Both President Donald Trump and prominent lawyer Michael Avenatti have been turned back, in one federal decision in Ohio, in their separate bids to grab chunks of a $450,000 settlement won by adult film actress Stormy Daniels in her 2018 false-arrest suit against the city of Columbus.

In an eight-page order, U.S. District Judge Michael Watson of the Southern District of Ohio denied Trump's notice of registered foreign judgment seeking $293,052 of Daniels' settlement, and tossed aside Avenatti's notice of attorney lien seeking allegedly unpaid attorney fees from his previous, unrelated representation of Daniels.

Watson, at the end of his order, also ruled that his clerk can now release the $450,000 to Daniels and her lawyers.