Stormy Daniels loses defamation case, asked to pay Trump's legal fees

Former US President Donald Trump secured a legal victory against adult film star Stormy Daniels. Ms Daniels was ordered to pay more than $121,000 to the attorneys of Trump, by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in California. Ms Daniels had lost a defamation case against him. The adult film star is already paying over $500,000 in court-ordered payments to Trump attorneys. She had filed and lost a defamation suit against the former president.The order was delivered on the same day that a Manhattan court arraigned Trump on 34 charges related to alleged hush money payments to Daniels to cover up a purported affair between the two.  Trump attorney Harmeet Dhillon of the Dhillon Law Group took to Twitter and shared a copy of the order.

Congratulations to President Trump on this final attorney fee victory in his favor this morning. Collectively, our firm obtained over $600,000 in attorney fee awards in his favor in the meritless litigation initiated by Stormy Daniels. https://t.co/ld7SVvZOp6 pic.twitter.com/1b5P3flxFb

— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) April 4, 2023

Daniels sued Trump in 2018 after Trump in a tweet called an allegation by Daniels that an unknown man threatened her in a parking lot to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump a "total con job."