Lawyer Lisa Bloom sought paydays for women willing to accuse Donald Trump of sexual misconduct at the end of the 2016 presidential race.
Women’s rights lawyer Lisa Bloom sought paydays for women willing to accuse Donald Trump of sexual misconduct at the tail end of the 2016 presidential race, according to an explosive report.
Bloom offered to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets—and arrange compensation from donors for those who came forward with allegations against President Trump, The Hill reported Friday, citing documents, emails and text messages between Bloom and the women.
She arranged for a donor to pay off one Trump accuser’s mortgage, and offered as much as $750,000 to another woman, who ultimately decided not to come forward, according to the report.
Bloom acknowledged pursuing donations for women who made accusations against Trump before last year’s election.
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“Donors reached out to my firm directly to help some of the women I represented,” Bloom told The Hill.
She also acknowledged that her standard contracts required women to pay her commissions as high as 33% if she sold their stories to media outlets, The Hill reported.
“Our standard pro bono agreement for legal services provides that if a media entity offers to compensate a client for sharing his or her story we receive a percentage of those fees. This rarely happens. But, on occasion, a case generates media interest and sometimes (not always) a client may receive an appearance fee,” she told The Hill.
Bloom denied having contact with Hillary Clinton or her campaign.
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The Hill spoke to New York City makeup artist Jill Harth who received a small payout from Bloom.
Harth, a former beauty contestant manager, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Trump in 1997, but then withdrew it.
The litigation was uncovered during the election, and Harth’s name was revealed during the summer of 2016.
Trump called the accusations against her false, prompting her to become an outspoken critic of his and seek Bloom’s legal counsel.
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She received a financial reward from photos sold to news media and from an online fundraiser—and later, was given less than $30,000 from a donor to help pay off the mortgage on her Queens apartment, The Hill reported.
Harth alleges that in 1993, Trump pushed her up against a wall at Mar-a-Lago and groped her, trying to get his hands under her dress, The Hill reported.
“Nothing that you’ve said to me about my mortgage or the Go Fund Me that was created to help me out financially affects the facts or the veracity of my 1997 federal complaint against Donald J. Trump for sexual harassment and assault,” she told The Hill.
Harth is reportedly writing a memoir about the whole experience.
