Porn Star Denies Affair With Trump

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New York (AP) -- Adult film star Stormy Daniels, in the midst of a publicity tour fueled by past allegations of a 2006 sexual relationship with a then-married Donald Trump, said in a statement on Tuesday the alleged affair never occurred.
Keith Davidson, a lawyer for Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, confirmed the statement was authentic but didn`t offer any further details.
The statement came at a curious time for Clifford, who appeared after the president`s State of the Union address on ABC`s "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" In recent weeks she has changed production companies, given a television interview and promoted strip club appearances with a risque play on Trump`s "Make America Great Again," campaign slogan.
Michael Cohen, Trump`s personal lawyer, has denied there was any affair.
On Kimmel`s show, Clifford ducked most of his questions about the alleged affair by either remaining silent or cracking jokes.
She addressed, vaguely, the legitimacy of the new statement.
Kimmel began by displaying a copy and comparing her signature on it to other examples.
They didn`t match, he said, asking if she had signed it.
"I don`t know, did I?" she said.
"That doesn`t look like my signature, does it?" The ABC host asked if that was an admission that the statement was written and released without her approval, which drew a smile, coy look and a giggle from Clifford.
The rest of the interview went on in the same vein, as Clifford skirted whether she had signed a non-disclosure agreement; if an In Touch magazine interview was accurate — "Not as it is written," she replied — and if the magazine`s full transcript of her comments was accurate.
When Kimmel started to read details of her alleged encounters with Trump, Clifford interrupted: "I thought this was a talk show, not a horror movie.
Because this is a whole different pay scale.
" Clifford`s allegation, first made in 2011 and then again a month before the election, went mostly unnoticed until the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that Cohen brokered a $130,000 payment to Clifford to keep her from publicly discussing it.
A week after that report, In Touch magazine printed a 5,000-word interview it conducted with Clifford in 2011 but never published after Cohen threatened the tabloid with a lawsuit, the Associated Press has previously reported.
In that interview, Clifford described a single sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 when he was recently married to his third wife, Melania, as well as a subsequent years-long relationship with the reality TV star.
The magazine said it corroborated her account with friends and that she passed a lie detector test.
In her statement Tuesday, Clifford said she wasn`t denying the affair because she was paid "hush money," but rather "because it never happened.
" Neither Cohen nor Clifford have addressed whether she was paid $130,000, and if so why.
A publicist didn`t respond to questions about the statement Tuesday.
Kimmel`s show opened with him and Clifford seated in armchairs and watching Trump`s State of the Union address.
"Enough of this.
Stormy, show me on the puppet what he did to you," Kimmel said to her, holding up a doll dressed in a shirt and briefs and with a mop of Trump-like hair.
Clifford produced a blond female doll with duct tape across its mouth, and gave a small nod as she looked at the camera.
AP Television Writer Lynn Elber in Los Angeles contributed to this report.