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Cindy Crawford's blackmailer jailed
Mar 9, 2010, 16:34 GMT
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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