Man charged with trying to extort $100,000 from model

A GERMAN has been charged with trying to extort $100,000 (€67,000) from former supermodel Cindy Crawford and her entrepreneur husband Rande Gerber over a photo of their daughter bound to a chair and gagged, authorities said.

Edis Kayalar, 26, was recently deported to Germany and believed to be in Stuttgart, authorities said.

He was charged with one count of extortion. If convicted, he could face up to two years in prison. It was not clear if he has an attorney in the US.

The photo was purportedly 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, according to an affidavit filed in the case.

The nanny, whose name was not released, has not been charged. She was fired a week before Kayalar called the couple.

Kayalar stole the photo from the nanny and repeatedly sought to get money from Crawford and Gerber, starting in July, according to the document.

Kayalar initially said he wanted to return the photo because he was a good person and didn’t want to see it land in the tabloids, the affidavit said.