WASHINGTON – The bad news for Michael Avenatti just keeps coming. The California attorney who rose to fame this year in his fight against President…
WASHINGTON – The bad news for Michael Avenatti just keeps coming.
The California attorney who rose to fame this year in his fight against President Donald Trump was accused Wednesday by his star client of filing a lawsuit against her wishes and raising money in a crowdfunding campaign without her permission.
Porn star Stormy Daniels made the accusations in a statement to the Daily Beast, telling the publication that a defamation lawsuit filed against the president, one of several lawsuits the pair filed this year, was done « against my wishes » and she’s tried for months to get information about crowdfunding accounts he’d set up for her defense and has been met with silence.
« Michael has been a great advocate in many ways. I’m tremendously grateful to him for aggressively representing me in my fight to regain my voice, » Daniels told the Daily Beast. « But in other ways Michael has not treated me with the respect and deference an attorney should show to a client. »
Daniels then publicly aired her grievances and added she hadn’t « decided yet what to do about legal representation moving forward. »
« He has spoken on my behalf without my approval. He filed a defamation case against Donald Trump against my wishes, » Daniels said of the lawsuit, which she lost last month and was ordered to pay the president legal fees. « He repeatedly refused to tell me how my legal defense fund was being spent.
