Cohen's response: Pecker, former Enquirer executive editor Barry Levine, and Enquirer chief content officer Dylan Howard.
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Of course, this all comes from a National Enquirer story, and we all know how chummy Trump and the Enquirer are.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer and Dallas Morning News are two other notable examples, with the Enquirer endorsing a Democrat for the first time in 100 years.
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SCANDALOUS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER If you've ever wondered how The National Enquirer prints the things it does, Mark Landsman's documentary traces its history.
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The Bezos-Enquirer story is incredibly complicated, but it boils down to this: The Enquirer has embarrassing photos and texts of Bezos and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez.
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The story was given to the National Enquirer by a reliable source that had been giving information to the National Enquirer for seven years prior to this story.
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"It's like a walking, talking Enquirer magazine," said Erick Erickson, the former editor in chief of the conservative website RedState, referring to the popular supermarket tabloid National Enquirer.
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He even describes a September 2017 meeting between Weinstein and National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard, where the two men looked at the dirt the Enquirer had accumulated about Lauer.
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After the Enquirer story ran, Bezos wrote in his blog post Thursday, he launched an investigation into how the Enquirer obtained the texts and why they decided to publish them.
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" A source with ties to the Enquirer offered a different rationale for the reporting effort: "It's fanciful to suggest that the Enquirer pursued this because Bezos is a perceived enemy.
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The National Enquirer ran the story having infamously obtained the couple's intimate texts as well as sensitive naked pictures which Bezos alleges the Enquirer used to try to blackmail him.
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JR: People ... You could finally put them on the cover of the Enquirer, however the Enquirer was sort of out of the game as we said to more protecting him.
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" The Enquirer, he said, "always got something in return.
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"What happened was the story was given to the National Enquirer by a reliable source that had been given information to the National Enquirer for seven years prior to the story," he said.
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Ask the national enquirer, we got to find that out?
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"He may as well work for the Enquirer," Lively explained.
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The Enquirer initially claimed it simply couldn't substantiate these stories.
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The National Enquirer could not immediately be reached for comment.
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The Enquirer has also gone through a change of ownership.
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His bond was set at $500,000, according to the Enquirer.
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The Enquirer also went after Carly Fiorina in the fall.
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Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer Not rated.
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The Enquirer immediately then stopped reporting, said the former staffers.
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And The Cincinnati Enquirer, whose editorial page also endorsed Mrs.
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The Enquirer included a middle initial "A" with the name.
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The National Enquirer, which is owned by American Media Inc.
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Bezos' private photos were later leaked to the National Enquirer.
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" —interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer "I would not support her.
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But the Enquirer caught us getting married, so we were stuck.
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"I don't do Narcan," Sheriff Richard Jones told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Read more: Behind on Jeff Bezos' beef with the National Enquirer?
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In the spring of 2018, National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc.
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Go deeper: Attorney for David Pecker denies National Enquirer blackmailed Bezos
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The National Enquirer and the White House both dispute this claim.
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The Enquirer appeals to people in their fifties, who like investigations.
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However, the article never ended up being published by the Enquirer.
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After all, The Enquirer has always had prime placement at supermarkets.
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Gail: An entire campaign based on headlines from The National Enquirer.
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His son, Phil Heimlich, expressed surprise when speaking to the Enquirer.
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It was the kind of story The Enquirer was made for.
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"He called me to stop a National Enquirer article," Trump claimed.
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These people added that the source was compensated by The Enquirer.
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The Enquirer published intimate texts and images of the pair together.
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This would have been eight months before the Enquirer&aposs exposé.
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"I was so naïve," he told The Cincinnati Enquirer in 22007.
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He could have been a great reporter for the National Enquirer.
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The National Enquirer was like, 'Offer to buy them a house!
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Bezos later accused The Enquirer&aposs parent company, American Media Inc.
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I mean, people do buy The National Enquirer and believe it.
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Trump has been close with Pecker and the Enquirer for years.
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Howard says the Enquirer learned of the rumor from the internet.
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"I am crazy about you," he wrote, according to The Enquirer.
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National Enquirer: The tabloid is nearing a sale, the publisher said.
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Charlie says Enquirer exec Dylan Howard has a vendetta against him.
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Well, he did that to get ahead of the National Enquirer.
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In November 2016, before the election, the Wall Street Journal reported that the National Enquirer sat on a story about Trump having an affair with McDougal in 2006, despite the Enquirer paying McDougal $150,000 for it.
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The Enquirer, which is famously pro-Trump, paid $150,000 for her story.
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The Enquirer was early to promote Mr. Trump's potential bid in 2011.
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But Bezos and the Enquirer are both deeply invested in the answer.
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It's also unclear whether the Enquirer broke the law in threatening Bezos.
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The Enquirer had been following allegations against Lauer for years, Farrow writes.
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" The Enquirer "made its first political endorsement ever, of Trump, last spring.
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Later that day, the Enquirer broke news about Bezos' affair with Sanchez.
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The National Enquirer is harassing your children, your daughters, who are teenagers?
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On Friday, Sheen filed suit against the National Enquirer, American Media, Inc.
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But the spirit of the Enquirer lives on at their website, www.queensbridge.us.
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The Enquirer held its ninetieth-birthday celebration at the Trump SoHo Hotel.
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The Enquirer and Cohen presumably didn't pay these settlements out of charity.
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Uecker will pay $20,000 in damages and attorney fees, The Enquirer noted.
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Problem is, Trump's apparent source on the story is the National Enquirer.
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This confirmed that the Enquirer had "flipped" on Trump, so to speak.
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Numerous headlines have portrayed Pecker and the Enquirer as "flipping" on Trump.
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Bezos then began an investigation into how the Enquirer obtained his messages.
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And so I have no quarrel with his confronting The National Enquirer.
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During the campaign cycle, The Enquirer functioned more like a protection racket.
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While representatives of The Enquirer, which is owned by American Media Inc.
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Saudi Arabia and the publisher of the National Enquirer, American Media Inc.
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Here's what else you might have missed: Enquirer owner American Media Inc.
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They said, 'Are you here for an interview with the National Enquirer?
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They weren't considered pop culture icons during my tenure the National Enquirer.
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The Enquirer had paid him two hundred thousand dollars for the texts.
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Within six weeks, the owners of the Enquirer had announced its sale.
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In any event, the National Enquirer never disclosed Trump's relationship with McDougal.
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This is what happens when you treat the National Enquirer like Gospel.
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Why it matters: Last week Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, accused the National Enquirer of blackmailing him to end an investigation into the source of intimate texts that the Enquirer published.
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The parallel between the ex-Playmate's and the ex-doorman's dealings with the Enquirer raises new questions about the roles that the Enquirer and Cohen may have played in protecting Trump's image during a hard-fought presidential election.
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INGRAHAM: And the rights, people have to understand who are watching tonight, the rights to this story from "The National Enquirer", or the company that owns "The National Enquirer" were never purchased, so that transaction did not go through.
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"We named him Columbo, for obvious reasons," Shaw said to the Ledger-Enquirer.
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The National Enquirer never ran her account of that affair before the campaign.
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The SDNY revealed its "non-prosecution agreement" with Enquirer publisher American Media Inc.
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As it turned out, though, The National Enquirer was also pursuing the story.
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The National Enquirer helped Trump cover up extramarital affairs during his presidential campaign.
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Soon after the Enquirer published its story, Hogan was terminated by the WWE.
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And both reportedly had close relationships with the leadership of the National Enquirer.
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Reporters pursued the story, Farrow writes, and the Enquirer even hired private investigators.
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Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer of blackmailing him — and publishes the details himself
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"It's a brutal death," Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan told the Ledger-Enquirer.
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The National Enquirer could not immediately be reached for comment on the story.
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For Pecker, the Tiger Woods story encapsulates the grim ethos of Enquirer readers.
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One employee said that Trump was also a frequent source for Enquirer stories.
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A.M.I. owned a number of magazines, but its core asset was the Enquirer .
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His comments came after Trump cited a National Enquirer story that claimed Sen.
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The Enquirer had a golden opportunity, and they completely looked the other way.
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Bradley A. Smith: Legal scrutiny of National Enquirer sets dangerous First Amendment precedent.
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In February, Bezos accused the Enquirer and its parent company, American Media Inc.
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They have also spent time hiking and chopping firewood, Pendill told the Enquirer.
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And a spokesman told the Cincinnati Enquirer that Tiberi won't change his mind.
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The Philadelphia Enquirer reported that he appeared upbeat in the courtroom on Tuesday.
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The Enquirer and AMI had previously denied it killed stories on Trump's behalf.
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Witnesses told the Cincinnati Enquirer that they heard as many as 15 gunshots.
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Mr. Pecker's is also chairman of the company that owns The National Enquirer.
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That raises a question: How did the Enquirer get hold of the material?
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"You have to have something else," he told The Cincinnati Enquirer in 1973.
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Fact check: • The Enquirer has said that Mr. Sanchez was its sole source.
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Everything he does is right out of textbook National Enquirer 101 communication skills.
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Or at least that's what the top people at the National Enquirer thought.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer also endorsed Clinton, backing its first Democrat since Woodrow Wilson.
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Are you worried at all that Jeff Bezos will bring down the Enquirer?
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If The National Enquirer simply published the photos, it would not be blackmail.
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The Enquirer wasn't the first to allege a connection between Rafael and Oswald.
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The Enquirer had published a story claiming Simmons was undergoing a sex change.
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Bezos published emails from Enquirer executives to attorney Martin Singer, who represents de Becker, that appeared to suggest the Enquirer would publish intimate photos of Bezos and Sanchez, including some that were partially nude, if the Amazon chief did not comply.
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Bezos published emails from Enquirer executives to attorney Martin Singer, who represents de Becker, that appeared to suggest the Enquirer would publish intimate photos of Bezos and Sanchez, including some that were partially nude, if the Amazon chief did not comply.
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"This pattern of behavior makes it clear that [National Enquirer publisher David] Pecker uses the National Enquirer tabloid both in total support of the leader of a political party and in furtherance of scabrous and potentially illegal schemes," Pascrell wrote.
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" David Pecker, the head of American Media, which owns The Star and The National Enquirer, is a friend and supporter of Mr. Trump, so perhaps not so shockingly a recent Enquirer headline screamed: "JOHN F. KENNEDY'S SECRET SON ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP!
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Mayer's reporting also says that Falzone pitched a story about an alleged "catch and kill" deal with Trump and the National Enquirer in which the Enquirer would buy Daniels's story to keep it from coming out, but it didn't go anywhere.
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The Enquirer is famously pro-Trump, providing a possible motive for burying the story.
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"Whenever the first game is, I'll be 22017 percent," Green told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The list also includes David Pecker, chairman of National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc.
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He also cited Trump's alleged friendship with the CEO of the Enquirer, David Pecker.
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"She walked by the instant we pulled up," Little said to the Ledger-Enquirer.
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It's also plausible that the National Enquirer got the texts through less savory means.
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Incidentally, the Enquirer allegedly also tried to blackmail reporters investigating its links with Trump.
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Oh yeah, and note that the source for that accusation was the National Enquirer.
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After the hearing, Richardson's attorney, Charlie H. Rittgers, spoke out to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The National Enquirer and 2 of its sister publications — owned by American Media Inc.
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Of the remaining injured, only one was in serious condition, police told the Enquirer.
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The Enquirer also takes it as gospel that Clinton had an affair with Foster.
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The Arizona Republic, The Cincinnati Enquirer and Dallas Morning News have notably backed Clinton.
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At the time, the story belonged to American media which owns the National Enquirer.
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The Enquirer is published by Pecker, who has been friends with Trump for years.
