Stormy Daniels had sex with Donald Trump for 90 seconds in a Lake Tahoe hotel suite. Ten years later, Trump’s lawyer wired $130,000 to keep her story out of the press. Daniels was 27 when she met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in July 2006. She told Liz Hayes on 60 Minutes Australia that she dressed for dinner and showed up at his suite hungry. Trump, she says, was wearing pajamas. She says he kept talking about himself until she swatted him with a magazine that had his face on the cover. Then they spent much of the evening talking about business. When she came out of the bathroom, she says, he was on the bed in his underwear and socks. “Why did you have sex with him?” Hayes asks. “I have no idea,” Daniels says. She remembers being blindsided by how quickly the mood changed. Trump denies that they had sex. Daniels says they stayed in touch afterward because Trump talked about getting her a spot on The Celebrity Apprentice. The spot never materialized. Then came the 2016 election. Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer, offered Daniels a nondisclosure agreement. Federal court filings say he wired the money to her lawyer on October 27, less than two weeks before Election Day. Daniels calls agreeing to the deal “the best day of my life.” She tells Hayes that even $10 would have felt like a bonus. She wanted the story kept quiet and says she took home considerably less than $130,000 after legal fees. In January 2018, Daniels says she felt pressured to sign a public statement denying she’d had sex with Trump. She signed it. By October, she was sitting across from Hayes recounting the night in detail. Trump’s company reimbursed Cohen and recorded the payments as legal expenses. In May 2024, a Manhattan jury convicted Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. In November 2026, a New York appeals cour