Michael Avenatti Transferred to Long Beach Halfway House

Michael Avenatti, the disbarred attorney known for representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels in her legal disputes with former President Donald Trump, has been transferred from federal prison to a halfway house in the Long Beach area. The move, confirmed by Federal Bureau of Prisons records, occurred this week after Avenatti served approximately four years of his sentence at the Terminal Island facility and the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles. He now resides in community confinement managed by the bureau's Residential Reentry Management office in Long Beach, with a projected full release date of September 2028.

Avenatti's transfer follows a series of convictions for financial crimes. In 2021, he was sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort up to $25 million from Nike through threats to publicize claims of misconduct by the company. The following year, in June 2022, he received a 48-month sentence for stealing nearly $300,000 from Daniels, whom he represented in her efforts to invalidate a hush-money agreement with Trump related to an alleged 2006 affair. Trump has denied the affair and any involvement in the payments.