Sarai Sierra, the Staten Island mother who was found beaten to death during a solo trip to Istanbul last week, had sex with her Turkish lover in a bar restroom the day before she died, it was claimed today.
The allegations come as the body of Sarai Sierra arrived at her home in Staten Island, and will add further salt to the wounds of her husband Steven who has to deal with both his devastating loss and the heartbreaking allegations.
The Turkish media identified Sarai Sierra’s secret lover as “Tarkan K.” and said the pair began communicating online about three or four months ago.
Today they printed a picture of a man they believe is Tarkan K. but still have not released his full name.
Sarai Sierra is then said to have emailed him to say she was coming to Turkey and wanted to meet him. Her body was found beaten to death last Saturday when she failed to make the return flight home.
Tarkan K’s lawyer said his client has absolutely nothing to do with the murder and revealed he comes from a “good family and completed a master’s program abroad…He’s very demoralized”.
Tarkan K. told Istanbul police that they had sex in a bar bathroom in Beyoglu on January 20, Hürriyet newspaper reported. He has denied wrongdoing and had previously denied the two had a relationship.
It was also reported today that police are questioning a drug dealer and hostel owner in the area where Sarai Sierra’s body was found after checking her phone and gmail records.
It comes after DNA testing from 22 suspects came back with no link to her murder. Police are said to have taken both blood and sperm samples from Tarkan K.
Sarai Sierra, 33, who filed for bankruptcy on 2005, had been unemployed for several years but recently got a part time job at a chiropractor’s office.
Her 40-year-old husband is a New York City bus driver. He drives an old Safari mini bus and neighbors said money appeared tight. Sarai Sierra usually walked everywhere with the boys.
Her parents Dennis and Betzaida Jimenez, who also declared bankruptcy in 2005, live a five-minute drive away and often babysat while Sarai Sierra took time off from motherhood to go into Manhattan to take photographs.
The Turkish media identified Sarai Sierra’s secret lover as Tarkan K and said the pair began communicating online about three or four months ago
Sarai Sierra told her family she wanted to pursue her dream of taking pictures in Turkey – yet her only equipment was an iPad and Droid phone. Both items were missing when her body was found but the murderer did not take her wedding ring or other jewellery.
Meanwhile, a witness has told Istanbul police that he saw Sarai Sierra speaking to a different man outside the city’s Sultanahmet Mosque on January 11, just days after she arrived in the country.
The man handed her a card and as she left the mosque, she took a walk with him and four or five other men, the witness claimed, Turkish newspaper Milliyet reported.
Sarai Sierra flew to Amsterdam on January 15 and to Munich the next day, returning to Istanbul on January 19.
The witness said he then saw Sarai Sierra talking with the same man on January 21 at Topkapi Palace – the day she was due to fly home, but she never boarded the flight.
Turkish police and the FBI are reportedly looking into whether Sarai Sierra was involved with drug traffickers, human traffickers or jewellery transportation while on her solo trip.
Tarkan K. had initially insisted they were just friends, but Turkey’s Vatan newspaper reported he told police they had consensual sex a day before she went missing.
He had hoped to see her before she left but she never responded to his message.
Tarkan K., who is in his early 30s and lives in Istanbul, was quizzed by Turkish police several times and has given DNA samples, along with 21 other people.
He has denied any part in her murder.
All of those questioned have now been released, and police have also taken statements from 200 other people.
Sarai Sierra’s body was found stashed by Istanbul’s ancient city walls on Saturday, more than a week after she failed to catch her flight home.
Police said she died from a blunt force trauma.
She was found with a head wound and a blanket near her body and still had her earrings and a bracelet on, as well as her wedding ring.
Her iPhone and iPad were missing.
Meanwhile, Sarai Sierra’s family are preparing for her funeral under the intense scrutiny of the media.
To pay for her funeral, her family began selling some of her images online on Tuesday and soon had enough to cover her expenses.
Sarai Sierra was believed to have finished a course in photography just before she made the trip to Istanbul, which she said was to take pictures of the city and its ancient ruins.
Named only as “Ryan” in the recently released memoir “Kris Jenner and All Things Kardashian,” Star magazine exclusively revealed the true identity of the momager’s boy toy, who was just a tender 24 at the time their 1989 tryst began.
He is renowned Hollywood animator Todd Waterman, who told Star in an exclusive interview that he and Kris Jenner shared an “intense affair.”
“It was scandalous,” confessed Todd Waterman.
