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MAITRE CHANTEUSE [1 record]

Record 1 2025-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
DEF

Someone who threatens to tell a harmful secret about another person in order to try to force them to do something.

CONT

Do not pay your blackmailer or give into any demands they may make. Remember that if they release any of the incriminating information they have on you, like non-consensual intimate images, they will lose their leverage. Their goal is to gain a victim who will stay silent and continue to make payments to them.

Key term(s)
  • black-mailer
  • black mailer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
DEF

Personne qui menace de révéler un secret compromettant sur une autre personne afin de la contraindre à faire quelque chose.

Key term(s)
  • maitresse-chanteuse
  • maitresse chanteuse

Spanish

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