{"id":123706,"date":"2019-02-07T20:45:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T01:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/jeff-bezos-calls-out-national-enquirer-for-attempted-extortion-over-risque-pics-2"},"modified":"2019-02-07T20:45:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T01:45:48","slug":"jeff-bezos-calls-out-national-enquirer-for-attempted-extortion-over-risque-pics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/jeff-bezos-calls-out-national-enquirer-for-attempted-extortion-over-risque-pics-2","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos Calls Out National Enquirer for Attempted &#039;Extortion&#039; Over Risque Pics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-71582\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">    \t\t<!-- .entry-meta --><br \/>\n    \t<\/header>\n<p><!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\t\t<!-- adman_adcode_beginning --><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2019_02_07_jeff-bezos-national-enquirer-extortion-threatening-publish-nudes\">\n<h2>\n<\/h2>\n<p>      <span class=\"hf1\">Jeff Bezos<\/span><\/p>\n<p>      <span class=\"hf2\">Nat\u2019l Enquirer Tried to \u2018Extort\u2019 Me Over Risque Photos<\/span><\/p>\n<p>      <span class=\"hf3-case\">And, Here\u2019s My Proof \u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"article-posted-date\">\n<\/h5>\n<p>     2\/7\/2019 4:28 PM PST<\/p>\n<div class=\"all-post-body group article-content\">\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"amazon\" alt=\"amazon\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jeff-Bezos-Calls-Out-National-Enquirer-for-Attempted-039Extortion039-Over-Risque-Pics.jpg\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/jeff-bezos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bezos<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\ufeffis sick of playing games with the National Enquirer \u2014 he\u2019s released a series of letters it sent him, threatening to blackmail him over photos he and his lover sent each other.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon honcho says the Enquirer\u2019s parent company American Media Inc. (AMI) is threatening to publish photos he exchanged with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/lauren-sanchez\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lauren Sanchez<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0if he doesn\u2019t shut down investigations into AMI\u2019s ties to President Trump and the Saudi government.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, Bezos owns the Washington Post, which has been all over the Trump administration\u2019s Saudi ties since its journalist,\u00a0<strong>Jamal Khashoggi,<\/strong> was murdered last year.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos says he also hired a private investigator to find out how the Enquirer obtained his text messages to Sanchez \u2026 which it published last month. He\u2019s now gone fully on the offensive by releasing <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tmz.vo.llnwd.net\/o28\/newsdesk\/tmz_documents\/Jeff-Bezos-NE-letter-nudes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AMI\u2019s letters<\/a><\/strong>, threatening to release new explicit photos of Bezos and Sanchez, if he and WaPo don\u2019t back off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tmz.vo.llnwd.net\/o28\/newsdesk\/tmz_documents\/Jeff-Bezos-NE-letter-nudes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"general public embarrassment\" alt=\"general public embarrassment\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1549589266_834_Jeff-Bezos-Calls-Out-National-Enquirer-for-Attempted-039Extortion039-Over-Risque-Pics.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the emails, the Enquirer claims to have sexually explicit images sent between Jeff and Lauren \u2026 including his naked bathroom selfie, several shirtless snaps of Jeff and sexually suggestive images of Lauren.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos makes no bones about it \u2026 calling it blackmail, but adding AMI miscalculated his reaction. He says he\u2019d rather risk the public embarrassment than give in to the extortion attempt.<\/p>\n<p>We reached out to AMI for comment \u2026 no word back yet.<\/p>\n<p>As we reported, the world\u2019s richest man is divorcing his wife,\u00a0<strong>Mackenzie Bezos<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/01\/09\/jeff-bezos-divorcing-wife-160-billion-divorce\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>announced in January<\/strong><\/a>, the day before the Enquirer published its story about his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/01\/09\/jeff-bezos-lauren-sanchez-divorce-cheating-affair\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>affair with Sanchez<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/photos\/2019\/02\/07\/jeff-bezos-through-the-years-photos\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jamal Khashoggi\" alt=\"Jamal Khashoggi\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1549589266_503_Jeff-Bezos-Calls-Out-National-Enquirer-for-Attempted-039Extortion039-Over-Risque-Pics.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/02\/07\/jeff-bezos-national-enquirer-extortion-threatening-publish-nudes\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- adman_adcode_after --><\/p>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\">Sharing is caring!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gasd_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/about-me\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson\">Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/category\/categorized\/news\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/span>\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-footer --><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/jeff-bezos-calls-out-national-enquirer-for-attempted-extortion-over-risque-pics\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos Nat\u2019l Enquirer Tried to \u2018Extort\u2019 Me Over Risque Photos And, Here\u2019s My Proof \u2026 2\/7\/2019 4:28 PM PST Jeff Bezos\u00a0\ufeffis sick of playing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}