33 minutes of Karen McDougal mostly nekkid

Karen McDougal was the 1998 Playmate of the Year.

In the past two years, she has been in the news as part of the Michael Cohen case. The National Enquirer paid to acquire the rights to a story about her 2006 affair with Donald Trump, but the tabloid never printed the story. The Enquirer gained the exclusive right to it so that McDougal could not sell it elsewhere (ABC news was hot in the trail), thus assuring it could not become public unless they printed it, which they had no intention of doing. (David Pecker, the CEO of the Enquirer’s parent company, is a friend of the president.) Cohen said that he reimbursed The National Enquirer for the $150,000 that they paid McDougal for her story, and he in turn was reimbursed by Donald Trump.

Cohen pleaded guilty to this, which amounted to an illegal campaign contribution. He said that he had made the payment at Trump’s behest, and had recorded the conversation in which Trump ordered the payment. Cohen’s attorney released the recording to CNN, which played it on the air. Trump and Cohen can be heard discussing how to make a payment for “all of that info regarding our friend David,” referring to David Pecker. Trump is heard asking if “one-fifty” needed to be paid, which Cohen confirms. McDougal had been paid $150,000 by the Enquirer. In August 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws, admitting paying that $150,000 as hush money “at the direction of a candidate for federal office with the purpose of influencing the election.” (He also admitted to another incident involving Stormy Daniels.)