Cindy Crawford’s blackmail suspect hands himself in

Edis Kayalar, 26, a former lover of the Crawford family’s nanny, is accused of trying to get £61,000 ($100,000) by threatening to sell the photograph if he wasn’t paid.

He is said to have hatched a plot to wrongly implicate Ms Crawford with what he claimed to be a photograph of Ms ­Crawford’s seven-year-old daughter Kaia looking “sexy” in revealing clothing.

He said the youngster was also bound, gagged and tied to a chair in the picture.

It later emerged that the ­picture was taken innocently by the nanny while the youngster, now eight, was playing a “cops and robbers” game at home in California. Last week US authorities announced they were trying to track down ­Kayalar and yesterday the ­German former model walked into a police station in Stuttgart and gave himself up.

He faces one count of extortion in Los Angeles.

Yesterday the US attorney’s spokesman said they had not yet made any application for extradition.

But if convicted, Kayalar faces up to two years in jail.

The FBI claimed last week that Kayalar had demanded cash from 43-year-old Ms Crawford and her ­husband Rande Gerber, 47, after stealing the picture from the nanny during their brief relationship. The couple, who also have a 10-year-old son, Presley, were allegedly first contacted by telephone last July.

Kayalar allegedly told them he was keen not to let the ­photograph be published in case it caused their daughter distress.

As a result, businessman Mr Gerber went to meet ­Kayalar and gave him £700 “for his troubles”.

But Kayalar allegedly called him back and said he still had a copy. He allegedly demanded more money, saying celebrity magazines would pay more than £200,000 for the image.

In September, Kayalar was deported to Germany, but he is alleged to have renewed ­contact with the family again this month, asking for yet more money.

Last night he was in custody in Germany.