Stormy Daniels Arrested for Strip Show in Ohio, Her Lawyer Says

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Stormy Daniels was arrested Wednesday night for performing her strip club act in a Columbus venue, according to a Twitter post by her lawyer, Michael Avenatti. Daniels is currently suing Donald Trump over a 2016 “hush” agreement in which she received $130,000 to keep quiet about a sexual encounter she had with Trump 10 years earlier. Avenatti called the arrest “politically motivated.” “Just rcvd word that my client @StormyDaniels was arrested in Columbus Ohio whole [sic] performing the same act she has performed across the nation at nearly a hundred strip clubs,” the lawyer wrote on Twitter. "This was a setup & politically motivated. It reeks of desperation. We will fight all bogus charges.” According to a Fox News report, the Columbus police had not confirmed the arrest of Daniels. The club that had booked Daniels to perform her act on Wednesday also did not confirm that any arrest had been made there. But about 20 minutes after his initial tweet Avenatti posted a second message stating that the reason for Daniels’ arrest was that she has allowed a customer in the club to touch her “in a non-sexual manner.” “Are you kidding me? They are devoting law enforcement resources to sting operations for this? There has to be higher priorities!!!” Avenatti wrote on his Twitter account. An Ohio law "known as the Community Defense Act bars any non-family members form touching a nude or semi-nude dancer," according to CBS News. The alleged arrest came two days after Daniels performed her strip show at a Washington D.C. club about one mile from the White House where, at that same time, Trump announced his pick of Brett Kavanaugh to take a vacant seat on the Supreme Court. Avenatti soon posted that Daniels would be out on bail “shortly.” “We expect her to be released on bail shortly. We also expect that she will be charged with a misdemeanor for allowing ‘touching.’ We will vehemently contest all charges,” he wrote on Twitter. Photo By Gary / Wikimedia Commons