Last month, the National Enquirer published texts and photographs exposing Bezos’s extramarital affair with former television host Lauren Sanchez. If he didn’t, they wrote, the National Enquirer would publish additional photos, specifically ones that were sexually explicit. “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. “So that’s why lawyers sit down and lawyers negotiate to try to resolve differences,” Abramowitz said of the emails Bezos published. After Bezos published his post on Medium, Ronan Farrow, the Daily Beast and journalists with the Associated Press stepped forward to say AMI had made similar threats against them.

Source: Washington Post February 10, 2019 19:12 UTC