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    Bezos turns focus to tabloid's tactics

    by Meg James, Richard Winton and David Ng, Los Angeles Times Feb 09, 2019 5 minutes

    Supermarket tabloid National Enquirer has long employed hardball tactics in pursuit of salacious scoops about Hollywood celebrities and politicians, while simultaneously covering up embarrassing stories about its friends, including President Donald Trump and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    But the tabloid may have underestimated the wrath of its latest target: the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com and owner of The Washington Post.

    The National Enquirer last month revealed that Bezos had been engaged in an extramarital affair with Lauren Sanchez, a former local Fox TV anchor in Los Angeles and wife of a prominent Hollywood talent agent. Bezos unleashed private investigators, giving them an unlimited budget, to learn how the National Enquirer got photos and text message exchanges between him and Sanchez.

    The Enquirer bristled over the investigation, and tried to get Bezos to back down.

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