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Article: Yoko Ono's Driver Seeks Bail Again
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- January 10, 2007
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NEW YORK - Yoko Ono's jailed driver was requesting payment for years of sexual harassment and abuse, and not blackmail money, when he asked the widow of Beatle John Lennon for $2 million, a bail application filed Tuesday says.
In support of that claim, a lawyer for chauffeur Koral Karsan filed the letter Karsan wrote that prosecutors said proved he had threatened to humiliate Ono unless she gave him the money.
In the letter, dated December 2006, Karsan portrays himself as an abused employee seeking justice. He says Ono's demands on him had destroyed his family.
"My wife has now left me because of the relationship between you and me," his letter to Ono says.
Karsan's letter, filed by ...