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People could construct their home themselves, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported, or hire a contractor.
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Cruz said the Enquirer story was evidence that Trump is unfit to be president.
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Charlie Sheen is suing the National Enquirer and its parent company, American Media, Inc.
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Trump read about it in The National Enquirer, so who you going to believe?
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McDougal sold her story to AMI, which is the publisher of the National Enquirer.
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Landsman also traces the role The Enquirer may have played in Donald Trump's rise.
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So it's rumored in National Enquirer and then it slowly makes its way up.
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The National Enquirer also ran a story alleging that Cruz has had multiple affairs.
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"I could be Trump without the racism," he told the Cincinnati Enquirer in February.
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At the moment, The National Enquirer provides Mr. Morris with a more welcoming perch.
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In other words, the Enquirer stopped being a part of Trump's promotional media machine.
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De Becker added that the Enquirer was unusually eager to give up their source.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer made its first Democratic endorsement in 2159 years for Clinton Friday.
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"This is what happens when you treat The National Enquirer like gospel," she said.
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The model, Karen McDougal, received $150,000 from the parent company of The National Enquirer.
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The Enquirer contends that the "bisexual bride's lesbian past" caused the relationship to crumble.
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Trump in a written statement denied having anything to do with the Enquirer report.
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Bad show The hosts also addressed Trump's friendship with National Enquirer owner David Pecker.
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After the company bought the rights, The Enquirer chose not to run the story.
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That would make his owning The Enquirer, the tabloid favored by Mr. Trump, unusual.
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Mediator The most powerful print publication in America might just be The National Enquirer.
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The Enquirer spread false stories about Hillary Clinton — illnesses concealed, child prostitution, bribery, treason.
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However, the report doesn't connect the Saudis to the photos leaked to the Enquirer.
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The Enquirer&aposs proprietor, David Pecker, has a longstanding relationship with Crown Prince Mohammed.
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El informe no proporcionaba pruebas de que el material hackeado terminó en The Enquirer.
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But Peggy Drexler wrote that the Enquirer and its parent company, American Media Inc.
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The Saudi government has denied having anything to do with the National Enquirer reporting.
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Levine had left the Enquirer in March 25 after 22002 years with the paper, and when his upcoming book was announced, many speculated that it could contain new revelations about the relationship between Pecker, the Enquirer, and the man who became president.
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Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer of blackmailing him — and publishes the details himself Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he is being blackmailed with nude selfies by AMI, owner of the National Enquirer, over claims the publisher has acted as a political operative.
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"I give Central Florida credit," Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin said, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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This spurred other false stories on the topic that cited the Enquirer as their source.
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An update was added with additional details from the New York Post and National Enquirer.
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Jeff Bezos is hitting back at the National Enquirer and its owner American Media Inc.
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Ted Cruz found himself publicly denying salacious allegations in the pages of The National Enquirer.
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I've written a post about developments with the National Enquirer and its parent company, AMI.
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According to Bezos' Medium post, the Enquirer responded to his investigation with an outright threat.
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The baseless accusation had been lifted from the pages of the supermarket tabloid National Enquirer.
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The National Enquirer was the nexus of one such network, according to Farrow and others.
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"There were a lot of things going through my mind," Washington told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Schottelkotte started his Enquirer career as a copy clerk while still a high school student.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has accused the National Enquirer and its publisher, American Media Inc.
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This week, A.M.I., the parent company of The National Enquirer, freed her from that agreement.
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"The law should have been changed a long time ago," Nanci Watts told the Enquirer.
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He also suggested a connection between the hack and National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc.
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The year before, Dylan Howard, chief content officer of National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc.
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A spokesman for the university was not available to comment to the Enquirer on Thursday.
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"Donald, you need to stop quoting The National Enquirer and do some homework," he pleads.
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A documentary on the National Enquirer pays tribute to a halcyon era of dirt digging.
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Kahaloa's agent told the Cincinnati Enquirer that Kahaloa is currently in a drug treatment program.
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But four longtime Enquirer staffers directly familiar with the episode challenged Howard's version of events.
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In the tabloid world purchasing information is not uncommon, and the Enquirer routinely pays sources.
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The Enquirer dispatched reporters to pursue the story both in New York and in California.
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There's no evidence to support that report, which came from the Trump-friendly National Enquirer.
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Shortly before the 2016 presidential election, she sold her story for $150,000 to The Enquirer.
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The newspaper publisher to whom Trump is closest is David Pecker of The National Enquirer.
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Plus: How the National Enquirer may have been more powerful than a Russian troll army.
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You managed to get an apology and a retraction out of the National Enquirer. Confirm.
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After the Enquirer story was published, Bezos accused the tabloid's parent company, American Media Inc.
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Bezos tasked De Becker with investigating how the Enquirer obtained the photos and text messages.
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De Becker said his investigation identified Michael Sanchez as a paid source of the Enquirer.
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The analysis did not reveal a Saudi connection to the materials obtained by The Enquirer.
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In response to the original Journal story about the Enquirer and McDougal, American Media Inc.
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Even after I left the National Enquirer, I'd go back on their birthday and Christmas.
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Pecker and the Enquirer have often provided a friendly forum for news on the president.
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Bezos and Sanchez were both married, and the Enquirer was prepared to expose it all.
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But de Becker claims that the National Enquirer knew about the messages before approaching Sanchez.
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February: Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer publisher AMI and its CEO of "extortion and blackmail."
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Last month the Enquirer published a detailed story about Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez.
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The Enquirer published what it said were text messages between Mr. Bezos and Ms. Sánchez.
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According to federal prosecutors, he used The Enquirer to help protect Mr. Trump's presidential campaign.
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Publish that "below the belt selfie" before The National Enquirer can leak it to TMZ.
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He's suing Howard, the National Enquirer and actor Dominick Brascia for defamation and false light.
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Founded in 1926 as the New York Enquirer, the National Enquirer gained a reputation in the 1950s for salacious stories with lines like, "I'm sorry I killed my mother, but I'm glad I killed my father," according to the International Directory of Company Histories.
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"Back in October, the National Enquirer said I would be dead in six months," Clinton said.
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"I have no words," he told the Cincinnati Enquirer, which reported that he broke down crying.
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"At first, I thought it was a fox," cyclist Chris Dixon said to the Ledger-Enquirer .
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" When the radio interviewer said, "It's all National Enquirer stuff," Moore eagerly replied, "It really is!
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On a physical newsstand, it's still easy to tell the National Enquirer from, say, The Atlantic.
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A Cincinnati Enquirer reporter captured her reading the tweets for the first time in a video.
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De Becker said his investigation found Michael Sanchez to be the paid source for the Enquirer.
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The company, which sold off the National Enquirer in April, still uses the name AMI today.
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But the Enquirer may be in a precarious financial position as it spars with Mr Bezos.
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In a final act of degradation, topless pictures of her were leaked to the National Enquirer.
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"Let me explain what they were threatening," Brzezinski said on Friday, referring to National Enquirer officials.
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The Saudi government has denied any involvement in the National Enquirer story, according to the Times.
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Additionally, authorities have recovered an unspecified number of firearms from the scene, according to The Enquirer.
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The lawsuit will contain multiple complaints and names RadarOnline, The National Enquirer, and American Media, Inc.
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" On election eve, the Enquirer offered a special nine-page investigation under the headline " Hillary: Corrupt !
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That's how much Cohen paid the National Enquirer, which had obtained the rights to McDougal's story.
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They also discuss the financing of the payout The National Enquirer was making to Karen McDougal.
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In September 2015, the Enquirer ran a story saying Hillary Clinton had six months to live.
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"He may as well work for the Enquirer," Lively, Glamour's September cover star, told the magazine.
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Misinformation makes our society sick and the National Enquirer tabloid is a primary purveyor of it.
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In December, prosecutors announced a non-prosecution agreement with National Enquirer parent company American Media Inc.
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AMI has said it believes the Enquirer "acted lawfully," but that it will investigate Bezos's claims.
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The lawsuit obtained by the Enquirer states that Smith implemented technology used for hearing impaired calls.
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And, in light of that, it's worth noting that Enquirer leadership has close ties to Trump.
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Cruz is understandably incensed about The National Enquirer report that he's had multiple extra-marital affairs.
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They are also requesting information from the parent company of The National Enquirer, American Media Inc.
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A day later, the National Enquirer published details about Bezos and his new girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez.
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This payment was made by AMI, the parent company of the National Enquirer, in August 2016.
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In promoting Mr. Trump, The Enquirer endorsed a candidate for the first time in its history.
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Similarly, The Enquirer became a powerful political billboard for Mr. Trump during the general election campaign.
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On Monday, Sluder posted a public apology on his Instagram account, the Cincinnati Enquirer first reported.
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He allegedly threatened to reveal information about Lauer that had been gathered by the National Enquirer.
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The new reports raise questions about whether the National Enquirer&aposs then-owner, American Media, Inc.
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Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and Enquirer owner David Pecker have a years-long business relationship.
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The reports, published in June by The Enquirer and Radar, both properties of American Media Inc.
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He secretly provided my most personal information to the National Enquirer -- a deep and unforgivable betrayal.
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Because the Enquirer really wasn't into political figures when I was there because they weren't sexy.
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Is the NYT joining in the race to the journalistic bottom along with the National Enquirer?
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He secretly provided my most personal information to the National Enquirer -- a deep and unforgivable betrayal.
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It led to speculation that Saudi Arabia may have leaked the compromising messages to the Enquirer.
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The Enquirer/The Onion have more credible headlines and articles than the WaPo and the NYT.
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Amazon The fight between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and The National Enquirer just got even uglier.
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" Focus specifically on this line from Trump: "I have nothing to do with the National Enquirer.
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I asked if they thought The National Enquirer had a calendar alert for their joyous occasion.
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He allegedly approached the National Enquirer in late 2000, after Trump announced his candidacy for president.
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He allegedly approached the National Enquirer in late 2015, after Trump announced his candidacy for president.
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According to the docs, obtained by TMZ, Sheen says the Enquirer article that ran on Nov.
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Trump told Fox News he did not think a payment was made to the National Enquirer.
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It appears to come from a National Enquirer article that's almost comically shoddy in its methods.
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"There's more similarity than dissimilarity," Mitch Goldstone, president and CEO of ScanMyPhotos, told the National Enquirer.
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The timing of the Bezoses' joint statement suggests that they knew the Enquirer story was coming.
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Her brother is deeply enmeshed in the story of how the National Enquirer got ahold of her and Jeff Bezos' textsJeff Bezos' private investigator Gavin de Becker identified Michael Sanchez as the source of the leak to the National Enquirer in an article for the Daily Beast.
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Trump had a decadeslong close relationship with AMI CEO David Pecker, and Pecker and the Enquirer protected Trump from his misdeeds through a tabloid practice called "catch and kill," in which the Enquirer bought the rights to embarrassing stories involving Trump and then wouldn't publish them.
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"Imagine if it would be easier to access The National Enquirer than The Washington Post," he said.
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Ms. Constand sued The National Enquirer for libel in 2006, and won a financial settlement from it.
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One possible suitor could be American Media, owner of the National Enquirer, according to Women's Wear Daily.
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Trump is reported to have supplied Pecker with information the National Enquirer could turn into juicy stories.
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The Enquirer reference seems especially dated—unless you recall Trump's cozy relationship with the supermarket gossip rag.
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Bezos' post also notes the connections between Enquirer-publisher David Pecker, Donald Trump, and the Saudi government.
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British red-top tabloids, often barely more reputable than the National Enquirer, went wild with the story.
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The Sheriff's office also told the Cincinnati Enquirer that Burk had "multiple sexual encounters" with the student.
