Trump 'hush money' trial: Key takeaways from week one
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Pecker said he told Cohen he was “not going to be involved with a porn star” and “I am not a bank.”
He made clear that he was frustrated with Cohen’s promises that he would be repaid. With Pecker holding firm, Cohen himself paid to silence Daniels, and Trump later repaid him in a series of checks. It’s the records of those repayments that form the basis of the charges.
Celebrities Exposed
Jurors heard about how the Enquirer treated other celebrities suspected of sexual dalliances, like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tiger Woods.
Pecker said AMI bought a story about Woods in 2007 but didn’t publish it. Rather, it leveraged the story to get Woods to agree to an interview and cover story in Men’s Fitness, an AMI magazine, even though he had an exclusive contract with another publisher.
After Schwarzenegger announced his run for governor in 2003, Pecker said, “30 or 40 women” came forward to AMI with stories. AMI then spent “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to buy their accounts but did not publish them, he said.
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(Bloomberg staff writers Patricia Hurtado and Erik Larson contributed to this story.)
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