The Fashion Photographer Sex Scandal Extortion Plot

When you live in New York and commute to work, you pick up the New York Post to see if there are any fresh sex scandals, celebrity extortion plots, fashion model escapades, or media stories related to photography. On a day like today, when the top story is a sex scandal about an extortion plot starring a model and one of the city's top fashion photographers, well..you've hit the jackpot.

Here's a warning, though: This story is pretty complicated, even by New York Post standards. If I've got it straight, fashion shooter Markus Klinko was having a "romantic relationship" with model Fernanda Romero (both seen here). But the model was once engaged to a fashion company executive, Michael Ball, and Ball had certain pictures of Klinko and Romero, and he was using those pictures to blackmail Klinko....well, at least there was a solid photographic hook to the story.

Actually, if you read this Post article, you get a pretty good picture of how social (and romantic) connections fuse together the fashion network in New York (and other places).

According to the Post (and that is always a necessary qualifier), it all started last November, when Klinko was dating Romero, who introduced him to her former fiance, Ball, who was looking for a photographer to shoot an ad campaign for his Rock & Republic fashion line. Romero was hoping to star in the campaign.

Ball, who apparently didn't know Romero and Klinko were seeing each other, signed on the photographer. But when he did find out about the relationship, he refused to use any of the photos Klinko had made, or to pay him. Then he tried to use some "sexually explicit" photos of Klinko and Romero (and two other women, natch) to get Klinko to leave Romero.

Really, can a Friday morning subway ride get any better than this?
—David Schonauer

Comments

[Blogger]

Have you heard all the facts about the Rock & Republic / Markus Klinko lawsuit?
http://blog.myspace.com/markusklinko

[NOREEN B]

He probably just wants money!

[blogger]

Rumor has it, that Michael Ball, owner and designer of Rock & Republic, is a guy that's able to laugh at himself.
We hear that for the finale of his upcoming NYC show at hotspot Cipriani, he plans to send scandalicious Fernanda Romero, (the green card bride), down the runway. And that his not so traditional wedding dress will be entirely made out of fake social security cards, as perhaps inspired by this creation.

http://www.fileden.com/public/2007/1/31/45c0f9d7cf4f4133577759.jpg

[MICHAEL GAY BALL]

Who blames Fernanda Romero being screwed up in the head with Michael Ball beating her so much! Poor girl helped him build his Rock & Republic and she deserves a huge chunk of it! AND Markus Klinko is helping her get HALF of it. This is obvious of who’s the bad and good guys. The poor girl got beat and threatened since she knows of all his illegal activities. Pretty F’ed up that Michael Ball himself arranged for her green card marriage with Kent Ross. Markus Klinko is really the savior of this SOAP OPERA. And NOW (FINALLY) Fernanda Romero is spilling the truth to investigators on her FRAUD MARRIAGE to Kent Ross!! Kent Ross’s girlfriend Gladys Otero must be pissed! Gladys Otero is way too HOT to be dealing with such scammers!! Famous people aren’t innocent from what it seems anymore.

Jessica Alba, Victoria Beckham, and Fernanda Romero should really STAND up/Speak up on this investigation so that CASE IS CLOSE and they all get their millions out of Michael Gay Ball. Cheers to Rock & Republic crumbling!!!

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