Sugar daddy dating extortion case

July 18, 2009 by edward

A Cassopolis woman has a court date next month in Connecticut on charges she tried to extort money from a man whom she met on an Internet dating site.

On Thursday, Miller, 45, a mother and wife, was transferred to the custody of Greenwich police, who brought her to state Superior Court, where she was charged with larceny counts, according to the newspaper the Greenwich Time.

Prosecutors, according to the newspaper, say Miller was part of a "conspiracy" to extort about $8,000 from Stephen Dent, 54, a Harvard-educated multimillionaire and duPont heir.

The Greenwich Time said Miller is the fourth person to be charged with attempting to blackmail Dent by threatening to expose relationships he formed with women he met through the site SeekingArrangement.com, an "elite sugar daddy dating site," police said.

The newspaper said a warrant revealed that Dent notified police in March that two woman were trying to extort cash from him.
Dent told police in a sworn statement that "I had been having a cybersex relationship with two women, known to me at the time as Sara Laste and Meghan Allen," the newspaper said.

Dent told police the women sent him text messages threatening to expose him to his co-workers if he didn’t pay them money, the Greenwich Time said.

Miller, the newspaper said, appeared in court on Friday for her arraignment.She was charged with conspiracy to commit larceny, first-degree criminal attempt at larceny and second-degree larceny.

She is expected to be in court again on Aug. 6.

Connecticut attorney Mark Sherman, who is representing Miller, told the newspaper his client plans to post bond, which was set at $100,000 during Friday's arraignment.

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