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Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber are Being Extorted

A 26-year-old German man named Edis Kayalar was charged today for trying to extort $100,000 from Cindy Crawford and her husband, Rande Gerber. Kayalar stole a photo of Cindy and Rande’s daughter from their home. In the photo, Cindy’s 7-year-old daughter bound and gagged in a chair. Via AP and TMZ:

The photo was purportedly taken by the couple’s former nanny and shows the girl, then 7, bound to a chair wearing shorts and a T-shirt. The daughter told her parents, who were unaware of the photo, that the nanny took the picture as part of a “cops and robbers” game, according to an affidavit filed in the case. The nanny, whose name wasn’t released, has not been charged. Kayalar allegedly took the photo from the nanny and repeatedly sought to get money from Crawford and Gerber, court documents said. Kayalar threatened to sell or release the photo to the media if his demands weren’t met, the affidavit said.

Crawford’s rep says the photo was taken as part of a game of cops and robbers, without Crawford’s knowledge. The docs say the nanny took the photos as a “prank” and that Kayalar stole the picture from her. We’re told Crawford and Gerber went to the cops, who turned it over to the FBI. According to legal docs, Gerber paid Kayalar $1,000 for what he thought was the original photo. But Gerber claims Kayalar came back a few days later, claiming he still had a copy and demanded more money. And this is curious …. according to the documents, Kayalar was arrested by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department on September 16, 2009, placed in federal custody by ICE agents for an immigration violation. He was then deported to Germany. But it didn’t end there … The Feds say on November 1, 2009, Kayalar called the Crawfords from Germany and said he “had no choice now but to extort the victims for money because they had gotten him deported.” He demanded $100,000 or else he’d release the photo to the media.

Of course it’s perfectly normal to be unaware of the fact that there are photos laying around of your small children tied to chairs and gagged. We’ll just gloss right over that. I swear, rich people and their nannies. Why bother having kids at all if you’re just going to hire full-time parents to raise them for you? Another question, why hasn’t anyone stolen these pictures of me bound and gagged and tried to sell them to the press? It’s the toilet and the guy in the taco costume isn’t it? You can crop those out!

Cindy Crawford back in the 1990s at the peak of her hotness: