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Posted: 2018-03-20T21:17:58Z | Updated: 2018-03-23T19:27:08Z

Former Playboy model Karen McDougal filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking to be freed from a 2016 legal agreement she says requires her to keep silent about an affair she had with President Donald Trump .

The lawsuit, first reported by The New York Times , is the second legal challenge this month from a woman attempting to be released from a legal agreement forbidding speaking about extramarital relations with Trump. The president has firmly denied the womens claims.

McDougal, in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, says her $150,000 legal agreement with tabloid giant American Media Inc., whose CEO David Pecker is a close friend of Trumps, should be deemed invalid. McDougal says the company, which owns the National Enquirer, conspired with Trumps personal fixer Michael D. Cohen and her own lawyer to mislead her on the deal.

The lawsuit filed today aims to restore her right to her own voice, McDougals lawyer, Peter K. Stris, said in a statement to the Times. We intend to invalidate the so-called contract that American Media Inc. imposed on Karen so she can move forward with the private life she deserves.

McDougals suit centers on her claim that she had an affair with Trump in 2006 around the same time the porn star known as Stormy Daniels says she, too, had an extramarital relationship with him.

The suit says McDougal hired lawyer Keith Davidson in 2016, just after Trump had secured the Republican presidential nomination. The lawyer said her story was worth millions and connected her with American Media, the suit says.

McDougals lawsuit says she was unaware of the tabloid publishers relationship with Trump, or the companys reputation for buying exclusive rights to a story damaging to Peckers friends and burying it.