You're the country's richest woman. You fear home invasion, kidnapping, extortion, and those pesky poor people with their hands out.
What you probably don't do is worry about getting blackmailed over your own sex tape. Unless, of course, you're this woman...
German police have been working on a case involving Susanne Klatten, Germany's 46-year-old female billionaire, and have arrested two men: Klatten's alleged lover and a friend of his, a hotel owner who filmed sexual trysts in his establishment. The duo hoped to received 40 million euros, but had to settle for 7.5 million from Klatten. Klatten, who helped foil her own kidnapping at the age of 16, was already talking to the cops.
Klatten, who
holds a large stake in automaker BMW and Altana speciality chemical
company, allegedly paid 7.5 million euros to a Swiss Helg Sgarbi to
stop him from publishing compromising photos and videos of the couple's
relationship, the German tabloid Bild am Sonntag reported.
The 41-year-old suspect was taken into custody by German authorities some weeks ago, Schmidt-Sommerfeld said.
The
heiress to the Quandt family fortune and mother of three children
"filed a complaint for fraud and blackmail in January 2008 with a
Munich court," he added. Klatten has a personal fortune of 7.8 billion euros, according to German's Manager Magazine.
7.8 billion euros? That's like 40 trillion American or six Michael Bloombergs, right?
Seriously, we think we know why Klatten was embarrassed about this sex tape going public: she's "happily" married. Our guess is that she paid the hush money more so her husband wouldn't find out about the affair than any other public humiliation it could cause. The fact that she went to the police may only mean that she still hoped the media wouldn't find out about the whole incident.
Nice try.
Via Euro News.
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