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title: "If I were Bezos, I'd be tempted to post the photos myself. "In the…"
date: 2019-02-07
source: facebook
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# If I were Bezos, I'd be tempted to post the photos myself. "In the…

*February 7, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/7/18216200/jeff-bezos-amazon-ceo-blackmail-extortion-national-inquirer-claim](https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/7/18216200/jeff-bezos-amazon-ceo-blackmail-extortion-national-inquirer-claim){target="_blank"}
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If I were Bezos, I\'d be tempted to post the photos myself.\
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\"In the post, Bezos says he was allegedly threatened with the publication of nude photos of him and suggestive photos of Lauren Sanchez, the news anchor and reporter with whom Bezos was having an affair, unless he publicly made a statement downplaying the motivations behind National Enquirer parent company AMI, by saying the company was never "politically motivated or influenced by political forces." National Enquirer first detailed Bezos' affair, which led to the dissolution of his marriage to MacKenzie Bezos, last month.\
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AMI is at the center of an ongoing legal controversy involving President Donald Trump over the practice of "catch and kill," or seeking out incriminating information about someone and purposefully shutting the story down to avoid it ever getting out. AMI allegedly approached Bezos after learning he had been conducting a private investigation into how it obtained his text messages, and tried to persuade him into shutting the investigation down because of the likelihood it may lead to more damning revelations about AMI's "catch and kill" tactics and its political ties to Trump and other world leaders, Bezos claims in the Medium post.\"
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