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Then, surprisingly, after months of tension, Mr. Sheen agreed to an interview last month with The Enquirer.
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American Media Inc's National Enquirer supermarket tabloid was involved in making the payments, according to news reports.
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Angela Hamrick had been having an affair with Clark, who is also married, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
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In addition to the National Enquirer supermarket tabloid, AMI's celebrity and health publications include Us Weekly, OK!
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When the court ruled in favor of the Enquirer ... Richard was ordered to pay their attorney's fees.
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CINCINNATI – Longtime Cincinnati Enquirer journalist Jim Schottelkotte (SHAHT&apos-ul-kot-ee) has died at age 88.
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Pecker and Bezos have sparred over a series of messages and photos National Enquirer has of Bezos.
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Last week, the Cincinnati Enquirer also endorsed Clinton, deviating from its Republican leanings of the past century.
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Trump referenced the alleged National Enquirer piece in a new tweet he issued just before 9 a.m.
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The Mail joins the National Enquirer among the few outlets that Wikipedia has called out in particular.
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Gunfire erupted soon after the group began watching a movie in the living room, the Enquirer reports.
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Some people have implicated David Pecker in all this—the publisher of AMI and the National Enquirer.
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The National Enquirer tabloid is a geyser of toxic misinformation and a possible vehicle of criminal activity.
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The National Enquirer followed that bombshell with news of another mistress and a love child in Texas.
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Bezos shortly after said he was investigating how the Enquirer obtained texts between him and his girlfriend.
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A Suffolk University/Cincinnati Enquirer poll of likely midterm voters released Wednesday shows 2900 percent backing Cordray.
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And that was it: Trump hasn't been mentioned once on the cover of the Enquirer since May.
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These meetings led to the dispersal of money from The National Enquirer to the model Karen McDougal.
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Cohen admits to working "at direction of the candidate" Trump and national enquirer to silence Karen McDougal.
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It's still not clear how, exactly, the National Enquirer got ahold of Bezos' private texts and photos.
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The group will represent legalized marijuana businesses in 23 states and Washington, D.C., the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
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In the deal that Cohen helps arrange, the company that owns the National Enquirer, American Media Inc.
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The Enquirer published a story in January that included the text messages between Bezos and his girlfriend.
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"He may as well work for the Enquirer," the All I See Is You actress told Glamour.
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Simmons sued the national Enquirer and Radar Online , however the case was dismissed on free speech grounds.
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The Enquirer never ran that story -- a move known as "catch and kill" in the media industry.
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During Pryor's five-year reign as world champion, he made more than $5 million, The Enquirer estimated.
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Many of the older National Enquirer stories are often not accessible through Google or databases like Nexis.
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One was for David Pecker, a tabloid executive close to President Trump who oversees The National Enquirer.
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Mr. Sanchez initially lied to the media and denied leaking information and personal texts to the Enquirer.
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The same day, the tabloid National Enquirer reports that Bezos and Sanchez had been dating for months.
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But the relationship between the Enquirer&aposs proprietor, David Pecker, and the Saudi regime is inviting questions.
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For instance, how did Jeff Bezos' dick pics end up in the hands of the National Enquirer?
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At the time, The Enquirer published photos of the couple together, as well as intimate text messages.
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McDougal sold the rights to her story to American Media, or AMI, which publishes the National Enquirer.
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More recently, the National Enquirer has been embroiled in a battle with Bezos, the CEO of Amazon.
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"I heard about it over the years," Becker told the Enquirer, referring to the re-implantation procedure.
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"I've written a post about developments with the National Enquirer and its parent company, AMI," he writes.
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Stay tuned... Don't forget the Joe and Mika case The Enquirer has been accused of blackmail before.
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Cohen also played a role in arranging a payoff to McDougal through the Enquirer that totaled $150,85033.
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"I don't have anything to do with this at all, whatsoever," he said, per the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The titles that are being sold, along with the Enquirer, are the Globe and the National Examiner.
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It was an intense period of media scrutiny — and here's this National Enquirer at every checkout counter.
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Mr. Bezos subsequently opened a private investigation to determine why he had been targeted by The Enquirer.
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He raised the stakes Thursday when he accused the National Enquirer and its publisher, American Media Inc.
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Also, David Pecker, the president's close friend and chairman of the parent company of The National Enquirer.
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"That arrangement, combined with Cohen's past business dealings and friendship with Pecker, and the fact that Enquirer employees are reportedly not moving from AMI's Lower Manhattan headquarters, will undoubtedly lead to curiosity about whether Pecker might retain at least a dash of influence" over the Enquirer, Pompeo wrote.
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In fact, I can remember a conversation, right before the National Enquirer, we had gotten word that the National Enquirer, who broke the story, was coming out, and I had a conversation with my boss at the time, Howard Wolfson, and we had all heard about this story.
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In addition, the list of potential subpoenas included David Pecker, chairman of National Enquirer parent American Media Inc.
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In December, the Enquirer published an article, which included private text messages, exposing Bezos' affair with Lauren Sanchez.
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Giuliani said the conversation involved reimbursing the parent company of the National Enquirer tabloid for McDougal's story rights.
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"This shows what a great community can do when everyone works together," resident Lori McMullen told the Enquirer.
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Playboy model Karen McDougal received $150,000 from the publisher of The National Enquirer, who was friendly with Trump.
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Cohen's answers pointed to David Pecker, the chair and CEO of National Enquirer parent company American Media Inc.
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The Enquirer endorsed Trump for president in 2016, the first time it had ever officially backed a candidate.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, alleged the Enquirer attempted to blackmail and extort him.
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According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, surveillance cameras at the conservatory captured a woman stealing a blue morpho butterfly.
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The alleged murder took place while the Hamricks were divorcing, the sheriff's office says, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
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The story of the National Enquirer and AMI appears to be an example of one such cover-up.
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The patients that died under his care were between the ages of 37 and 85, the Enquirer reports.
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"[T]he Enquirer became an enforcement arm of the Trump presidential campaign, and presidency," per the Daily Beast.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the home in West Chester outside Cincinnati is owned by Bengals cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick.
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Zakim appeared on "Squawk Box" just before a statement was issued by National Enquirer parent American Media Inc.
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But, secondly, I think the key point here is that you have the National Enquirer buying a story.
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Stone, it's worth remembering, was the likely source behind the National Enquirer report on Cruz's alleged extramarital affairs.
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The publisher of the supermarket tabloid The National Enquirer, who is a friend of Trump's, paid off McDougal.
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Cohen was proposing to pay AMI, which owns the National Enquirer newspaper, for the rights to McDougal's story.
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"What's probably giving it more juice this time is the Trump victory," Springer told the Enquirer in February.
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" And it was, "Donald is friends with — the president's friends with the guy that runs the National Enquirer.
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We'll have National Enquirer stop harassing your children if you grovel to the president of the United States.
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Trump is very close to the publisher of the Enquirer, which has become a pro-Trump propaganda sheet.
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" As a former Enquirer staffer, who was generally critical of Pecker, told me, "This was his finest hour.
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The early days, during which he attempted to brand the Enquirer as a serious, upscale weekly, were rocky.
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Money paid to the owner of the National Enquirer was meant to keep McDougal's story from getting out.
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His car had Ohio license plates, though, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported he lived in Kentucky with his mother.
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She said the two stopped communicating in 2014, a year before the former doorman reportedly approached the Enquirer.
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The network suspended Payne in July after the publication of the National Enquirer story mentioned in Hughes's suit.
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In January, the Enquirer posted a story with a series of text messages between Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.
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Cruz has even blamed Trump for an article in the National Enquirer claiming he has had extramarital affairs.
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Prosecutors in New York are also looking into whether the publisher of the National Enquirer, American Media Inc.
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Even more surprising than the Enquirer breaking its streak, though, is that it actually might make a difference.
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Wenner Media owned US Weekly until 2017, when it was sold to National Enquirer publisher American Media, Inc.
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"Unfortunately ... Dino Sajudin is one fish that swam away," Howard told RadarOnline, an Enquirer sister publication, on Wednesday.
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According to the Cincinnati Enquirer report, Broner had a gambling dispute with a former friend named Christopher Carson.
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Is Trump CONFIRMING that he was part of conversation about whether he would stop a National Enquirer story??
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It's a shame it went this route, because The Enquirer was built to cover Mr. Trump's wild ride.
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Jeff Bezos "enraged" the National Enquirer by tweeting about his divorce before the Lauren Sanchez exposé was published.
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That filing said Bezos falsely told journalists that Sanchez provided nude photos of Bezos to the National Enquirer.
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The National Enquirer snagged another big story last year when they exposed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' extramarital affair.
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There is no hard evidence so far, however, that MBS passed Bezos&apos intimate data to the Enquirer.
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That does not preclude the possibility that Saudi Arabia could have sent other useful information to The Enquirer.
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SHEERA FRENKEL: Last year started off with The National Enquirer publishing photos and texts from Mr. Bezos' phone.
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Mike DeWine (R) also confirmed his state will continue accepting refugees on Monday, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The report suggests that she sent them to her brother, Michael, who sold them to The National Enquirer.
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" Edmilson told the Enquirer that an immigration officer told a young crying boy his mother would "come later.
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The Enquirer , which was having financial difficulties, was wary of getting drawn into a possibly expensive political fight.
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The report suggests that she sent them to her brother, Michael, who sold them to the National Enquirer.
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Bezos' noted that legitimate media outlets have speculated Pecker had used AMI and the Enquirer for political purposes.
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Was the Enquirer just digging up dirt on the world's richest man because it was a dramatic story?
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Or his claim that The National Enquirer publisher had tried to blackmail him with copies of intimate pictures.
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The Enquirer by then had already been investigating whether Mr. Bezos and Ms. Sanchez were having an affair.
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Given this, it wasn't surprising that some people wondered if Trump was connected to the Enquirer Bezos story.
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Friendly toward President Trump, The Enquirer came under scrutiny for its role in aiding Mr. Trump's 2016 campaign.
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That is a whole lot of money to spend to not publish a story in the National Enquirer.
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Right. Now, Donald Trump ... Now, Donald Trump just says it, or cites the National Enquirer, or both. Right.
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Simmons sued Matthews last month, claiming he was hired by the National Enquirer to keep tabs on him.
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From The New Yorker: This piece about The National Enquirer in the age of Trump, by Jeffrey Toobin, has everything a great magazine piece should have — concise writing, a compelling character in The Enquirer owner, David Pecker, and high stakes, given The Enquirer's role as a ubiquitous billboard for Mr. Trump.
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The suit also names as defendants Ms. Constand; her mother, Gianna; and American Media, publisher of The National Enquirer.
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But they also are suspicious of the time and resources that the Enquirer devoted to uncovering Bezos' alleged affair.
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From one perspective, that's about as big as tabloid stories get, so of course, the Enquirer would want it.
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The Enquirer had an average paid circulation of about 260,000 copies weekly in the second half of last year.
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Similarly, in the political realm, The National Enquirer first published John Edwards-Rielle Hunter stories in October of 2007.
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Bezos had announced an investigation into how the Enquirer had obtained texts and photos revealing he'd had an affair.
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David Pecker, the Trump ally who runs the company behind the Enquirer, reportedly had business interests in Saudi Arabia.
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Yesterday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos accused the National Enquirer of "extortion and blackmail" involving a story published last month.
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The following day, a story in the National Enquirer detailed Bezos' ongoing relationship with a woman named Lauren Sanchez.
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Contrary to the speculation, it doesn't seem to reveal anything about the Enquirer or AMI; David Pecker isn't mentioned.
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Soon after, an infamous photo of Rice sitting on Hart's lap landed on the cover of the National Enquirer.
