Charges dropped against Stormy Daniels after ‘politically motivated’ arrest at Ohio strip club
Porn star who has sued US president Donald Trump reportedly was ‘using her bare breasts to smack the patrons’
The porn actress Stormy Daniels, who is locked in a court battle with US President Donald Trump over their reported affair, was arrested Wednesday night at an Ohio strip club and accused of letting patrons touch her in violation of a state law.
On Thursday afternoon, however, city prosecutors dropped the charges, saying the Ohio illegal touching law cannot be enforced because Daniels has only appeared once at the Columbus club.
The law, intorduced in 2007 by a conservative religious group, refers to someone “who regularly appears nude or seminude” at a club and has seldom been enforced, The Columbus Dispatch reported last year.
Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said on Thursday that Daniels had been set up in a “politically motivated” sting operation.
While Daniels, 39, was performing on Wednesday night at Sirens, a strip club in Columbus, Avenatti successfully argued Daniels “has not appeared consistently and repeatedly at Sirens”, thus could not be arrested under the law, according to prosecutors.