Stormy Daniels ‘refused to take a subpoena’ from Trump lawyers summoning her to testify in hush money trial

Donald Trump’s attorneys have claimed that they tried to serve adult film star Stormy Daniels with a subpoena to testify in the former president’s hush money trial – but she refused to take it.

In a court filing, filed on Monday by Mr Trump’s legal team and obtained by The Associated Press, his attorneys said that a process server had approached Ms Daniels as she arrived at the 3 Dollar Bill nightclub in Brooklyn on the night of her screening of her new documentary Stormy in March.

According to the documents, Ms Daniels refused to take the papers and the process server Dominic DellaPorte was forced to “leave them at her feet”.

“I stated she was served as I identified her and explained to her what the documents were,” the process server wrote.

“She did not acknowledge me and kept walking inside the venue, and she had no expression on her face.”

The subpoena reportedly relates to Ms Daniels’ documentary and asks for communications between her and two potential hush money witnesses: Mr Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen and Playboy model Karen McDougal, who – like Ms Daniels – also allegedly had an affair with the former president.

It also asked for communications between the adult film star and E Jean Carroll, the former Elle magazine columnist who Mr Trump was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming in a 2023 civil trial.

Ms Daniels’ lawyer Clark Brewster labelled the request an “unwarranted fishing expedition” and said it didn’t bear relevance to the hush money case, according to a letter to the judge obtained by The Associated Press. Mr Brewster added that the request “appears calculated to cause harassment and/or intimidation of a lay witness”.

Meanwhile, Mr Trump’s attorneys have claimed that Ms Daniels’