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Trump went on to praise the National Enquirer as deserving of a "Pulitzer Prize" for some of its reporting.
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Hundreds of people watched the motorcade of friends and family arrive at the cemetery, the Columbus Ledger–Enquirer reported.
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According to the Cincinnati Enquirer and various media reports, authorities are not recommending criminal charges against the boy's mother.
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Mr Trump tweeted in mock sympathy for "Jeff Bozo" after the Enquirer published its account of the extramarital affair.
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"Just because a person is homeless, it doesn&apost strip them of their rights," Garry told The Cincinnati Enquirer .
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Later that day, the Enquirer broke news about Bezos' affair with Sanchez, with private photos of the two dating.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a solid case against the National Enquirer and its parent company, American Media Inc.
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Sonnenfeld, an award-winning author, said some lawyers say Bezos could go for property damages in the Enquirer story.
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It's perfect if you're a fan of red-top sensationalist tabloids like the National Enquirer or the Daily Mail.
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Goldenfield told the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper that the Warren County Sheriff's Office called her Saturday around 7:45 a.m.
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Two women who appeared to be pictured in the Enquirer stepped forward on Friday and called the article false.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer recently broke their almost 100 year tradition to endorse Clinton, as did the Dallas Morning News.
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One of the adult victims said she lost her baby as a result of the shooting, the Enquirer reports.
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Thomas previously claimed in a December 2015 National Enquirer interview that Mary Jo had "poisoned" his son against him.
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McDougal sold her rights to the story to The National Enquirer for $150,000 as the presidential campaign ramped up.
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He intimated that Ted Cruz's father was linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, citing the National Enquirer as his source.
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But there were all these stories planted in the National Enquirer for people that Donald Trump wanted to attack.
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His source for that baseless claim turned out to be an article in The National Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid.
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Pope was a dour and mysterious character, who exerted almost total control over the Enquirer for thirty-six years.
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The Enquirer similarly paid $150,000 to silence former Playboy Playmate, Karen McDougal, who allegedly had an affair with Trump.
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Caffrey told his dad that the president's statement "was like being shot all over again," according to the Enquirer.
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McDougal was silenced by Trump's friend, David Pecker, who bought her story for National Enquirer and then spiked it.
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On Wednesday, an Enquirer sister publication, RadarOnline, published details of the payment and the rumor that Sajudin was peddling.
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But the partnership visibly ended in April when the FBI raided Cohen's office and subpoenaed records from the Enquirer.
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"Is The National Enquirer ready to take its place beside the National Review in our national debates?" he asked.
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After the sentencing, federal prosecutors announced they had struck a deal with the parent company of the National Enquirer.
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David Pecker, chief executive of the company that publishes the National Enquirer, was also granted immunity in the investigation.
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Borges was open about his indecision over supporting Trump and announced his vote on Sunday, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
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"We used to go after newsmakers no matter what side they were on," a former Enquirer staffer told me.
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McDougal sold her rights to the story to The National Enquirer for $150,000 as the presidential campaign ramped up.
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On Friday, Cruz made public reference to — and furiously denied — a National Enquirer story that accused him of affairs.
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He seemingly pledged not to sell Fortune to David Pecker, chairman and CEO of National Enquirer publisher American Media.
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The same account deserves more credence if it appears in The Wall Street Journal than in The National Enquirer.
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"It's not weak to revisit history, it's strong to revisit history," Councilman P. G. Sittenfeld told The Cincinnati Enquirer.
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It owns the Detroit Free Press and the Des Moines Register and the Cincinnati Enquirer and on and on.
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The National Enquirer, for its part, re-upped its story from June 220 at the top of their website.
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After The Enquirer drew the attention of law enforcement, American Media signed a non-prosecution deal with federal prosecutors.
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AMI is the publisher of the National Enquirer, which is led by David Pecker, a close friend of Trump.
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Trump also features in the lawsuit brought by Playboy model Karen McDougal against the parent company of National Enquirer.
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Eight months later, the National Enquirer published text message conversations and personal photos confirming Bezos had an extramarital affair.
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The statement preempted the National Enquirer tabloid&aposs story describing intimate texts and photos from Bezos&apos extramarital affair.
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The timeline below hints at a connection between the Enquirer, Saudi Arabia, and the hack of Bezos&apos phone.
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In 2019, American Media agreed to sell its most notorious publication National Enquirer following a series of major scandals.
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Jones apologized in a statement from his lawyers, the firm of Fessler, Schneider and Grimme, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
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Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, has accused the owner of the National Enquirer of trying to blackmail him.
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Two lobbyists for the payday lending firm LoanMax joined the trip, according to Facebook photos reported by the Enquirer.
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It was made possible when a guy I was in rehab with sold the story to the National Enquirer.
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Add in the mysterious assertion from Jeff Bezos that the Saudi regime has some arrangement with the National Enquirer.
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Whether that would stop a state prosecutor from pursuing a case against The National Enquirer is an open question.
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Mr. Bezos raised the stakes on Thursday when he accused The National Enquirer and its publisher, American Media Inc.
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In a new low for journalism, The National Enquirer was accused this week of blackmailing Amazon C.E.O. Jeff Bezos.
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It also asked for all communications between Cohen and two top National Enquirer figures, David Pecker and Dylan Howard.
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Trump would frequently be a source for Enquirer stories, and in return, the magazine would avoid covering him negatively.
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The Enquirer also brought toxically negative and largely fictional coverage of Hillary Clinton to checkout lines around the country.
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The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents with details on hush money payments and other damaging details on President Trump leading up to the 2016 election, reports the AP. Why it matters: Details about the documents the Enquirer hid for Trump as part of an arrangement may come to light in the testimony of Enquirer chief David Pecker, who was granted immunity in return for providing information to federal prosecutors as part of the investigation in to Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.
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NATIONAL ENQUIRER In another previous flashpoint between the Amazon founder and Riyadh, Bezos' security chief said last year that the Saudi government had gained access to his phone and leaked messages to U.S. tabloid the National Enquirer between Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, an ex-TV anchor who the newspaper said he was dating.
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But The Times&apos reporting offered a more prosaic route — via Sanchez and her brother — and said a definitive Saudi connection to the Enquirer&aposs reporting had yet to be proved, though it acknowledged Saudi Arabia could have been helpful in other ways, such as tipping the Enquirer off about the affair.
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Immediately following her death, "JonBenét featured on every cover of the National Enquirer for 12 to 24 months," Howard said.
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Fitness guru Richard Simmons has sued the National Enquirer over false reports that he had transitioned from male to female.
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Richard Simmons just got a financial injury added to the insult of losing his defamation lawsuit against the National Enquirer.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer reports Rini appeared in federal court Friday morning and is currently in the custody of the FBI.
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She got $150k and some promotional perks, and the Enquirer got her exclusive story about the 2006 affair with Trump.
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Today, American Media's publications include the aforementioned National Enquirer, Men's Journal, Muscle & Fitness, Soap Opera Digest and Mr. Olympia Contest.
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Pecker is the owner of the National Enquirer, and prosecutors say he knows about three key moments in Trump's campaign.
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"NBC denied any threat was communicated" by Weinstein or American Media Inc, the publisher of the National Enquirer, Farrow wrote.
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The New York Times reported Thursday that AMI may sell the Enquirer to billionaire investor and Democratic donor Ron Burkle.
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"I babysit kids," Partin can be heard saying on the 13-minute 911 call, which was obtained by the Enquirer.
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For years, top city officials have complained about issues with city's 911 communication system, including technical issues, reports the Enquirer.
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In theory, only Bezos and Sanchez should have had those, and neither one would have leaked them to the Enquirer.
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The Enquirer claimed to have seen the selfies, but did not publish any of them or describe them in detail.
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Bezos refused the offer and published the correspondence, calling out the Enquirer for what he saw as an extortion attempt.
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The result puts more pressure than ever on the Enquirer to justify its story and dispel any possible political motivations.
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After being promised immunity by federal prosecutors, David Pecker, chairman of The National Enquirer, and Dylan Howard, American Media Inc.
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In 2018, Page Six reported that Barry Levine, former executive editor of the Enquirer, was writing a book about Trump.
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"I babysit kids," Partin can be heard saying on the 13-minute 911 call, which was obtained by the Enquirer.
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"This breach of the doctor's oath is vile," Columbus Police Chief Tom Quinlan said Wednesday, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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" Speaking with The Ledger-Enquirer, a former coworker of Spellman's remembered the victim as a "little firecracker" who "loved life.
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In his blog post, Bezos alleges The National Enquirer is "particularly sensitive" about its connections to the Saudi Arabian government.
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"I admire people who simply confront problems head on," Munger says of Bezos' public letter to Enquirer boss David Becker.
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" The Enquirer also says "Trump has both China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin in the palm of his hand.
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The clear source of speculation, of course, is the known connection between the Enquirer and Donald Trump's circle of power.
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When Cops or The Jerry Springer Show started, reality TV was a guilty pleasure akin to reading The National Enquirer.
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Donald Trump, who threatened to "spill the beans" about Cruz's wife on Tuesday, has close ties with The National Enquirer.
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He intervened in a separate legal case on behalf of David Pecker , chief executive of Enquirer parent American Media Inc.
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Instead, Melissa Bergman, 30, of Mason, Ohio, was found guilty Wednesday on 12 misdemeanor theft charges, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported .
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Cohen was also involved in a $150,000 hush deal between Playboy model Karen McDougal and National Enquirer publisher American Media.
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Witnesses told the Enquirer that Heimlich jumped into action when 87-year-old Patty Ris began choking on her dinner.
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"If you can&apost restrain these little kids, you need to find a different job," Gowdy told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Simmons claims defamation and invasion of privacy against the National Enquirer for writing what he calls "cruel and malicious" stories.
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Even so, one customer told the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper that clubgoers in a "no-wait" line were not being screened.
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The suit claims that Oliveira contacted the Enquirer offering different reasons for why he had been absent from public life.
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On Thursday, both The New Yorker and the Associated Press published reports claiming that National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc.
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Still, he feels that the key to the success of the Enquirer is his engagement with his down-market readers.
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Prosecutors also reportedly granted immunity to Trump ally David Pecker, the CEO of the company that publishes the National Enquirer.
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He intervened in a separate legal case on behalf of David Pecker, chief executive of Enquirer parent American Media Inc.
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The National Enquirer published a story saying Simmons had undergone hormone treatment and was in the process of sexual reassignment.
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For another, as she told The Cincinnati Enquirer in a recent interview, she liked the fact that it was unexpected.
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Mr. Trump accused Ted Cruz's father of associating with President Kennedy's assassin, repeating an assertion made by The National Enquirer.
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The Enquirer reportedly determined that Sajudin's story wasn't true and released him from the contract after the 2016 presidential election.
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Avenatti also tweeted out the cover of the Enquirer piece on Cohen just before appearing on the CNN program. Wow!!!
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We now know that negotiations between Trump and National Enquirer did take place in 2016, although the deal fell through.
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An autopsy confirmed King had eaten chicken before his murder, according to a 1977 article from the Battle Creek Enquirer.
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On Friday, Cruz accused Trump of planting a National Enquirer story alleging the Texas senator has had multiple extramarital affairs.
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The Enquirer also gave Cohen sign-off power on stories about Trump before they ran, according to The Washington Post.
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At the Enquirer , these offers for comment on critical articles are routinely made to subjects and just as often declined.
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The National Enquirer reportedly paid $85033,000 for revealing text messages between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his then-secret girlfriend.
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Outgoing Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel told the Enquirer that he expects the option could attract new businesses to the state.
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Staff rushed to Ris's aid, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports, but stopped when they realized she was in expertly good hands.
