A former Playmate, who says she has been emboldened by the #MeToo movement and declining health, has confirmed to The New Yorker
that she authored an eight-page, hand-written document about her
alleged affair with Donald Trump that the magazine said was quietly
buried by the National Enquirer after buying exclusive rights to it.
The deal, which netted Karen McDougal $82,500, has prevented her from discussing the alleged relationship with Trump.
McDougal,
who was judged runner-up for "Playmate of the '90s," allegedly met
Trump in 2006 at the Playboy mansion after Trump had been married to
Slovenian model Melania Knauss for less than two years.
She spoke
to writer Ronan Farrow, who has written recently about sexual abuse in
Hollywood, but was circumspect about details regarding Trump. She
acknowledged, however, that she wrote the account of the alleged affair,
which Farrow said he obtained from John Crawford, a friend of
McDougal's.
The Wall Street Journal, four days before the 2016 presidential election, reported that American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer,
had paid $150,000 for exclusive rights to McDougal’s story, which it
never ran. Buying the rights to a story in order to bury it is a
practice that many in the tabloid industry call “catch and kill.”
David Pecker, CEO and chairman of A.M.I., has described Trump as a personal friend.
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