Jewelry, cars, cash and secrets: Extortion case details $12M paid to Las Vegas woman

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A Las Vegas woman is charged with extortion and money laundering in a dizzying jewelry, automobiles and cash case that was estimated at $ 12 million over 20 months.

Much of the detail in a 36-page document from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has been blacked out and hides secrets in the case of Ava Blige, a 30-year-old woman who is an expert in getting what she wants.

One of those secrets is the identity of the super rich man she blackmailed between January 2019 and October 2020.

Officials arrested Blige on October 19 in a case that took months to prepare.

A relationship that began in early 2016 began when the man offered to take Blige under his wing and help her start her own business. They met at the hotel she was working at at the time, MGM Signature.

It ended with daily threats to go public with secrets she knew about the man – secrets never revealed in any warrant / subpoena received from 8 News Now.

The pattern was set after the relationship became romantic.

“He noted that if he didn’t give her thousands of dollars to buy clothes, jewelry, and cars, they would fight. (Modified) said she would tell him he made her that way, so she had to live a certain lifestyle and he had to pay for it, ”the police document reads.

And it exploded in September 2020 when Blige demanded that he end his relationship with a girlfriend. She told him he had to force her to leave the state and return all the cars and jewelry he had given her.

If he refused, she would go public with secrets, as evidenced by threats in police documents.

At some point, Blige expected payments of $ 100,000 per day.

When the man tried to break contact with Blige, the tone of the news changed: “It’s time to go to war!”

Blige says she has protected him for too long and “what Ava wants, Ava gets,” police documents say.

The secrets were apparently contained in recorded conversations on FaceTime and thousands of text messages between the two. Blige never had permission to record the calls, which is against Nevada law. Blige has been charged with unauthorized / clandestine intrusion using eavesdropping devices in connection with these recordings in six cases.

Forensic analysis of the phones in the case revealed a thread of 25,000 text messages between Blige and the man. Some of the texts contain other people.

A report in the police document describes Blige’s request that the man buy her a Porsche from the showroom of a car dealership. When he postponed the request, she insisted. When he said later she said now.

It was one of five vehicles he’d bought her, including a Ferrari.

Another report addresses their threats to spend money on jewelry. she

Statements in the lyrics tell Blige exactly what she was doing, and comparing what she was up to would be “worse than what Steve Wynn went through”.

Blige has also faced money laundering in 14 cases, where extorted money is moved between personal and business accounts to hide where the money actually came from.

Blige told other people that she was a self-employed millionaire, police said.

Police questioned Blige’s mother and father when they first tried to find her for an interview. At that time she lived with her father.

Her father admitted to police that “Blige is very controlling and is very persistent in getting her way and it would not have surprised him if she tried to blackmail (edited).”