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Yoko Ono's chauffeur 'in Lennon blackmail plot' - Law - Times Online

Yoko Ono's chauffeur 'in Lennon blackmail plot' - Law - Times Online
Travis Roy  |  by www.timesonline.co.uk. All rights reserved. 11.01 | 17:37

Yoko Ono s driver tried to blackmail the widow of John Lennon by claiming that he had their son on tape calling the late Beatle a wife-beating asshole , according to court documents. Details of the alleged $2 million ( 1 million) extortion plot by Koral Karsan emerged when his supposed blackmail note was made public in court documents. His lawyer said that the document, which he filed in New York in support of a bail application, showed that Mr Karsan was pursuing a legitimate sexual harrassment claim against Ono, 73.

In the letter, Mr Karsan, 50, described himself as Ono s lover and confidant for a decade-long relationship that had deepened into a very emotional and physical one . He threatened to sue for sexual harrassment, calling Sean, her son, Jan Wenner, the Rolling Stone publisher, and Paul a possible reference to Sir Paul McCartney to testify. Mr Karsan told Ono that he had tapes that will quite frankly astound the world .

He wrote: If you want all of these pictures, recordings, e-mails, conversations and memories to vanish from the face of the Earth . . .

send me a certified cashier s cheque from a New York bank for a total amount of $2 million. Elliot Mintz, Ono s spokesman, said that any intimation of a sexual liaison between Ono and Mr Karsan was a clear, obvious, transparent shakedown . Mr Karsan, who was arrested on December 13, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

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