(updated December 29th)
Two men were arrested Tuesday for allegedly trying to extort $1 million from Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez after they got a hold of private photos and video of the couple's wedding. According to the New York Post, convicted murderer Tito Moses and retired postal worker Steven Wortman had been negotiating with dectives posing as Anthony's advisors for the past several weeks and then agreed to accept $150,000 [some reports say $200,000] in a meeting at a Manhattan location Tuesday (December 27th). The alleged thieves got a big surprise when they showed up to collect the money and were surrounded by police in what turned out to be an elaborate sting operation.
Now, if I had to pick a celebrity couple to extort, the last couple I'd pick would be two very smart native New Yorkers! Hello? You grow up in this town and you see every scam in the book. Marc and Jen handled it perfectly by keeping the theft out of the press (except for one brief story in the New York Post a few weeks ago) and letting the police handle it.
If I were a crook I'd go after Britney and Kevin or Jessica and Nick. Although, after their reality shows, those four don't have anything left to keep private!
In this case, the opportunity presented itself to the alleged crooks when a laptop with photos and videos turned up after Marc's Cadillac SUV was stolen. It will be interesting to see whose big idea the extortion plot was -- the convicted murder or the postal worker? Or both?
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