Article snippet: Karen McDougal, the former Playboy centerfold model who alleges she had a 10-month romantic affair with Donald Trump, pushed back tonight against White House claims that there was no truth to her allegations of a previous relationship with the president. "I think somebody's lying," McDougal told CNN. "And I can tell you, it's not me." McDougal’s interview –- after a decade of silence -- comes just two days after she filed a lawsuit in state court in California, seeking to invalidate a contract she signed with American Media, Inc., the parent company of the National Enquirer. In August 2016, AMI purchased the rights to McDougal's story in exchange for $150,000 and a deal for her to write columns and appear on covers of fitness magazines owned by AMI. But AMI never published a story about her alleged affair with Trump. She's alleging in court filings that AMI colluded with her former attorney and Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to purchase her story with the purpose of burying it in advance of the election. AMI has denied the allegations. McDougal told CNN's Anderson Cooper that her first intimate encounter with Trump came in 2006, soon after she met the New York real-estate tycoon at the Playboy mansion during a taping there of his reality series, "told ABC News anchor David Muir this week on "Good Morning America", that "it has only recently come out through reporting and other sources, that there was wholesale collusion between David Pecker... Link to the full article to read more