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Donald Trump's lawyer paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to stay quiet. Her mother said she would vote for Trump "every time." Her father: "I like Trump and I like my daughter."

In the video below, Trump is asked aboard Air Force One in April 2018 if he knew about the $130,000 payment. "No," he says. "You'll have to ask Michael." Then her father, Bill Gregory, talks to Inside Edition in March 2018. They hadn't spoken in almost 20 years. "Not ashamed, I'd say disappointed. At least she's successful at it." And: "She's the one that broke all ties with me and her mother."

Daniels herself says in the video: "There are no royalties in the adult business. I can sell one copy of a DVD or 10 million and it doesn't change my life at all."

That same week her mother, Sheila Gregory, told The Dallas Morning News she hadn't spoken to her daughter in 12 years. The paper reported she once worked as a trucking company manager for $4 an hour to support her, and found her in an old house in Baton Rouge, in a neighborhood she couldn't afford to leave.

She said she disapproved, but didn't fault her daughter for making money. Had she known dancing paid that well, she said, she would have done it herself when they were struggling.

"If Mr. Trump runs four more times, I would vote for him every time."

Asked about her mother's calls, Daniels' lawyer answered in two words: "Fake news." Her father said he paid child support but "didn't really have any involvement when she was being raised."

In 2024 a New York jury convicted Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records over the $130,000. She says they had sex in 2006; he denies it.

The case for her parents: her mother said she still loved her "dearly," and her father said he never stopped talking to her. The case against: he admits he wasn't around, and both went to the press about a daughter they hadn't spoken to in years.

Should Stormy Daniels let her parents back in, or did "I like Trump and I like my daughter" say enough?

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Prince Harry was 26 when he froze his penis on a trek to the North Pole. A friend told him to treat it with Elizabeth Arden cream, the one his late mother Diana used on her lips.

"My mum used that on her lips. You want me to put that on my todger?" he wrote in his memoir Spare. When he opened the tube: "I felt as if my mother was right there in the room. Then I took a smidge and applied it... down there."

The trek was with wounded servicemen in April 2011. That same month he was best man at William's wedding to Kate. The frostbite lingered through the wedding.

Spare sold 1.43 million copies on its first day in the US, UK and Canada, according to his publisher. His advance was reportedly $20 million.

In the video below, Harry runs through the names: "Man piece, my Johnson, my Wilson, my Todger, my Willie." Then Stephen Colbert asks him how "the Royal Standard got frostnip." Harry asks for a drink first, and says: "We've taken quite a leap from grief and trauma to my todger."

When did he notice? "Once I got home." And no, "it didn't turn into an icicle." "It's fine now. Thank you."

The veterans had all the training, he says. "I had none." He turned up thinking, "It's only minus 35 degrees." What he didn't have was what he had when he went to the South Pole: a "c*ck cushion."

Colbert: "No one in my life when I was a child could ever explain to me that someday the Duke of Sussex was going to say the words 'c*ck cushion' to me." Then: "How's your penis? Doing great?" Harry gives two thumbs up.

The next year, at 27, naked photos of Harry in a Las Vegas hotel room came out. TMZ reported he'd been playing "strip billiards." The palace confirmed it was him.

Brave honesty from Prince Harry, or the biggest overshare in royal history?

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Madonna was dating Tupac when she handed David Letterman her panties on national TV and asked him to smell them. CBS had to bleep her more than a dozen times.

Madonna: "Why are you so obsessed with my sex life?"

Madonna: "Aren't you gonna smell them? I gave them to you for a reason."

Madonna, to the audience: "I gave him my underpants."

Letterman, putting them in his desk drawer: "Here's where I keep my panties."

Madonna: "Money's made you soft."

Letterman: "Turn the volume down immediately. She can't be stopped."

Madonna: "Have you ever smoked endo?"
Letterman: "I don't know what you're talking about."
Madonna: "You're a damn liar."

In 2015 she told Howard Stern: "I was dating Tupac Shakur at the time, and the thing is, he got me all riled up about life in general."

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Cassie Ventura was 19 when she met Diddy. He was 37. Years later he paid her $20 million, and she told a jury about the "freak offs" where he paid male escorts to have sex with her for days.

