2024-07-09 09:54:16
In 2014, Linda de Mol had to experience the downside of her popularity. For over a year, she and her brother John de Mol were threatened and blackmailed. The perpetrator demanded ten million euros, otherwise he threatened to harm Linda de Mol and her children. The blackmailer was a 71-year-old pensioner suffering from dementia. He demanded the millions “to fight poverty in South Africa and Indonesia,” as he himself explained.
“He hardly knew what he was doing,” the judges explained, and sentenced him to a suspended sentence of ten months in prison and a symbolic sentence of 141 days in prison, which the pensioner had already served in custody. The man was released after the verdict.
“He took away our freedom,” complained Linda de Mol, reporting that her two children were unable to go out on the street without fear for months. “All of this has brought our family very close together.”
The presenter has repeatedly spoken about her family in her magazine “Linda”, including about the end of her long-term relationship (1994-2007) with TV director Sander Vahle, with whom she has a son, Julian, and daughter, Noa. After the separation over 16 years ago, she wrote in her magazine in January 2024: “I tore pictures off the wall while crying, stuffed clothes into a bag and said hurtful things.” At some point, both partners decided that they had to do better, “especially when you have children together and are getting divorced.”
She has long since reconciled with Sander Vahle. She wrote in her magazine: “I will never again think that our relationship has failed. Instead, our relationship worked really well for a long time.” Today, when she sees “how my son does something, I think lovingly: Oh, he got that from his nice father, instead of: Damn, he inherited that from that idiot.”
Her marriage to diamond dealer Fred Reuter (1991-1995) did not end so peacefully. Years after the relationship ended, the businessman was still ranting against his ex-wife in the “Bild” newspaper: “Linda is a control freak. That’s why men run away from her.” She always says “how everything has to go.”