hush money
noun
: money paid so that someone will keep information secret : money that a person pays someone to hush something up
He's accused of paying her hush money to keep their affair secret.
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Trump himself was convicted in a New York court last year in a case involving hush money payments.
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Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
In that case, he was hit with 34 felony counts for allegedly falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels nearly two decades ago.
—David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2025
Trump has also appealed his conviction in the hush money case, seeking to erase his criminal record.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
The ruling is the latest turn in Trump's ongoing legal battles, which include his criminal hush money case, a pair of civil defamation verdicts tied to writer E. Jean Carroll, and other litigation.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
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Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
In that case, he was hit with 34 felony counts for allegedly falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels nearly two decades ago.
—David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2025
Trump has also appealed his conviction in the hush money case, seeking to erase his criminal record.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
The ruling is the latest turn in Trump's ongoing legal battles, which include his criminal hush money case, a pair of civil defamation verdicts tied to writer E. Jean Carroll, and other litigation.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Hush money.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hush%20money. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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