Stormy Daniels who had filed a defamation suit against former US president Donald Trump was ordered by a court to pay Trump’s attorneys just over $120,000 in legal fees after losing the case. The adult film star Stormy Daniels whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, allegedly had an affair with Trump in 2006.
In 2018 she sued Trump claiming that an unknown man had threatened to keep quiet about the affair. Trump had called her allegations ‘total con job’ in a tweet.
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has supported Trump and ordered her to pay Trump’s attorneys USD $120,000 in legal fees. According to a report by AP, the commissioner for the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Trump’s attorneys “reasonably spent” more than 183 hours on an appeal of the case but denied a request for another $5,150 in other fees because it wasn’t itemized.
The report also says that Harmeet Dillon, one of his attorneys in the case has said that she has been ordered to pay more than $600,000 in Trump’s legal fees. That includes some $300,000 in attorney’s fees that Daniels previously was ordered to pay.
Congratulations to President Trump on this final attorney fee victory in his favor this morning. Collectively, our firm obtained over $600,000 in attorney fee awards in his favor in the meritless litigation initiated by Stormy Daniels. https://t.co/ld7SVvZOp6 pic.twitter.com/1b5P3flxFb
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) April 4, 2023
Last year after a federal appeals court upheld that award, Clifford had stated, “I will go to jail before I pay a penny.”
The decision of the court comes at a time when Trump has been charged with a 34-count felony indictment accusing him of falsifying business records in a scheme to hush up allegations of extramarital affairs with Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal.
Trump who is the only former US president to be charged with a crime has pleaded not guilty in a New York City courtroom.