Three arrested in BMW heiress blackmail plot

THREE men have been arrested in Germany over a failed attempt to blackmail the country’s richest woman, BMW heiress Susanne Klatten, prosecutors said.

Klatten, 47 went to the police in mid-June immediately after her office received a letter from the would-be blackmailers, said Thomas Steinkraus-Koch, a spokesman for prosecutors in Munich.

They demanded €800,000 and a BMW X5 sport utility vehicle or else they threatened to sell to the Italian press secretly recorded videotapes of her trysts with a Swiss man, Helg Sgarbi.