Porn star Stormy Daniels has released a sketch of the man she said threatened her shortly after she sought to sell a tabloid magazine her story alleging a brief affair with US President Donald Trump. During an appearance on American TV show The View, Daniels and her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, made public a sketch of the man. Daniels said the alleged threat took place in 2011, shortly after she had agreed in May of that year to sell her story about the Trump affair to a magazine for $15,000. Trump, who denies the affair, dismissed the picture on Twitter calling it: "a sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!" Porn star Stormy Daniels: the latest in 200 years of US presidential sex scandals The tweet “marks the first time Trump has commented about the matter on Twitter, though he didn't explicitly refer to Daniels”, says CNN. On The View Daniels said she did not tell her husband about the threat and that she had not told him about the encounter with Trump. “I didn’t want him to think I was a bad mum or that I put our daughter in danger,” she said. Here are five things you may not know about Stormy Daniels: She is an award-winning performer Daniels has won almost 30 awards for her work in the adult film industry, including three Fans of Adult Media and Entertainment (Fame) Favourite Breasts awards. The AVN Awards, dubbed the Oscars of porn, named her Best New Starlet in 2004, and she has picked up three more AVNs since, including Best Supporting Actress for her role in porn horror comedy Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre. She has also won seven gongs for directing, and been inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame, which honours people who have made “significant contributions to the adult industry”. She considered running for Senate Daniels formed an exploratory committee ahead of the 2010 Senate race, and considered running against a Christian Right conservative who had been caught up in a prostitution scandal. The porn star declared herself a Republican candidate, inspired by news that the Republican National Committee (RNC) paid expenses for fundraisers at a “lesbian bondage themed nightclub” in Los Angeles. She later decided not to run, however, citing lack of funds and the media’s failure to take her seriously. She loves horses Daniels owns several horses and has won blue ribbons at equestrian events, which she attends with her her husband, fellow porn actor Brendon Miller (real name Glendon Crain), and their seven-year-old daughter. “Her preparations can be meticulous, matching her saddle pad with a horse’s bonnet colours,” reports The New York Times. Dominic Schramm, a horse trainer and rider who works with Daniels, told the newspaper: “She takes it very personally that she does well. She can be quite hard on herself.” She wanted to be a vet or a journalist “Classmates remember her as a serious, unobtrusive student,” says The New York Times. She had offers from colleges, and the test scores to get in, and at one point wanted to be a journalist or veterinarian. However, at the age of 17 Daniels was persuaded to perform in a strip club and says she “made enough money on two songs to make more than I did all week answering phones at the riding stable that I worked at”. She went on to work as a stripper at The Gold Club in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and was later invited to perform in adult films. She appears in The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up Daniels has credited cameos in two Judd Apatow films. In The 40-Year-Old Virgin(2005), she stars in a fictional movie (Space Nuts: Episode 69 - Unholy Union) watched by Steve Carell’s character, while in Knocked Up (2007), she plays a lap dancer. Asked about Daniels during a recent interview with The Daily Beast, Apatow said: “I just remember that she was very smart and really strong and funny, to the point where we kept asking her to do silly things in our movies.” UK viewers can watch clips of today’s live interview on The View’s YouTube channel.

By CHRIS MORRIS Updated: April 17, 2018 11:45 AM ET Mindgeek, the biggest company in adult entertainment, is adding crypto to its payment options. The owner of Pornhub and Brazzers announced Tuesday it was entering into a partnership with cryptocurrency Verge. The partnership sent Verge prices soaring more than 22% in the hours before the announcement, as investors awaited the long-teased partnership announcement. Verge began hinting a big partner was coming last month, launching a crowdfunding campaign with a target of collecting 75 million worth of the crypto. It’s unclear at this time if Mindgeek took an ownership stake in the currency—but it did get Stormy Daniels, the hottest porn star in the world right now, to promote the partnership in a video. “Pornhub is a global organization with nearly a hundred million daily users,” said Verge founder Justin Sunerok. “This partnership represents an enormous market with a global reach that will compete with fiat currencies. It’s huge for Verge and we’re extremely excited to finally be able to announce it.” Mindgeek will initially accept the coins at three of its sites—Pornhub, Brazzers, and Nutaku, an adult gaming portal. Other sites will follow. “While the adult industry is becoming more mainstream, there are still a lot people who prefer to be secretive or private about it,” said Corey Price, vice president at Pornhub in a statement. “By accepting crypto, we are making the purchasing of content even more secure, which will appeal to those people. With the added incentive, we expect to see an uptick on the purchasing of content.” The partnership is a notable one due to Mindgeek’s enormous footprint in the adult industry. The company, which publicly describes itself as “a leader in web design, IT, web development, and SEO,” controls the majority of the porn ‘tube’ sites, (think YouTube for porn), which stream XXX clips. While most users utilize the free offerings, there are some who pay subscription fees for higher quality clips. It’s also the owner of several production studios, including Digital Playground, and controls Playboy TV and owns Spice TV. Adult industry insiders at other companies regularly accuse the company of stealing their content for the tube sites. It’s not a well-liked company in the industry, but it’s so dominant, others have accepted it as a part of doing business. The Verge cryptocurrency isn’t without detractors, either. Created in 2014, it has raised alarms recently with allegations of paid pumping by John McAfee and its recent crowdfunding efforts that were used to “support development” of the partnership with Mindgeek. (18 million XVG were moved from the fundraising wallet without explanation, alarming some in the community.) The adult entertainment industry, while usually quick to adopt new technologies, dragged its feet on cryptocurrencies. A push took place in 2013, with several companies, including Wicked Pictures, making initial plans to do so, but none of those came to fruition, in part (ironically) because of the fluctuations of the currency’s value.

