The LA Times diagrams all the strange overlaps among MbS, Trump, and Bezos.
The story could return to the possible Saudi/UAE or associates’ use of iPhone hacking software to obtain intimate images used in an extortion attempt by the National Enquirer/AMI against Jeff Bezos.
Bad Karma. But maybe it was simply so much easier to get malware onto the mistress’s phone, because what mistress of a rich guy doesn’t want to share genital pictures.
Or was it much more benign “social engineering” because who would believe that Bezos was set up by FoxNews using a former Fox employee?
Jeff Bezos’ security chief Gavin De Becker has named Michael Sanchez as leaking details about his sister’s affair to the National Enquirer. Sanchez has denied leaking any graphic photos to the tabloid. Sanchez, a Republican, has represented Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Page and is an associate of GOP political operative Roger Stone.
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Ari Emanuel was once Trump’s agent when the 45th president of the United States starred on the reality show “The Apprentice.” Emanuel is said to have introduced American Media Inc. chief David Pecker, publisher of the National Enquirer, to Kacy Grine, a French-born financial advisor to Prince Alaweed bin Talal. Grine and Pecker had dinner at the White House with Trump in July 2017. That year, Bin Talal was held in detention along with several other Saudi royal billionaires at the behest of Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. In 1991, Bin Talal helped bail out a deeply in debt Trump, buying his yacht. Four years later, he took a 51% stake in the Plaza Hotel in New York City, then owned by Trump. Last year, AMI published fawning glossy magazine the New Kingdom, celebrating the crown prince and his Vision 2030 economic plan. Grine wrote the only bylined article in the publication. Last year, AMI admitted to paying $150,000 in hush money to former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal to squelch her story of an alleged sexual affair with Trump in exchange for a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York. Federal prosecutors are looking at whether AMI violated a recent agreement in which AMI pledged not to commit any crimes for three years.
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