Celebrities who have been blackmailed for crazy reasons

Some celebrities have experienced difficult situations regarding blackmail. Most of these blackmailers sought to extort money over intimate photographs or videos, sexual accusations, and even kidnapping threats.

It's true that these celebrities' powerful status played in their favor and, in most cases, the blackmailers attempts were unsuccessful. Some have had to pay damages and some others have even been arrested.

Click through the gallery to check out the stories of celebrities who were victims of blackmail.

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John Travolta - In 2009, the actor's son tragically died in an accident. Tarino Lightbourne, the ambulance driver who took Jett to the hospital, threatened to reveal private and embarrassing information about the incident.

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John Travolta - The driver demanded $25 million from the actor, according to The Independent. The driver was later arrested and taken to court, but the case was dismissed.

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Cindy Crawford - The supermodel was blackmailed by a man named Edis Kalayar over a photograph of her 7-year-old daughter, Kaia Gerber, in which the child is gagged and tied to a chair.

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Cindy Crawford - Kayalar demanded more than $135,000 from the couple. The model along with her husband, Rande Gerber, did not give in. The couple went to the police and Kalayar was eventually arrested, according to Today.

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Selena Gomez - The singer said she received death threats when she was only 19 years old. Thomas Brodnicki, 46, was accused of stalking the singer, having even been seen in the same place as her, according to the Daily Mail.

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Selena Gomez - The man claimed that God had ordered him to kill the singer. The case came to the police and Gomez obtained a restraining order against him.

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Steven Seagal - The actor and martial artist was blackmailed by former businessman Julius Nasso, who threatened to reveal alleged links between the actor and the Mafia, according to The New York Times.

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Steven Seagal - However, the actor sued the businessman who was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $75,000.

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Cameron Diaz - When she was 19 and before fame, the then-aspiring model took topless photos but never authorized their publication. However, the photographer attempted to sell them back to her for $3.5 million and threatened to release them if she didn't comply, according to The Guardian.

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Cameron Diaz - John Rutter was sentenced to six years in prison for forgery, attempted grand theft, and perjury. He was also ordered to pay compensation to the actress.

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Jennifer Lopez - The singer's blackmail case was entirely personal. Ojani Noa, to whom Lopez was married from 1997 to 1998, threatened to release a tape with about 11 hours of intimate footage between the couple, according to the Mirror.

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Jennifer Lopez -

The singer eventually sued her ex and the tape was never released. At the time in 2009, Lopez filed a lawsuit that prohibited Ojani from licensing, disseminating and distribute any details of her private life.

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes - The ex-couple didn't want to reveal their wedding photographs as dictated by the laws of Scientology, Cruise's religion.

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes - Paparazzi Marc Lewis Gittleman obtained access to the photographs and demanded more than $1 million to not publish the images, according to The Guardian.

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Britney Spears -

The pop star also has a history of blackmail and crazy demands.

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Britney Spears - The singer's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Ghalib, demanded money from her, threatening to release an alleged sex tape, according to Just Jared.

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Rob Lowe - In 2011, the actor was accused by Jessica Gibson, his children's nanny, of sexual harassment.

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Rob Lowe - The former nanny said she was sexually harassed and assaulted by Lowe, but contented she continued to work for him because she loved the children, needed the job, and was afraid of facing an influential man like Rob Lowe, according to Today. The actor denied the accusation and claimed the nanny just wanted to make money from the situation.

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Ricky Martin - Shortly after the singer publicly came out as a gay man, rumors surfaced claiming that Martin had only done so because he was receiving death threats from paparazzi who had intimate photos of the singer.

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Ricky Martin - However, the Puerto Rican dismissed it as speculation. As a matter of fact, the singer got married and looks happy with his now-husband, Jwan Yosef.

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Shakira - The singer was the victim of blackmail by former employees who threatened to release private information about her life unless she paid them a large sum of money.

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Shakira - According to rumors, one of Shakira's former assistants reportedly recorded the Colombian star in intimate moments with her now ex-husband, Barcelona soccer player Gerard Piqué, according to the Daily Mail.

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Alejandro Sanz - The Spanish singer also had to face two former employees who demanded about $500,000 in exchange for their silence.

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Alejandro Sanz - The case went to court and the couple, Carlos González and Sylvia Helena Alzate, pleaded guilty in 2008 to avoid a heavier sentence. They were sentenced to two years' probation, according to El Pais.

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Thalía - A kidnapping ring abducted the Mexican singer's two sisters, Ernestina Sodi and Laura Zapata, and demanded a large sum in ransom money.

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Thalía - Thalia and her family eventually paid the sisters' ransom and the singer later gave an interview to the Washington DC News about the ordeal.

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John Stamos - Allison Coss and Scott Sippola blackmailed the actor over "scandalous" photographs. The pair demanded $680,000 not to release the photos, according to BBC.

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John Stamos -

The actor didn't cave in and the Michigan couple was sentenced to prison. The alleged photos were never presented in court, or at any other time.

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