Avenatti Cross-Examines Stormy Daniels, With a Focus on Paranormal Activity
The New York Times
Michael Avenatti and his former client, who has accused him of stealing from her, are meeting for a dramatic showdown in court.
Early in Michael Avenatti’s cross-examination on Friday of his former client Stormy Daniels, he asked her whether, a few years earlier, a “dark entity” had entered her home through a “portal.”
“That’s what I was told by a medium,” Ms. Daniels replied.
It was the second day of testimony for Ms. Daniels, a pornographic film actress who spent hours in Federal District Court on Thursday being questioned by a prosecutor about her communications in 2018 and 2019 with Mr. Avenatti, whom she has accused of stealing from her when he served as her lawyer.
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