Conor McGregor is so famous he distracted New York paparazzi from a major Donald Trump investigation scoop

How do you know when you’re truly famous? Maybe it’s when your mere presence is enough to distract people from a major development in an ongoing investigation into a sitting U.S. President – even when it’s happening right under their noses.

This is the realm of world renown that Conor McGregor now finds himself in. According to VanityFair.com, the former UFC lightweight champion was such a focal point for paparazzi in New York City last week that the photographers didn’t even notice FBI agents practically brushing right past them to get to longtime Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen.

According to the article, Cohen has been staying at the Loews Regency on Park Avenue in Manhattan, which also happens to be where paparazzi were camped out hoping to get a shot of McGregor during his noteworthy visit to New York surrounding UFC 223 last week.

The photogs were so engrossed in this task that they “appeared not to notice the stream of F.B.I. agents that entered the New York hotel early Monday morning, as they made their way up to the room where the president’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has been staying.”

You want big time? That’s big time.

But it’s not the only MMA connection to the ongoing investigation that now involves the president’s lawyer. As veteran media members already know, back when Trump was involved in the short-lived Affliction MMA fight promotion, Cohen was the main point of contact for media seeking comment.

He was a memorable interview, too, mostly because he had a habit of speaking … in short, slow bursts … as if giving the reporter time … to accurately transcribe what he was saying.

So how did the personal lawyer to the man who was then a real estate mogul and reality TV star, and now the President of the United States, even have time to talk to MMA media about the fight promotion that Trump was barely associated with? I have no idea.

But at least we got to see one press conference inside Trump Tower, where the future president descended a golden escalator while Josh Barnett waited impatiently in an Affliction leather jacket.

How young and naive we all were then.

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