Playboy Playmate Claims She Had Affair With President Donald Trump

The New Yorker reports that former Playboy Playmate of the Year Karen McDougal claimed she had an affair with President Donald Trump in an eight-page, handwritten note. The note was sent to the magazine’s Ronan Farrow by a friend of McDougal’s.

The affair reportedly happened after the two met at a party for The Apprentice at the Playboy Mansion in June 2006. Trump had been married to Melania for less than two years at that point. McDougal claims that Trump “immediately took a liking to me, kept talking to me – telling me how beautiful I was etc. It was so obvious that a Playmate Promotions exec said, ‘Wow, he was all over you – I think you could be his next wife’.”

She added: “I was so nervous! I was into his intelligence + charm. Such a polite man. We talked for a couple hours – then, it was “ON”! We got naked + had sex.”

She then claimed that when she was getting dressed to leave, Trump offered her money. She wrote: “I looked at him (+ felt sad) + said, ‘No thanks – I’m not ‘that girl.’ I slept w/you because I like you – NOT for money’ – He told me ‘you are special.’”

After that, she said she “went to see him every time he was in LA (which was a lot).” She claims that as the affair continued, Trump introduced her to his family and took her to his private residences. At a party for Trump Vodka in 2007 in Los Angeles, she said she was sitting with Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Trump Jr.’s wife Vanessa (who was pregnant) and Kim Kardashian. Later, at another party at the Playboy Mansion for The Apprentice, McDougal claimed she took photos with Trump and his family. She said that Trump asked his son Eric “who he thought was the most beautiful girl here + Eric pointed me. Mr. T said ‘He has great taste’ + we laughed!”

She also said that she was given tours of Trump Tower and his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Trump pointed out Melania’s separate bedroom and said that she “liked her space to read or be alone.”

McDougal ended the affair in April 2007, after nine months. However, a spokesperson for the White House has denied the relationship. They said in a statement: “This is an old story that is just more fake news. The President says he never had a relationship with McDougal.”

The story goes on from there, as she said Trump would make comments that she didn’t like, calling her mother (who was close to his age) an “old hag” and making a “lewd, stereotypical reference” to black men’s genitals.

After the affair was over, McDougal said she signed a limited life-story rights agreement with American Media Inc (the publisher of the National Enquirer) in August 2016, giving them exclusive ownership of her story for $150,000. The tabloid has published pro-Trump material in the past and the company is run by Trump friend David Pecker. They never ran the story, which the New Yorker claims was shelved in order to keep it from getting out. The company claimed they didn’t print it because it wasn’t credible.

Former senior editor Jerry George said that Pecker buys and kills stories all the time and protects Trump. He added: “We never printed a word about Trump without his approval.”

The company also reportedly agreed to publish columns by McDougal on aging and wellness, as well as “prominently feature” her on two magazine covers. She said she regrets signing it. She hopes that speaking out will convince others not to sign agreements like the one she signed.

She added: “It took my rights away. At this point I feel I can’t talk about anything without getting into trouble, because I don’t know what I’m allowed to talk about. I’m afraid to even mention his name.”

McDougal, who is Republican, said she didn’t want to talk about it at first because she was afraid Trump supporters would accuse her of lying or cause harm to her or her family. She said she wanted to avoid “(influencing) anybody’s election” or receiving “death threats on my head.” The Wall Street Journal, however, wrote a story about the affair and the deal days before the 2016 election.

This follows news that Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen admitted to paying porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 from his own money. This was allegedly to keep her quiet about an affair she had with Trump, although the White House has denied that affair as well.