The Rise and Fall of Michael Avenatti: An Anti-Trump Hero Who Flew Too Close to the Sun

In 2018, Michael Avenatti seemed to appear out of nowhere. A brash, flashy lawyer riding shotgun with the porn star Stormy Daniels as her allegations against Donald Trump exploded into a national scandal. Avenatti was everywhere and was even — briefly — considered to be a presidential contender. Then the mask slipped to reveal a man clinging to his own myth.
Read Matthew Shear’s 2018 New York Times profile of Avenatti (nytimes.com/2018/07/10/magazine/michael-avenat…)
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