Yoko Ono's Extortion and Blackmail Ordeal

Yesterday news came out that Yoko Ono's driver, Koral Karsan (pictured), tried to extort $2M from her. Today the story unfolds, as he was brought in for questioning.

Apparently Karsan (who has been her driver for six years) dropped off a letter and a photograph of Ono in nightclothes (Ono says "lingerie" and the Daily News says "pajamas") to her New York apartment. In the note he claimed to have secretly photographed her and made recordings of her private conversations (where she speaks against US and British government). BBC reports that Karsan also "talked about killing her and her son Sean in a conversation which was recorded by investigators."

The blackmail attempt was made on the 26th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon. The Daily News reports that, "Karson - a Turkish immigrant who once served in his homeland's military - tormented Ono with his heartless ultimatum on Friday, the 26th anniversary of her husband's murder at the hand of a crazed fan, police said. Cops had planned to set up a sting operation to bust Karson, but moved in more quickly after he allegedly told a co-worker on Tuesday that he had been drugging Ono."

Last night he was taken from the 20th Precinct station house on the Upper West Side to downtown for booking, at which time the handcuffed Karsan made an allegation of his own - that Ono had sexually harassed him. We highly doubt Ono is capable of harrassing anyone.

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By Jen Carlson in News on December 14, 2006 11:36 AM

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jammer

what a complete bastard.

no one's going to PAY to see yoko in her pajamas when so many of us have already seen photographic still of her naked in performances. who is this weirdo? i'll drive yoko around for free! she's my hero!

Elderta

$160,000? This guy made $160,000 a year and has possibly done this crap? Maybe he should claim insanity cause that's just mental.

Oh.. and where do I apply for the driver job? Holy crap!

hoff

come on. he's not all bad. he did say he was going to bump off sean.

Tom

What a lowlife piece of sh*t! What is the maximum sentence he can face?

Tim N.

umm... I meant stop the presses... dayum

Tim N.

STOP THE PRESSED! Yoko Ono wears pajamas!!! And has opinions about the American and British Governments!!! SHOCKING!!!

What Yoko really needs is a good HR guy, so she or her people can stop hiring schmucks.

J

WCBSnews this morning reported that this schmuck was paid$160,000.00 a year for being Yoko's driver...

He must have been having a hard time making ends meet...

Elderta

I hope people finally learn not to mess with Yoko Ono. She doesn't play around when it comes to crap like this. If this is proven to be true, what an asshole this guy is to do that on the 26th anniversary of Lennon's death. Just reprehensible.