Who is Karen McDougal, the other woman mentioned in the case against Donald Trump

donald trump He has not been charged only for the Stormy Daniels Case, the porn actress who claims to have had an affair with him and who received $130,000 for her silence. In Judge Juan Merchan’s indictment, reference is also made to a “Woman 1″, who would be the model Karen McDougal.

In March 2016, she assured that in the mid-2000s she had an affair with Trump which lasted 10 months. At that time he was already married to his current wife. Melania. The tycoon denies said adventure.

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Karen McDougal said he reached an exclusive agreement to publish his story with National Enquirer in exchange for $150,000, but the newspaper, whose owner David Pecker He is a friend of Trump, he bought his testimony to hide it, since he never disclosed it.

According to the prosecutor’s indictment Alvin Bragg, american mediathe parent company of National Enquireracknowledged that the payments were made specifically to help Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Thus, it is clear that the objective was to prevent the affair from coming to light, which could have harmed Trump’s candidacy in the last stretch of the campaign.

The prosecutor Alvin Bragg said Trump he “explicitly” instructed his then-attorney Michael Cohen to reimburse American Media in cash. Cohen later pointed out to Trump that the payment was made through a shell company.

Stormy Daniels (left) and Karen McDougal appear in the indictment of Donald Trump. (ETHAN MILLER and DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP). (ETHAN MILLER DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS/)

The supposed relationship between Karen McDougal and Trump it remained hidden until the Wall Street Journal published a report on the subject in 2016.

When Karen McDougal confirmed the relationship, publicly apologized to Melania Trump for his adventure.

In 2018, during the trial against Michael Cohen, the alleged bribery of McDougal. It was there that American Media cooperated with the Prosecutor’s Office and admitted have made the payment in collaboration with members of the Trump campaign.

In addition, the FBI found a recording in Cohen’s office in which he discusses with Trump about payments to the former playboy model.

But in the end the cause of 2018 did not reach Trump directly because the lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison.

Today Cohen collaborates with justice in the case for which Trump just been charged.

Karen McDougal met Trump in 2006. (karenmcdougal / Instagram)

Karen McDougal52, was born in Gary, Indiana, and was Playboy Magazine Playmate of the Year in 1998.

When she was a child, she and her family moved to Michigan.

The New Yorker reported that before gaining Playmate fame, Karen McDougal taught classes at the preschool level.

At the age of 20, she began participating in swimsuit modeling competitions, where she often won.

According to BBC Mundo, in 2001 was selected in second place among the “Models of the 90s”behind actress Pamela Anderson.

“I collected my things and without knowing anyone I moved to The Angels And I’ve progressed from then on.” said McDougal In an interview.

Karen McDougal She also dedicated herself to fitness and in March 1999 she became the first woman to appear on the cover of “Men’s Fitness” magazine, a men’s publication that covers topics related to mental and emotional fitness, nutrition, sports, tips about sex, fashion, recipes, among others.

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In addition, he had appearances on television. She did commercials considered daring at the time and in April 2006 she participated in the E! True Hollywood Story, focused on Hollywood celebrities, movies, television and well-known public figures.

In 2000 he had a brief uncredited appearance in the film “Charlie’s Angels.”

According to The New Yorker, in June 2006, Trump recorded an episode of his reality TV show “The Apprentice” on the playboy mansionin Los Angeles.

Hugh Hefner, the magazine’s editor, hosted a pool party for the show’s contestants with several Playmates, including Karen McDougal.

McDougal she later wrote that Trump “immediately liked me, he kept talking to me, telling me how beautiful I was, etc. It was so obvious that a Playmate Promotions executive said, ‘Wow, I was into you, I think you might be his next wife.’

When the Playboy Mansion pool party ended, Trump asked for McDougal’s phone numberaccording to The New Yorker.

They began talking on the phone frequently and agreed to a first date, which was a dinner in a private bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

McDougal She said she was impressed by Trump: “I was so nervous! He was such a polite man.” They talked for a couple of hours and then got intimate.

During an interview with CNN in 2018, Karen McDougal talked about that first date and said that she grew to fall in love with Trump. She also maintained that he loved her.

“After we were intimate, he tried to pay me off, and I didn’t really know how to handle that.”he told CNN about the first sexual encounter.

“I don’t even know how to describe the look on my face”, he indicated when referring to how he took Trump’s offer of money. “It must have been so sad.”

McDougal He claimed he told Trump: “That’s not me. I’m not that kind of girl.”

“And he said, ‘Ah’… ‘You’re really special,'” the woman said, “It hurt me that he saw me like this,” she continued.

McDougal recounted that she and Trump They saw each other “a minimum of five times a month”.

During the relationship, McDougal said Trump he introduced her to members of his family and took her to their private residences.

McDougal ended the relationship with Trump in April 2007. According to John Crawford, a friend of the model, the break was caused in part by the woman’s feelings of guilt. “She couldn’t look in the mirror anymore,” Crawford said. “And she was worried about what her mother would think of her.”

The New Yorker claimed that the decision was bolstered by a series of unfortunate comments Trump made about McDougal’s mother and a friend of hers.

Currently, Karen McDougal She is a columnist, activist and representative of models.

She calls herself an activist for greater awareness of “breast implant disease,” saying her own implants made her sick. She took them off in 2017.

Source: Elcomercio