John Stamos Extortion Couple Sentenced to Prison
A Michigan couple convicted of trying to extort $680,000 out of "Glee" actor John Stamos were each sentenced Friday to four years in prison.
Allison Coss and Scott Sippola were hoping to receive sentences of less than two years in prison, but U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar ordered a stiffer punishment.
They were convicted in July of conspiracy and using e-mail to threaten a person's reputation. Coss, 24, and Sippola, 31, threatened to sell old photos of Stamos with strippers and cocaine to the tabloids unless he paid up.
The FBI said such photos didn't exist, and Edgar agreed there was no evidence they did.
Stamos met Coss in Orlando, Fla., in 2004 when she was 17 years old. It was shortly after he had separated from his wife, supermodel Rebecca Romijn.
Coss testified that Stamos snorted cocaine, sat nude in a hot tub with the scantily clothed teenager, and made sexual advances as they kissed while lying on a bed. He denied it.
Stamos, 47, starred on "ER" and "Full House" and now plays a dentist on Fox's hit musical "Glee." He was not in court for the sentences.
In a court document filed this week, Sippola apologized and said his "conduct was awful."
"I sought to exploit my knowledge of the personal weaknesses of a perfect stranger for my own undeserved financial gain," he said. "I would be angry and hurt if that had happened to me and I am certain that Mr. Stamos feels that way towards me."
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Way to go John !!! I am glad these kinds of people will be sitting in prison for a while. I cant think of a better place for them both.
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I can't believe we taxpayers are going to pay big money to have these jerks sit in prison for 4 years..the tabloids make up crap like this all the time with no consequences..who gives a crap if they have pictures or not..it's not worth the 80 thousand a year to incarcerate these two morons
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"Thou shalt not steal. "
But if somebody steals only to feed themselves let them have what they take
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I don't have a problem with Stamos standing up for himself. And I sure don't have a problem with crooks going to jail. I just wish they had received a longer sentence, so maybe they could learn that what they did was wrong, wrong, wrong. With a four year sentence and out in 18 months on good behavior and prison crowding all they will have learned is they picked the wrong person to extort and maybe they will be luckier next time.
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