A fashion designer says her cousin threatened to wreck her life and reputation unless she coughed up $3.8 million.
But, in a court witness box on Tuesday, Danielle Vlahos was having to parry criminal accusations of her own.
Danielle was testifying against her cousin and former business partner Vicki Vlahos, who is accused of blackmailing her by threatening to reveal an affair she had with Vicki's ex-husband Issac Chami.