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Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail

posted by martyb on Friday February 08 2019, @08:31AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 09 2019, @06:02AM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday February 09 2019, @06:02AM (#798726) Journal

    That said, the implication of that statement is that there are no good guys here. It's just different kinds of asshole. I don't even know if either is preferable to the other.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Mykl on Monday February 11 2019, @12:04AM (1 child)

    by Mykl (1112) on Monday February 11 2019, @12:04AM (#799282)

    I would definitely prefer to see the asshole who broke the law and spread dirt about someone's private affairs to lose this. Bonus points for him being a shill for a murderous theocratic dictatorship (I'm talking about the Saudis here, but I'll forgive you if you thought I was talking about Trump).

    The other asshole does indeed deserve to lose a lot of money for cheating on his wife and divorcing her, but that's no reason for his dirty laundry to be aired so publicly (despite the fact that he has done a lot of other asshole things elsewhere in life).

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 11 2019, @05:53AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday February 11 2019, @05:53AM (#799395) Journal

      Fair enough, though I'd say Bezos has done enough damage to the economy for poor people that he ought to be in jail too. I'd love to see these two end up sharing a cell.

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