$30,000 rumor? Tabloid paid for, spiked, salacious Trump tip
Source: Associated Press
By JAKE PEARSON and JEFF HORWITZ
51 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Eight months before the company that owns the National Enquirer paid $150,000 to a former Playboy Playmate who claimed she’d had an affair with Donald Trump, the tabloid’s parent made a $30,000 payment to a less famous individual: a former doorman at one of the real estate mogul’s New York City buildings.
As it did with the ex-Playmate, the Enquirer signed the ex-doorman to a contract that effectively prevented him from going public with a juicy tale that might hurt Trump’s campaign for president.
The payout to the former Playmate, Karen McDougal, stayed a secret until The Wall Street Journal published a story about it days before Election Day. Since then curiosity about that deal has spawned intense media coverage and, this week, helped prompt the FBI to raid the hotel room and offices of Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. The story of the ex-doorman, Dino Sajudin, hasn’t been told until now.
The Associated Press confirmed the details of the Enquirer’s payment through a review of a confidential contract and interviews with dozens of current and former employees of the Enquirer and its parent company, American Media Inc. Sajudin got $30,000 in exchange for signing over the rights, “in perpetuity,” to a rumor he’d heard about Trump’s sex life — that the president had fathered an illegitimate child with an employee at Trump World Tower, a skyscraper he owns near the United Nations. The contract subjected Sajudin to a $1 million penalty if he disclosed either the rumor or the terms of the deal to anyone.
Read more: https://www.apnews.com/f37ecfc4710b468db6a103a245146172
Report: Trump Doorman Paid to Keep Quiet About Lovechild Rumor
Another day, another salacious rumor involving the president’s love life. Three reports have claimed that a former doorman at a Trump property in New York was paid by the National Enquirer in late 2015 for the rights to a story he had heard that the now-president fathered an illegitimate child with an employee in the 1980s. The reports echo the case of former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, who was paid $150,000 by the National Enquirer for the rights to her story—which was never published—about an affair with Trump. The claims about doorman Dino Sajudin first appeared on gossip website and National Enquirer partner Radar on Wednesday, but the Associated Press and the The New Yorker then published more detailed accounts. While there is no evidence the rumor is true, it counts as further evidence that the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media Inc., had a pattern of buying and then burying stories that could be damaging to Trump during his presidential campaign. Sajudin got $30,000 in exchange for the rights “in perpetuity” to the rumor he’d heard about Trump’s sex life.
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