She testified the escorts got thousands of dollars, the sessions ran on ecstasy and other drugs for 36 or 48 hours, and the longest lasted four days. How many were there? "Impossible to know. Hundreds?"

She sued him for rape and abuse in November 2023. His lawyer said he "vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations." It settled the next day, for $20 million, she testified. She told the jury she would give it all back if it meant she had never taken part in the freak offs.

In May 2024 CNN released hotel surveillance video from March 2016. In a towel, he grabs her by the back of the neck, throws her to the floor and kicks her. Her lawsuit claimed he paid the hotel $50,000 for that footage.

Two days after CNN, he posted the apology in the video below: "I was fucked up. I mean, I hit rock bottom, but I make no excuses. My behavior on that video is inexcusable." And: "I was disgusted then when I did it. I'm disgusted now."

Her lawyer's reply: he only apologized "once his repeated denials were proven false." The LA district attorney said the beating was too old to charge.

In July 2025 a jury acquitted him of sex trafficking and racketeering and convicted him on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. The judge gave him 50 months and a $500,000 fine, and told him: "we saw the video of your savage beating of Ms. Ventura."

Was Diddy sorry for what he did, or for getting caught on tape?

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Xaviera Hollander says Alfred Hitchcock would lie in a coffin dressed as a dead man and wait for her girls to walk in. She quit as a consulate secretary. She says Madame Claude attacked her in the paper: "Madame Hollander could never be a good prostitute because she actually had orgasms" with her clients.

In 1989 a British TV show asked her for a quick resume.

"I've been a prostitute. I've been a madam. I was the best secretary of Holland. I was good with my fingers."

She spent the first years of her life in a Japanese internment camp. She left the consulate to make $1,000 a night as a call girl. By 1969 she was running a Manhattan brothel known as the Vertical Whorehouse. In 1971 New York police arrested her for prostitution, and she was forced to leave the United States.

The Happy Hooker came out the next year and sold at least 15 million copies.

She told The Independent about Hitchcock in 2012.

In the video below she tells the Madame Claude story herself.

Then she says she never lies about her age, and repeats what she told a journalist in Mexico: "Every line I've got, every pound or kilo in my case, I have earned."

Did she beat the system, or did the system just pay her to say so?

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Jensen Huang runs a $4.5 trillion company. On Sunday he admitted an affair with a woman US intelligence believes is a spy for China's Ministry of State Security.

Her name is Alice Huang. Same last name, no relation. In June 2024 she was at a Taipei bar with a group of tech executives. "I bet you guys I can get Jensen here," she said, one of them told the New York Times. He showed up shortly after and drank whiskey with the group.

She was an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore company that bought $4.8 billion in chips over two years. A New York Times reporter who went to its Singapore office found it empty. The manager said the bosses were all in China.

In the video below, CNN shows the two of them at a group dinner in Taipei in May 2025. At the end of the night, CNN says, they got into the same car and drove away.

Nvidia's statement to CNN: "Jensen's interactions with Ms. Huang are not unusual or unexpected." And: "Jensen talks with thousands of customer executives every year."

On Sunday he wrote to Nvidia staff: "I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry."

Nvidia's board has opened an independent investigation. He stays CEO while it runs.

Honey trap, or just a billionaire who cheated?

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Bill Cosby admitted he had s*x once with a woman in a Las Vegas hotel, then paid her $100,000 over 20 years to keep quiet. Her daughter said she was his child and demanded $40 million.

His lawyer told him about the $40 million demand on January 17, 1997, the day his son Ennis was found shot to death on a Los Angeles highway.

The daughter was Autumn Jackson. Her mother had long told her Cosby was her father. Cosby testified that when the mother first showed him a photo of the child and said "This is your daughter, Autumn," he answered: "That's not my daughter."

He still set up a trust fund that paid the mother $750 a week and promised to pay for college. On the phone, he told Autumn: "I am not your father. I will be for you a father figure."

