- The shell company belonging to Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, agreed to “put an end” to the nondisclosure agreement it has with the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, CNN reported on Friday night.
- The company, Essential Consultants LLC, requested that Daniel pay back the original $ 130,000 she received in 2016 to keep quiet about a 2006 affair she said she had with Trump.
- Michael Avenatti, the attorney representing Daniels, said the development caught him by surprise.
- One theory on the decision was that Cohen, who pleaded guilty to eight financial fraud charges in August, had nothing to gain from Daniels’ silence.
Michael Cohen’s shell company, Essential Consultants LLC, reportedly agreed to cancel the nondisclosure agreement that bound the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an affair she said she had with Donald Trump in 2006.
Essential Consultants said it would squash the agreement in a status report filed on Friday, but requested a reimbursement of the original $ 130,000 that Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, received as part of the contract, according to a CNN report.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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