“We are very close. We need some assistance from the public. We’re going to offer a significant reward to get us over the goal line and I’m confident that we’re going to get there,” Michael Avenatti said. | Jennifer S. Altman/Getty Images Attorney to offer reward for info on man who allegedly threatened Stormy Daniels in Las Vegas

The attorney for Stormy Daniels, the porn actress suing President Donald Trump, said on Monday that his client intended to release a composite sketch of the man she says threatened her to “leave Trump alone” in a Las Vegas parking lot and would offer a “significant reward” for information about his identity.

Michael Avenatti, Daniels’ outspoken attorney, told CNN’s “New Day” that the composite sketch — drawn by forensic artist Lois Gibson, who Avenatti said holds the world record for most identifications — would be released on Tuesday. He declined to say whether he had provided that sketch to police or how much money would be on offer as a reward.


“We are very close,” Avenatti said. “We need some assistance from the public. We’re going to offer a significant reward to get us over the goal line and I’m confident that we’re going to get there.”

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is suing Trump to be released from a nondisclosure agreement that she signed in the days leading up to the 2016 election regarding her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with him.

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The actress, in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” last month, recalled a 2011 episode in which she was approached by a man in a Las Vegas parking lot as she was making her way to an exercise class. Daniels, who had recently given an interview about her account of the affair with Trump to “In Touch” magazine, said the man approached her and said: “Leave Trump alone. Forget the story.”

The unidentified man, according to Daniels, also looked at her daughter, who was in her mother’s car, and added: “That's a beautiful little girl. It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom.” Daniels told “60 Minutes” that she did not know the identity of the man who threatened her but had a clear recollection of what he looked like.

Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal attorney who paid Daniels $130,000 through an LLC as part of the nondisclosure agreement, has said he has never threatened Daniels.

Avenatti suggested on Monday that the threat against Daniels could only plausibly have come from someone tied to Trump or the Trump Organization. He said he had refiled a previously denied request to depose both Cohen and Trump regarding Daniels’ lawsuit.

“There is significant evidence that this actually happened. We’re going to release that in the coming weeks,” he said. “And I’m also confident that when we release this sketch tomorrow and when we offer this sizeable reward, someone is going to come forward and is going to tighten the noose, if you will, on this issue.”

Later on Monday, Avenatti filed documents opposing a motion brought by Cohen and his LLC to compel arbitration in the case, arguing that Cohen cannot bring the motion because the nondisclosure agreement’s arbitration clause is between Trump and Daniels and that the arbitration clause in the agreement is invalid, like the rest of the agreement, because the deal was never signed by Trump. Avenatti’s filing also argued that the defendants’ position that Trump was not a party to the agreement would constitute fraud and would therefore render the nondisclosure deal void.

