Ex-Playboy playmate tells New Yorker: I had affair with Donald Trump. They bought my silence.

A former Playboy playmate has confirmed to investigative reporter Ronan Farrow that notes from 2006 describing a sexual affair with President Trump when he was a television celebrity, and also married, are hers.  

The revelation comes as President Trump prepares for possible fallout from new details about another alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels.

Karen McDougal, a former Playmate of the Year, claims she had a nine-month affair with President Trump just three months after First Lady Melania gave birth to their son, Barron.  McDougal outlined most of the details about the alleged affair in eight pages worth of contemporaneous notes obtained by the New Yorker.  McDougal told Farrow the notes were hers but that she could not publicly speak about them because of a previous agreement she had signed.

McDougal claims she and Trump began their affair after she filmed an episode of "The Apprentice" at the Playboy mansion. She recalled Trump as "a polite man" on their first date at a private bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

"We talked for a couple hours – then, it was "ON"! We got naked + had sex," McDougal wrote.

"This is an old story that is just more fake news," an unnamed White House spokesperson said in a statement to the New Yorker. "The President says he never had a relationship with McDougal."

The White House has also denied claims the president had an affair with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, despite that Michael Cohen, the president's personal attorney, acknowledged he paid her $130,000 to not discuss her allegations publicly.

Maggie Haberman, the White House correspondent for the New York Times, pointed out an interesting shift in the language used by the White House in their denials of both stories.

"The WH spokesperson here is unnamed but there's been a shift in what people defending him say – it's not "the president didn't do XYZ," it's now "the president says he didn't do XYZ," Haberman wrote on Twitter Friday morning.

McDougal told the New Yorker she wanted to go public during the election and sold the lifetime rights to her story for $150,000 to the National Enquirer, owned by Trump ally David Pecker. The Enquirer never ran the piece, a practice known in the tabloid industry as "catch and kill." The tabloid parent company, American Media, said it didn't print McDougal's story because it didn't find it credible.

According to the Wall Street Journal, which first broke the news of the $150,000 payout to McDougal, the former model had been in negotiations with ABC News to tell her story about the affair before the Enquirer stepped in. According to documents reviewed by the Journal, if McDougal tells her story elsewhere, the tabloid is entitled to at least $150,000 in damages.

"Her account provides a detailed look at how Trump and his allies used clandestine hotel-room meetings, payoffs, and complex legal agreements to keep affairs—sometimes multiple affairs he carried out simultaneously—out of the press," Farrow wrote.

In a conversation with Farrow, McDougal declined to discuss details about her relationship with Trump due to the agreement she said.  She also said she regretted signing the contract with the tabloid.

"It took my rights away," McDougal said. "At this point I feel I can't talk about anything without getting into trouble, because I don't know what I'm allowed to talk about. I'm afraid to even mention his name."

Pecker also had a close relationship with Weinstein.  According to the New York Times, Pecker offered to purchase the rights to the story of one of Weinstein's accusers in an attempt to silence her.

Farrow, the New Yorker reporter, first broke the stories about sexual abuse claims against Weinstein.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.