Defense attorney Susan Necheles pressed adult film actress Stormy Daniels on allegedly selectively changing her story about a sexual encounter when it benefitted her financially.
“You have been making money for more than a decade on the story that you had sex with Donald Trump,” Necheles charged.
Necheles pressed Daniels on her interview with Gloria Allred. Daniels disagreed with Necheles’ assertion that Daniels told Allred that she did not have sex with Trump. Daniels said that she told Allred about the sexual encounter.
Defense referred to an exhibit where Stormy is quoted in her book saying that she left out sex and anything the least bit interesting in her conversation with Allred.
Daniels said that Allred’s version was an abbreviated one, Daniels having left out “all the details because [she didn’t want] to be forced into saying anything that’s untrue.”
Necheles confronted Daniels saying, “this taught you that if you want to make money off trump you better talk about the sex.” Daniels said “no, although that does seem to be the case.”
Necheles noted that in 2011 when the In Touch magazine article referencing Daniels having sex with Trump and the Dirty.com story where she denies sex with Trump was at the same time. Necheles pointed out that In Touch offered Daniels $15,000 for her story.
Daniels said the articles were not published at the same time and that Dirty.com came after she was threatened in a parking lot.
When E! News asked about the story, Daniels said it was “bull—-.” In court Tuesday, Daniels said calling the story “bull—-” was not a denial that they had sex, but that it was “bull—-” they were reporting it.
Necheles questioned why, after Daniels was allegedly threatened and afraid for her life in 2011, she chose in 2016 to share her story.
Daniels told Nechels that she was a different person, braver in 2016 than she was in 2011 and that Trump was then running for President and she was advised to share her story, so she did.
Stormy confirmed that she told her manager to “get the story out and make some money.”
Court is adjourned until Thursday morning, when Daniels is expected to return to the witness stand for further cross-examination.
Fox News’ Maria Paronich and Grace Taggart contributed to this update.
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