UPDATE 3-Stormy Daniels' lawyer says Russian firm's U.S. affiliate paid Trump attorney $500,000

NEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) - An attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, was paid $500,000 by a company with ties to a Russian oligarch who was hit last month with U.S. sanctions to punish Moscow for activities that included suspected meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.