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

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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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday February 08 2019, @06:08PM (1 child)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Friday February 08 2019, @06:08PM (#798443) Homepage Journal

    "Suck A Golf Ball Through A Garden Hose."

    Please compare and contrast with "She Could Suck The Chrome Off A Trailer Hitch", as can Sarah.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08 2019, @10:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08 2019, @10:42PM (#798571)

    I always preferred the phrase "she could suck-start a Harley-Davidson".