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Jimmy Kimmel gives porn actress Stormy Daniels a chance to dish on Trump
Adult
film actress Stormy Daniels, known offstage as Stephanie Clifford,
attends the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas on Saturday. (Ethan
Miller / Getty Images)
Porn
actress Stormy Daniels will spice up the commentary after Tuesday
night's State of the Union address with an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel
Live," but expect more winking than talking about her alleged affair
with President Trump.
When
Daniels sat down last week for an on-camera interview with "Inside
Edition," she responded with a blank face and silence each time she was
asked about sex with Trump.
Given
her reported acceptance of money in return for keeping quiet, Kimmel
might not have much more luck getting Daniels to dish on Trump.
Daniels
has both confirmed and denied on various occasions that she had a
sexual encounter with Trump. On Tuesday, her lawyer told the Associated
Press that she never had an affair with Trump.
The
Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 12 that a Trump lawyer paid Daniels
$130,000 right before the 2016 presidential election to stay silent
about the reported tryst. The adult film star has kept a high profile
since then, capitalizing on the publicity while dodging questions about
the president.
On
her Twitter feed, she uses an American flag to promote her "Making
America Horny Again" tour, with strip-club dates scheduled around the
country. Daniels was a star attraction at the Adult Video News Awards on
Saturday in Las Vegas.
The
marquee at Little Darlings, a Vegas strip club where she appeared,
advertised the show with a sign flashing: "See the Mistress Live!"
Inside, she let several men take pictures of themselves standing behind
her with their hands on her bare breasts.
Little
Darlings strip club in Las Vegas advertised a Jan. 25 show by porn
actress Stormy Daniels on its marquee. (Ethan Miller / Getty Images)
Daniels,
38, known offstage as Stephanie Clifford, told "Inside Edition" that
she leads an ordinary life in small-town Texas with her husband and
7-year-old daughter.
"And
then I wake up one morning and there's news trucks and reporters
outside of my house," she said. "Now suddenly I'm having to make phone
calls to hire security."
In
a 2011 interview with In Touch Weekly that was published this month
after the Wall Street Journal disclosed the payment of hush money,
Daniels said she had sex with Trump in 2006, months after his wife
Melania gave birth to their son Barron.
Trump, who was once photographed with Daniels, has denied the affair.
The Journal reported that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen arranged the $130,000 payment to Clifford a month before the 2016 election.
In
a brief phone conversation with The Times, Cohen declined to comment.
He did not respond to an email asking whether he arranged the payment to
Daniels.
Some
details of Daniels' recollections in the In Touch interview appear to
corroborate allegations of Summer Zervos, an Orange County woman who has
sued Trump. She charged that he tried to force himself on her at the
Beverly Hills Hotel, also in 2007, and then lied about it.
Daniels,
in the In Touch transcript, and Zervos, in court documents, each said
that Trump invited them to dinner, asked them to meet at his hotel room,
ordered room service rather than going to a restaurant and tried to
initiate sex in the room. Daniels said they had sex and provided graphic
details to In Touch.
Zervos says she spurned Trump's sexual advances.
Summer Zervos in Manhattan on Dec. 5, 2017. (Mary Altaffer / AP)
Both also recalled specifically visiting Trump's suite in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Zervos,
a onetime contestant on Trump's reality TV show "The Apprentice,"
alleged a few weeks before Trump was elected president that he tried to
sexually assault her in the bungalow. She was one of the women who went
public with accusations of sexual misconduct by Trump in the days after
disclosure of an "Access Hollywood" recording of him saying that he got
away with grabbing women's genitals without their consent because he was
a celebrity.
Trump
charged repeatedly in the campaign's final weeks that Zervos and the
other women were lying. He threatened to sue them after the election but
has not followed through.
Zervos
sued Trump a few days before his inauguration, saying he defamed her
and the other women he branded as liars. Trump denies sexually
assaulting Zervos and has asked a judge to dismiss the case.
Twitter: @finneganLAT
UPDATES:
6:15 p.m.: The article was updated with Daniels' latest denial of the affair with Trump and additional details of her national tour.
The article was originally published at 1:25 p.m.
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