Who is Karen McDougal, the second woman named in Trump’s criminal prosecution?

The former Playboy model is named in the court document against the former president.

The lawsuit against former US President Donald Trump revolves around a payment made to former porn actress Stormy Daniels. But the prosecutor also mentioned another woman.

According to court documents, a payment was made on Trump’s behalf to “Woman 1,” who evidence suggests is Karen McDougal.

McDougal is a former Playboy model and, like Daniels, has claimed to have been in a relationship with Trump. You said it lasted 10 months. And the former president denies that this happened.

Here’s what we know about McDougal and how she’s involved in the process.

Born in Gary, Indiana, she moved to Michigan as a child and began modeling in swimwear contests in her early 20s.

She joined Playboy, where she won Playmate of the Year in 1998 and was runner-up to ‘Playmate of the 1990s’, second only to Pamela Anderson.

She later worked as a fitness model, becoming the first woman to grace the cover of Men’s Fitness magazine in 1999. She has also appeared in television commercials and played minor roles, such as a cameo in the film The Panthers (2000).

In 2006, The New Yorker magazine reported that, according to McDougal, he met Trump at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, where he was taping an episode of The apprentice.

She later wrote that Trump, who was married at the time, “got right on me, kept talking to me, telling me how beautiful I was, etc.”

McDougal says she and Trump had a 10-month relationship and saw each other “at least five times a month.” She described the relationship with the American network CNN as loving and consensual.

In 2016, the year of the US presidential election, McDougal signed a deal worth $ 150,000 to tell his story exclusively to the National Enquirer tabloid. The settlement prohibited her from speaking publicly about the alleged affair.

But the article was never published, and McDougal insists she was tricked into keeping silent about the report.

Deliberately buying a story and then not publishing it is known as capture and kill — and the National Enquirer allegedly did this to stifle negative stories about Trump.

In 2021, the US Federal Election Commission, charged with enforcing the campaign finance law, found that the publisher of the National Enquirer violated election laws by paying royalties to McDougal’s story and never publishing it.

And he claimed the money, which was paid to McDougal during the 2016 presidential election, amounted to an illegal campaign contribution. The National Enquirer was fined $187,500 (or more than R$950,000).

On her personal website, McDougal now describes herself as a model, columnist and promotional spokesperson.

She is a self-described advocate for raising awareness of “breast implant disease,” saying her breast implants have made her ill. She removed them in 2017.

In 2018, she publicly apologized to Trump’s wife Melania for the alleged affair, saying, “I’m sorry. I wouldn’t want this to be done to me.”

“When I think back to where I was at the time, I know it’s wrong,” he added. “I’m really sorry. I know it’s the wrong thing to do.”

Trump has always denied having an affair with McDougal.

The trial facing the former president centers solely on the alleged payment to buy Stormy Daniels’ silence.

Details relating to McDougal are contained in the statement of facts, prepared by the district attorney, which comes with background information on the case.

Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges in court.

Source: Terra

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