Three held in new BMW heiress 'plot'

Allan Hall|In Berlin12 April 2012

BMW heiress Susanne Klatten has been targeted again by blackmailers in Germany just months after a former lover was jailed for extorting money from her.

Three men are in custody in Munich after allegedly demanding nearly £800,000 from the billionaire mother-of-three. Prosecutors said they claimed to have compromising videos of her which they threatened to release on the internet.

In March, gigolo Helg Sgarbi was jailed for six years for blackmail after he secretly filmed himself and Mrs Klatten having sex in a hotel in Munich.

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