Bangladesh, Feb. 9 -- Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, accused the nation's leading supermarket tabloid, The National Enquirer, of blackmail Thursday, laying out an alleged scheme that brought together international intrigue and White House politics to the publication's exposure of his extramarital affair last month.
It was an unusual move by Bezos, who had largely avoided the spotlight even as he became the world's richest man, despite the frequent attacks from President Donald Trump, who has labelled his newspaper The Amazon Post and recently called him "Jeff Bozo" in a tweet.
The Enquirer pushed the multibillionaire into the headlines with its Jan 28 edition, which hit newsstands and supermarket racks on ...