Erotic model accused of extortion awaits fate

• An erotic model wanted for her alleged role in a sex tape extortion plot involving an American celebrity athlete is in a Canadian jail awaiting extradition.

Samantha Curow, 31, or “realstacidoll” as she is know to her 1.6 million Instagram followers, is the last of three women — two from Canada — U.S authorities in Los Angeles sought to prosecute for allegedly attempting to extort $2 million from a wellknown athlete in exchange for not publicizing a compromising video of his cocaine-fuelled romp with sex workers.

Curow, 31, was ordered into custody this month after Ontario Superior Court Justice C.J. Conlan ruled there was enough evidence to support an extradition request by the United States.

According documents filed in Canadian court in the extradition request, the sex-worker who shot the two-hour video of the athlete later reached out to her friend Curow for advice on how to use the footage as leverage.

Curow and another friend from Toronto then allegedly worked together to negotiate payment from the athlete and a person they thought was the athlete’s financial adviser but was really an undercover agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Patrick Ducharme, Curow’s lawyer in the extradition proceeding, argued Curow is not the perpetrator but was acting as mediator helping the athlete to try and recover the damaging tape.

“There is a whole different story to be told,” Ducharme said. He said Curow will not appeal in Canadian courts and will wait to tell her version of events at a trial.

The Ontario Court of Appeal declined to release Curow on bail while she awaits the Minister of Justice’s decision on surrender to U.S. authorities.

According to documents filed in the extradition case, the athlete hired a female sex worker that he met online to come to his apartment one evening in February 2018. An hour later, a second woman arrived. The athlete disrobed, consumed alcohol and cocaine, watched pornography and requested the women “penetrate him with various objects not typically used for that purpose.”

The athlete was aware some of the encounter was filmed. At the end of the night he paid each woman US$2,000 but they wanted more. When he refused, they took an expensive piece of luggage as “collateral” against additional payments.

Several days later, the athlete began receiving text messages from someone claiming the damaging video would “go away” if he paid compensation. He changed his phone number. The athlete’s wife, daughter and former companion also received Instagram messages.

The athlete’s lawyer went to the FBI.

U.S. courts do not name the victim, referencing him as a well-known American athlete and celebrity.