There is growing concern that a large number of Brits could be caught unawares when a new age verification scheme for watching pornography online comes into force later this year. What is the Digital Economy Act? The new bill, which passed into law last year with little fanfare, covers a wide range of issues governing media regulation and access to online content. The law expands the remit of the communications regulator Ofcom; affects how public and commercial broadcasters can operate; and increases sentencing options for copyright infringements online, says Hollywood Reporter. What about porn? Its most controversial provisions, however, cover plans to regulate and restrict access to online pornography in the UK. The bill give authorities the power to block any website it deems to be adult in nature. It effectively means all adult websites in the UK will be blocked by default, and only accessible via age verification, to prove a user is over 18. First set out in the 2015 Conservative election manifesto, and pushed through under the radar by Theresa May’s government, the aim of the checks is to better police the internet and prevent children “stumbling” upon explicit content. What does the new age-verification scheme entail? Under the law, any site deemed to be adult in nature will require users to sign-up to an age-verification programme in order to login in and access the site’s content. This involves handing over identifying information, such as passport or credit cards details. This month saw the launch of AgeID, which has been developed by MindGeek, a company that also owns several of the internet’s most popular pornographic websites including Pornhub, RedTube and YouPorn. According to The Independent, AgeID uses official documents such as driver's licences and passports to verify a person's age – “but submitting a mobile number tied to a contract phone could be another option”. The person’s age will then be checked by a third-party company, with users then given a “secure login for all future access”. Who will decide what is and isn’t porn? Controversially, it is the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), the UK’s film regulator, which has been tasked with deciding what classifies as adult content. The BBFC will also be responsible for ensuring adult websites have age verification checks and has the power to fine those that do not. The BBFC has told The Guardian it would be required to check if websites contain the kind of pornographic content it would normally refuse to classify. “In practice, that means that R18 – the BBFC’s most liberal classification, applied to pornographic works that can be shown in licensed cinemas or sold in licensed sex shops only, to adults only – will be the benchmark for what is acceptable”, says the paper. When does it come in? The scheme was meant to go live in April, but the Department for Culture, Media and Sport this month quietly announced “age verification will be enforceable by the end of the year”. In the past weeks “its delay has appeared inevitable with pornographers and regulators releasing almost no information about how exactly it will work”, reports Wired. “The BBFC hasn't issued any guidance to pornographers on how age verification tools will have to work” says the tech magazine, “which has led to difficulties in creating any age verification systems”. Three porn websites, ManyVids, xHamster, and BongaCams, which all feature in the UK's most visited websites, have been unable to confirm how they will implement age verification. Speaking after government pushed back the roll-out, Myles Jackman, a lawyer for digital advocacy firm Open Rights Group, called the delay a “temporary victory for privacy and security to ensure pornography isn't the canary in the coal mine of free speech”. Why has it proved so controversial? While many may welcome this move as a way to safeguard those under the age of 18 from accessing adult content, “some argue that the tool could be wrongly used to breach the privacy of internet users” says the Independent. Speaking to The Sun earlier this month, Jackman said that there are serious dangers associated with the scheme. “The big risk is that the data from the user is not held securely, and that their privacy is violated when that data is hacked or breached” he said, adding that a breach is “ridiculously likely to happen”, and will affect huge swathes of the UK population. Given recent revelations about how personal data from Facebook has been harvested by third-party firms, many opposed to the bill have said the risk of someone’s personal porn history being hacked and then used to blackmail individuals is enormous. What about porn companies themselves? There are also concerns the new scheme could give the world’s biggest porn publisher a monopoly and access to data similar to that of Facebook and Twitter. The problem, say