Domestic battery case with porn star is nixed
TAMPA (AP) – A domestic battery case against porn star and aspiring U.S. Senate candidate Stormy Daniels was dropped after the alleged victim decided not to prosecute, a Florida state attorney’s office said Wednesday.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Gregory Clifford, was arrested in July after her husband told Tampa police that she hit him several times during a dispute about laundry and unpaid bills.
Pam Bondi, a spokeswoman with the state attorney’s office in Hillsborough County, said prosecutors could not determine who the aggressor was. There were no visible injuries.
“He did not want to prosecute,” Bondi said.
Daniels’ attorney did not immediately return a message Wednesday.
The political hopeful announced her interest in a 2010 run for a Senate seat currently held by incumbent Louisiana Republican David Vitter in May. She launched a second “listening tour” through the state in July.
Later that month, her political adviser in Louisiana, Brian Welsh, said his 1996 Audi exploded into flames outside his New Orleans apartment as he and his wife were walking their dog nearby. Welsh, the manager of the Stormy Daniels Senate Exploratory Committee LLC., feared someone caused the explosion.
On fuzzy security tapes that Welsh posted on YouTube, a person in a white shirt can be seen loitering around his car and apparently getting into it shortly before the car explodes in a ball of flames.
Two days later, Daniels was arrested and charged with domestic violence battery.
According to a Tampa police report, her husband, Michael Mosny, said Daniels was upset “about the way the clothes had been done” and then “got more upset about some bills that had not been paid.”
The report said Daniels threw a potted plant at the kitchen sink and the couple’s wedding album to the floor.
Welsh could not be reached for comment.