The main suspect in the disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway gets hundreds of dollars a month from “fans” across the globe, his lawyer said this week.
Joran van der Sloot, 35, is currently in prison in Peru for the 2010 murder of Stephany Flores. He will be extradited to the US in early June to face fraud charges tied to the disappearance of Holloway, who was last seen in Aruba on May 30, 2005.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, van der Sloot’s attorney, Maximo Altez, said that the Dutch national’s checkered past has earned him a torrent of admiring letters from across the globe.
“All his fans from all over the world sent letters to Joran. I rented him a P.O. Box to receive them. Some letters brought 10 euros, 20 euros, 5 dollars. They were girls who wrote and sent him letters with money, and he answered them all,” Altez boasted, noting that his client receives up to $400 per month.
Last week, Altez also shared that van der Sloot – whose original 28-year murder sentence was extended after he was caught smuggling drugs behind bars – is divorcing the woman he married in 2014 in favor of a “prettier and younger” girlfriend.
“Joran had a bunch of girlfriends,” Altez explained, noting that van der Sloot “still writes to girls and they send him pictures.”
In 2010, an Alabama grand jury indicted van der Sloot on wire fraud and extortion charges based on evidence that he tried to swindle $250,000 from Holloway’s mother, Beth, in exchange for information on her daughter’s fate.
Peruvian officials previously only agreed to extradite the then-22-year-old to the US after he completed his sentence for the killing of Flores, 21.
Earlier this month, however, Peruvian and US spokespersons confirmed that the formal extradition process had been greenlit for this year.
Van der Sloot was one of the last people seen with Holloway, 18, who vanished after leaving an Oranjestad bar with him and two others on the last night of her high school graduation trip.
The former high school honors student and soccer star is not the only notorious suspect to receive gushing missives behind bars.
Bryan Kohberger, the suspect charged with the vicious stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, is reportedly receiving bizarre communications as he awaits trial.
One woman, identified on Facebook as Brittany J. Hislope, shared on social media that she wrote the Pennsylvania native several letters about her “lovesick” feelings towards him.
Dennis Rader, the infamous “BTK” or “Bind-Torture-Kill” Killer, has also gotten fan mail and money while in prison.
“I mean, he’s been getting fan mail since the first day he went to jail,” Rader’s daughter, Kerri Rawson, told Fox News Digital.
“And he’s got quite a large bank account. I mean, it’s probably a couple thousand dollars last I knew.”
Rader, 78, was arrested in 2005 after terrorizing his Wichita community for decades.
“He gets these women all caught up in his life. And when you’re in prison, it’s not like you can approach somebody. They have to approach you. So these women are willingly coming to my father, you know, visiting him,” Rawson told the outlet.