“We dated for a year and a half. I was playing pro soccer and I was training with a team, L.A. Heat, for a now defunct league. That’s how we met.”
Todd Waterman, who now directs animated films for Disney and Columbia Pictures, said while Kris Jenner called it a “mid-life” crisis moment, their relationship was far from a passing fling
The outing of Todd Waterman is yet another twist in the paternity scandal engulfing Kris Jenner’s daughter Khloe, who is facing claims from Robert Kardashian’s ex-wives that she isn’t a biological Kardashian.
In light of the women’s sordid allegations, the showbiz world has been left to ponder who could be 27-year-old Khloe’s potential real dad if Robert Kardashian were not.
While the naming of Kris Jenner’ secret lover could provoke some to question whether Todd Waterman fathered Khloe, it’s not possible, as Khloe was aged five at the time her mother, then 34, began seducing him behind her father’s back.
Robert Kardashian, the Hollywood lawyer who worked on O.J. Simpson’s notorious dream team during the murder trial of the football star’s wife, even named Todd Waterman in his and Kris’ 1991 divorce documents, filed in the Los Angles Superior Court.
Robert Kardashian slammed Kris, writing in a declaration obtained by Star: “Your honor will recall at the time of the hearing I claimed that the respondent was involved with another man named Todd Waterman.
“I ask the court … to restrain (Kris) from living with any member of the opposite sex in or about the presence of our children.”
Todd Waterman, who now directs animated films for Disney and Columbia Pictures, said while Kris Jenner called it a “mid-life” crisis moment, their relationship was far from a passing fling.
In her tell-all book, Kris Jenner revealed that she became obsessed with a man she dubbed “Ryan” and admitted having “wild sex everywhere, all the time” in cars, pool houses and even on tennis courts.
“One minute I was making brownies for my friends and having a family barbecue, the next I was in the middle of an insanely intense affair,” Kris Jenner wrote.
“I would tell Robert I was going out to lunch and I would end up at Ryan’s apartment having crazy, fabulous sex for hours in the middle of the day. I would drop Kourtney, Kimberly, and Khloe off at school and rush straight to Ryan.
“Breakfast, lunch, and dinner with Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan.”
While Todd Waterman said he had heard rumors that Kris Jenner had exposed her philandering in her memoir, it wasn’t until he was contacted by Star this week that he realized the extent of her confession.
“My friend has sent me an excerpt from her book,” Todd Waterman told Star.
“I think I would be Ryan.”
While Todd Waterman once shared a passion for one particular Kardashian, Kris Jenner’s former lover revealed that he is far from a “fan” of the reality television family and the multi-million dollar empire they’ve built.
“I am not a fan of the whole Kardashian machine,” Todd Waterman said.
“To me, it (my partial inclusion in the book) ties into what they have already done in terms of picking and choosing what they release and how they are portrayed.”
While not happy about his inclusion in Kris Jenner’s tell-all, Todd Waterman told Star it was to be expected from a family who has used infamy to their advantage.
Todd Waterman said: “The sex tape and the murder of their friend. It (the book) didn’t surprise me.”
While Kris and Todd Waterman’s torrid affair finally ended in 1990 – just before Kris met Olympian Bruce Jenner – the affair cost the Kardashian matriarch her marriage, after Robert followed the pair and found them together.
Antonio, a jealous 99-year-old man from Italy, is divorcing from his wife of 77 years after he discovered she had an affair more than 60 years ago.
Antonio and his wife Rosa have both consulted lawyers and the first hearing in the case is due to take place in March.
Father-of-five Antonio saw red after he discovered dust covered romantic letters from Rosa to her secret lover during a clear out of their apartment in Rome.
Antonio and Rosa had tied the knot in Naples in 1934, where he had met her after he had been sent there to serve in the carabinieri paramilitary police.
Rosa had had an affair with her unidentified lover ten years later, keeping the secret to herself until now.
Lawyer Anna Orecchioni said: “The husband decided to file for divorce after finding the love letters.
“He felt betrayed and unable to carry on with the marriage which has lasted 77 years.
“It made no difference that the letters were written more than 60 years ago and the relationship has been over for decades.
“He has decided to divorce her and the case has already been submitted for a court hearing in March. The couple have five children and numerous grandchildren and great children.
“It’s a shame the marriage has ended in this way after such a long time together.”
American couple Marshall and Winnie Kuykendall hold the current record for the longest marriage having been together for 82 years after they tied the knot on Valentines Day in 1929.
