Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and the richest man on earth, wrote an article accusing American Media, the parent company of the National Enquirer, of blackmail and extortion. The accusation comes weeks after the National Enquirer published personal text messages between Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, the woman he had been seeing while still legally married to MacKenzie Bezos. In a post on Medium published Thursday afternoon, Bezos discloses he launched his own investigation in to the National Enquirer, which is led by executive David Pecker, to find out how the tabloid was able to obtain Bezos' personal text messages. In response to the investigation, the chief content officer of American Media Inc. (known as AMI) wrote to Bezos’ lawyers, threatening to publish more intimate photos of Bezos and Sanchez. "Of course I don’t want personal photos published, but I also won’t participate in [AMI's] well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks, and corruption.

Source: Forbes February 08, 2019 00:22 UTC