Amazon CEO accuses National Enquirer parent company of 'extortion' over 'intimate texts'
The Washington Post · Paul Farhi, Sarah Ellison, Devlin Barrett
Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos said Thursday that he was the target of an extortion and blackmail effort by the National Enquirer, which he accused of threatening to publish intimate pictures of him unless he backed off an investigation of the tabloid.
In an extraordinary post to the online publishing platform Medium, Bezos said the Enquirer and its…
