Amazon's Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer Publisher of Blackmail
- Billionaire says he won’t give in to ‘extortion and blackmail’
- Magazine reported Bezos relationship as CEO announced divorce
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Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos accused the National Enquirer and its publisher David Pecker of extortion and blackmail, stepping up a war of words between the world’s richest man and a confidant of U.S. President Donald Trump.
The magazine, owned by American Media Inc., published an expose on Bezos’s relationship with former TV anchor Lauren Sanchez, and Bezos has hired investigators to find out if the story was politically motivated. He owns the Washington Post, which has written critical stories about Trump, who counts Pecker as a close ally.