Stormy Daniels is fighting Donald Trump in court—again. The AVN Hall of Famer suddenly became one of the most famous people in the country last year when she sued Trump to get out of a “hush” agreement that barred her from speaking about a 2006 sexual encounter.
Now, after she won a settlement from the Columbus, Ohio, police department for her improper arrest last year, Trump wants to get his hands on her cash from that lawsuit. Last week, Trump’s lawyers filed a claim against the $450,000 settlement payout, saying that nearly $300,000 of that money is rightfully Trump’s.
The lawyers told a court that Daniels has been ordered to pay Trump $293,000 in attorney’s fees by a judge who dismissed a defamation suit she brought against Trump last year. They say that the payment should come out of the money Columbus owes to Daniels.
But on Wednesday, Daniels—through her own lawyers—began an all-new legal battle with Trump, filing a legal challenge to Trump’s claim on her settlement cash, according to an Associated Press report.
Daniels’ attorneys asked a judge to rule the Trump demand “null and void,” saying that she still has an active appeal in the defamation suit against Trump—meaning that the attorney fee award may yet be overturned.
Daniels and her now former lawyer Michael Avenatti slapped Trump with the defamation lawsuit in April of last year. Daniels claimed that she had boen physically threatened by a man invoking Trump’s name in 2011. Trump, on Twitter, called her claim a “con job,” as AVN.com reported.
Trump’s tweet led to the defamation suit, which was later dismissed by a federal judge who ruled the Trump’s statements on Twitter were “protected rhetorical hyperbole.”
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