Tuesday March 9, 2010

A MAN who blackmailed Cindy Crawford has been sentenced to two years in prison.

Edis Kayalar has been found guilty of extorting money from the supermodel — who is married to Rande Gerber — by threatening to release a photograph of her then-seven-year-old daughter Kaia gagged and bound to a chair.

Court documents from his appearance in court in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany state that Kayalar — who turned himself into police in Germany last November — stole the photograph from the couple’s former nanny in 2009.

Cindy reportedly gave into Kayalar’s initial requests and paid him $1,000 for a copy of the image.

However, Kayalar attempted to extort a further $100,000 from the couple and repeatedly threatened to sell or release the photograph to the media if they failed to pay.

According to the documents, Kaia — who is now eight — told her parents the photo, which they had been unaware of, was taken during a “cops and robbers” game with her nanny.

Cindy and Rande married in 1998 and they also have a 10-year-old son Presley.

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