Porn Star Stormy Daniels Ordered To Pay Donald Trump $300,000 After Court Rejects Her Appeal

In connection with Stormy Daniels' defamation case against Donald Trump, the former porn star was ordered by a federal court to pay the former President $300,000 in attorney fees.

This came after a federal appeals court rejected Daniels' bid to overturn a lower court decision in her defamation lawsuit against the former President, reported CNBC.

Trump issued a statement on Monday, saying that "all I have to do is wait for all of the money she owes me."

He called the lawsuit a "purely political stunt that never should have started, or allowed to happen." He felt pleased that his lawyers were able to bring it to a "successful conclusion after the court fully rejected her appeal."

Daily Mail reported that the recent ruling by the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit followed an earlier ruling by a lower court. It had rejected Daniels' defamation suit against the former President after he refuted her claims that they had engaged in sexual activity in 2006.

The legal battle turned out to be a lengthy one. It set a chain reaction of appeals, with lawyers for both parties being convicted of felonies. Lawyer Michael Avenatti was found guilty of stealing $300,000 from Daniels last month. She was due the money for writing a book about her alleged relationship with Trump. The lawyer shot to fame by advising the former porn star in 2018 after she claimed Trump had cheated on his wife Melania with Daniels. Claims were also made that he paid her off to try and win his 2016 Presidential election victory.

Trump's personal lawyer for 10 years, Michael Cohen, was also sentenced to three years in prison in 2018. The sentence was for paying Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about her alleged liaison with Trump, among other offenses. The payment that was secretly made shortly before the 2016 presidential election violated campaign finance laws.

On Monday, the Ninth Circuit US court of appeals ruled that it had no jurisdiction over Daniels' appeal. This was so as she missed a 30-day deadline to appeal after a lower court first ordered her to pay the attorney fees to the former President.

Daniels tweeted Monday that she will go to jail "before I pay a penny."

On Tuesday, she posted a statement on Twitter regarding the case.

She said that Trump had won the case “on a technicality” because Avenatti failed to promptly file a notice of appeal in her defamation suit.