Lawyer: Stormy Daniels arrested at Ohio strip club

[GennGreymane]

UPDATE:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...alflow-organic

Stormy Daniels’s Strip Club Charges Are Dropped Hours After Arrest

Adult-film star Stephanie Clifford, whose fame has been multiplied by her lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump, was released hours after a now-voided arrest at a strip club in Columbus, Ohio, which her lawyer says was politically motivated.


Stormy DanielsSource: Franklin County Sheriff’s Office
Michael Avenatti, her attorney, announced the arrest in a 1 a.m. tweet Thursday, saying Clifford was accused of three misdemeanor charges of allowing “touching.” But less than 12 hours later, the California lawyer said in another tweet that all charges against Clifford, who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels, had been dropped.

Clifford’s arraignment had been scheduled for Friday morning, Avenatti said. Instead, the state of Ohio asked a judge Thursday to toss out the charges because there’s no evidence Clifford “regularly” appears at the venue where she was arrested, Sirens Gentlemen’s Club.

Under Ohio law, an employee who regularly appears nude or seminude in a sexually oriented business is prohibited from knowingly touching a patron who’s not a member of the employee’s immediate family.

“There has been no evidence provided to the state that defendant appears or appeared regularly at Sirens,” the state said in its filing. “Therefore, the state cannot prove every element of these offenses beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Avenatti said Clifford would go ahead with her performance at Sirens as scheduled Thursday night, reversing an earlier decision to steer clear. The club’s website had advertised a two-night appearance.

Clifford “refuses to be intimidated,” Avenatti said in a tweet. “She will return to the scene of the ‘no crime’ tonight in Columbus, Ohio as scheduled. She never ceases to impress!”

The actress weighed in with a tweet of her own, and threw in a dash of politics: “I’ll be going onstage tonight at Sirens in Columbus to perform for my fans and register voters as planned. Can’t stop the storm.”

Four Officers
Clifford’s arrest came after undercover officers conducted a vice operation at the adult-entertainment venue, according to Avenatti.

“They placed undercover officers in the strip club where they hoped they would be able to arrest my client,” Avenatti said in a phone call. “During her performance, a couple female undercover officers asked her if they could place their faces in between her breasts.”

Avenatti declined to say exactly what happened next, but after Clifford’s performance she was taken into custody by male officers and it became evident that the two women were also officers, the lawyer said.

The arrest report says four undercover officers entered the club Wednesday at 10:00 p.m. to investigate complaints about prostitution and drugs. Clifford is identified in the report as one of three women who were arrested. According to the report, the majority of the patrons at Sirens rushed to the stage when Clifford started her strip tease and began throwing dollar bills at her.

“During her performance and after removing her top exposing her breasts she began forcing the faces of the patrons into her chest and using her bare breasts to smack the patrons,” the report says. “The officers also observed Ms. Clifford fondling the breasts of female patrons.”

The undercover officers said in the report that Clifford “grabbed” them one at a time, “forcing” their faces into her chest. It doesn’t indicate that they asked her to do so, as Avenatti says.

Clifford sued Trump and his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to get out of a $130,000 “hush agreement” she signed in October 2016 to keep silent about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump more than a decade ago. The case has emerged as one of the most problematic lawsuits of Trump’s presidency, helping trigger a criminal investigation into Cohen’s financial dealings.

Columbus, home to Ohio State University, is the state capital and its largest city. Telephone calls to the police went unanswered.

https://www.wivb.com/news/national/l...lub/1297912149

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Porn actress Stormy Daniels was arrested at an Ohio strip club and is accused of letting patrons touch her in violation of a state law, her attorney said early Thursday.

While Daniels was performing Wednesday night at Sirens, a strip club in Columbus, some patrons touched her in a "non-sexual" way, her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, told The Associated Press.

An Ohio law known as the Community Defense Act prohibits anyone who isn't a family member to touch a nude or semi-nude dancer.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was in police custody early Thursday morning and was expected to face a misdemeanor charge, Avenatti said.

She was released on bail before 6 a.m. Thursday.

"This was a complete set up," he said. "It's absurd that law enforcement resources are being spent to conduct a sting operation related to customers touching performers in a strip club in a non-sexual manner."

Avenatti posted on Twitter on Thursday morning that Daniels will plead not guilty to three misdemeanor charges.

He also posted Daniels' statement on Twitter early Thursday saying she apologized to her fans in Columbus, but she would not perform her previously scheduled Thursday night show.

A Columbus police spokeswoman didn't immediately respond to a message seeking comment. A person who answered the phone at the strip club declined to comment.

