{"id":214428,"date":"2021-11-24T18:20:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T12:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=214428"},"modified":"2021-11-24T18:43:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:13:52","slug":"karim-benzema-real-madrid-star-found-guilty-in-sex-tape-case-handed-one-year-suspended-sentence-and-fine-of-euro-75000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/karim-benzema-real-madrid-star-found-guilty-in-sex-tape-case-handed-one-year-suspended-sentence-and-fine-of-euro-75000\/","title":{"rendered":"Karim Benzema: Real Madrid star found guilty in sex tape case, handed one-year suspended sentence and fine of Euro 75,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Real Madrid star Karim Benzema has been found guilty in a sex tape blackmail case by a French court on Wednesday. The court has handed him a one-year suspended sentence and a fine of Euro 75,000. The French striker conspired to blackmail his former teammate Mathieu Valbuena with a sex tape, in a case that tarnished both their careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The allegations came in light in 2015, which led Benzema to being banned from the national team for five years until he was brought back to play in EURO 2020 in the year 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court&#8217;s decision came right before when France Football is about to announce the winner of the prestigious Ballon d&#8217;Or on November 29 and Karim Benzema is one of the top candidates along with the likes of Leo Messi, Robert Lewandowski and Cristiano Ronaldo, to win the award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Karim Benzema has been found guilty of conspiring to blackmail former France teammate Mathieu Valbuena over a sex tape.<br><br>The Real Madrid forward has been given a 1-year suspended prison sentence and an $84K fine; his lawyer has confirmed he will appeal the decision. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C8hR2sWI6X\">pic.twitter.com\/C8hR2sWI6X<\/a><\/p>&mdash; B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1463452489194352652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, this verdict won\u2019t affect his place in the national team, as French football federation president Noel Le Graet has already said that even a guilty verdict will not banish him for laying for France that the footballer can keep his place in the national team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benzema&#8217;s lawyer confirmed after the case that the player will appeal against the decision. Benzema was not present in the court as the striker is preparing for his Champions League match against Sheriff Tiraspol in Moldova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read Also<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/breaking-news-live-updates-latest-india-news-november-24\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/breaking-news-live-updates-latest-india-news-november-24\/\">LIVE Top News Today: Akhilesh Yadav promises Rs 25 lakh each to deceased farmers during farm law agitation if Samajwadi Party comes in power<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/author\/apnnewsdesk\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since making his comeback in the national team, Benzema has scored 9 goals and played EURO 2020 under the World Cup-winning coach  Didier Deschamps, he also became the fifth-highest scorer in the history of Les Bleus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 33-year old is also the top goal scorer in La Liga with  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 33-year-old, who is currently the top goalscorer and assist provider in La Liga, scoring on 10 occasions and assisting 7 times to his Los Blancos teammates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IND Vs NZ: Coach Rahul Dravid Prepares Cheteshwar Pujara Ahead Of The 1st Test Against NZ In Kanpur\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dv9rcwcI1xE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The allegations came in light in 2015, which led Benzema to being ban from the national team for five years until he was brought back to play in EURO 2020 in the year 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":214462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Karim Benzema: Real Madrid star found guilty in sex tape case, handed one-year suspended sentence and fine of Euro 75,000\n\n#Benzema #KarimBenzema","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1508,6],"tags":[112464,112463,109945],"yst_prominent_words":[43543,20997,36580,4389,5300,76527,42316,20964],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2021\/11\/24181753\/benzema.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214428"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=214428"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=214428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->