Trump's ex-doorman reveals $30k contract he signed with the National Enquirer barring him from speaking to anyone else about his claims the President had an illegitimate child with a housekeeper
A former doorman at Trump World Tower who claims that President Donald Trump had an affair with his housekeeper resulting in an illegitimate child, has released the contract with American Media Inc. that had forced him to keep quiet, his lawyers say.
Dino Sajudin signed the contract with AMI, the parent company of the National Enquirer, in November 2015 offering them exclusive rights to the story in exchange for $30,000.But the document stipulated that he could not share the story anywhere else, or he would have to pay AMI $1million. It also stated that the company would only pay Sajudin if they published.
The document has few details on the story but does state: 'Source shall provide AMI with information regarding Donald Trump's illegitimate child...'
Yet, AMI never ran the piece, meaning Sajudin was forced to keep quiet - until this year.
Marc Held, Sajudin's attorney, told CNN Friday: 'Mr Sajudin has been unable to discuss the circumstances regarding his deal with American Media Inc. and the story that he sold to them, due to a significant financial penalty.
Dino Sajudin, the former Trump doorman who claimed the president had a love child, has released his contract with AMI who offered to buy the story
The White House has previously declined to comment on Sajudin's claims when approached by CNN
'Just recently, AMI released Mr. Sajudin from the terms of his agreement and he is now able to speak about his personal experience with them, as well as his story, which is now known to be one of the 'catch and kill' pieces.
'Mr Sajudin hopes the truth will come out in the very near future.'
Sajudin, 46, was a doorman at a Trump property in Manhattan until after the 2016 election.
He first came forward with the claims about Trump's affair in April this year.
CNN said it understood that he was released from the contract in December 2016, after Trump had beaten Hillary Clinton.
The Associated Press and the New Yorker said that Sajudin got $30,000 in exchange for signing over the rights, 'in perpetuity,' to the claim that the president had fathered an illegitimate child with an employee at Trump World Tower, a skyscraper he owns near the United Nations.
He said that he had been instructed not to criticize Trump's former housekeeper due to the 'prior relationship she had with President Trump which produced a child.'
The woman has not been named but spoke to the Associated Press to deny having any relationship with Trump.
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