A TOP TV star was blackmailed for £18,500 by a crack addict who threatened to reveal he had a fetish for being trampled on.
The celeb — known to millions — feared his alleged £2,000-a-week cocaine-fuelled sex sessions with rent boys would be exposed.
Locked up . . . Alex Garrigan, 26, targeted star in a blackmail plot
A male escort has been jailed for 4½ years after the star called in the police.
The rent boy was paid between £80 and £100 a time by a top TV star to “trample him”, a court heard.
The masochistic fetish involved walking and sitting on the celeb’s body.
Masochistic fetish . . . mystery over famous TV star blackmail plot
Crack cocaine addict Alex Garrigan, 26, then targeted the star in a blackmail plot.
He was jailed after threatening to post online details of the man’s kink — and that he was allegedly spending thousands on rent boys. The Sun has seen court records which show he spent six months milking his victim for £18,500 in late 2015.
Caged addict . . . dad-of-two Garrigan was jailed at Croydon crown court
Prosecutor Paul Fairley told the court: “The allegations related to cocaine-fuelled sex sessions, debts arising out of those, using rent boys, etc, etc, spending £2,000 a week on these so-called — as it was put — ‘sordid sessions’.”
In one threatening email — using a fake name — Garrigan said: “If I ain’t got my f****** money, I’m going to start putting posters up everywhere as well. Is it really worth all this?”
The star, who also appears on radio, ultimately told cops.
Dad-of-two Garrigan was jailed at Croydon crown court, South London, last year.
It emerged that Garrigan owed drug dealers £20,000.
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He had also been blackmailing a senior teacher, who refused to pay up and went straight to the police.
Garrigan had had a “financial sexual relationship” for around three years with the star — mainly so he could be “trampled”, a fetish in which the individual gets pleasure from the pain.
Mr Fairley said: “It appears Mr Garrigan would sit and stand on the complainant’s body, for which the complainant would pay cash between £80 and £100 per session.”
In a victim impact statement the star told how the blackmail had left him a “shadow of the person I was”.
Judge Adam Hiddleston said both victims spoke of “despair, depression, and feelings of suicide”. He said what Garrigan did was “despicable”.
Last year The Sun revealed how after a hacker stole photos from the Duchess of Cambridge’s sister’s phone.
In 2015 Desmond Fraser, admitted attempting to blackmail a male and female celebrity with sexually explicit pictures.
The ex-boyfriend of Tamara Ecclestone was jailed four years after he tried to heiress .
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