Los Angeles Football Club

A Seoul court on Monday sentenced a woman in her 20s to four years in prison for blackmailing South Korean football star Son Heung-min, after falsely claiming she was pregnant with his child. Her accomplice, a man in his 40s, was handed a two-year term for attempted blackmail.

According to testimony cited in local reports, the woman approached Son last year and insisted she was carrying his baby—despite not knowing whether that was true. She threatened to publicize the claim unless he paid her. Son, who had spent most of his career avoiding public scandal, ultimately handed over 300 million …