Stormy Daniels Biography

Stephanie A. Gregory Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels (born Stephanie A. Gregory; March 17, 1979), is an American pornographic film actress, director, and former stripper. She is a member of the NightMoves, AVN, and XRCO Halls of Fame and the recipient of numerous industry honors. She considered running against incumbent David Vitter in the 2010 Louisiana Senate election after being approached by a recruiter.

Daniels and American president Donald Trump got into a court spat in 2018. In order to keep her silent about an affair she claims she had with Trump in 2006, Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen paid her $130,000. Trump has refuted the relationship and charged her with lying.

Biography & Profile Summary

Stormy Daniels Age

Daniels, who is 44 years old and was born on March 17th, 1979.

Stormy Daniels Height & Weight

Stormy has a height of 5 feet 7 inches and a weight of about 56 kg. She has blonde hair and blue eyes. Her body measurements are 38-30-39, and her bra size is 36D.

Stormy Daniels Early life

Sheila and Bill Gregory, Daniels’ parents, got divorced about three or four years after Daniels was born. After that, her mother reared her.

She attended Scotlandville Magnet High School in Baton Rouge and graduated in 1997. She thought about going into journalism.

Daniels claimed to be from a “really bad neighborhood,” adding that she “came from an average, lower-income household… there [were] days without electricity” Daniels worked as a phone operator at a horse stable while still in high school.

Stormy Daniels Career

When Daniels was 17 years old, she went to a strip club to visit a friend, where she was persuaded to do a “guest set.” In Baton Rouge’s Gold Club, she started stripping for cash. In September 2000, she signed on with Continental Theatrical Agency as a featured performer. Her admiration of the American rock band Mötley Crüe, whose bassist Nikki Sixx called his daughter Storm, inspired her to choose Stormy Daniels as her stage name.

Daniels was surprised to get the Adult Video News’ Best New Starlet Award in 2004, as she had wagered $500 with another actress that Jesse Jane would triumph. Since 2004, she has been directing for Wicked.

Daniels has shared the screen with artists including Julian, Randy Spears, and Brendon Miller, who edited roughly half of her films and to whom she was married. On January 18, 2014, Daniels was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame, and on April 16, 2014, he was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame. Her directing that year resulted in 14 AVN Award nominations, including one for her participation with Brendon Miller in François Clousot’s First Crush for Best Safe Sex Scene.

In 2018, Daniels went on a “Make America Horny Again” tour that included stops at strip clubs. On May 23, 2018, also known as “Stormy Daniels Day,” she received the keys to the Californian city of West Hollywood. The 2019 XBIZ Awards will be hosted by Daniels.

Stormy Daniels Mainstream appearances

United States

In a Real Sex episode, Daniels is seen competing in the 2001 Miss Nude Great Plains Contest. In 2004, she was featured in Pornucopia. She made an appearance in the FX Network’s Dirt at the beginning of 2007, playing a stripper who assists Rick Fox’s basketball player in setting him up. Later in 2007, Daniels made a pole dancing appearance in the Maroon 5 song “Wake Up Call” music video.

When the main character (Steve Carell) views her in the video Space Nuts: Episode 69—Unholy Union and attempts to dream about her, she makes an appearance in the 2005 movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin. She performs as a lap dancer in the 2007 movie Knocked Up. On May 5, 2018, she made an uncredited appearance on Saturday Night Live. She served as a model for the Virgin Mary in artist Nika Nesgoda’s 2002 photographic series Virgin.

Celebrity Big Brother

The possibility that Daniels would live with other people on Celebrity Big Brother 22 in the UK was much discussed in 2018. Daniels did not enter the home on launch night, despite the rumors.

Demands for more money, a legal affair involving her husband, and a wish to spend time with her daughter were some of the theories behind her absence. According to her lawyer Michael Avenatti, Daniels was actually scheduled to enter the home, but producers tried to sway her into behaving a specific manner.

Stormy Daniels was scheduled to appear on the show several months ago, but she alerted the production team hours before the show was scheduled to air that she no longer wished to enter the house as originally arranged. Producers spoke with her about various ideas, but they were unable to come to an agreement on any terms that would have allowed her to enter the house. Now, we’re concentrating on creating a terrific series with our fantastic celebs.

Daniels said that producers rejected her invitation to come on the show during the live debut to give an explanation for her absence.

