Former Paris Saint-Germain and Napoli forward Ezequiel Lavezzi has made a complaint he is being blackmailed over sex videos, Argentine judicial sources said.
The 35-year-old former
Argentina international, who retired in December, claimed to have received
messages threatening to publish intimate images of him on the internet if he
didn’t pay $5,000 for each one.
Lawyers representing
Lavezzi, who also played for Chinese side Hebei Fortune and San Lorenzo in his
homeland, made the complaint to cybercrime prosecutors.
With Argentina under
coronavirus lockdown, Lavezzi is currently staying on the Caribbean island of
Saint Barthelemy, a French overseas territory, alongside his partner, Brazilian
model and actress Natalia Borges, who also received threats on her social media
accounts, according to sources.
The Argentine press has
dubbed the affair a “pornoextortion”.
According to Lavezzi’s
lawyers, the content of the videos is likely to be genuine.