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"Spring Grove is deeply saddened by this tragic accident," Spring Grove Cemetery president Gary M. Freytag told The Cincinnati Enquirer.
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" Ms. Suleman won't reveal how much she was paid by The National Enquirer or Star, maintaining: "Octomom was media created.
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"Ron Burkle and Yucaipa are not buying The Enquirer," Frank Quintero, who works at the firm, said in an email.
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The Enquirer, which loses money, drew the attention of federal prosecutors for its role in aiding Mr. Trump's 2016 campaign.
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The hedge fund's managing partner, Anthony Melchiorre, decided there was no longer a benefit in being associated with The Enquirer.
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The owner of The National Enquirer may have found a potential buyer: Ron Burkle, the supermarket mogul, the NYT reports.
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Bezos' team began investigating his phone in January 2019 after the Enquirer published a story about him having an affair.
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The story of how Bezos' photos and texts landed in the Enquirer has since unfolded to involve the Saudi government.
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Also aiding Mr. Weinstein, he writes, were the National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard and the undercover-operations outfit Black Cube.
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He allegedly threatened to reveal information about Lauer that had been gathered by the folks over at the National Enquirer.
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The National Enquirer report came out eight months later but cited texts that were sent days before the cellphone hack.
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Enquirer editor Dylan Howard and Lanny Davis, a lawyer for Cohen, did not immediately return requests for comment by CNBC.
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Sandmann also reportedly plans to sue Phillips as well as news organization Gannett over the reporting of The Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Hours after Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, announced their divorce, the National Enquirer reported that Bezos had been dating Sanchez.
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Nine months after the supposed hack, the National Enquirer published intimate details about Bezos's private life, including an extramarital affair.
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That changed when The National Enquirer published photos and messages last year between him and Ms. Sanchez, a TV anchor.
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" January 30 The Daily Beast reports that Bezos is investigating "how his text messages ended up in The National Enquirer.
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"The behavior in the video is not what we expect from our players," the Bengals said, according to the Enquirer.
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He included the full text of emails his representatives got from executives at AMI, the publisher of the National Enquirer.
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Or was the Enquirer targeting a Trump enemy for political purposes, perhaps to get back in the president's good graces?
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"I wouldn't have sung the word, that's for sure," Jans told The Enquirer when asked whether he had any regrets.
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The National Enquirer dropped another Trump-related story during the 230 election season, this one involving an alleged love child.
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The National Enquirer dropped another Trump-related story during the 2016 election season, this one involving an alleged love child.
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"Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer," a documentary from Mark Landsman, presents The Enquirer as an unlikely haven of bona fide shoe-leather journalism, or at the very least a fun place to work, until — in this telling — David J. Pecker became the owner and sullied a halcyon tradition of dirt digging.
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Bob Woodward — author of "FEAR: Trump in the White House" and an associate editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971 — wrote an email of support on Friday to Post owner Jeff Bezos, following his Medium post defying the National Enquirer: Go deeper: Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer of extortion and blackmail
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"A few years ago, I would've just written a Sunday story and been done with it," the Cincinnati Enquirer reporter says.
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It's well-known that the National Enquirer has worked, in the past, to kill stories that would be embarrassing for Trump.
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Then, the campaign was accused of planting a story in the National Enquirer that claimed Ted Cruz has had extramarital affairs.
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But several newspapers with more conservative editorial boards, including the Dallas Morning News and Cincinnati Enquirer, also have recently endorsed Clinton.
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Ron Burkle, a billionaire California investor, is in talks to buy the The National Enquirer, The New York Times reported Thursday.
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According to court docs, Simmons has been ordered to cover attorney costs and any other court fees incurred by the Enquirer.
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Michael Sanchez told Vanity Fair he didn't leak explicit photos of Bezos but didn't deny other involvement with the Enquirer story.
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In a post on the website Medium shared last week, Bezos accused the National Enquirer and its owner American Media Inc.
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The staff of The Cincinnati Enquirer won the prize for local reporting for its coverage of families ravaged by heroin addiction.
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And Cruz has aggressively pushed back on a National Enquirer story alleging the Texas senator had multiple affairs with unnamed women.
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That is, unless he agrees to publicly make a statement downplaying the motivations behind National Enquirer parent company American Media Inc.
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But given how often the National Enquirer reports on high-profile infidelity, it seems unlikely such extreme tactics would be necessary.
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Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, the Enquirer ran racy stories about celebrities and politicians, often about extramarital affairs or drug use.
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The report was sourced to the National Enquirer, so the story was taken with a grassy knoll-sized grain of salt.
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De Becker found the Enquirer first contacted Sanchez about the affair, "not the other way around," according to the Daily Beast.
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"She walked in the door and he shot her," Cain told The Cincinnati Enquirer, adding he heard up to 15 shots.
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At Thursday's sentencing, Poston's father asked the judge to delay Hubers' release as long as possible, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The Amazon CEO published a personal post on Medium this evening containing leaked emails purported to be from the National Enquirer.
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Saudi Arabia rejected the suggestion it played a role in leaking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' intimate messages to the National Enquirer.
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Robreno also ruled that Cosby's civil suit against the National Enquirer for allegedly violating a confidentiality agreement can proceed as well.
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If the National Enquirer is to be believed (idk!), Jeff Bezos sent some pretty gnarly sexts to news anchor Lauren Sanchez.
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Brown was working an off-duty security detail at the supermarket at the time of the incident, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
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In a post on the website Medium posted in February, Bezos accused the National Enquirer and its owner American Media Inc.
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The Enquirer published blurred images of five women with whom it said Cruz has had affairs but did not name them.
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The fact of the matter is, it was Michael Sanchez who tipped the National Enquirer off to the affair on Sept.
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Simmons has agreed to drop his appeal against American Media -- which owns 'Enquirer' -- after a judge ruled against him last year.
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A statewide alert was issued for Kaylynn after Crawford placed an emotional phone call to police, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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He also says she sold a story to the National Enquirer about his romp with her at a sex fantasy club.
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It's only a matter of time before Alex Jones and the National Enquirer get front-row seats at the daily briefing.
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Those were undertaken through an intermediary that Harvey Weinstein also used, American Media and the parent company of the National Enquirer.
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Bezos in the Medium post accused AMI of threatening him after Pecker discovered he had initiated an investigation into the Enquirer.
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Another bombshell story, this time from the National Enquirer, purported to reveal "payoffs and threats" from "Trump's top fixer," Michael Cohen.
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Trump somehow saw fit to bring up a National Enquirer story linking Cruz's father to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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The other woman, Playboy model Karen McDougal, was paid $150,000 by the Trump-friendly publisher of The National Enquirer supermarket tabloid.
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According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, this hybrid of state officials and a commission to determine redistricting would be a national first.
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In February, Bezos accused the Enquirer and AMI of attempting to blackmail him over the messages prior to publishing the story.
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McDougal was paid $150,000 by the publisher of The National Enquirer, the supermarket tabloid newspaper, which was a supporter of Trump.
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The National Enquirer later ran a story about Scarborough buying beer at a convenience store, which Scarborough said Friday was false.
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CNN and The Daily Beast reported in February that Sanchez was the one who leaked the text messages to the Enquirer.
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Pecker and the Enquirer have also been feuding with Jeff Bezos, the chief of Amazon and the owner of the Post.
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The device was allegedly placed around the time when The National Enquirer and Radar Online ran stories claiming Simmons was transgender.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that the dining room's maître d' was preparing to save her himself, as is the usual protocol.
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The National Enquirer, the tabloid that has famously supported President Trump, is seeing a decrease in circulation, the Associated Press reports.
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I've actually come up and I've spoken — "Our friend David" is David Pecker, who chairs AMI and oversees the National Enquirer.
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David J. Pecker, the tabloid media mogul whose company owns The National Enquirer, has always showcased his ties to President Trump.
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In March 2016, for the first time in its 90 years, The Enquirer endorsed a candidate for president — Donald J. Trump.
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"I would love to legislate tobacco out of existence and make it criminal," Mr. Luken told The Cincinnati Enquirer in 1990.
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Federal prosecutors announced on Wednesday that they had reached a deal with the publisher of The National Enquirer, American Media Inc.
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Eventually, he and the Hollywood insider Lauren Sanchez, pictured with him above, began an affair that splashed over The National Enquirer.
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While the National Enquirer did not identify the five alleged mistresses, it included pixelated headshots with black bars over their eyes.
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Forensics experts are said to have begun looking at Bezos' phone after he accused the National Enquirer of blackmail last year.
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Bezos and Sanchez have publicly been a couple since January 2019 when Page Six and the National Enquirer broke the news.
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Michigan's Battle Creek Enquirer reported Thursday that Trump reimbursed the Kellogg Arena on costs of about $33,000 associated with a Dec.
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Last January, the Enquirer published intimate texts and photos that the Amazon CEO sent to Lauren Sanchez, a former TV anchor.
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The Enquirer published a story in early 2019 quoting a text between Bezos and his girlfriend that included a flirtatious message.
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The affair: National Enquirer exposes Bezos&apos affair with Sanchez, and publishes texts it says were from Sanchez&aposs estranged brother.
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CNN Business has previously reported that Michael Sanchez provided the National Enquirer with information about his sister's extramarital affair with Bezos.
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"The New York intelligentsia suddenly had to see it, even though they didn't understand it," Mr. Steiner told The Cincinnati Enquirer.
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American Media became notorious for its ownership of National Enquirer, which is sold in 2019 following a series of major scandals.
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Jeff Bezos accused his girlfriend's brother of "extortion" in an escalating legal battle over nude photos leaked to the National Enquirer.
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Following the publication of that story, Bezos wrote a Medium post accusing The National Enquirer&aposs parent company, American Media Inc.
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De Becker believes that Michael Sanchez shared the texts and photographs sent from Bezos and Lauren Sanchez with the National Enquirer.
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Former employees of the National Enquirer, Us Weekly and other gossip publications have accused the company's top editor of sexual misconduct.
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But Mr. Bezos wouldn't play ball: Instead, he wrote a blog post explaining what The Enquirer is said to have demanded.
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Later, he said Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen had actually discussed buying the rights to Ms. McDougal's story from the Enquirer.
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In a recent issue of the Enquirer, the tabloid alleges that Cruz's Cuban-born father, Rafael Cruz, knew Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Mr. Nettles said that Mr. Bezos must have viewed the actions by The Enquirer and its parent company as a threat.
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In an article for The Daily Beast website, De Becker said the parent company of the National Enquirer, American Media Inc.
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But the Enquirer, which is owned by a friend of Trump's named David Pecker, never published anything — effectively burying the story.
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Because of these connections, some are speculating that the Enquirer may have pursued the Bezos story to curry favor with Trump.
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"It is used in this plot both literally in the sense that I'm following a trail of clues from the National Enquirer working to smear victims of Harvey Weinstein and bury stories for him, all the way up to the top, if you will, to the collaboration between President Trump and the National Enquirer," he said.
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"Seven days of heroin: this is what an epidemic looks like" —Cincinnati Enquirer and Media Network of Central Ohio staff This multimedia project from the Cincinnati Enquirer — which involved more than 60 reporters and photographers — told the incredibly human, incredibly devastating story of what a normal week in the heroin and opioid epidemic looks like in one city.
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Cohen directly paid off Daniels — and was later reimbursed by Trump — while the Trump-friendly publisher of The National Enquirer paid McDougal.
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But the Enquirer likely wasn't looking for leverage over Trump, and apparently made at least one of these deals with his knowledge.
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In one surreal moment, a supporter of Donald Trump's campaign confronted me on CNN with a National Enquirer story about sexual affairs.
