New York Post

She’s not Djoking

- By KIRSTEN FLEMING

Shame, set, match.

A Serbian Instagram model claims she was offered $70,000 to secretly film herself seducing Novak Djokovic in a bizarre plot to extort the married 33-year-old tennis superstar.

“It is true that a guy contacted me. I know him from London, and I considered him a serious guy,” Natalija Scekic said in an interview with Serbian magazine Svet & Scandal.

Initially, Scekic, who has more than 20,000 Instagram followers, assumed she was being offered a legitimate business opportunit­y.

“I am familiar with their work, and they were good. When he asked me for a date, I thought it was for a business matter. However, as the conversati­on progressed, I saw that it had nothing to do with my life,” she said.

“I thought it was a hidden camera when he told me that I had to seduce Novak and film it . . . He told me I could get about 60,000 euros for that and a trip wherever I wanted.

“I laughed, expecting him to say it was a joke, but the man was very serious. I felt very offended and humiliated,” Scekic claimed. “They were really preparing a hell of a plan. I was told to take Novak somewhere to an intimate place and film it all.”

The blond influencer said she stormed out of the meeting.

“I gathered my things and left. I hope he didn’t find a girl who wants to do that, because it’s not fair to Novak,” she said, adding that, as a fellow Serb, she views Djokovic a national icon.

“He is our best ambassador, an exemplary man, a family man,” she said, adding that she was speaking out in hopes of blunting any further sextortion plots against Djokovic, who has been married to his wife, Jelena, for seven years.

Djokovic and Jelena have two kids, and the couple has weathered past infidelity rumors. At Wimbledon in 2017, John McEnroe even compared a “distracted” Djokovic to Tiger Woods in reference to the golfer’s own marital issues.

On Monday afternoon, Scekic posted a vague message on Instagram stories about her interview.

“I ask all foreign media not to believe in the lies Serbian newspapers brought out today. My mom has nothing to do with anything that is written, we are not starlets or we invented and placed a public story this is false !!!!!!!! so please do not copy the text from them contact me in the dm [direct message] for additional questions thank you!”

Neither Scekic nor reps for Djokovic returned calls for comment.

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