privacy groups, is that the BBFC draft guidance passes all responsibility for regulating the privacy and security of the services to the Information Commissioner’s Office, “with no specific security rules to be applied in the sector”, says The Guardian. There is also no legal requirement for sites to offer users a choice of age verification services. Critics of the scheme say this could allow MindGeek, which controls most of the world’s online porn traffic and has developed its own age verification service, to corner the market. Jim Killock, the executive director of Open Rights Group, told the Guardian the draft guidance would make MindGeek the “Facebook of porn” with vast amounts of data on users’ viewing habits. “These are the two key points,” Killock said. “There is no requirement for user choice and there is no requirement for any privacy to be higher than the General Data Protection Regulation. Basically, they are washing their hands and hoping the market will sort it out”. Shouldn’t more people be aware of the upcoming changes? Many industry insiders have said the lack of awareness or public debate about the imminent changes is also worrying. A survey by AVSecure, an age verification software company, found 66% of UK adults were not aware of the new rules. AVSecure CEO, Stuart Lawley, told the Sun: “The lack of knowledge amongst the general public about the pending age verification requirements for adult content should be alarming, especially to the Government.” Alastair Graham, of AgeChecked, another age verification firm, told the BBC he was surprised that there had not been more public debate around the new rule, especially given “it will affect 20 to 34 million people in the UK”.

A British Airways stewardess has quit her job to become a webcam porn star, MailOnline can reveal. Laura Birbeck has given her trolley duties the push and now strips off for an adult internet channel. She performs under the name Laura Laine for Studio 66 TV, a Babestation-style live strip show in which viewers can call in and speak to the girls. Ms Birbeck, 27, was part of BA's mixed fleet for around a year. She was with the airline for two years and graduated as full member of air crew last June. She was based at Heathrow Airport working on both long and short-haul flights. However she found the constant travelling too tiring and in February made her debut on Studio 66 TV, whose studios are in Chiswick, west London. Gone are the conservative BA uniforms and instead she now cavorts around in slinky lingerie and other skimpy outfits. A former colleague of Laura's at BA told MailOnline: 'I'm not surprised that she's gone into this line of work because it's what she's always been interested in doing. 'We were working together last year and she told me that she took a web camera and laptop with her on every flight. 'When she got to her hotel room after work she'd connect the camera up to the laptop and start to perform. She'd do it whenever she had some free time wherever she was in the world. 'But good luck to her, being an air stewardess isn't for everyone and it can be quite exhausting work. 'If she has found something that she likes doing and she can make it work for her than fair play I say.' Ms Birbeck is originally from Worcester but now lives in west London. But the hostess (pictured) moaned on social media that constant flying was 'too tiring' She also strips for another website called My FreeCams.com where girls, mainly amateurs filming themselves at home, can earn money for their performances via tips or 'virtual tokens' When contacted, Ms Birbeck declined to make any comment on leaving BA for her new career in the adult industry. However, just before her Studio 66 TV debut, she tweeted: 'When I was just a webcam model I felt so stress free, just working on my own pace and living comfortably. 'As an air hostess I have no time to myself and it's financially draining. 'I am so done with this! Back to being a full time model I think.' And last month, having made her big breakthrough, she tweeted: 'I feel very lucky I have the best and most open minded family and friends. 'They have shown me true support. And I am so blessed to have that. 'Many girls have to keep their lives a secret or feel ashamed that they have this job. Stigma is still an issue in #sexwork.' A friend said: 'She's very open with what she does and she loves the attention. 'She is always posting about it on her social media accounts so it's not much of a secret. 'She had a boob job about two years ago and that when she started doing 'shoots', I saw her at a friend's wedding and she started telling us all about it. 'She always refers to herself as a sex worker.' British Airways said she does not work for them - but refused to confirm whether she was ever in their employment. However a series of images show her wearing a BA uniform posing with other stewardesses.

