Cindy Crawford and her husband Randy Gerber have been the unfortunate victims of an extortion plot.

Edis Kayalar, an acquaintance of the couple’s former nanny, apparently threatened to sell a photo of the couple’s daughter. In the photo, the young girl is bound to a chair in revealing clothing and also gagged. Apparently their nanny was playing a game of cops and robbers with Cindy’s daughter and took a picture of her bound to the chair.

RadarOnline Reports: On July 13 around 7 p.m., the couple received a phone call from Kayalar (who initially identified himself as “Brian”) during which he claimed to have stolen the picture from their former nanny and wanted to return it because it “bothered” him and it “just wasn’t right.”

A few hours later, he called back asking Gerber to meet him at a bar and also mentioned he was “broke” and would like monetary compensation as a reward for returning the photo.

Gerber eventually gave Kayalar $1,000 in cash for the image but Kayalar continued to ask for more money for copies he made of the photo. He later asked for as much as $100,000 (later upped to 100,000 euros) as a payoff for not releasing the photo to the media.

Annett Wolf (Crawford’s Spokesperson) issued a statement saying Crawford had no knowledge of the photo and that the photo was taken as part of a game. According to the documents, the nanny- who had been fired a week before Kayalar’s phone call - said the photo was taken as a prank. She was going to put it on the family’s front door as a joke but decided against it in the end.

“The victims have since learned from their daughter that the nanny took the photograph as a part of a purported ‘cops and robbers’ game,” the court papers stated.

On September 16th he was arrested for an immigration violation and deported back to Germany.