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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

Stormy Daniels says former attorney Michael Avenatti ‘stole from me and lied to me’

AP

Stormy Daniels came face-to-face with her disgraced former lawyer Michael Avenatti for the first time in three years as she told a court how he lied to her “every day for five months” about pocketing nearly $300,000 from her book deal to prop up his failing law firm.

“He stole from me and lied to me,” Ms Daniels said during an opening salvo under questioning from the prosecution.

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