It was while her star was rising that Stormy Daniels met Donald Trump.

On July 13, 2006, Stormy was promoting Wicked at a booth at the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, when Trump allegedly approached her. Moments earlier he had announced his intention by hollering, “I want to meet her!” — a detail supplied by adult performer Alana Evans, who heard this from Stormy herself, as Evans told me in a March interview.

Later that day, Evans, who was on vacation in Tahoe, went with a friend to a resort tattoo parlor. When she spotted Stormy passing by, she hailed her porn colleague and the two talked. That’s when she says Stormy told her that Trump had invited her to a party.

Daniels meeting Trump was not especially unusual. At the time, she was a porn star and he was a... Read More