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Claims that he has been the victim of an extortion plot, not by isis or some international criminal sinsd cat out of a james bond movie but by the "national enquirer," the supermarket tabloid. the one you page through as you are unloading groceries from your cart. trace gallagher has been following this story since the beginning and he follows us tonight. >> he owns "the washington post" but jeff bezos chose to make his stand on a blogging platform called medium where he posted details of the alleged extortion including message sent to him from the "national enquirer," its parent company ameri...

Richest man, jeff bezos, claims that he has been the victim of an extortion plot, not by isis or some international criminal syndicate out of a james bond movie, but by the "national enquirer," the supermarket tabloid. the one you page through as you are unloading groceries from your cart. trace gallagher has been following this story since the beginning and he follows us tonight. hey, trace. h >> hey, tucker. he owns "the washington post" but jeff bezos chose to make his stand on a blogging platform called medium where he posted details of the allegedim extortion, including messagege sent to ...

Connection. jeff bezos goes out of his way to talk about how this is -- it's complicated the relationship, but he does not have any editorial control and oversight of the "washington post" and yet because he bought the paper, that made him a major target for the president who is not happy with the "washington post" reporting. >> right. he describes the post as a complexfier, not a word but a good one, and he's right. owning the post makes bezos' life more complex, makes him feel fulfilled and proud. and i think the folks at the post are impressed with their boss by going public with this extor...

Stories, and we're going to begin tonight with amazon ceo jeff bezos, in a battle tonight with "the national enquirer." tonight, bezos has just gone public with what he says was an extortion plot involving compromising photos. abc's chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, a stunning turn in the ongoing battle between jeff bezos and the leaders behind the national enquirer. it all began when bezos first made the surprise announcement on twitter that he and his wife were divorcing after many years. the national enquirer later publishing an article allegi...

By having sex with women who worked with him on show. he recently told "the new york times," would have been a good reason to fire me. >> yes. and other people probably would have been fired for something like that. i think dave -- the thing that he did a lot was sort of bring the audience into his psyche as it were and he did the same thing with that episode, when it all came out, because of the extortion plot. he had to admit that he slept with women who worked on the show that he was essentially their boss. and just went on and sort of made fun of it and made fun of himself. and then everyo...