Ex-Trump Tower doorman Dino Sajudin spotted after indictment
The ex-Trump Tower doorman at the center of an alleged $30,000 hush money payment was spotted for the first time Thursday since his name was mentioned in former president Donald Trump’s unprecedented indictment.
Dino Sajudin, 51, was pictured peeking his head out of his front door in East Stroudsburg, Pa. Thursday morning — just days after Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 charges of falsifying business records tied to an alleged “catch and kill” scheme prior to the 2016 election.
Sajudin — who had worked at Trump World Tower in Manhattan — was cut a $30,000 check after he claimed to have information about a child Trump had out of wedlock, Manhattan prosecutors said.
In a statement of facts filed with the historic indictment, prosecutors claimed Sajudin’s payment was made as part of a so-called “catch and kill” scheme to conceal negative stories about Trump during his presidential campaign.
“In or about October or November 2015, the AMI CEO learned that a former Trump Tower doorman (the ‘Doorman’) was trying to sell information regarding a child that the Defendant had allegedly fathered out of wedlock,” the court filing reads.
“At the AMI CEO’s direction, AMI negotiated and signed an agreement to pay the Doorman $30,000 to acquire exclusive rights to the story.”
The contract between Sajudin and AMI laid out that the doorman would be penalized $1 million if he disclosed either the rumor or the terms of his agreement.
The alleged hush money payment was among three listed in Trump’s historic indictment — including six-figure payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who said they had sexual encounters with Trump years earlier.
The unnamed woman at the center of the salacious child-out-of-wedlock rumor went on to “emphatically” deny having an affair with Trump, telling the Associated Press in 2017: “This is all fake.”
Sajudin — whose story was debunked by AMI — was eventually released from his agreement with AMI sometime after Trump won the 2016 election, prosecutors said.
He went on to write a self-published book — “Trump Doorman” — in 2021 where he repeated the discredited claim and claims the former president’s company forced his resignation.
Sajudin also claimed the Trump Organization was a place that “reminded me of the gangsters of Brooklyn.”
A Trump spokesperson strongly denied Sajudin’s claims, telling The Post Wednesday: “Everything about this is false and easily disproven as fake news.”
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