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Cruz may not have directly responded to Trump or the Enquirer back in spring, a move that the Donald somehow finds suspicious.
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Saturday and discovered her husband with an erect penis standing over the child in their living room, the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports.
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"I don't want you to come to me in three months and go, "Oh my God, the National Enquirer has this thing.
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One of the biggest lingering questions from the affair is how the National Enquirer ended up with Bezos' private texts and photos.
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Pecker offered to use the National Enquirer to silence women who claim to have had sexual relationships with Trump, according to WSJ.
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" The National Enquirer: "…no one can tell me why they are contractually obligated to display fake news immediately adjacent to the cashier.
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The family friend with whom Saipov stayed in Ohio, Dilnoza Abdusamatova, told The Cincinnati Enquirer Saipov was "really calm" and worked hard.
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The hog's home is believed to be Eason Woods, a former pottery production site turned "wild preserve," according to the Ledger-Enquirer.
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Herjavec claims Vasinova took a picture of him "in this vulnerable position" without his knowledge, which was published in the National Enquirer.
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This is not to hang the threat that Trump might win on the editorial boards of the Republic, Enquirer, and Morning News.
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AMI, the parent company of the National Enquirer, agreed to pay McDougal $150,000 for her story about a 2006 affair with Trump.
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After she sued the tabloid in March, seeking to invalidate the contract, the Enquirer agreed to allow her to tell her story.
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Michaels was taken by medical helicopter to Miami Valley Hospital and is listed in critical but stable condition, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
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"I just knew I couldn't give him a life," Smith, now known as Lori Gray, told the Cincinnati Enquirer 203 years later.
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It was his first appearance since hinting to a reporter from the Cincinnati Enquirer that he was tipping his pitches to hitters.
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Simmons sued the National Enquirer for defamation after it published a story saying he was in the middle of a sex change.
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In 2006, the National Enquirer featured the photo showing Houston's bathroom filled with drug-covered spoons and drug paraphernalia on its cover.
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Abigail's mother, Vicki Kopf, told reporters on Thursday that the teenager managed to walk Wednesday evening with some help, the Enquirer reports.
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But Time and the other magazines would survive, as the Enquirer does, as vehicles for Pecker's cultivation of his friend, the President.
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David Pecker, the chief executive of the company that publishes the National Enquirer, was also granted immunity, according to reports on Thursday.
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David Pecker, the chief executive of the company that publishes the National Enquirer, was also granted immunity, according to reports on Thursday.
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In August 2016, McDougal signed an agreement with AMI, which owns The National Enquirer, Us Weekly, Men's Journal and several other publications.
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They said the publication didn't pursue standard Enquirer reporting practices, such as exhaustive stake-outs or tabloid tactics designed to prove paternity.
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The lead investigator hired by Bezos made multiple public comments alleging the exposés in the National Enquirer might have been politically motivated.
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Cruz's first interview since Trump's Twitter rampage against her and since the National Enquirer report of her husband's alleged affairs. http://cnn.
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New York (CNN Business)The National Enquirer was one of Donald Trump's biggest boosters, both before and after he was elected president.
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Last Thursday, in a long post on the website Medium, Jeff Bezos accused the National Enquirer of extorting him with compromising photos.
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He has been published by the New York Times, HuffPost, History News Network, Buffalo News, Cincinnati Enquirer and many other news outlets.
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McDougal alleges that Trump friend and owner of the National Enquirer, David Pecker, paid her $150,000 for exclusive ownership of her story.
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After she sued the tabloid seeking to invalidate the contract in March, the Enquirer agreed to allow her to tell her story.
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It's like the National Enquirer and it's pile-ons without fact and it's attacks and it's smears and it's this and that.
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The National Enquirer, an ally to President Trump, went after Michael Cohen, the president's personal attorney, on the cover of the magazine.
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Sometimes they're amorous, like those allegedly exchanged between Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez and then obtained by the National Enquirer as blackmail.
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While denying involvement in the Enquirer story, the businessman in his statement Friday suggested the tabloid's reporting has sometimes been on target.
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"Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough said President Trump was making "yet another lie" on Friday with comments about the National Enquirer.
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President Trump and his old friend David J. Pecker, whose company owns The National Enquirer, have long had a mutually beneficial relationship.
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"She was determined to keep her secret," Warren County Assistant Prosecutor Steve Knippen said during opening statements, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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"Up until now, it's probably the best defensive team that's probably played at Cincinnati, ever," Coach Mick Cronin told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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He theorized that The Enquirer had obtained the images via a Beverly Hills socialite who had gotten them directly from his sister.
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The new reports raise questions about whether the private messages obtained by the National Enquirer were given to them by the Saudis.
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Scroll down for a timeline on the Bezos hack, the Enquirer&aposs alleged blackmail, and their relationship to the Saudi Crown Prince.
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Bezos&apos team began investigating his phone in January 2019 after The National Enquirer published a story about him having an affair.
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For instance, The Wall Street Journal reported last March that Sanchez's brother sent incriminating pictures from her phone to the National Enquirer.
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The mystery of who provided the National Enquirer with information about the romance between Bezos and Lauren Sanchez has sparked much intrigue.
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The National Enquirer published images last month alleging that Rafael Cruz passed out leaflets with Oswald in 1963 months before Kennedy's assassination.
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Mr. Sanchez in his lawsuit acknowledged engaging with The Enquirer, but said he did so to protect his sister and Mr. Bezos.
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The decisions came after Dylan Howard, the former editor of The National Enquirer who features prominently in the book, threatened legal action.
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Michael then reportedly sold those photos to the National Enquirer, which then published a story about Lauren and Bezos' affair last January.
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What followed was a tumultuous few months for Bezos, who began conducting an investigation into who leaked his messages to the Enquirer.
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According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, more than 100 potential conditions were submitted to the medical board last year for medical marijuana approval.
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David Pecker, the CEO of National Enquirer publisher American Media, Inc, indicated he was interested in purchasing Time weekly titles last summer.
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Nine months after the message was reportedly sent, the National Enquirer published private communications indicating Bezos had engaged in an extramarital affair.
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Mr. Bezos has been pushing a theory of Saudi involvement with the threats from The Enquirer, without providing proof, since early 2019.
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Bezos&apos own team began investigating his phone in January 2019 after The National Enquirer published a story exposing his extramarital affair.
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Vance is also investigating a $150,000 hush-money payment to Playboy model Karen McDougal, which former National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc.
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If the Enquirer story blows—and if it's any kind of sophisticated leak, more evidence will come—some evangelicals will stay home.
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The National Enquirer tried to "strong-arm an American citizen whom [Saudi] leadership wanted harmed, compromised, and silenced," according to de Becker.
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Enter the National Enquirer, which ran a cover story alleging that Cruz has engaged in extramarital affairs with a series of women.
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In attacking the founder and chief executive of Amazon, President Trump praised The National Enquirer for publishing an article in its Jan.
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Why is Pecker "apoplectic" about Bezos' investigation into who leaked the story to the Enquirer and whether the leak was politically motivated?
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Soon, the Enquirer published what it said were texts between the two, including the "alive girl" message, which quickly became a meme.
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She was paid $153,000 in August 2016 by AMI, the parent company of The National Enquirer, for the rights to her story.
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At that presser, Cruz also noted Trump's relationship with Enquirer CEO David Pecker as evidence that the Donald was behind the story.
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Trump is also a noted ally of National Enquirer chief executive David Pecker, as Adam K. Raymond writes at New York Magazine.
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She also said two female Fox executives tried to discredit her allegations by feeding a story about her to the National Enquirer.
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But the Enquirer also stepped in a few months later, as the primary contest between Trump and Ted Cruz got increasingly nasty.
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"Children were nothing more than a meal ticket for her," Chief Assistant Calhoun County Prosecutor Daniel Buscher said in court, the Enquirer reports.
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Despite their strained relationship, it was Prince who entered Tyka into a rehab program in the early 2000s, she told The National Enquirer.
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David Pecker, chairman and chief executive of National Enquirer publisher American Media (left) and Michael Cohen (right), former personal attorney for President Trump.
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" Accusing Trump of planting a National Enquirer report that he had multiple affairs: "The story, on its face, quoted one person: Roger Stone.
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Enquirer parent company AMI has said it is investigating Bezos' allegations, but it seems unlikely the tabloid will face any significant blowback internally.
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The announcement came as the National Enquirer said it plans to publish salacious details of his alleged involvement with a former TV anchor.
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Around 2018, Farrow reports, Enquirer editor Dylan Howard began pursuing a story on allegations of infidelity by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.
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"I need to get everything out of the safe," Enquirer editor-in-chief Dylan Howard told a staffer in November 2016, Farrow writes.
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Eason Woods caretakers Kevin Harris and Tony Brown have been taking care of the hog since it was piglet, The Ledger-Enquirer reported.
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I not once -- not once -- through the days that National Enquirer piece was out, tweeted that out, mentioned it, commented on it, OK?
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It is unclear if Thole was disciplined for the incident, but she later apologized to Nathan in the classroom, according to the Enquirer.
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Why it matters: Gavin De Becker's Daily Beast opinion piece comes after the National Enquirer reported Bezos had an affair with Lauren Sanchez.
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The National Enquirer ran a cover story last year claiming that Hillary Clinton was "facing jail" over her alleged involvement in Foster's death.
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After all, during the 2016 presidential campaign the Enquirer endorsed Mr Pecker's old friend, the first time it had ever backed a candidate.
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"The object of the National Enquirer was to do everything they could to humiliate this person," added attorney Neville Johnson, also representing Simmons.
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There's one basket of lies, and these are stories you see in the National Enquirer about how she has six months to live.
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Washington (CNN)The Cincinnati Enquirer, one of Ohio's largest newspapers, is backing Hillary Clinton after supporting Republican presidential candidates for nearly a century.
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The DOJ found the company was not a foreign agent, per a letter that doesn't name AMI or the National Enquirer by name.
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National Enquirer dustup and the acting attorney general of the United States testifying before Congress, there's been a lot of back and forth.
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What it doesn't have yet is any hard evidence, like the John Edwards love child shot, though the Enquirer is following the money.
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But as Michael Sanchez himself has said, the Enquirer had seen text exchanges between Bezos and his sister even before they contacted him.
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Did President Trump hand catch to Michael Cohen to pay off the publishers of the National Enquirer in order to help his campaign?
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In addition to the "below the belt selfie — otherwise colloquially known as a 'd*ck pick'" — The Enquirer obtained a further nine images.
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Shaw told Ledger-Enquirer she called her husband and said "I'm saving this dog – he's bleeding and broken and I'm not leaving him."
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She said the publisher hid her story to protect Trump, who has been known to have a longstanding relationship with The National Enquirer.
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In August 2014, Walsh became full-time and later was hired as a special education teacher at Sycamore High, according to the Enquirer.
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The tragedy is the worst mass shooting for total number of victims so far this year, the Enquirer reported citing data from Gunviolencearchive.com.
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" Cosby also claims Constand gave an interview to the National Enquirer that published in January 2016, another alleged violation of the settlement. "Mr.
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The following day Trump tweeted again about the MSNBC morning show, calling the program "FAKE NEWS" and bringing up a National Enquirer article.
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De Becker said his investigation quickly identified Michael Sanchez, the estranged brother of Lauren Sanchez, as a paid source of the National Enquirer.
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Along with cooperation from Cohen, investigators are being helped by Trump-friend National Enquirer publisher David Pecker and the tabloid's parent company, AMI.
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The Enquirer was one of the very few newspapers to endorse Trump in the last election, and even let him pen his columns.
