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Ex-Playboy model claims Trump had affair with her while married to Melania - and reveals how he ‘covered it up’

Karen McDougal, 46, began a nine-month affair with the now-US president after meeting him at a pool party in the Playboy mansion

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James Wilkinsonin New York

A former Playboy Playmate has claimed that she had an affair with Donald Trump when he was less than two years into his marriage to Melania - and claims to reveal how he and his people covered it up.

Karen McDougal, 46, began a nine-month affair with the now-US president after meeting him at a pool party in the Playboy mansion in 2006 and going on a date with him, according to The New Yorker.

In the piece, Ronan Farrow - son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, and one of the key figures in exposing Harvey Weinstein - says that he got hold of a note written by McDougal detailing the affair, and its subsequent cover-up. 

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Karen McDougal with Donald Trump in a photo she posted in September 2015 on Twitter, a post now deleted. Photo: Karen McDougal/Twitter
Karen McDougal with Donald Trump in a photo she posted in September 2015 on Twitter, a post now deleted. Photo: Karen McDougal/Twitter

And McDougal has confirmed the note was in her handwriting, he says - providing written proof of a claim that has been denied by the Trump team since the election.

[Trump] was so obvious that a Playmate Promotions exec said, ‘Wow, he was all over you - I think you could be his next wife
Karen McDougal

The eight-page document, obtained by Farrow from a friend of McDougal’s, explains in detail how the affair unfolded, and the complex steps taken by Trump to avoid being linked to McDougal.

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