34 Facts About Keith Davidson

Keith M Davidson is an attorney in Beverly Hills, California.

Keith Davidson has managed professional boxers Manny Pacquiao and James Toney.

Keith Davidson has since cooperated with special prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigation.

Keith Davidson then attended Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, California, graduated in May 2000, and sworn in to the bar on December 5,2000.

Keith Davidson has settled cases for sums up to $1.6 million.

Keith Davidson has represented clients in criminal and civil matters, including personal injury cases, contract disputes, and entertainment law.

In 2003 and again in 2012, Keith Davidson represented children abused by a kindergarten teacher.

In 2016, Keith Davidson negotiated a settlement of $1.6 million for Playboy Playmate Shera Bechard from an unnamed Republican Party official.

Keith Davidson quickly settled with her and offered to give her the tape as long as the settlement absolved him of professional wrongdoing.

Keith Davidson arranged for Anderson to appear on Good Morning America to discuss her case and appeared with her on the broadcast interview.

Keith Davidson arranged for Montgomery to enter a rehabilitation facility, and eventually negotiated a $2 million settlement with Sheen, payable in installments, provided that she keep the actor's HIV status to herself.

Keith Davidson quickly approached Hogan's attorney, David Houston, to negotiate an agreement to return the tapes to Hogan.

Keith Davidson characterized the Gawker post as a "shot across the bow" from his clients, saying that there was more where that had come from, and made what Houston characterized as less discreet threats.

Hogan, Houston, and Keith Davidson met in a Florida hotel room to finalize the agreement.

Keith Davidson brought the videos, and the other two brought $150,000 in cash.

Keith Davidson prepared to hand over the DVDs, and Houston readied a check for $150,000 when the FBI agents entered the room.

Keith Davidson texted Loyd and advised him to retain separate counsel since he now had a conflict of interest as a target of the same investigation.

McDougal had no intention of publicly sharing the details of the affair; however, a friend urged her to, "get out in front of it," so she hired Keith Davidson to negotiate her story with interested media outlets.

Keith Davidson began negotiating with American Media, Inc, the parent company of The National Enquirer.

Keith Davidson shared documents with them, but AMI contacted her with renewed interest.

McDougal claims she made it clear that she did not fully understand the contract; however, Keith Davidson allegedly recommended that she sign and return the agreement within hours of receipt.

McDougal fired Keith Davidson and hired another attorney to void the AMI contract; in April 2018, she was successful.

Around the same time that Keith Davidson was finalizing the deal between McDougal and AMI, he was representing another woman who alleged a contemporaneous affair with Trump: adult-film actress Stephanie Clifford, known onscreen as Stormy Daniels.

Keith Davidson told CNN he had first represented Clifford in this matter when gossip site TheDirty.

Keith Davidson sat for roughly 20 hours of interviews with the DOJ.

In May 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that Shera Bechard, another former Playmate, had retained Keith Davidson to negotiate for her a $1.6 million payment from an unnamed Republican Party official.

The agreement had been signed "David Dennison," for Cohen's client, the same pseudonym that Trump had used to sign his agreement with Daniels while Keith Davidson had represented her.

In July 2018, Broidy announced he was ceasing payments, claiming that the agreement was no longer valid because Keith Davidson had leaked the information to Michael Avenatti, a claim Keith Davidson denied.

In 2010 Keith Davidson was suspended from the California bar after clients complained he had not paid sufficient attention to their cases, with adverse effects to their resolution.

Keith Davidson told CNN the discipline was the result of his practice being "spread a little too thin" at the time.

Keith Davidson was revealed to have drafted the $130,000 hush money payment to Daniels, using the pseudonyms "Peggy Peterson" for Daniels and "David Dennison" for Trump.

However, Keith Davidson testified that he believed Trump was the one behind the hush money talks.

Together with Daniels and her manager Gina Rodriguez, Keith Davidson would receive part of the settlement payment.

Keith Davidson was acknowledged to have had a role in the $150,000 with American Media Inc for his former client Karen McDougal's story about an affair with Trump as well.