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Ray Tensing, 27, is pursuing a grievance that asks for reinstatement with University of Cincinnati police and back pay, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
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According to the Battle Creek Enquirer, Abigail Kopf took several steps on Wednesday inside the hospital where she has been since the Feb.
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In short order, the Centers for Disease Control closed the Enquirer building, and most of the employees never set foot inside it again.
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The Enquirer cost a dollar and forty-nine cents when Pecker bought it; the current price is four dollars and ninety-nine cents.
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A.M.I. claims that a hundred million people see the Enquirer in more than two hundred thousand checkout lines around the country every week.
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In earlier times, Trump cultivated, among others, the proprietors and editors of the New York tabloids, Fox News, TMZ, and the National Enquirer .
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On July 9, 1953, Ruthie was once again proclaimed innocent, bursting into tears when the announcement was made, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The Enquirer link is also vital to ongoing investigations into the role Michael Cohen, the president's former attorney, played in covering up stories.
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The National Enquirer has gathered damaging information on Trump and he has reason to be grateful that they are keeping it under wraps.
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Cohen mediated talks between the Enquirer and Manigault-Newman in 2011 after she threatened to sue regarding its coverage of her brother's murder.
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Tensions seemed to erupt Friday when Cruz blamed Trump and his "henchmen" for a National Enquirer story that alleges he's had extramarital affairs.
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There were allegations -- leveled by MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski -- that the Enquirer was used as a weapon against Trump critics.
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This timeline would seem to challenge the theory that the Enquirer is out to get Bezos because Bezos is on Trump's enemies list.
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"He had a plan to shoot up the high school," Laura Wakeley, who attended Bellbrook High School with Betts, told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Instead of covers that celebrated Trump and attacked his enemies, the Enquirer has been sticking with tried-and-true stories about celebrity scandals.
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In June, the Wall Street Journal reported that the prosecutors had subpoenaed records from the National Enquirer as part of the Cohen probe.
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So, too, is the fact that during the election, the National Enquirer would send early copies of stories about Trump's opponents to Cohen.
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A Washington Post story later reported that Bezos purposely announced his divorce on Twitter as a way to preempt the National Enquirer report.
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Federal safety regulators had received a warning about the possible safety defect in the minivan model weeks before Kyle died, the Enquirer reported.
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He was referring to David J. Pecker, the owner of The National Enquirer, which published the allegations of sexual affairs against Mr. Cruz.
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"The National Enquirer has exclusively learned that Lori Ann Fiorina, who died in October 2009, was in fact Carly's stepdaughter," the tabloid reported.
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But these reviews are based on case-control studies — which are like the National Enquirer of the science world: cheap and often misleading.
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Bezos, for instance, is gradually coming to terms with the newfound scrutiny of his life — as the National Enquirer scandal makes abundantly clear.
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Ms. McDougal sold her story to the company that owns The National Enquirer, but it was not printed, The Journal reported in 2016.
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The lawsuit accuses Bezos of spreading false rumors to journalists that Michael Sanchez had leaked nude photographs of Bezos to the National Enquirer.
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In the real world, The National Enquirer, a weekly, sells nearly three times as many copies as The Atlantic, a monthly, every year.
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In January 2019 Jeff and McKenzie Bezos announced they were divorcing, and the National Enquirer ran an exposé on Bezos' relationship with Sanchez.
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Después llegaron las revelaciones de The Enquirer sobre su aventura hace un año, respaldadas por la publicación de fotografías y mensajes de texto.
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Mr. de Becker did not detail specific evidence they uncovered, nor did he detail whether the leaked information was published by The Enquirer.
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McDougal sold her account of the alleged liaison with the future president to The National Enquirer for $150,000 before the November 2016 election.
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The spectacle might seem too outlandish even for the pages of a supermarket tabloid were The National Enquirer not the magazine in question.
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Saudi Arabia and AMI have both previously denied that Saudi officials were involved in The Enquirer&aposs publication of the story on Bezos.
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Federal prosecutors are once again examining the conduct of American Media, or AMI for short, which owns the National Enquirer and other magazines.
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De Becker believes that the texts and photographs sent from Bezos and Lauren Sanchez were shared with the National Enquirer by Michael Sanchez.
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"I wouldn't have sung the word, that's for sure," Jans told The Enquirer when asked whether he had any regrets following his departure.
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The New York Times reported that federal prosecutors were investigating Mr. Bezos' claim that The National Enquirer sought to extort or blackmail him.
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After The Enquirer published the piece, Mr. Bezos began his own investigation into how the paper obtained his private messages and its motives.
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" According to documents reviewed by the Daily Beast, Sanchez believed the Enquirer went after the Bezos story with "President Trump's knowledge and appreciation.
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In 2016, he was written up for using a homophobic slur when describing an alleged domestic violence victim, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Mike DeWine to consider commuting Hunter's sentence, but Hunter herself must apply for the commutation, a spokesman for the governor's office told the Enquirer.
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Leonard Manley, Dana Rhoden's father, rejected the suggestion that his daughter was involved with drugs in an interview he gave to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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"I thought I had an unknown number but dude I've gotten about 100 calls about you," Newton told him according to The Ledger-Enquirer.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The owner of U.S. tabloid newspaper the National Enquirer pushed back on Friday against accusations of "extortion and blackmail" from Amazon.
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This week's best podcasts also feature a true crime investigation from the Cincinnati Enquirer and discussions of whether Internet should be a public utility.
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The Falcons signed him in May as a free agent but he was cut from the team in September, according to the Ledger-Enquirer.
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On Wednesday the New York Post's Page Six and National Enquirer reported that Bezos had been seeing another person, former TV anchor Lauren Sanchez.
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The Enquirer said it would publish a lengthy story about Bezos' relationship with Sanchez on Thursday, complete with salacious images detailing their time together.
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In the early stages of their relationship, the National Enquirer revealed it had seen private texts and photos the couple had sent each other.
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Cruz has vehemently denied the accusations in the National Enquirer, which did not name any women but did include five pixelated photographs of women.
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Dominic Thiem The No. 4 tennis player from Austria withdrew from the Western & Southern Open last week due to fatigue, according to The Enquirer.
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The AP claims to have seen the confidential contract and, along with the New Yorker, has interviewed current and former AMI and Enquirer employees.
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The Enquirer has naturally protected its sources, and Bezos' investigation hasn't turned up any firm evidence, aside from casting doubt on conventional hacking claims.
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Bezos is going through a divorce, and recently the National Enquirer published some intimate texts that he sent to his new girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez.
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"They are trying to drag my daughter through the mud and I don't appreciate that,' " Dana Rhoden's father, Leonard Manley, told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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But today, as one Twitter user pointed out, tabloids such as The Mirror, The National Enquirer, and more have really taken it too far.
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This is nothing but a cheap, National Enquirer-esque tale spun by a delusional person whose hunger for fame is both tawdry and transparent.
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The Arizona Republic, The Cincinnati Enquirer and Dallas Morning News notably backed Clinton, while the New Hampshire Union Leader endorsed Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson.
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The company, which owns the National Enquirer, among other media businesses, was accused of blackmail in an explosive essay that Bezos published on Thursday.
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The Ohio Parole Board held a hearing on David Allen Chapin's case last month, which was closed to the public, reports the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The Enquirer said some customers hid inside a bathroom at the bank, and one gunshot victim was found inside a nearby ice cream shop.
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McDougal ultimately sold her story to American Media, the publisher of the National Enquirer, for $150,000 and the promise of a recurring fitness column.
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The Enquirer/AMI obtained the photos while trying to blow an affair between Bezos and news anchor and media personality Lauren Sanchez wide open.
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"The ideal [outcome of the lawsuit] is many millions of dollars, including punitive damages, and a massive apology and retraction by the National Enquirer."
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Welsh said his client has an IQ in the mid-60s and "has the mental capacity of a child," according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The Enquirer reported the shipment indeed included everything: The kitchen sink, doors, drywall, shingles, windows, floors, furnace, hundreds of pounds of nails and paint.
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Separately, American Media Inc, publisher of National Enquirer tabloid, strikes a deal to avoid charges over its role in one of the hush payments.
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However, he did tweet a banal, "Talk is talk" earlier in the week after Jones called him "just a guy" to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Also on Wednesday, it was reported that one of Trump's most powerful allies, David Pecker, chairman of The National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc.
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The story never came out through the Enquirer though—it was "caught" and effectively "killed" (well, at least until McDougal told her story anyway).
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Who knows what the world reaction would've been to the alleged photographs from the Enquirer, especially given that the salacious texts had already leaked.
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A negotiation ensued, whereby Woods would pose for the magazine's cover in return for a cancelled story in the Enquirer about the diner tryst.
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However, Sajudin's account was not published by American Media, the owner of both Radar and the Enquirer, until Wednesday, long after Trump became president.
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The Bezos divorce was first reported by the National Enquirer, which says it conducted a four-month investigation into Jeff's relationship with another woman.
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"They have begun to believe, the Bezos camp, that this publication by the National Enquirer might have been politically motivated," Roig-Franzia said Thursday.
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Mendez has lived with the boy's mother, Sandra Mendoza, since 2014, and, according to the Enquirer, is the only father figure Ricky has known.
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Meanwhile, nearby Miami Valley Hospital told the Cincinnati Enquirer that it's received 16 patients from the shooting, one of whom is in critical condition.
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The Enquirer reported that White House officials met with Renacci on Wednesday and see him as an ally given his support for Trump's agenda.
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New York (CNN Business)Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that they have struck a non-prosecution agreement with National Enquirer parent company American Media Inc.
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Trump has had a longstanding relationship with the Enquirer and with Pecker, with the tabloid purchasing damaging gossip about Trump but making it public.
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The Enquirer is famously reactive to circulation trends, with editors who pay very close attention to which cover subjects sell more copies than others.
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In the Cincinnati area alone, there were more than 78 overdoses reported between Tuesday and Wednesday, according to a report from The Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) is scheduled to deliver a speech Thursday at a prominent conservative economic think tank, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Trump was referencing a National Enquirer report claiming that Cruz's father Rafael and Oswald had been photographed together before the fatal shooting in 28503.
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The last time the Cincinnati Enquirer endorsed a Democrat for president, the paper picked Woodrow Wilson as its choice in the 1916 presidential election.
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She later publicly alleged that The Enquirer had tricked her into accepting the deal and had threatened to ruin her if she broke it.
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On the other hand, AMI and the National Enquirer are surely old hands at this type of thing considering the nature of their business.
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On Sunday night he lobbed a middle school insult at WaPo owner Jeff Bezos and praised the Enquirer without citing the tabloid by name.
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" McDougal told The New Yorker last month that a purported effort to cover up the story by the National Enquirer took her "rights away.
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Jerry Springer's close friend Jene Galvin said the talk show host is considering mounting a run for Ohio governor, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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During the campaign, The Enquirer also published scathing articles about Mr. Trump's rivals, as well as perceived antagonists like the television host Megyn Kelly.
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It makes you wonder if the inquiring mind of Mr. Mueller would like to know more about The Enquirer than he has let on.
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" The Enquirer also reported — make that "reported" — that she had suffered "three strokes," had "liver damage from booze," and was prone to "violent rages.
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The next day, The Enquirer published an exposé revealing that Mr. Bezos was romantically involved with Lauren Sanchez, a former Los Angeles TV anchor.
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Mr. Bezos' consultant did not provide direct evidence of the accusation, nor did he say whether the Saudis had provided information to The Enquirer.
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Ms. McDougal alleges that she had an affair with Mr. Trump and that The National Enquirer bought the rights to her story for $150,000.
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The story about Mr. Trump, The Enquirer and alleged hush payments to paramours was essentially a campaign finance story wrapped around a stripper's pole.
