A singer who was wrongly pulled over for a DUI has revealed she was asked to pay $12,000 to have her mugshot removed from a social media site.
Stefanie Fair, who is married to Grammy-award winning hitmaker Ron Fair, was arrested in Nashville on June 23.
A Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper stopped her for failing to pull over and claimed he could smell alcohol on her during a field sobriety test, WSMV reports.
Her bloodwork eventually came back completely clean two months later, but not before her mugshot had popped up on Scoop Nashville.
The horrified mom got in touch with the site to have it removed, but was instead quoted $10,000 for it to disappears.
The Fairs said they were also separately contacted by an individual claiming to be from the firm Reputation Defenders, who said they could take it down for $12,000.
‘It was straight up extortion 101,’ Ron Fair said. ‘”Hey Ron, we see your wife’s mugshot on there, and that’s got to be terrible for you with your profile, and we’re able to take that down for the fee of $12,000.”‘
That kind of action is what gives cops bad names and get them shot