Then she left three messages on his answering machine. The last one was signed "Autumn Cosby." She told him she was homeless and in debt, and he promised her $3,000. Soon after, she was writing to CBS executives and his sponsors. She threatened to take her story to a tabloid. Cosby went to the FBI.

In the video below, the FBI is listening as she haggles with a Cosby lawyer: "I can cut it down the middle and take off another five and bring that to 25." Twenty-five million dollars.

She was arrested two days after his son's death, allegedly while signing what she thought was the hush-money contract.

Cosby declined to take a blood test. He once agreed to go to a clinic with her and her mother, then backed out, afraid some "bounty-hunter" would tell a tabloid. The judge ruled it didn't matter whether he was her father.

The jury convicted her of extortion. She wept in the courtroom.

Was it extortion, or did Bill Cosby owe her?

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When "Client 9" left, the 22-year-old escort told her booker she had collected $4,300. The booker said she had heard he would ask for things "you might not think were safe." The escort: "I'd be like listen dude, you really want the sex?" Client 9 was the governor of New York.

He was Eliot Spitzer, and he resigned two days after the story broke. The escort was Ashley Dupré, an aspiring singer. She later told Diane Sawyer: "If it wasn't me, it would have been someone else."

As attorney general, Spitzer had prosecuted prostitution rings. Two years before the scandal, he gave lawbreakers advice on ABC: "Never write an e-mail because it's death." In the end, it was his own bank that reported his wires.

In the video below, Spitzer is asked why he would risk the job he had worked so hard to get. "We have within us all drives, urges, which should be tempered, controlled, modulated, held in check, that I did not," he says.

Newsday's sources said he sent more than $10,000 to a front company in smaller amounts, then asked the bank to take his name off the wires. The bank filed a suspicious activity report. ABC reported that agents first thought he was hiding bribes.

They found the Emperors Club, which charged $1,000 to more than $5,500 an hour. For Feb. 13, 2008, the booker confirmed he'd pay for everything: train tickets, cab fare, mini bar, travel time, hotel. One official put his total with the club as high as $80,000.

Asked if the thought of getting caught haunted him: "Of course it does. And you just deal with it."

In the court papers, Dupré was "Kristen." Within days, downloads of her pop songs had made her up to $200,000, the Daily News reported. Hustler said it would offer her $1 million to pose. She also told Sawyer: "I was doing my job."

The case for Spitzer: prosecutors filed no charges and found no evidence he misused public or campaign funds. The case against him: on the hypocrisy charge, "I sinned, I erred," he says. "That is a fair critique."

Was Eliot Spitzer a crusader with one private weakness, or exactly the hypocrite he admits he was?

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John Edwards was running for president when he got Rielle Hunter pregnant. His wife was dying of cancer. His aide claimed the baby was his. Then Hunter wrote a book calling the dead wife a "witch on wheels," and Whoopi Goldberg told her on The View: "You trash a dead lady."

In the video below, it's June 2012. Hunter says of the affair: "I became that in order to be with him."

Whoopi: "It's kind of a crappy thing to do."

Hunter: "I wrote the book to tell the truth."

Whoopi: "It makes you look schemey and kind of heartless."

Then the panel gets to the rest. "You had unprotected sex with a married man and had a baby and then allowed people to pretend it wasn't happening."

A host asks about the sex tape: "Whose idea was that anyway?"

Then whether she left it around to be found. Hunter: "It was buried in my personal belongings. You have to go rifling through looking for something."

Barbara Walters goes to what she calls two of the most important things. One: Edwards went on television and denied the child. Two: his aide Andrew Young claimed the baby was his, and everyone went along.

Hunter calls the denial "the most devastating moment of my life." On the aide's claim, she says it was "the only time in my life I have gone down a road that I knew was the wrong road." Then: "This is insane. And okay, I'm going down too."

Edwards admitted the affair on ABC in August 2008 and denied being the father. In January 2010 he admitted he was. His wife legally separated from him that month, and died of breast cancer that December. A judge ordered the alleged tape destroyed. Edwards was never convicted of a crime.

The book came out the day Hunter announced their breakup.

Who deserves the most blame here: the candidate, the mistress, or the aide who said the baby was his?