Just five hours before the first live episode, Daniels indicated she only intended to appear on launch night and then depart, according to host Rylan Clark-Neal of the spin-off show Big Brother’s Bit on the Side. Big Brother made an effort to reach an agreement, but nothing came of it. Additionally, Clark-Neal stated that neither money nor any attempt by producers to manipulate her in order to obtain a particular result were factors.

Stormy Daniels Politics

In 2010, a group of supporters tried to persuade Daniels to challenge Republican senator David Vitter in Louisiana. The website DraftStormy.com served as the focal point of the hiring process. She established an exploratory committee on May 21, 2009, initially motivated by information on “Vitter’s connections to a prostitution ring”. Her campaign manager’s car was bombed in August 2009, but nobody was inside at the time.

Daniels formally announced her candidacy as a Republican in April 2010. She stated that the findings “finally tipped the scales” and that she made her choice in response to information that the Republican National Committee (RNC) had paid for fundraisers at a “lesbian bondage themed nightclub” in Los Angeles. She explained that the Republican Party best embodied her libertarian beliefs in light of the RNC’s use of party cash for sex: Although Daniels has always been a registered Democrat, she remarked, “I cannot help but recognize that over time, the Republican Party is now best espoused by my libertarian values regarding both money and sex and the legal use of one for the other.”

She conducted a number of listening tours throughout Louisiana, focusing on the economy, women in business, and kid protection. She also declared that, if elected, she would probably leave the adult business. She declared that she would not run on April 15, 2010, citing the prohibitive expense and the media’s lack of interest in her bid.

Stormy Daniels Personal life

Texas’s Forney is home to Daniels.

Pat Myne was the spouse of Daniels. From 2007 until 2009, she was wed to Michael “Mike Moz” Mosny. In July 2009, she was detained on suspicion of domestic violence by Mosny. She wed Brendon Miller in 2015, and the two are parents to a daughter. In July 2018, Daniels filed for divorce. She wed porn star Barrett Blade in 2022.

Daniels has always loved horses; she has several of them and has won numerous blue ribbons at equestrian competitions.

Daniels came out as bisexual in 2019.

Stormy Daniels Husband

The marital status of Stormy is married. Barrett Blade is the name of her husband. The famous Hollywood couple exchanged wedding vows on December 28, 2022. Before she married Barrett Blade, Stormy Daniels had been married three times. Pat Myne, a porn star, was the subject of her first marriage, which ended in divorce in 2005. Later, in 2007, Stormy wed Mike Moz; however, the pair separated in 2009. Golden Crain, a fellow porn actor, and Stormy wed in 2015; they separated in 2018.

Stormy Daniels Children

Stormy has had four marriages. From her third marriage to Golden Crain, she has a daughter named Caden.

Stormy Daniels Net Worth 2023

Her alleged net worth is close to $1 million USD. Her salary and other sources of income, however, are not further disclosed.

Stormy Daniels Legal affairs

Trump affair allegations

Daniels was given $130,000 in October 2016 by Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen to deny having an affair with him in 2006. This was just before the presidential election. The Trump administration has denied the relationship and charged Daniels with lying.

The affair and payout were covered by the Wall Street Journal in January 2018. Following that, in January:

Cohen refuted any liaison between Trump and Daniels on behalf of his client. “In a private transaction in 2016, I used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford,” he later said.
In a statement, Daniels claimed that the relationship “never existed.”

An interview transcript with Daniels, in which she discussed her year-long relationship with Trump, which included a sexual encounter, was released by In Touch Weekly magazine. Daniels was interviewed by In Touch in 2011, however the interview wasn’t released until January 2018.

Daniels brought a lawsuit against Trump on March 6, 2018. She said that because Trump had never personally signed it, the non-disclosure agreement she had allegedly signed in connection with the purported romance was unlawful. In addition, the lawsuit claims that Trump’s lawyer has been attempting to “scare her into not talking” by intimidating Daniels. The following day, Cohen started an arbitration procedure that led to a ruling prohibiting Daniels from revealing “confidential information” connected to the non-disclosure agreement. The order itself, which Daniels’ attorneys deemed spurious, was meant to be kept private.

In an interview with 60 Minutes on March 25, 2018, Daniels said that she once had sex with Trump and that afterward, she had received threats in front of her infant daughter and felt compelled to sign a non-disclosure agreement. FBI officers searched Cohen’s office on April 9 and took emails, tax papers, and financial data pertaining to a number of issues, including payments to Daniels.

