Bezos Has Options If He Wants to ‘Gawker’ the National Enquirer
- World’s richest man may choose legal war on tabloid tormenters
- Publisher American Media’s agreement with U.S. under scrutiny
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Jeff Bezos may have called American Media Inc.’s bluff by exposing its "extortionate proposal" to force him to drop an investigation of its National Enquirer tabloid. But he’s still got plenty more options.
He could sue, claiming AMI tried to blackmail him with embarrassing photos of himself and a woman who wasn’t his wife. He could sit back and watch as prosecutors decide whether to charge the company and its executives with crimes. Or he could continue to finance the private investigator who is digging into the Enquirer’s methods and AMI’s president, David Pecker.