Re: Lost access to MY Google account paying 10k
$10K for email recovery fee? that's lot of money bro, I hope it's comparable to your data in that email.
I guess you should really convince everyone that you will pay them 10K if they succeed. I'm just not sure about the amount you promised because basically you can leave at any time without bothering with this account again if it works. Should you be spending 10K on fees instead of create new email or spending 1K of them to contact google?
That's what I'm thinking as well. Unless there's important information on the email, otherwise the fee offering seems to be too good to be true.
I had the same issue in the past and was able to force Google into returning the account back to me, so it's definitely possible to recover the account.
But I'm worried that OP won't pay the fee after the account is recovered.