
Amazon chief executive and new Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, pictured on Sept. 6, 2013. [AFP]
Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos posted a blog on Thursday saying the National Enquirer’s parent company American Media threatened to blackmail him with the threat of publishing “intimate photos.”
Bezos said he declined to make a false public statement at American Media’s direction.
Reporting by Nandita Bose in Washington DC; Editing by Bill Rigby