Adult film actress/director Stormy Daniels at the 2018 Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas in January. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images) For America’s best-known porn actress, one of the great challenges of her career was making sure fellow performers kept their clothes on. “People were fainting,” said Stormy Daniels in a rare interview, recalling the misery of shooting her 2015 movie “Wanted” in scorching desert heat. Daniels recounted the highs and lows of writing, directing and acting in the western, which was shot on location, partly in Palm Springs, Calif. The production — a joint venture of two adult film companies — demanded scrupulous attention to historical accuracy, and the actors and actresses were kitted out in wool. Most of those clothes were shed during 17 days of shooting. But, Daniels explained, “You have to start with something on.” In an industry that has retreated largely from the studio to the bedroom, where individual sex workers entertain viewers via webcam, Daniels herself is something of an anachronism — a star who made her name before the Internet’s disruptions, creating porn films that tell a story, with a beginning, a middle and an end. Such narrative arc is unusual in contemporary pornography, according to Michael Vegas, who considers Daniels “one of the last movie stars of porn.” For her award-winning 2017 production, “Unbridled,” Vegas said, Daniels (whose real name is Stephanie Clifford) flew the crew to a ranch in Texas for a Hollywood-style extravaganza that included aerial footage, stunts and — Daniels’s true passion — horseback riding. Few opportunities of that kind come up today. The porn industry, like the news media and entertainment companies, had to reinvent itself in the wake of the 2008 financial crash and the widespread piracy of copyrighted products. Online porn allowed viewers to watch free on laptops and phones wherever and whenever they pleased; and chat rooms allowed them to connect with performers. Numbers that reflect the plight of traditional studios are hard to come by because few adult companies are publicly traded, according to Lynn Comella, a professor of gender studies at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and author of “Vibrator Nation.” But the success of the digital business is clear. “The rise of webcamming has been a game changer,” said Comella, a regular visitor to the porn convention — or AVN Adult Entertainment Expo — held annually in Las Vegas, where, she said, film studios used to be center stage. Now the prime real estate belongs to webcam companies, which offer digital liaisons between paying customers and an array of models varied enough to cater to every taste. On the convention floor this year, “cam girls” swiveled and smirked in front of laptops, adjusting decorative pasties and leather straps for their online audiences. Customers pay from $1 to $50 a minute to engage online, according to Jaime Rodriguez, director of product at Flirt4Free, one of the largest and oldest webcam platforms. The highest expenditures are for private interactions with sought-after models. The company also offers users the opportunity to tip anywhere from $1 to $50,000. A few Flirt4Free users, Rodriguez said, regularly spend as much as $100,000 a month. About one third goes to the company, one third to the model, and another third to the source of the online traffic, which in Flirt4Free’s case is often dating sites. For the consumer, the payoff is a degree of spontaneity and interactivity that cannot be matched by old-fashioned prerecorded video where actors and actresses follow plots and recite lines, said Stephen Yagielowicz of XBIZ, a publisher of business news for the sex industry. The movie industry promoted unattainable idols like Marilyn Monroe — or, in the porn world, Stormy Daniels. But camming puts the unattainable within digital reach. The porn industry is constantly reinventing itself as the technology changes, with electronic sex toys that allow consumers to send signals, such as vibrations, over the Internet to a model and watch her or him react. Yagielowicz said he sees applications beyond the adult world for couples, for example, who are temporarily separated. “A servicemen deployed for a year,” he said, “can have a tangible connection with his wife back home.” For cam girls, the new way of working provides freedom to work flexible hours from home. “Camming sites function like Uber or Lyft,” said Lily Fleur, who said she helped finance her master’s degree though webcam work. “Anyone with an Internet connection and a webcam can do it,” she said. Fleur, who described her family members as religious and conservative, said she was able to conceal her identity by keeping her face hidden during her performances. Anonymity is not what old-school performers were looking for. Not for almost half a century, since Linda Lovelace introduced “Deep Throat” to mainstream audiences, has a porn star so enraptured America’s public imagination. Daniels, recalled her old friend Randy Spears, wanted to make a splash from the moment she got into adult entertainment. “If she decided to do that business, she was going to be a star in it,” said Spears, who often performed with Daniels after they met on set more than 15 years ago. “Back in the day, it was kind of glamorous,” he said, recalling sitting together at the AVN convention signing autographs for lines of fans. Daniels, 39, is also known as something of a loner, who saw how her ability to command an audience could translate into other enterprises. Like politics. In 2009, the Baton Rouge native flirted with the idea of challenging Sen. David Vitter after the Louisian Republican was caught up in the D.C. Madam scandal. Some sex workers find her ambition alienating. “She was a little stuck up,” recalled Cindy Crawford (an adult-film actress, not the supermodel), who met Daniels in Tahoe in 2006 on the weekend of her alleged assignation with Donald Trump. Crawford, who said she worked for a smaller company, said Daniels didn’t seem interested in including her as she recounted her story to their mutual friend Alana Evans. But Daniels’s entrepreneurial successes are welcomed in an industry where many people describe feeling marginalized, particularly now that camming has decentralized the business. She recently joined a new company owned by adult conglomerate MindGeek. “Now she is working for the giant, it should allow for her to do bigger, cooler movies,” Vegas said. She has won a following among actors such as Vegas, who said she demonstrates greater versatility in her acting than most adult performers. In “The Switch,” he and Daniels play the roles of a suburban couple who are having difficulty understanding each other’s points of view — until they wake up one morning to discover themselves inhabiting each other’s bodies. “She was playing me. And she was good at it,” said Vegas. A series of expensive mishaps while shooting “Wanted,” the western, meant Daniels had to ask performers to cut their rates. “Every single person did it,” she said in an interview. Mark Kernes, senior editor for AVN, spotted Daniels at the annual awards ceremony known as the Oscars of Porn shortly after news broke of the $130,000 hush payment she received from Trump’s lawyer. The famously self-possessed actress now had a bodyguard at her side. “She does what she wants,” said Kernes. “She’s very aware of what she’s doing.” In her appearance Tuesday on “The View,” Daniels talked about those goals — to “really be known as a female director,” producing more mainstream work like music videos and a horror movie. Her determination, said Spears, carries over to her new public role as the president’s most prominent legal adversary. “Stormy does not fold under pressure from anyone,” Spears said.

