Stormy Daniels Photo'd by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue

Stormy Daniels Photo'd by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue

CYBERSPACE — Stormy Daniels is the subject a photoshoot by Annie Leibovitz and a lengthy profile in the October issue of Vogue magazine.

Daniels appears in a royal blue Zac Posen gown, with earrings by Tiffany & Co. Her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, is also featured.

The profile by Amy Chozick, titled “Stormy Daniels Isn’t Backing Down,” was conducted in New York as Daniels waited to "talk to prosecutors in the criminal investigation into President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen.”

She is described as a working mother, “blunt, foulmouthed, funny” and “the unlikely, embattled symbol of our tempestuous times.”

Daniels jokes about her alleged 2006 assignation with Donald Trump (two minutes is “being generous”) and reveals the necessity of increased personal security.

“The death threats—ominous notes mailed to clubs before she arrives; suspicious substances hidden in gifts in her dressing rooms—got so bad that she had to hire three full-time bodyguards,” Chozick writes. “She calls them her Dragons and pays them with her tips. ‘We’ve been at restaurants when we order food and it’s taken too long or somebody was watching and we’ve had to leave—like that.’”

On Aug. 21, as the Vogue story was going to press, “Cohen reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors in their investigation into the $130,000 payment to Daniels… In pleading guilty, Cohen implicated Trump, telling the court he paid Daniels off ‘at the direction of the… candidate’ and ‘for the principal purpose of influencing the election.’”

“ ‘How ya like me now?!’ Daniels tweeted in response.” She later told Chozick, “Michael and I are vindicated, and we look forward to the apologies from the people who claimed we were wrong.”

The profile examines Daniels’ childhood, her entrance into the adult industry, through her encounter with Trump and into the tumultuous reality of her present-day life, including "the psychological and personal toll that has come from being one of the president’s most formidable opponents."

“It is a cruel, if unsurprising, irony that through everything that has transpired,” Chozick notes, “Daniels is the one who has been living like a wanted criminal.”

Read the entire article on Vogue.com.

In related news, the New York Times over the weekend posted an opinion piece by Jill Filipovic titled, “Stormy Daniels, Feminist Hero,” a frank discussion on how many Americans perceive Daniels as a sex worker indicting a powerful man. Click here for that story.

Click here for Daniels on Instagram and here for Vogue Magazine.

Image by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, October 2018.

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