donald trump returns to court Friday for the hush money trial to watch his lawyers question former National Enquirer editor David Pecker.
During cross-examination before the court concluded for the day, Pecker reviewed a series of high-profile deals he claimed he had made with celebrities and powerful men.
Pecker also claimed that he helped bury stories about Mark Wahlberg and his wife arguing and Rahm Emanuel having an affair after he left the Obama White House.
Pecker confirmed that he purchased the rights to photographs of Tiger Woods meeting a woman in a parking lot in Florida as part of another deal.
He agreed that they were used as “leverage” to get Woods to appear on the cover of Men’s Fitness magazine.
It emerged in court that Pecker had also warned Trump about negative stories for years, and Pecker agreed.
Among the other high-powered men to whom Pecker did similar favors was billionaire Ron Perelman, owner of the cosmetics giant Revlon.
Schwarzenegger received $50 million plus positions as general editor of two AMI muscle-building magazines as part of a deal for AMI to buy them, the court heard.
Bove said that “30 or 40 women came to you and AMI” when Schwarzenegger declared his candidacy. Pecker agreed.
‘Not so high. Hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Pecker said.
Pecker confirmed that Schwarzenegger did not return the money.
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