National Enquirer owner tried to blackmail me, says Jeff Bezos
The Amazon CEO says American Media Inc threatened to publish ‘intimate photos’ that Bezos allegedly sent to his girlfriend
Washington — Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, has accused the owner of the National Enquirer of trying to blackmail him with the threat of publishing "intimate photos" he allegedly sent to his girlfriend unless he said in public that the supermarket tabloid's reporting on him was not politically motivated. The accusation, published in a blog post, is the latest twist in a weeks-long saga that has brought the world's richest person's private life into the spotlight and thrusts him deeper into a battle with the leading US tabloid publisher, which has had close links with the president of the US. "Of course I don’t want personal photos published, but I also won’t participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favours, political attacks and corruption," Bezos wrote. "I prefer to stand up, roll this log over and see what crawls out." American Media Inc (AMI), the owner of the National Enquirer, did not immediately return a request for comment. Bezos and his wife announced in ...
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