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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has accused the owner of the National Enquirer of “extortion and blackmail” in an extraordinary blogpost alleging that the tabloid threatened to public nude images of him.



The world’s richest man, who also owns the Washington Post, published a lengthy Medium post on Thursday, accusing American Media Inc (AMI), which publishes the National Enquirer, of telling him “they had more of my text messages and photos that they would publish if we didn’t stop our investigation”.

Bezos, who recently became the subject of tabloid fodder after he and his wife announced they were divorcing, wrote that he had “engaged investigators” after the National Enquirer published his “intimate text messages” a few weeks ago. He said he was seeking “to determine the motives for the many unusual actions taken by the Enquirer”.

More to come.