Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez: The background of their legal dispute

Jeff Bezos and his newly trusted partner Lauren Sánchez request Bezos Around 190,000 dollars of attorney fees (163,000 euros) from their brother, Michael Sánchez. The demand is a new highlight in the legal dispute of the parties, which has been going on for years. But why do the billions of billions in Bezos are even bogging with Michael Sánchez?

Zoff started in early 2019. Shortly before, the divorce of Jeff Bezos and his first wife Mackenzie had become final, and rumors about his relationship with moderator Lauren Sánchez hardened. “Page Six” reported, Bezos and Sánchez – who was still married at the time, but was already separated – were a couple. The rumors triggered a wave of reports, driven to the top of “The National Enquirer”. The boulevard leaf published private SMS messages between Bezos and Sánchez. In February of the same year, Jeff Bezos himself revealed in an online article that the sheet wanted to blackmail him. The “National Enquirer” apparently had explicit nude photos. Bezos turned the spit at the time and put the newspaper together with the underlying media company American Media, Inc. (AMI). He published an email in which an employee of the newspaper describes which photos of the editors are available-including a “Dick Pic” of Bezos and Superate Sales.

“Well, that aroused my attention. But not in the way you had hoped for. Any personal embarrassment that Ami could prepare takes a back seat, because this is about a much more important matter. If I cannot withstand my position of blackmail, how many people can do it?” Earled Bezos in his article. So that the “enquirer” does not publish the photos, Bezos should deny that he found out that Ami was politically influenced by Donald Trump.

But how does it come now Lauren Sánchez ‘brother Michael into play? As it turned out, Sanchez provided the leaf with the spicy details about Bezos’ relationship with the TV presenter. Michael Sánchez even admitted that in an interview with “Fox News”, but said that he did not give the photos to the sheet. In fact, he only had good intentions because he wanted to alleviate the reporting on his sister’s affair. Ami and the “National Enquirer” had previously indicated that they had relied on a single source in their reporting. “The story was sent to the ‘National Enquirer’ by a reliable source that had given the ‘National Enquirer’ information before this story for seven years. It was a source that was well known to both Mr. Bezos and Ms. Sánchez,” said a lawyer at the time.

The “New York Times” reported a short time later: “Mr. Sánchez and American Media signed a confidentiality agreement on October 18, 2018 that concerns certain information, photos and text messages that document an affair between Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez.”

In February 2020, Michael Sánchez finally sued Amazon boss Jeff Bezos for defamation. He accused him that Bezos, together with his personal chief of security, Gavin de Becker, claimed that Sánchez had given the “non -youth -free” photos to the “National Enquirer”. In November of the same year the Los Angeles County Superior Court decided in favor of Bezos – however, as part of the Legal dispute More complaints submitted. A year later, Bezos 218,385 Agreed US dollars, but the dispute had not yet ended. Michael Sánchez recently referred to his brother -in -law and sister as “liar and fraudst”. So it is not surprising that he was not one of the invited guests at her Mega wedding in Venice in June.

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