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President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen exits a hotel in New York City, April 11, 2018.
A former Trump Tower doorman was reportedly paid $30,000 in late 2015 for his signing over the rights to a story about an unsubstantiated rumor that President Donald Trump fathered a child with a former employee, multiple outlets reported Thursday.
The doorman, identified as Dino Sajudin in reports by The New Yorker magazine and The Associated Press, is said to have met with American Media, or AMI, publisher of the tabloid National Enquirer and a raft of other magazines, which brokered the deal.
Sajudin reportedly gave up exclusive rights to tell the rumor that Trump may have fathered a daughter with a former employee in the 1980s. Citing six current and former AMI employees, The New Yorker reported that Sajudin knew the names of the alleged mistress and the child.
The Associated Press reported that the woman was an employee at Trump World Tower, located near the United Nations building in Manhattan.
