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."
(Score: 2) by SunTzuWarmaster on Friday February 08 2019, @08:27PM (1 child)
Its really strange that they even tried to blackmail him with these pics. "Yes, while my wife and I were separated, I did indeed send a dick-pic to a woman who I was interested in. Yes, she did send bikini pics back. Yes, I am still the richest man in the world. Yes, the newspaper I own is still going to publish pieces on the Government which murdered their employee." While yes, having pictures of your dick on the internet is embarrassing, I'd like to think that simply owning his decisions is a solid move.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @01:00PM
Maybe for some people.