Michael Avenatti Just Had His Way With Porn Queen Stormy Daniels…

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Things took an odd turn on Friday’s hearing after disgraced lawyer and media darling Michael Avenatti were accused of stealing $300,000 from adult film star Stormy Daniels when he represented her.

This was the same disgraced lawyer who represented Daniels when she sued then-President Donald Trump and his former fixer, Michael Cohen.

Stormy Daniels had never been intimidated by big-talking men. If anything, it’s the other way around. The porn star faced her disgraced former lawyer Michael Avenatti in a Manhattan federal court, where he stands accused of forging Daniels’ signature and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from her.

Since Avenatti decided on the first day of proceedings to ditch his counsel and represent himself, he gets to questions witnesses. This set up the possibility for a dramatic face-off between the accuser and accused.

Avenatti has pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud and identity theft

Avenatti attempted to trip up Daniels on Friday over public comments she made about him while he represented her.

Avenatti reportedly asked Daniels,

“Didn’t you tell the New York Times that watching me work was like watching the Sistine Chapel painted?”

Daniels responded quickly:

“That’s what you told me to say.”

The New York Times reported:

In another bizarre exchange, Avenatti asked Daniels about her interest in paranormal activity and claims that she can speak with the dad. Avenatti asked Daniels about a claim she made years earlier about a “dark entity” entering her through a “portal.”

“That’s what I was told by a medium,” Daniels responded.

Avenatti also asked Daniels about her belief that she could see and speak to the dead.

“How do you speak with the dead?” Avenatti asked at one point.

“I don’t know,” Daniels responded. “It just happens sometimes.”

The Times added:

Ms. Daniels acknowledged having said as much, adding that she was part of a project called “Spooky Babes” that focused on paranormal activity.

Continuing his cross-examination on Friday, Mr. Avenatti quickly returned to the topic, asking Ms. Daniels about “unexplainable and frightening experiences” in her New Orleans home — including “poltergeist” phenomena, “shadow figures,” and sounds and voices invading her life like a “predatory animal” — that had been cited on the “Spooky Babes” website.

Ms. Daniels acknowledged saying that a friend had physically attacked her after the “dark entity” entered her home, and that she had seen in her kitchen an image of a woman crying over a dead child.

The Guardian also reported:

The case stems from Avenatti’s 2019 arrest for allegedly embezzling nearly $300,000 from Daniels after she wrote a book about her relationship with Trump.

“This is a case about a lawyer who stole from his client. A lawyer who lied to cover up the scheme,” assistant attorney Andrew Rohrbach said.

“The defendant stole almost $300,000 from the person he was supposed to be looking out for,” Rohrbach added.

This is not Avenatti’s first or only crime. In July 2021, he was sentenced to 30 months in prison for trying to extort $25 million from Nike.

“Mr. Avenatti’s conduct was outrageous. He hijacked his client’s claims, and he used those claims to further his own agenda — which was to extort millions of dollars from Nike to enrich himself,” Judge Paul Gardephe said at the time. “Mr. Avenatti had become drunk on the power of his platform, or what he perceived the power of his platform to be. He had become someone who operated as if the laws and rules that apply to everyone else didn’t apply to him.”

Sources: DailyWire, The New York Times, The Guardian