Jeff Bezos 'blackmail' claim puts focus on National Enquirer links to Trump
by David Smith in Washington from Technology | The Guardian on (#48QXW)
The Amazon CEO has accused the tabloid of threatening to publish nude images of him to stop him investigating acquisition of intimate text messages
A sprawling international scandal involving Jeff Bezos - the owner of Amazon and world's richest man - and allegations of "extortion and blackmail" by a tabloid publisher threatened on Friday to also engulf Donald Trump as several key questions went unanswered.
Bezos alleges that David Pecker, the owner of the National Enquirer and a longtime friend of the US president, warned him he would publish revealing intimate photos of him unless he stopped investigating how the tabloid obtained text messages exposing his extramarital affair.
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