President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE's personal lawyer Michael Cohen threatened the career of an agent who had arranged in 2011 for adult-film actress Stormy Daniels to come forward with her account of an alleged affair with Trump.

The Washington Post reported Saturday that Cohen tried to contact the agent, Gina Rodriguez. But her ex-husband answered the call at the time.

"You tell Gina that if she ever wants to work in this town again, she’ll call me immediately,” the ex-husband, Randy Spears, recalled Cohen telling him, according to the Post.

Rodriguez had reportedly arranged for Daniels to publish her account of the alleged affair in a celebrity publication for $15,000.

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Spears said that Rodriguez ultimately refused to take Cohen's call, and contacted her attorney.

Cohen's call to Rodriguez marked his first effort to bury Daniels's allegations of an affair with Trump.

The alleged affair has burst into the spotlight in recent weeks, after The Wall Street Journal reported that Cohen had paid Daniels $130,000 weeks before the 2016 presidential election. Daniels says that the payment was intended to buy her silence on the allegations.

That Cohen sought in 2011 to silence Daniels's allegations came as Trump was said to be considering a potential 2012 presidential bid, though he ultimately backed away from a run that year.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, filed a lawsuit earlier this month to void a nondisclosure agreement that she says prevents her from speaking publicly about the alleged affair with Trump more than a decade ago.

The White House has denied that Trump had an affair with Daniels. The president accused Daniels in court papers filed Friday of repeatedly violating the nondisclosure agreement. He is seeking $20 million in damages.