that was the super bowl ad featuring another bezos property, the washington post. sánchez says he got the inquirer to delay the expose for months by harmless photo of sister that ran in us weekly, the company said it published when the story was ready. bezos said that the post aggressive reporting on the saudi government s involvement in the brutal murder of post contributor jamal khashoggi may have led the country to hack his phone, ami published a magazine filled with prosaudi propaganda, the saudis say they were unfair of. twun inquirer story hit sánchez suggested a new plan. in terms of first public area they would go out for burgers wearing jeans and baseball caps and make it very low key and show the world that they re happy together. people magazine was tipped off for a photo of the new york outing but the couple last month made an extremely public
absolutely, he said that he didn t think the amazon pr team was equipped to handle this kind of story. would jeff and lauren still married to spouses, michael sánchez said he advised them to lay low but as with lauren sánchez near bezos when the company launched rocket, the couple didn t always take his advice. i was definitely annoyed because the risk that they were taking made everything much more difficult in terms of keeping things contained. did it lead to any exposure or to any tab lid inquiry? yes, multiple tabloids were onto the story and so the plan was if they had credible information we would offer them the exclusive in terms of the super bowl commercial and the documentary to kind of get them off of the track.
National enquirer, your response? the wall street journal got it wrong. bezos plan to meet with prosecutors and amazon spokesman declined to comment. i can also report that the top american media executives owner david pecker, president trump s pal have not been call today testify, prosecutors obtained evidence from the company that executives believe shows they were not extorting bezos but settling with his team, michael sánchez had rather low expectations when he first met the world s richest man. well, to be perfectly honest i didn t want to like him because it would have made all of our lives much simpler but when i met him he was charming, brilliant, loved flying and every one in our family is pilots so we had a lot to talk about and most importantly he was he was deeply in love with lauren. sánchez told me bezos asked for his help.
it was without question the biggest tabloid scandal in years, jeff bezos having affair that would ultimately cost half of his fortune and how the national inquirer broke the story remains under investigation, here is my report. federal prosecutors are escalating probe into two seriousalses stemming from the national inquirer disclosure of affair between amazon founder jeff bezos and los angeles tv personality lauren sánchez, one, charge by bezos that parent company american media inc try today blackmail to drop inquiry on how they obtained intimate texts which the company has strongly denied, bezos belief that the saudi government obtained photos and texts by illegally getting access to his phone, claim that ami has called false and has also been denied by the saudi regime.
In first television interview i spoke to michael sánchez, lauren sánchez s manager and talent manager denied being paid $200,000 in leak to inquirer. michael, i have credible reporting that the southern district of new york has convened grand jury taken testimony in jeff bezos s charged that he was blackmailed by american media and hacking by the saudi government, what can you tell me about the probe and have you testified in the investigation? i will cooperate with any of the investigations into the blackmail allegations against ami and hacking allegations against the saudis and one point that i want to make is that all of the investigations thus far have cleared me of any involvement in the below the belt selfies which is the center piece of all of the investigations. i ve seen material indicating that sánchez has in fact, testified before the grand jury, i pressed him about his much debated role in the leak to the national enquirer.