Donald Trump returns to court on Friday for the hush money trial to watch his lawyers cross-examine former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.
During cross-examination before the court wrapped up for the day, Pecker ran through a series of high-profile arrangements he claimed he came to with celebrities and powerful men.
Pecker also claimed he helped bury stories about Mark Wahlberg and his wife having an argument 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 at 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 came out in court that Pecker also gave Trump the heads up about negative stories for years, and Pecker agreed.
Among the other high-powered men that Pecker did similar favors for was billionaire Ron Perelman, the owner of cosmetics giant Revlon.
Schwarzenegger got $50 million in addition to posts as editor at large 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 that high. Hundreds of thousands of dollars,’ Pecker said.
Pecker confirmed that Schwarzenegger did not pay him back.