Daniels has said she had sex with President Donald Trump in 2006, when he was married, which Trump has denied. She's suing Trump and his former longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and seeking to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement that she signed days before the 2016 presidential election.

[Independent voter]

I read somewhere that she grabbed a cop's wiener.

She probably have to see a judge and pay a fine.

[Themius]

Huh? Usually the stripper isn’t arrested but he other people.

[Pratt]

Tax dollars hard at work right here.

[Deleted]

I am inclined to side with her on this, exactly the kind of petty, nonsense arrest police officers make with the intention of harassing someone they don't like.

Were they sending police officers to her shows and waiting to catch someone touching her?

Sounds dodgy on so many levels.

[Xar226]

Wouldn't be surprised if it was retaliatory. The reality is that kind of thing happens at a strip club. I don't even know why there is a law about it. "Community Defense Act?" For what happens between adults at a place only adults can be? Man I hate that kind of moralizing.

[Acidbaron]

So someone actually filed a complaint about this.

[sarahtasher]

No way, you means people pay for sexual acts at strip club ?

[Zoldor]

Trash is trash.

President seems to love it.

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No way, you means people pay for sexual acts at strip club ?

Touching in a non-sexual way. Odd law. But Ohio, what could be expected. Trying to get some Press now that LeBron is gone lol.

[Total Crica]

If she did what the article states she did without consent from the people she did it to, she needs to be charged with sexual assault.

[AcidicSyn]

Wouldn't be surprised if it was retaliatory. The reality is that kind of thing happens at a strip club. I don't even know why there is a law about it. "Community Defense Act?" For what happens between adults at a place only adults can be? Man I hate that kind of moralizing.

That why it's odd. Normally, I would think such an act would be to protect the dancer, in which case the offender would be the one touching her.

This situation just seem dumb. "You LET them touch you! You're under arrest!" I mean wtf? If she had called the cops or had the "toucher" thrown out of the club, would it still be her fault?

[Deleted]

Stormy Daniels is an awful person.

That said, I don't know where this is going, but this is a really dumb law. Guys, use your right to jury nullification responsibly if this goes to trial.

Fuck me, if Stormy Daniels murdered by mother, got away with it in a separate trial, and I was on the jury for this petty sex crap, I would still say "not guilty". The government has absolutely no right to regulate sex between consenting adults.

In fact this is THE only thing I would side with BLM on (And I've made it clear how much I think BLM is bogus). If a black man were to resist arrest for prostitution and get shot, I would say the cop is guilty 100% and want him in prison for life.

[Verzen]

Unless you're a family member? What is this, Arkansas or Mississipi?

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Stormy Daniels is an awful person.

That said, I don't know where this is going, but this is a really dumb law. Guys, use your right to jury nullification responsibly if this goes to trial.

Fuck me, if Stormy Daniels murdered by mother, got away with it in a separate trial, and I was on the jury for this petty sex crap, I would still say "not guilty". The government has absolutely no right to regulate sex between consenting adults.

In fact this is THE only thing I would side with BLM on (And I've made it clear how much I think BLM is bogus). If a black man were to resist arrest for prostitution and get shot, I would say the cop is guilty 100% and want him in prison for life.

So it's okay to shoot an unarmed black man but by god, if he was caught with his pants down, he shouldn't be shot at all!

Is that what you're saying?

[Socialhealer]

If she did what the article states she did without consent from the people she did it to, she needs to be charged with sexual assault.

sorry she got touched and she should be charged with sexual assault?

did you misread the OP or smoked ALL THE WEED?!

[Daedius]

Fucking hell, this is news HOW?! -.-;

[Sorshen]

Fucking hell, this is news HOW?! -.-;

They need to make her look bad to score some points. Imagine the undercover cops there with a boner, waiting for her to touch someone so they can cuff her, what a shitshow.

[EyelessCrow]

If she did what the article states she did without consent from the people she did it to, she needs to be charged with sexual assault.

Did you even read it? THEY touched HER and SHE got arrested.

[Jtbrig7390]

That is a really dumb law.

Its as bad as the laws that are like (you can't drink orange juice while in a tub or can't take a bath on sunday).

They touched her and yet she got arrested, wtf.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

If she did what the article states she did without consent from the people she did it to, she needs to be charged with sexual assault.

The article states that she allowed them to touch her in a non-sexual way.

In what world does that equal sexual assault?

[Understarmor]

Tax dollars hard at work right here.

don't forget this is a shining example of big government setting the example for little government and holding EVERYONE including themselves to a higher standard.....hahahahahahaha