EXCLUSIVE
Detectives are zeroing in on the perpetrator behind the nude photo scandal surrounding socialite pop singer Rebekah Behbahani amid an explosive rise in sextortion attacks against high-profile identities.
Daily Mail Australia can reveal Victoria Police spent six months investigating Ms Behbahani’s claims she was the subject of “malicious” threats after “intimate images” of her were posted online without her permission.
The high-profile fiancée of billionaire businessman Alex Waislitz initially contacted police after a cache of private photos of her appeared on an anonymous social media account on June 20 along with a menacing warning that more were to come.
The account posted a second set of photos (some doctored, some real) the next day before disappearing on June 22.
Behbanhani claimed that she had been the victim of an orchestrated extortion attempt and was determined to help the police catch the culprit of the plot.
‘I am deeply distressed by this malicious invasion of my privacy. “No one deserves to be subjected to such heinous acts,” Behbahani said in a statement at the time.
‘This unlawful conduct is part of a long-running and escalating campaign which is now the subject of police investigation.
Singer Rebekah Behbahani and her partner, billionaire businessman Alex Waislitz, are at the center of a sextortion scandal.

Detectives have been investigating Rebekah Behbahani’s claims that she was the target of a sextortion attempt over the past six months after nude photos of her appeared online.
‘It’s been a living nightmare. We will not give in to extortion. “I am confident that the perpetrators will face the full weight of the law.”
Behbahani has remained tight-lipped about the investigation since reporting the matter to authorities, and declined to discuss it publicly when contacted this week.
Although detectives are understood to have closed in on a possible suspect, Victoria Police told Daily Mail Australia that “the investigation remains ongoing.”
“At this time no charges have been brought,” a police spokeswoman confirmed.
The incident comes as the 34-year-old singer and her 66-year-old billionaire fiancé continue to fight legal battles on multiple fronts.
The couple, who moved in together in February 2019 before having a daughter, Storm, are being sued by Behbahani’s sister, Real Housewives of Melbourne star Venus Behbahani, in the Victorian Supreme Court.
The 40-year-old lawyer and mother of four claims her younger brother promised to give her a house in Melbourne’s exclusive Toorak in exchange for helping her launch her pop career and looking after her and her daughter during her brief estrangement from Waislitz. four years ago.
However, in a countersuit, Waislitz accused her future sister-in-law of living in the house with her family without permission since Nov. 15, 2022, and sought orders to force her out and have the warning she put on the property removed.
That case is scheduled for trial on May 27 and is expected to last 15 days.

Sisters Venus Behbahani and Rebekah Behanhani fight over a house in Toorak.

Venus Behbahani starred in the fourth season of The Real Housewives of Melbourne

Billionaire socialite Heloise Pratt, who is now in a relationship with rock star Jon Stevens, is also suing her ex-husband.
Meanwhile, Waislitz’s ex-wife, billionaire cardboard heiress Heloise Pratt, has also launched legal proceedings against him, filing her own explosive lawsuit in the Victorian Supreme Court last month.
He has accused Mr Waislitz of “acting dishonestly” by using the Thorney Investments firm he co-owns to pay him and his charitable foundation $1.147 million without his knowledge or approval.
Waislitz responded to his ex-wife on Christmas Eve when he presented his defense before the Supreme Court by angrily rejecting her accusations.
In it, he described her case against him as “shameful” and insisted that she had not become involved in his business dealings and that her claims against him could be dismissed.
There is no suggestion that Ms Behbahani’s sister, Mr Waislitz or any member of the Pratt family was responsible for publishing the singer’s nude images.
The enduring saga comes after Carlton Football Club president Luke Sayers claimed he had become the latest victim of a sexually explicit hacking attack last week after a lewd photo was publicly tweeted from his X account .
The graphic image showed a mystery man presenting his penis while lying on a bed next to a caption labeling the account of a top executive at one of the club’s official sponsors, health insurer Bupa.

Rebekah Behbahani is not the only high-profile identity to have been targeted by hackers

Carlton Football Club chairman Luke Sayers has become embroiled in a lewd photo scandal after his X account tweeted a sexual image while tagging an executive from one of the club’s key sponsors.
Although the public post was directed to the executive’s social media account, the married mother of two does not appear to have used X since 2017 and does not follow Mr. Sayers on the platform.
The photo was posted at 5:41 pm on January 8, but only remained online for 12 minutes before Sayers noticed, hurriedly deleted the image and apologized to his followers while saying he had been attacked by cybercriminals.
“Sorry, my account has been hacked. Please ignore all posts,” wrote the president of the football club.
The married father-of-four’s account, who has more than 7,300 followers, was later deleted, but other X users had already reposted the post and taken a screenshot.
The incident occurred while Sayers was on a family ski trip in Italy, where the post was published around 7:41 a.m. local time.
The former CEO of PwC was quick to denounce the attack at the time and announce that he would do everything in his power to catch whoever was responsible.
‘This is outrageous. “I am investigating and will spare no effort to find out who did this to me and my family,” he said.
However, more than a week on, Sayers has yet to confirm whether he intends to report the incident to police and Carlton Football Club has not responded to requests for comment on the attack.

The offensive image posted on Mr Sayers’ social media account
Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper claimed the football club president had stopped responding to messages from colleagues and clients at his private company, Sayers Group, and had since disconnected his phone.
The executive tagged in the hijacked post was at a Carlton Respects lunch six months ago. It was held six months ago as part of a program run by the club to help counter violence against women.
Sources close to the executive told Daily Mail Australia she was distraught by the incident and “completely shocked” but had since returned to work full-time.
Her family is said to be furious that she has been dragged into the saga.
The incident comes just over a month after the prominent Melbourne personality and her Cate, who have four daughters together, sold their sprawling mansion in the city’s inner east for more than $16.5 million.
The Sayers purchased the seven-bedroom home in Hawthorn East nearly two decades ago for $4.84 million.
The AFL’s integrity unit has launched an investigation into the incident.
Leading cybercrime investigator Ken Gamble said sexually explicit hacking attacks were on the rise on social media and wealthy public figures were a prized target for sextortion criminals.

IFW Global researcher Ken Gamble has asked Luke Sayers to report the attack immediately.
“Scammers have become much more sophisticated, bold and aggressive in their online crimes,” the head of IFW Global told Daily Mail Australia.
‘There has been a dramatic increase in sexually explicit sex piracy and sextortion in recent times, mainly because they are not afraid of getting caught.
‘Sexually explicit hacking-type crimes are perfect for a cybercriminal because most victims do not want to report the crime.
‘Often, the perpetrators of these hacking crimes work for organized fraud syndicates.
‘Some of the syndicates run multiple scams from the same office, for example, tech support scams, investment scams, employment scams, and sextortion scams, all under one roof.
‘These operations are carried out from call centers set up in poor countries, so even a small payment from a victim is considered profitable for these criminals.
“Given that the Internet offers significant anonymity to criminals, these types of crimes will likely continue to increase in the future.”
Gamble said unscrupulous cybercriminals were taking advantage of the fact that their victims rightly feared that people would not believe they had actually been hacked, but that it was imperative that attacks were immediately reported to authorities.
“The public often does not believe that these types of sexually explicit hacking cases are perpetrated by hackers, but these cybercrimes are on the rise and are more prevalent now than at any other time in history,” he said.