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Jeff Bezos' girlfriend's brother is suing the Amazon CEO for defamation, claiming he was falsely accused of providing incriminating photos to the National Enquirer.
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The Journal reported last year citing people familiar with the matter that Michael Sanchez had sold the text messages to the Enquirer for $85033,000.
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In a February 2019 blog post, Bezos hinted that he suspected Saudi involvement in the Enquirer&aposs sourcing, and accused the tabloid of blackmail.
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Additionally, in early 2019, the National Enquirer reported that Bezos was having an affair with Lauren Sanchez and published photos of the two together.
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The company was reportedly hired by Jeff Bezos after his intimate photos and messages found their way into the US tabloid The National Enquirer.
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Hizo una publicación en Medium, una plataforma de contneido digital, acusando a la empresa matriz de The Enquirer, American Media, de chantaje y extorsión.
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The FTI Consulting report that was made public this week did not offer evidence of a link between the hacking and the Enquirer story.
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Pecker and Trump are longtime friends and during the 2016 election the Enquirer often targeted Trump's political opponents, while providing him with glowing coverage.
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The drama with the most enduring impact began when his son Tucker sold recordings to the National Enquirer of Dog using a racist slur.
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The National Enquirer revealed Bezos' relationship with Lauren Sanchez last month, just hours after Bezos and his wife MacKenzie said they were getting divorced.
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Amazon founder/world's richest person Jeff Bezos claimed in a blog post that AMI, the publisher of the National Enquirer, tried to blackmail him.
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Bezos wrote that "numerous people" have contacted his investigative team about "similar experiences" with the National Enquirer and its parent company, American Media Inc.
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The National Enquirer tried to "strong-arm an American citizen whom[Saudi Arabia's] country's leadership wanted harmed, compromised, and silenced," according to de Becker.
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After the Enquirer published a bombshell story about Bezos' love life in January, the tech billionaire alleged that the tabloid tried to extort him.
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Sure, The Enquirer turned itself into an effective cheering squad and opposition research shop for Mr. Trump before, during and after the presidential campaign.
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A future issue of The Enquirer would make him very unhappy, with the selfies and more of the steamy texts it had apparently obtained.
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Last month, The National Enquirer broke the story about Mr. Bezos' affair and quoted awkward and somewhat sweet sexts he had sent his girlfriend.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer, which by its own admission has backed Republican candidates for president "for almost a century," is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.
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McDougal allegedly had a roughly year-long affair with Trump and sold her story to the National Enquirer for $150,000 during the presidential campaign.
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He only used to come home and rest and leave and go back to work,'' Dilnoza Abdusamatova, a family friend, told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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A bit later, the National Enquirer published private text messages it claims Bezos sent to Lauren Sanchez, whom he's reportedly been in a relationship with.
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That's the exact situation we now know occurred during the 20033 election between President Donald Trump and the publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid magazine.
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Cruz was forced to deny a report in this week's National Enquirer, which alleges that Cruz has cheated on his wife with five different women.
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In it, he denies Bezos' longtime security chief Gavin de Becker's claim that Michael leaked Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's text messages to the National Enquirer.
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In Jinan, despite all those efficiency gains, the survey found that "enquirer satisfaction" was only 1.3% higher after the hotline was established than before it.
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In a report from The National Enquirer published Wednesday, a close friend of Haim's, Dominick Brascia, accused Sheen of allegedly sexually assaulting the teenage Haim.
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The Post reported that fund manager Anthony Melchiorre pressured AMI to sell amid its financial struggles and his disapproval of the allegations against the Enquirer.
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In 2010, Larry filed for divorce after the National Enquirer reported that Shawn had an affair with one of their sons' baseball coaches, Hector Penate.
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In 2010, Larry filed for divorce after the National Enquirer reported that Shawn had an affair with one of their sons' baseball coaches, Hector Penate.
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Subsequent to the National Enquirer story, the Trump campaign's social media director retweeted a 30-second video that suggested a relationship between Carpenter and Cruz.
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Cruz also argued that the Trump campaign was behind a salacious report published in the National Enquirer that alleged the senator had multiple extramarital affairs.
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By November, though, before his TV interview, Mr. Sheen's ex-fiancée and The National Enquirer each seemed on the verge of making his condition public.
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But they say she only did so after the baby was stillborn and she didn't know what to do with the remains, the Enquirer reports.
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Dan talks with Peter Stris, the former attorney for Karen McDougal, about what we learned this week about President Trump, payoffs and the National Enquirer.
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He made his comments after the National Enquirer claimed Rafael Cruz had been handing out pro-Fidel Castro pamphlets with Oswald months before the assassination.
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Cohen also arranged for the publisher of the supermarket tabloid The National Enquirer to pay McDougal $150,000 in the months leading up to the election.
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IN THIS week's episode of "Money talks", we look at the scandal surrounding the world's richest man, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, and the National Enquirer.
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On February 7th Mr Bezos turned to another online platform, Medium, to allege that the publisher of the Enquirer, American Media LLC, was blackmailing him.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer reports Huber will be eligible to see a parole board in 14 years because she has already been incarcerated for six years.
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When Jeff Bezos went public with his accusations of blackmail against the National Enquirer on Thursday, he was hailed by many online for his courage.
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I don't know exactly when AMI and the National Enquirer came into the picture, but once that was announced obviously we were all super bummed.
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All this and more, below:Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Using Unpublished Nude Photos as BlackmailThe saga of Jeff Bezos's very public divorce slouches onward.
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Last week, Sonnenfeld told CNBC the Enquirer saga is a "warning volley over the bow" to Amazon board to make a succession plan for Bezos.
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Bezos says he also hired a private investigator to find out how the Enquirer obtained his text messages to Sanchez ... which it published last month.
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After months of speculation about Simmons' health in 2017, he filed a lawsuit that May against the National Enquirer and their publisher, American Media, Inc.
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Last month, following the announcement that Bezos was getting a divorce, the Enquirer published some sexts exchanged between Bezos and his alleged mistress Lauren Sanchez.
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As the New Yorker reports, the Enquirer serves another function for Trump: It buys up stories that are unfavorable to the president and squashes them.
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Kimora Lee Simmons and Tichina Arnold attended the public funeral at Cascade Hills Church, as did Usher and Lil' Kim, the Columbus Ledger–Enquirer reported.
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Last year, the actress Salma Hayek alleged that Trump planted hostile stories against her in the Enquirer when she turned him down for a date.
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Duhaney agreed with Isaac's assessment, according to an email obtained by the Enquirer, who notified other officials that Barnette would be placed on desk duty.
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On March 20, former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal launched a lawsuit against American Media (AMI), the publishing giant and owner of the National Enquirer tabloid.
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After Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos released their statement, The New York Post and The National Enquirer reported that Jeff Bezos had begun seeing another woman.
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"We don't know the why, we don't know the whats," Bellbrook Police Chief Doug Doherty told the Cincinnati Enquirer as FBI agents searched Betts' home.
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The Suffolk University/Cincinnati Enquirer poll interviewed 500 likely Ohio voters from June 6-11 and has a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.
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Allegations emerged that the National Enquirer, who broke the story, engaged in "extortion and blackmail" by threatening to release Bezos' intimate personal texts and photos.
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The dance party will take place outside Pence's hotel, where he is scheduled to speak about the Republican tax law, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Speaking a day after Trump's Twitter blast against the "Morning Joe" co-hosts, they said the threat involved a damaging story in the National Enquirer.
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According to the Enquirer, 6900,2628 provisional ballots and 28503,22019 absentee ballots still have yet to be counted, which will reportedly be counted by Aug. 24.
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It's called National Enquirer Investigates, and it's going to try to follow in the footsteps of recent successful true-crime series like The People v.
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The Hollywood Reporter writes that the docuseries, a sort of spin-off from tabloid magazine the National Enquirer, will explore famous murders, deaths, and controversies.
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" The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that Livingston was "cautioned by the referee for using "Maud" tactics, and lost through using the strangle hold after being warned.
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" Trump on Twitter said Scarborough had, in fact, called him and asked for him to kill a National Enquirer story but that he "said no!
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Ms. McDougal sold her story for $150,000 to The National Enquirer, which was supportive of Mr. Trump, during the final months of the presidential campaign.
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It didn't take long before that infamous photo of Rice sitting on Hart's lap near the Monkey Business yacht was splashed across the National Enquirer.
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The relationship benefited Mr. Trump throughout the campaign as The Enquirer lionized him and hammered rivals like Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and, finally, Hillary Clinton.
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In July, David J. Pecker, the chairman of the company that owns The National Enquirer, visited his old friend President Trump at the White House.
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Separately, prosecutors announced that they secured the cooperation of the company that owns the National Enquirer, which apparently helped pay hush money on Trump's behalf.
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The Enquirer has maintained that its source of the messages was Michael Sanchez, but Bezos hired a private investigator, Gavin de Becker, to dig deeper.
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The lawsuit claims Bezos falsely told journalists Sanchez was the one who provided Bezos' and Lauren Sanchez's nude photos to the National Enquirer in 2018.
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McDougal: Leading up to Election Day in 2016, sold her story for $150,000 to the parent company of the National Enquirer, which promptly killed it.
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Bezos made headlines a year ago when he refused to pay alleged blackmail to the National Enquirer over some dick pics the tabloid had acquired.
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Oh, by the way, there is a guy named "Pecker" (publisher of the National Enquirer) and a guy named "Harder" (one of Trump's attorneys) involved.
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The brother: The Wall Street Journal reports that Sanchez&aposs brother was the source of the Bezos texts and was paid $200,000 by the Enquirer.
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Bezos&apos team began investigating suspicious activity on his phone in January 2019 after The National Enquirer published a story about him having an affair.
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"The report offers one explanation of how The National Enquirer, a tabloid, obtained and published text messages Bezos had sent to his mistress," CNBC reported.
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The report offers one explanation of how the National Enquirer, a tabloid, obtained and published text messages Bezos had sent to his mistress, Lauren Sanchez.
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The Enquirer also engaged in a tactic called "catch and kill," paying for the rights to embarrassing stories about Trump, and then never publishing them.
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That part of the investigation, he said, focused on who leaked the text messages between Bezos and Lauren Sanchez to the National Enquirer and why.
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Other documents seized included information about the role of The National Enquirer in silencing one of the women, people briefed on the investigation have said.
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And former Playboy model Karen McDougal who also alleges an affair with Trump, is suing the company that owns the National Enquirer, American Media Inc.
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Bezos also alleged that the National Enquirer engaged in "extortion and blackmail" by threatening to release nude selfies Bezos had taken and sent to Sanchez.
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In February, Bezos published an explosive blog post where he accused National Enquirer publisher AMI and its CEO, David Pecker, of attempting to blackmail him.
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The Enquirer has maintained that its source of the messages was Michael Sanchez, but Bezos hired a private investigator, Gavin de Becker, to dig deeper.
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An anti-abortion lobbyist worked closely with Becker to write the bill, the Enquirer reports, which has been criticized for its lack of medical basis.
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Karen McDougal said she was paid $85033,000 by the National Enquirer for her story of the alleged 10-month relationship, but it was never published.
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McDougal, a former Playboy model who also says she had an affair with Trump, was paid $150,000 by National Enquirer parent company American Media Inc.
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He is not transitioning and becoming a "softly spoken woman named Fiona," as the National Enquirer claimed last summer and Mr. Simmons rebutted on Facebook.
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Chairman David Pecker is a longtime friend of Trump's, and the Enquirer was one of Trump's most reliable and enthusiastic media boosters during the campaign.
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The story followed after a slew of salacious Enquirer reports about Cruz, including March's viral story about Cruz's alleged five mistresses (Cruz denied the accusations).
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