1. Stormy Daniels has won many industry awards and is a member of the NightMoves Hall of Fame, AVN Hall of Fame, XRCO Hall of Fame, and Vanity Fair Hall of Fame.
35 Facts About Stormy Daniels
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Stormy Daniels was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments made to Daniels, and was convicted on May 30,2024.
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Stormy Daniels graduated from Scotlandville Magnet High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1997 and considered becoming a journalist.
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Stormy Daniels began stripping for money at the Gold Club in Baton Rouge and became a featured entertainer with Continental Theatrical Agency in September 2000.
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Stormy Daniels chose her stage name Stormy Daniels to reflect her love of American rock band Motley Crue, whose bassist, Nikki Sixx, named his daughter Storm, and that her father considered naming her Stormy before her mother's choice of Stephanie.
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In 2004, Stormy Daniels won the Best New Starlet Award from Adult Video News, which was a surprise to Stormy Daniels, who had made a $500 bet with another actress that Jesse Jane would win.
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Stormy Daniels has appeared with performers such as Randy Spears, Julian and Brendon Miller, to whom she was married and who edited about half of her movies.
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Stormy Daniels was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame on January 18,2014, and was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame on April 16,2014.
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Stormy Daniels toured strip clubs as part of a 2018 "Make America Horny Again" tour.
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Stormy Daniels was given the key to the city of West Hollywood, California, on "Stormy Daniels Day", May 23,2018.
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Later in 2007, Stormy Daniels appeared in Maroon 5's music video for their song "Wake Up Call" as a pole dancer.
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Stormy Daniels appears in the film Knocked Up as a lap dancer.
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Stormy Daniels appeared on Saturday Night Live in the cold open as herself May 5,2018.
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Stormy Daniels appeared as a model in artist Nika Nesgoda's 2002 photographic series Virgin, portraying the Virgin Mary.
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In 2018, there was wide speculation that Stormy Daniels would be a housemate on Celebrity Big Brother 22 in the United Kingdom.
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Stormy Daniels said that she offered to appear on the show during the live launch to explain her absence, but was turned down by producers.
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Stormy Daniels finally declared herself a Republican candidate on April 6,2010.
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Stormy Daniels's decision was inspired by disclosures that the Republican National Committee had paid expenses for fundraisers at a "lesbian bondage themed nightclub" in Los Angeles, stating that the revelations "finally tipped the scales".
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Stormy Daniels made several listening tours around Louisiana to focus on the economy, as well as women in business and child protection and stated that if elected, she would likely retire from the adult industry.
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Stormy Daniels was married to Michael "Mike Moz" Mosny from 2007 to 2009.
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Stormy Daniels was arrested in July 2009 pertaining to a domestic violence charge by Mosny.
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Stormy Daniels has been fond of horses her entire life; she owns several and has won multiple blue ribbons at equestrian events.
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On March 6,2018, Stormy Daniels filed a lawsuit against Trump.
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Stormy Daniels said that the non-disclosure agreement that she had signed in reference to the alleged affair was invalid because Trump had never personally signed it.
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The order itself, which Stormy Daniels' lawyers called bogus, was supposed to remain confidential.
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In October 2018, the suit was dismissed on First Amendment grounds, and Stormy Daniels lost her appeal in August 2020.
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Stormy Daniels was ordered to pay $293,000 of Trump's legal fees after her libel case against Trump was dismissed, then was ordered to pay an additional $245,000 after appeals.
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In 2023, Stormy Daniels lost her appeal to reduce the payment for Trump's fees, and was ordered to further pay $120,000.
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Collectively, Stormy Daniels was ordered to pay over $600,000 to Trump's law firm due to the defamation suit, but as of 2022 she vowed not to pay.
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Stormy Daniels stated that a waiver statement she signed denying the affair was false and that the non-disclosure agreement made it she would lose $1,000,000 for every occasion she told her story.
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On May 13,2024, during trial testimony, Cohen confirmed details about the non-disclosure agreement including how it was his idea to include a clause which made it so Stormy Daniels would be penalized $1,000,000 for every occasion she told her story, which would violate the agreement.
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Cohen stated that he agreed to let Stormy Daniels appear on Fox News' Hannity: she did not go through with it.
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Stormy Daniels was arrested in Columbus, Ohio, in a sting operation by undercover vice squad detectives on July 12,2018.
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Stormy Daniels retained Columbus defense lawyer Chase Mallory, who worked with prosecutors to dismiss the charges less than 12 hours later, saying that the law did not apply to out-of-town performers.
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In September 2019, the parties agreed to settle the federal lawsuit, with Stormy Daniels receiving $450,000 in compensation.