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Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail

posted by martyb on Friday February 08 2019, @08:31AM   
from the bare-facts dept.

takyon writes:

Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail

Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive and the world's richest man, accused the owner of The National Enquirer on Thursday of trying "extortion and blackmail" to stop his investigation into how his private text messages and photos with his mistress were leaked to the tabloid.

In an extraordinarily personal online post, Mr. Bezos said intermediaries of David Pecker, the chairman of American Media Inc., the nation's biggest tabloid news publisher and owner of The National Enquirer, had approached him to stop his investigation. Mr. Bezos said he had been told that if he refused, the publisher would make risqué and intimate photos of the billionaire and his mistress, Lauren Sanchez, public.

[...] "Of course I don't want personal photos published, but I also won't participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks and corruption," Mr. Bezos wrote of A.M.I., explaining why he had decided to speak out. "I prefer to stand up, roll this log over and see what crawls out."

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• Re:That's called good negotiation. Re:That's called good negotiation. (Score: 5, Funny) by Bot on Friday February 08 2019, @09:06AM (1 child)

  by Bot (3902) on Friday February 08 2019, @09:06AM (#798237) Journal

  > we can offer the carrot. We can offer the stick. Sometimes we offer both
  Apparently, someone took pic of the stick instead....

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• Re:That's called good negotiation. (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08 2019, @09:31AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08 2019, @09:31AM (#798240)

  Donald refers to plea bargaining?

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