The defense’s questioning has turned to the deal between the National Enquirer’s parent company and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
Defense attorney Emil Bove sought to get at what both her and the Enquirer’s objectives really were in making the 2016 deal.
The $150,000 agreement gave American Media Inc. exclusive rights to McDougal’s account of any relationship with “any then-married man,” a clause Pecker has testified was specifically about Trump. She claims they had an affair in 2006 and 2007; he denies it.
The contract also called for McDougal to pose for magazine covers and to produce, with a ghostwriter’s help, columns and other content on fitness and aging for various American
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