entertainment star Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, was paid $130,000 to stay quiet by the president’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen. She filed suit earlier this month.

Both women, who argue that their contracts are invalid, are trying to get around clauses requiring them to resolve disputes in secretive arbitration proceedings rather than in open court. Mr. Trump has denied the affairs.

Ms. Clifford and Ms. McDougal tell strikingly similar stories about their experiences with Mr. Trump, which included alleged trysts at the same Lake Tahoe golf tournament in 2006, dates at the same Beverly Hills hotel and promises of apartments as gifts. Their stories first surfaced in the The Wall Street Journal four days before the election, but got little traction in the swirl of news that followed Mr. Trump’s victory.

McDougal's argument is she was initially told her deal with tabloid publisher A.M.I. would include being featured on the covers of publications like Star and OK! along with a regular monthly fitness column as well as several posts each month on Radar Online.

Very little of that actually materialized.

It turns out her agreement gave A.M.I. the "right" to publish those items, but was not an obligation to do so.