Can You Buy The Rights To Someone’s Story?
Are our life experiences for sale? Well, that would depend on who's paying.
There are several things that bother me currently about Donald Trump’s court case in New York, not least of all Donald Trump himself of course.
But this week, we heard from his former fixer Michael Cohen, who told the court that he made payments on Trump’s behalf to three people: Stormy Daniels, Dino Sajudin and Karen McDougal.
In this new litigious age it is a tale as old as time, a man makes a payment to stop someone who they never met talking about something they never did. See also, Prince Andrew.
In the good old days they could just call them crazy and be done with it, but it’s getting a little bit more technical now – although there is always the trusty gold-digger trope to fall back on.
But there was one thing that struck me about the reporting of his payment to McDougal. The Times reported that Cohen testified that he’d had ten to twelve conversations with Allen Weisselberg, the former Trump Organisation chief financial officer, about …