Trump was accused of libel after calling Daniels’ comments “fraud” on April 30, 2018, according to a lawsuit Daniels filed against him. It had to do with Trump’s claims on Twitter that Daniels had made up the tale of the man who threatened her after she decided to tell reporters about their romance. On First Amendment grounds, the lawsuit was dismissed in October 2018, and Daniels was unsuccessful in her appeal in August 2020. After her libel case against Trump was dropped, Daniels was ordered to pay $293,000 of Trump’s legal bills. She was then compelled to pay an extra $245,000 after an appeal.

Daniels’ petition to have the payment for Trump’s fees reduced was denied in 2023, and she was forced to pay an additional $120,000. Due to the defamation complaint, Daniels was collectively ordered to pay over $600,000 to Trump’s legal team, but as of 2022, she promised not to pay.

In an agreement with prosecutors in August 2018, Cohen admitted to buying off Daniels “at the direction of the… candidate” and “for the primary purpose of influencing the election.” In September 2018, Cohen proposed to Daniels that if she returned the $130,000 that Cohen’s business had paid her, the non-disclosure pact would be nullified. The non-disclosure agreement will not be enforced by Trump, according to his legal counsel, and Daniels’s argument that it is invalid will not be rebutted.

Stormy Daniels Columbus, Ohio arrest

In a sting operation on July 12, 2018, undercover vice detectives in Columbus, Ohio, detained Daniels. Authorities charged her with violating Ohio strip club law by “fondling” both customers and police officers. Two other female adult entertainers who were detained at the club for the same alleged offenses as Daniels were issued summonses to appear in court instead of having their mugshots taken, while Daniels was put into the county jail. Less than 12 hours after the charges were filed, Daniels hired Columbus defense attorney Chase Mallory, who collaborated with the prosecution to dismiss them on the grounds that the legislation did not extend to performers from other cities.

Michael Avenatti, Daniels’ personal lawyer, pledged to file a lawsuit against the local police force on the grounds that the arrest was politically motivated. It was then discovered that the vice squad’s top detective in charge of the arrest was a Trump supporter. According to emails from a different vice squad investigator who made the arrest, the detective had already acquired images and recordings of Daniels and the venue where her performance was scheduled days before Daniels arrived in Columbus.

One day following the arrest, the head of police for Columbus admitted that “a mistake was made” because “one element of the law was missed in error.” Daniels sued the City of Columbus in federal court in January 2019 claiming that the arrest of her was motivated by politics and asking for $2 million in compensation. An internal police inquiry concluded in March 2019 that Daniels’s detention by the four undercover officers was illegal but not politically motivated.

Five Columbus police officers were disciplined by the department for their actions in the arrest for breaking rules of conduct, according to interim head of the Columbus Division of Police Tom Quinlan’s August 2019 announcement. The parties reached a settlement in the federal complaint in September 2019, with Daniels getting $450,000 as payment.

Stormy Daniels Trivia

Irish and half Cherokee Indian.

Nielsen reports that 22 million people saw her appearance on Stormy Daniels/The Greek Freak (2018). This is the highest CBS audience rating since Steve Kroft’s interview with Barack and Michelle Obama following the 2008 election. The Anderson Cooper segment outperformed both Donald Trump’s 2004 reality TV series The Apprentice and his first post-election interview in terms of viewership.

She was taken into custody by a police vice squad on July 12, 2018, while performing at a strip club in Columbus, Ohio. She was accused of three offenses including unlawful sexual orientation conduct. A few hours later, the allegations against her were dropped, and the five officers who had detained her were punished by Columbus’s police chief with “violating rules of conduct” and had their vice section abolished. Given that each of the five policemen was a registered Republican and was well-known to be a fervent supporter of President Trump, Daniels claimed that the arrest was made for political reasons.

She underwent breast augmentation surgery in July 1999, and in line with the stormy theme, she gave her “new” boobs the name “Thunder & Lightning.”

She served as the school newspaper’s editor and 4-H Club president in high school.

Since 2010, she has been a Republican party member.

She declared the formation of an exploratory committee in May 2009 with ambitions to challenge Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) in the 2010 US Senate election.

she was residing in Dallas, Texas as of March 2014.

has a daughter with her spouse Brendon Miller who was born in January 2011.

