Dana Walsh on 24 suffers a kind of retroactive version of this, IIRC. A bad-news boyfriend from her past shows up and threatens to blow the whistle on her fake identity if she doesn’t play ball.
Great movie — you should watch it again, because you’ve got it wrong.
First Douglas blackmails Mortenson, then vice versa, but Paltrow is never blackmailed.
In the novel and film The Kremlin Letter a young woman is honeytrapped by a lesbian in order to blackmail her father.
He’s got it wrong, but he’s missing it pretty close: Douglas fakes evidence so it looks like Mortensen was on a Seduce-Paltrow-And-Blackmail-Ensues mission; Douglas ably points out that nobody else could’ve taken the in-flagrante-delicto photographs, and neatly claims he’s been paying blackmail for that reason (instead of, y’know, the whole I-was-hiring-a-dude-to-kill-my-wife-and-you-got-me-on-tape thing).
And the F/X show The Americans, about Soviet spies in the US in the 1980s, has its male spy running honeytrap ops in almost every episode.
In the TV show MI5 Adam Carter seduces the wife of a diplomat and one of his colleagues refers to him as a honey trap.
Spoilers inevitable, right? So, come to think of it, this is technically the ending to HORRIBLE BOSSES: they dangle a guy in front of lusty Jennifer Aniston, she takes the bait, it’s all caught on film, cue instant blackmail.
In The Little Drummer Girl, by John LeCarre, the Israelis use an attractive man to seduce a mousy woman who works in a bank for some reason, or other. I haven’t read the book in 20 years.
In an episode of Sherlock, an unnamed female royal visits a professional dominatrix, who takes photos. I don’t think the dominatrix actively sought the victim so my has recognized a good opportunity when it came her way. But really the plot was pretty convoluted so I can’t be sure.
It’s pretty clear to me that Irene Adler makes taking blackmail-useful pics of all her clientele, male or female. 
None of these movies pass The Bechdel Test, do they? 
Naw, that’s a failed honey trap. The women try to trap him, but Bond doesn’t blackmail them into helping him. They’re always won over by his charm.
I don’t know if they do, but there’s no reason why they can’t. Plus, even if they didn’t, it would be less sexist for them to be blackmailed than won over by Bond’s charm.
Plus, it doesn’t mean all that much–Charmed (especially early on) was very sexist, but it passed the Bechdel Test nearly every episode–mostly having them talk about clothes or makeup or other typically girly things. Often, talking about guys was less sexist, since they were talking about the demon they needed to use their powers to stop.
Yeah, the element of “not talking about a man” seems overly mechanical. If in a movie the female District Attorney and the female Chief of Detectives discuss strategies on catching and convicting the male mob boss, or the female Senator and her female chief of staff discuss strategies on getting their bill past the particular opposition of the male President of the Senate, the scene doesn’t pass the Bechdel test? 
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So this has nothing to do with Winnie the Pooh?
This was a plot point in Clear and Present Danger, where the druglord’s #1 henchman, played by Joaquim De Almeida, seduces a secretary for the FBI Director, to get information about his whereabouts.
Also, see the movie Masquerade.
Only if there’s a story I don’t know about where Pooh sleeps with Kanga and then threatens to tell everyone if she doesn’t furnish him with ample supplies of honey.
In one of Stephen Hunter’s novels (I wanna say “The Hour Before Midnight”) one of the Russian characters is a male honeytrap - his specialty is seducing plus-size government clerical workers.
Really? As I recall
Bond seduces someone’s wife, but does no blackmailing, while The Bad Guys are extorting Vespa by threatening her innocent and legitimately acquired boyfriend, not blackmailing her.
There’s an intentional seduction in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, too, though not for blackmail, just emotional confusion.
Actually, Vespa’s boyfriend was, in fact, a spy who was using her without her knowledge. This is explained at the end of Quantum Of Solace where Bond tracks down the boyfriend who is doing it again to a woman that works for the Canadian Embassy in Russia. He exposes him by showing her the same necklace that Vespa wore, which she was also wearing.