No matter how bad you may think 2019 is going for you, Michael Avenatti has almost certainly had a tougher go of it than you have.

He began 2019 still smarting from U.S. District Judge S. James Otero of the Central District of California awarding President Donald Trump almost $300,000 in attorney fees in a defamation lawsuit filed by Avenatti’s client, Stormy Daniels.