She enjoys participating in equestrian competitions as Stormy Crain for fun.

She admitted having an affair with Donald Trump in 2006, according to allegations that appeared in 2018. She was required to sign a non-disclosure agreement regarding the affair. Although Trump denied having the affair, during his testimony before Congress, his former lawyer Michael Cohen supplied proof in the form of canceled checks with Trump’s signature made out to her for more than $100,000 in order, according to Cohen, to “keep her quiet”.

Mike Moz, the ex-husband, works as a publicist for the adult entertainment sector.

went to high school at Scotlandville Magnet.

Stormy Daniels quotes

[7/4/09, in a speech condemning married Republican senator from Louisiana David Vitter, who was forced to reveal that he frequently used prostitutes from a service run by a lady known as the “D.C. Madam” despite portraying himself as a “family values” Christian] I might not be the model of a family-oriented person. However, I can assure you of one thing: I wouldn’t treat my spouse and kids with such contempt as the current senator does. I’m not sure what else is against family values if that.

Only my mother and the IRS refer to me as Stephanie, and I despise both of them.

Stormy Daniels Relationships

• Evan Stone, American Adult Film Actor (2002)

• Mark Davis, British Adult Film Actor (2002)

• Ashton Moore, American Adult Film Actress (2002)

• Barrett Blade, American Adult Film Actor (2002)

• • Tyler Faith, American Adult Film Actress (2002)

• Allysin Chaynes, Romanian Adult Film Actress (2002)

• Mary Carey, American Adult Film Actress

• Julian, American Adult Film Actor (2003)

• • Ashley Long, British Adult Film Actress (2003)

• Randy Spears, American Adult Film Actor (2003)

• April Flowers, American Adult Film Actress (2003)

• Brad Armstrong, Canadian Adult Film Actor (2003)

• Voodoo, Canadian Adult Film Actor (2003)

• Nicole Sheridan, American Adult Film Actress (2003)

• • Nikita Denise, Slovakian Adult Film Actress (2003)

• Angel Cassidy, American Adult Film Actress (2004)

• Alexis Amore, Peruvian Adult Film Actress (2005)

• Mark Wood, American Adult Film Actor (2005)
• Marcus London, British Adult Film Actor (2006)
• Donald Trump, Politician (2006)
• Audrey Bitoni, American Adult Film Actress (2007)

• Aurora Snow, American Adult Film Actress (2007)

• Dave Navarro, American Musician (2007)

Stormy Daniels Controversies

She was accused of hitting her husband Crain in 2009 because she wasn’t happy with the way he’d done the washing.

When news of her alleged prior affair with Donald Trump began to circulate in 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported on January 12, 2018, that Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s personal attorney, had paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money in October 2016, just before the election, to deny having an affair with Trump in 2006. In a tweet, Daniels asserted that she and Trump started a “intimate relationship” in the summer of 2006, the year after Melania Trump and Mr. Trump wed.

She filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump on March 6th, 2018, alleging that a non-disclosure agreement prevented her from reporting an earlier “intimate relationship” before the 2016 presidential election.

Stormy Daniels Facts

She adopted her stage name Stormy Daniels because she loves the American rock band Mötley Crüe, whose bassist Nikki Sixx called his daughter Storm; nevertheless, she decided on her last name “Daniels” after viewing a Jack Daniel’s advertising.

She claimed in an interview to have come from a “really bad neighborhood.”

She worked as a phone operator at a riding stable during her time in high school.

She was admitted into the AVN Hall of Fame on January 18, 2014.

She has a long history of success in the adult film industry.

She received the keys to the Californian city of West Hollywood on May 23, 2018, in honor of “Stormy Daniels Day.”

She came out as bisexual in 2019.

Who Is Stormy Daniels?

Actor, writer, and director Stormy Daniels has had success in the adult film industry. She performed as a stripper starting at the age of 17, and was a Penthouse Pet of the Month in 2007. Daniels has had appearances in popular films like The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and a Maroon 5 music video in addition to her adult work. After news of her alleged 2006 affair with Donald Trump, which he has denied, and a subsequent payment she received in 2016, just before the US presidential election, for signing an agreement to keep her relationship with the then-presidential candidate private, she came into the public eye in 2018.

What nationality is Stormy Daniel?

Born Stephanie Gregory Clifford on March 17, 1979, Stormy Daniels is a prominent American porn actress, screenwriter, and stripper.