MAN TRIES TO BLACKMAIL CINDY CRAWFORD

Cindy Crawford

A German man was charged yesterday with trying to extort $100,000 from Cindy Crawford and her hubby Rande Gerber, over a photo of their daughter bound to a chair and gagged, authorities said. Edis Kayalar has not yet been arrested. He was recently deported to Germany and believed to be in Stuttgart, authorities said. He has been charged with one count of extortion. If convicted, he could face up to two years in prison. The photo was allegedly taken by the couple's former nanny earlier this year 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.
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