One of the greatest threats in the digital age is ‘leaking nudes’ when love has truly gone digital. The act is sure to invoke scandal and tends to ruin reputations, which is precisely why it makes for powerful blackmail. Yet, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos chose to set an example saying no to blackmail and yes to potential scandal.
He penned down a personal blog post claiming that the National Enquirer is threatening to publish his “intimate photos.” Bezos said he’s revealing the details rather than “capitulate to extortion and blackmail.”
He writes that the publication believed the photos were newsworthy because it’s “necessary to show Amazon shareholders that my business judgment is terrible.” Like a true boss, Bezos hired an investigator, Gavin de Becker, to find out how the texts were obtained. Bezos said AMI told him it had more intimate photos and texts from him, and blackmailed him by threatening to reveal more unless he stopped the Post’s investigation.
I’ve written a post about developments with the National Enquirer and its parent company, AMI. You can find it here: https://t.co/G1ykJAPPwy
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) February 7, 2019
Bezos Speculates What Prompted AMI’s Blackmail
American Media Inc (AMI) was upset over coverage of its ties with Saudi Arabia by the Washington Post, a newspaper Bezos has owned since 2013. Bezos was told by an AMI “leader” that the investigation infuriated the company’s owner, David Pecker, for reasons unknown. AMI owns the National Enquirer, which in January published sexts between Bezos and news anchor Lauren Sanchez.
Bezos Published the Threatening Email
Jeff published an email from Dylan Howard, AMI’s chief content officer, who detailed the images they had of Bezos and Sanchez: In addition to the “below the belt selfie — otherwise colloquially known as a ‘d*ck pick’” — The Enquirer obtained a further nine images. These include:
1. Bezos face selfie at what appears to be a business meeting.
2. Sanchez response — a photograph of her smoking a cigar in what appears to be a simulated oral sex scene.
3. A shirtless Bezos holding his phone in his left hand — while wearing his wedding ring. He’s wearing either tight black cargo pants or shorts — and his semi-erect manhood is penetrating the zipper of said garment.
4. A full-length body selfie of Bezos wearing just a pair of tight black boxer-briefs or trunks, with his phone in his left hand — while wearing his wedding ring.
5. A selfie of Bezos fully clothed.
6. A full-length scantily-clad body shot with short trunks.
7. A naked selfie in a bathroom — while wearing his wedding ring. Bezos is wearing nothing but a white towel — and the top of his pubic region can be seen.
8. Sanchez wearing a plunging red neckline dress revealing her cleavage and a glimpse of her nether region.
9. Sanchez wearing a two-piece red bikini with gold detail dress revealing her cleavage.
Bezos said he was instructed by AMI to tell the press he had “no knowledge or basis for suggesting that AMI’s coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces” — or else they would publish more private photos and texts!
“Of course I don’t want personal photos published, but I also won’t participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks, and corruption. I prefer to stand up, roll this log over, and see what crawls out,” Jeff explained.
Bezos said the emails “cement AMI’s long-earned reputation for weaponizing journalistic privileges, hiding behind important protections, and ignoring the tenets and purpose of true journalism.”
Truer words were never spoken. We applaud the man who didn’t cave in to blackmail! This is a developing story, so stay tuned for further updates.