Stormy Daniels to officer in newly released video of her arrest: 'No one told me' about Ohio's no-touch law

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Stormy Daniels is interviewed following her arrest at an Ohio strip club. Charges against her were later dropped.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — When porn actress Stormy Daniels performs, she does her homework on what’s allowed.

One state required a specific size of G-string. Done.

Ohio limits performers to topless shows. Fine.

So when Daniels”Is this a sex offense?” Daniels asked, visibly upset. “They’re going to take my daughter.” 

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“Boss lady!” yelled her security guard as police escorted Daniels into a van. “We’ve got you.” 

Another Daniels employee was already calling her pitbull of a lawyer, Michael Avenatti.  

Inside the van, Daniels answered Columbus Detective Steve Rosser’s questions calmly.

• Had she had anything to drink? One shot of Fireball.
• Had she performed in Ohio before? Too many times to count, including recently in Canton. 

Rosser explained why Daniels had been arrested:

“If you use any anatomical part of your body like your chest to put it upon people’s faces, that’s a misdemeanor of the first degree,” he said. “We had a few detectives inside in the crowd, and three of those detectives that happened to.” 

Daniels whispered to Rosser: “They liked it.”

“They may have. They may have,” Rosser replied. Daniels laughed.

“Yeah, but no one told me,” Daniels said of the Ohio law. 

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Daniels told Rosser that she relied on clubs to detail local laws in her contract. No one in Columbus or at her earlier Canton performance had told Daniels that Ohio had a no-touch policy, she said. 

“So if someone doesn’t tell you that the speed limit is 55 but you’re doing 65, are you innocent?” Rosser asked

“No, but speed limits are marked,” she said. 

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Daniels was arrested and charged under the no-touch law. But the charges were dropped within hours because she wasn’t a “regular” performer at the club.

Days later, Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein dropped charges against two other women arrested that night. Klein said he doesn’t plan to enforce the state’s “legally problematic” law, which was passed in 2007.  

Columbus police are reviewing the motivations behind the undercover officers’ actions following the arrests last week. That investigation is not yet complete.

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Adult-film actress Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels speaks outside US Federal Court with her lawyer Michael Avenatti (R) in Lower Manhattan, New York on April 16, 2018.Stormy Daniels, the porn star who claims to have had a consensual sexual encounter with Donald Trump a decade ago, said April 17, 2018 that she is pursuing legal action against the president because she is “done being bullied.””I’m tired of being threatened, intimidating me, and trying to say that you’ll ruin my life and take all my money and my house,” Daniels said on ABC’s “The View.””I’m done being bullied,” Daniels said of legal threats from Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, who is now embroiled in his own legal troubles.”I’m done,” Daniels said. 
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In this courtroom sketch, Joanna Hendon, right, one of President Donald Trump’s lawyers, speaks as the president’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, left, sits next to one of his own attorneys Todd Harrison, center, with porn star Stormy Daniels visible in the audience between Cohen and Harrison, during a federal court hearing in New York, April 16, 2018. Attorneys for Cohen and Trump tried to persuade U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood to delay prosecutors from examining records and electronic devices seized in the raids on the grounds that many of them are protected by attorney-client privilege. 
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Michael Cohen, an attorney for Donald Trump, arrives in Trump Tower in New York on Dec. 16, 2016. Stormy Daniels, the porn star whom President Donald Trump’s personal attorney acknowledged paying $130,000 just before Election Day, believes she is now free to discuss her alleged sexual encounter with Trump, her manager xtold The Associated Press Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, believes that Cohen invalidated a non-disclosure agreement after two news stories: One, in which Cohen told The New York Times that he made the six-figure payment with his personal funds, and another in the Daily Beast, which reported that Cohen was shopping a book proposal that would touch on Daniels’ story, said the manager, Gina Rodriguez.  
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