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Germany's richest woman fights against sex video blackmailers
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Germany's wealthiest woman, a BMW heiress who is worth $13.2 billion, has been thrust into complete sex video blackmail hell, all stemming back to an affair with a Swiss man.
Susanne Klatten, who owns 12% of BMW plus half a pharmaceutical giant, is a wife and mother of three who broke the cardinal rule of fooling around on your husband--don't let the guy film you.
Klatten, 47, and Swiss lover Helg Sgarbi, 44, were apparently bored one day when they decided to film one of their mid-afternoon trysts in room 630 of a Holiday Inn in Munich, Germany. What Klatten didn't know was that Sgarbi was somewhat of a Swiss blackmailing Casanova, who made his fortune in seducing bored, rich women.
So when Sgarbi threatened to release the 38-minute video unless Klatten gave up the goods, she immediately turned him down. Then he decided to up the ante to $70 million, forcing her to tell her husband of her infidelities and fight this skeeze-ball head on.
Sgarbi ended up in prison, locked away for six years. Klatten thought her problems were over, until another man came forward claiming to also have a copy of the tape, a truck driver who said Sgarbi gave him the tape in prison. He was nabbed at the designated drop scene and also went to jail.
So the story has to end here, right? Wrong. In mid-July, two German men and a Serbian were arrested for the same thing, except these men wanted not only money, but demanded a BMW X-5 off-road vehicle as well. Police, posing as Klatten’s representatives, arranged a payoff in Duisburg, then arrested the blackmailers as they argued over who would drive.
Authorities don't believe that the third attempted blackmailers ever had any evidence against Klatten.
"There is nothing to suggest they ever were in possession of such a sex video," state prosecutor Thomas Steinkaus-Koch told journalists.
But will the story end here?
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