“I don’t know if there is a word stronger than furious. But that would be it,” Daniels added when asked about one fateful day in February 2019, when she discovered proof that her book publisher, St. Martin’s Press, had already wired Avenatti her money.and decided to represent himself. It’s unclear whether he’ll testify in his own defense.
. “It solidified that I’m a real author,” Daniels said, adding that she’d dreamed of writing a memoir for 10 years. From that point until the following February, Daniels repeatedly asked Avenatti for updates on her second, and eventually her third, payment from St. Martin’s. “I did not get paid today,” Daniels texted Avenatti on Sept. 5. “I am not fucking happy. They are in breach of contract by about four weeks.”
Daniels’ testimony suggested that Avenatti played the part of dishonest middleman, falsely arguing St. Martin’s Press wasn’t happy with her publicity on the book and that she didn’t reach her contractual requirements for it. Avenatti had another excuse up his sleeve: He claimed her book sales were unremarkable. Daniels testified that the number of copies sold, however, had no bearing on whether she would be paid.
“You should not be attacking me publicly,” Avenatti warned Daniels in a text on Nov. 28, 2018. “It puts me in a very difficult spot because I have to defend myself and I don’t want to respond in kind. We have to work this out.” Daniels kept pressing Avenatti for help in reaching the publisher and her literary agent, Luke Janklow, who wouldn’t return her calls.
“He ignored my stuff and only cared about what they were asking about him,” Daniels testified of his instructions for the press scrum.When Avenatti contacted her the next day, she didn’t answer. Sobelman asked Daniels why she suddenly ignored him. “Because I had spoken to the publisher,” Daniels testified. “Michael had been lying and stealing from me and my payments had been sent months before.”
"How was I supposed to get paid for all the work that I and my law firm did for you over the course of 12 months?" he asked. Daniels testified she believed he would be paid through her legal defense fund and winnings against Trump. Before Daniels entered the witness box, Avenatti wrapped up his cross examination of Sean Ernesto Macias, an attorney and friend who said Avenatti was desperate for a $250,000 loan in September 2018. It was Macias who introduced Daniels to Avenatti that February when she was seeking a lawyer to fight her “hush agreement” with Trump.
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