Now, he’s in the heart of a political maelstrom centered on — of course — a set of threatening messages. His move into celebrity protection, in fact, came when Rosemary Clooney, Ferrer’s mother, invited him to move in after his mom’s death and he became her “de facto road manager,” the Times reported. As de Becker worked to protect celebrities, he sometimes came into direct conflict with the tabloid papers that aggressively cover them — including the National Enquirer. De Becker told the Daily Beast that “strong leads point to political motives” behind the Enquirer story. In the emails published by Bezos, officials for American Media Inc., the parent company of the National Enquirer, demanded that both he and de Becker renounce those claims.

Source: Washington Post February 08, 2019 12:10 UTC