enquirer: Bezos has said AMI threatened to publish the explicit photos of him unless he stopped investigating how the Enquirer obtained his private exchanges with his mistress, former TV anchor Lauren Sanchez, and publicly declare that the Enquirer's coverage of him was not politically motivated, according to Market Watch. Bezos also owns The Washington Post. Elkan Abromowitz, an attorney for American Media Inc. chief executive David Pecker, said on Sunday a reliable source well-known to Bezos and his mistress provided the story about the billionaire's extramarital affair. Bezos' investigators have suggested the Enquirer's coverage of his affair was driven by dirty politics, and the high-profile clash has pitted the world's richest man against the leader of America's best-known tabloid, who is a strong backer of President Donald Trump. Federal prosecutors are looking into whether the Enquirer violated a cooperation and nonprosecution agreement that recently spared the gossip sheet from charges for paying hush money to a Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Trump, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Friday. Trump has been highly critical of Bezos over his ownership of The Washington Post and Amazon AMZN, 0.18% and the Post's coverage of the White House.
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