A former Playboy playmate who says she had an extramarital affair with President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to extricate herself from a contract with the publisher of the National Enquirer that prevented her from telling her story publicly in the months before the 2016 presidential election. American Media Inc., run by a Trump friend, agreed in August of that year to pay Karen McDougal $150,000 for her exclusive story of the alleged 2006 affair, which it then didn’t publish, a tactic known in the tabloid...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 20, 2018 21:15 UTC