Crawford 'blackmailed' over picture of bound daughter
CINDY CRAWFORD and her husband were the targets of a blackmail plot involving a photograph that shows their seven-year-old daughter bound, gagged and tied to a chair, the FBI has claimed.
The supermodel was ordered to pay a ransom of $100,000 (€68,000) to prevent the picture, which had been taken by a former nanny during a game of "cops and robbers", being made public, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles.
Eddie Kayalar, a German male model, was charged with repeatedly threatening to sell the image to newspapers. He stole it during a brief fling with the couple's ex-employee, who has not been named.
Mr Kayalar allegedly claimed to want to give it back in order to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. After returning an original copy of the image, Mr Kayalar was given a gift of $1000 by Ms Crawford's husband Rande Gerber, the lawsuit alleges. However he soon demanded more money for copies.
Prosecutors say Mr Kayalar is now living in Stuttgart. He faces up to two years in jail if convicted.(©Independent News Service)
- Guy Adams in Los Angeles
Irish Independent
