Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has accused the tabloid "National Enquirer" to the public a blackmail attempt with intimate photos of him.
The billionaire wrote on Thursday on the Blogging platform Medium, the National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc. (AMI) had threatened with the publication of images that he had sent his Beloved. AMI had requested that Bezos an investigation into a disclosure of complete history of his private life.
The National Enquirer had revealed in January, the extramarital affair of the Amazon leaders with the former news anchor Lauren Sanchez. The scandal sheet published private text messages between the two. Bezos instructed to find out then, private detectives, how the revelation could - and whether there may be political motives behind it.
Amazon chief Bezos: No evidence for a political motive
On Thursday, the richest man in the world wrote, AMI asked him to publicly explain that he had. no evidence for a political motive, or an "influential political forces" behind the unveiling of history In turn, the intimate pictures were not published.
The Amazon founder noted the close ties between the AMI chief David Pecker and American President Donald Trump. Pecker has admitted to have Trump in the election campaign of 2016 with the settlement of a hush money payment to an alleged previous sexual partner helped.
Amazon chief Bezos is not "extortion surrender"
Bezos, the prestigious American newspaper "Washington Post" is one that has been attacked by Trump again and again in the short message service Twitter. The billionaire also referred to Compounds from AMI to Saudi Arabia.
He would not surrender to "blackmail", even if it is now embarrassing revelations threatened, wrote Bezos. "Of course I don't want personal photos to be published. But I'm not going to contribute to their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks and corruption."
Bezos and his wife MacKenzie had announced at the beginning of January in a joint Declaration of their divorce.
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Date Of Update: 09 February 2019, 00:04
