Iowa woman accused of blackmailing TLC show

[tawadi]

Associated Press – 4 hrs ago

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa woman is charged with extortion in an alleged plot to get Discovery Communications Inc. to cancel the TLC show "19 Kids and Counting" or pay her $10,000 in exchange for not revealing compromising photos of a cast member, according to federal court documents.

Teresa Hunt, of Bettendorf, is accused of threatening to release photos of a cast member in "apparently intimate situations" to a magazine.

Hunt was arrested Feb. 1 after she apparently sent television executives typed and handwritten letters demanding the show be canceled, along with a business card for "Perfect Pictures."

http://news.yahoo.com/iowa-woman-accused-blackmailing-tlc-show-183240279.html

[MADem]

1. The idiot should have gone to the Enquirer!

Blackmail is a crime, but salacious gossip is a business...

"I have more buried in a box at my parent's home, but it will take some time to go through the boxes to find them. I'm attaching what I currently have on my computer. I hope these are enough," the email said.
In the email allegedly from Hunt, she said she doesn't like the musician and "he owes me money." She allegedly said she's willing to "settle for $10,000," and has no reason to hurt the cast member "except that's she's on a reality show and pretends to be a right-wing Christian and she's sleeping with a 56 year old man."