Joran van der Sloot Eyeing TV Interview Payday

By Rob Shuter Posted Jun 29th 2010 09:00AM

If we've learned anything about Joran van der Sloot in recent weeks (besides, y'know, his criminal behavior) it's that the dangerous Dutchman is absolutely giddy about the attention he's been getting since his arrest in Peru. You can't go a day without new developments in this sensational story, and now I've learned van der Sloot is itching to cash in big time for the TV cameras. How much? The answer, after the jump!

Joran van der Sloot TV Tell-All Worth $1 Million

Several TV insiders have told me that Dutch murder suspect Jordan van der Sloot has refused to give any TV interviews unless he gets paid. And the asking price? $1 million.

Joran

"It's amazing how this kid's mind works," one senior producer tells me. "He is on trial for murder and he is thinking about how he can make money selling interviews."

Van der Sloot is said to be thrilled with the amount of press attention he has received, telling Dutch newspaper De Telegraph, from his maximum-security cell in Miguel Castro prison, that he has even been receiving offers of marriage from female fans. Did the media attention he got from that print interview help him come up with that whopping $1 million price tag?

"It's a horrid thing to admit, but he could be right," one TV exec tells me. "An interview with him from behind bars would certainly get huge ratings. And when you think how much money the cast of 'Friends' got per half-hour episode, $1 million for van der Sloot could be considered a bargain."

The 22-year-old (possible serial killer?) is jailed while he awaits trial on charges of first-degree murder and robbery in the May 30 death of Stephany Flores in Peru. In addition, van der Sloot remains a person of interest in the 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway in Aruba.

I will not be watching any interview. Will you?

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Tuesday 29 June

By Ralph

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So Van der Sloot wants a million? I think he should get a million! A million YEARS IN THE PEN!

By andy

let's pay him a million for his interview and let the familys sue him for 2 million sorry basterd

By tab817

I hope he gets his million dollar pay off and every penny goes to the families of the women he killed while he rots away in a Peruvian jail cell.

By Hey there Lynda

ok i say that i have read that it takes money to stay alive in the puru prison system. this is why he is trying to get money. he knows with it it buys power in prison. its a stay alive thing. plz dont pay him because its just buying him time. they will kill him in prison and he knows it so he needs money. i read that the prisoniors run the prisons there and that they had a new wardon start and within 1 hr he was DEAD. if they (prisinors) have that much control HES A DEAD MAN. which he need to be.

By Ann

A shame! Regardless of our input, some looser that hopes to gain ratings will promote that sleeze ball..

By Jalapeno

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Joran vander Sloot and, Mark Washatka.
Both a couple of liars who change stories to protect themselves.

By Manny

The only thing this creep should get is 1.000,000 volts. Some news show will pay the money he is asking for though. He is a sick killer and he needs to be given his sentence in general population. His 30 sentence will be shortened to about a few days.

By Pat

Growing pains...? That is utterly horrifying ! Worse , that anyone would say such . This little hobgoblin will truly get what he deserves now . They aren't about to let him go ; he killed and admitted he did . That country hasn't bought into his games of admission then recant it . I expect his punishment will go the same way . He seems to think he can get away with anything with his games . They are games , you know . But he's not in Aruba and his judge/father isn't around to cover his rear for him now . And he is finding out the laws are quite different there . You don't go around murdering young women in that country . They have him and I believe, will keep him .He is all an act and fluff .
Southern girl
Atlanta GA

By Ken

Murder is not to profit from. All I have ever heard from this slimeball is lie after lie. What would he do would any money in prison ? He should only have money in prison he may or may earn for hard labor for personal items he may have to buy. What a scuzz taking at least one life, probably Natalie Holloways also, and then lying and tormenting the survivors. Hell is too good a place for the bastard.

By katelyn16

i hope he gets it so that the girl who went missing in aruba mother can sue him and take it away.

By kim

Let the man go to trial. No money for an interview. Joran van der Sloot lies and will most likely lie during an interview, and make fools of all of us again. This is a joke, right?

By bren

Only thing id pay to watch is what happens to him in prison as soon as they get ahold of him,now that would be something to watch!!!lol.....

By kat

bren? r u gay todaY? LOL...;) how bout we watch U w/ a bunch of dUdes, lol......:D~~

By Ribbitt

Just kill this sorry miscreant!

By kathy

oh he will die in prison....or he will end up to be someones bit_h.. then he will die ...he will never be able to spend the money..if he gets out someone will kill him , it should be against the law to profit from books interviews ect. if you are accused of murder...or on trial...if found innosent then and only then you may collect money...this animal should be strung up ...

By PSFSDINC Bunker

Save taxpayers money and send this 22 year old "fresh meat" to Rikers as a gift to the inmates- Justice with a "twist"

Wednesday 30 June

By Anna

Rikers? lol the Castro prison he's at now makes Rikers look good.

By shannon

he is soooooooooooooooooo wrong....what is wrong with him ... he wants to be paid and glorified for killing people the way he did....omg roll him in honey on his privates and let the ants have fun with him.......

noone should even waste time or money talking to him....throw him in jail and forget him....

By boogie man

ok! he can write his book if he survives fifty year's in that peruvian prison. like a snowball headed for hell chance.

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