An England international footballer was blackmailed for £30k after repeatedly having sex with a transgender prostitute, according to The Sun.
Members of the England international side never tend to be far away from drama and controversy. In this case, the man accused will be thankful that his identity has remained a secret.
Nevertheless, The Sun report him to be a ‘household name’ and one who repeatedly paid a pre-op transgender prostitute £150 for sex. That information unfortunately wasn’t to remain private.
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The report claims that the prostitute recorded him, saved his texts and photographed his car outside of her house as part of a wider plot to blackmail him for as much as £30k.
The player is understood to have complied and paid the £30k before later going to the police. The prostitute was arrested and his club made aware of the allegations made by him.
Interestingly, it’s claimed that his club were already concerned about his activities off the pitch. By the sound of things, they had good reasons for those concerns…