The adult entertainment business remains essentially on hold as studios have shut down production after a performer (reportedly male) tested positive for HIV last week. The shutdown, which was called on Apr. 12 by the Free Speech Coalition (FSC), a trade group that represents the adult entertainment industry, was initially expected to only last through Monday. But now the group says there’s no timeframe as to when shooting might resume. The infected performer’s name has not been released. A production hold is a voluntary action by adult film makers. Those who agree to it (which virtually all studios and production companies do) cease work on all films, clips, custom videos, and more that involve sexual contact between two people. Industry protocol once someone tests positive for HIV is to halt production and do an immediate retest, to ensure it was not a false positive. Anyone the performer has worked with since their last STD test is then contacted and urged to get tested for the virus. All performers in adult entertainment are tested for STDs every two weeks. “Those partners are still being identified, contacted, and retested,” said the FSC in a statement. “We are hopeful that we will be able to identify these partners in the next few days for retesting. If we are successful, and if those tests return clear, we should be able to lift the production hold mid-week. If we are not, we will need the entire performer pool to be retested in order to re-establish a baseline for safe production.” While the porn industry is under significant financial pressure due to piracy, insiders say this shutdown should not have a noticeable effect on revenues at major studios. The porn industry shoots roughly 20,000 scenes per year. And big studios typically have a large stockpile of scenes awaiting release and can ride out a shutdown. The financial toll on performers, though, is more significant, since they have little to no income at present. Globally, adult entertainment is a $97 billion industry. At present, between $10 and $14 billion of that comes from the United States.

To pressure the websites that sex workers frequent, Congress just carved a hole in Section 230, which has governed the internet for 22 years. ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN 03.23.18 11:14 PM ET For countless folks who came of age in the 00s, finding a partner via the Craigslist personals section was a rite of passage. I remember pouring over the ads with friends, amazed at the sheer variety of sexual and romantic asks and desires out there, the strange and tantalizing mix of anonymity and eros and possibility. I brokered my best ongoing "casual encounter" through the Craigslist personals. I know others who met long-term partners and even spouses that way. But as of Friday, the Craigslist personals section is no more. Consider it one of the first—but certainly not the last—casualties of new legislation passed by the Senate this week 97-2. The bill, euphemistically known as the "Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act," or FOSTA, was passed by the House of Representatives in late February. It's been largely portrayed by the media and those in Congress as an "anti-sex trafficking" measure. But while doing nothing to realistically fight sex trafficking, it manages to muck up all sorts of other serious things. FOSTA will "subject websites to criminal and civil liability when third parties (users) misuse online personals unlawfully," Craigslist explains in the brief notice that now appears in place of potential partners if you try to go to a personals listing . Under current law, the site can't be held legally liable if someone uses veiled terms to solicit commercial sex—aka prostitution—through the Craigslist personals. But FOSTA will change that, opening up Craigslist (and every other digital platform) to serious legal and financial jeopardy should it accidently "promote" or "facilitate" prostitution. Prostitution, mind you, is not sex trafficking, which has a distinct meaning both colloquially and under the law. In the simplest terms, prostitution involves consent and sex trafficking does not. "Any tool or service can be misused," Craigslist said a statement. "We can't take such risk without jeopardizing all our other services, so we are regretfully taking craigslist personals offline. Hopefully we can bring them back some day. To the millions of spouses, partners, and couples who met through craigslist, we wish you every happiness!"

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