For months, we’ve been discussing Jeff Bezos, the breakup of his marriage from Mackenzie Bezos, and his affair with Lauren Sanchez. Bezos made a really strong argument that the National Enquirer attempted to blackmail him in an attempt to get him to shut down his internal investigation into who outed his affair and ended his marriage. I still think there are pieces to the larger story – political retribution from the David Pecker-Donald Trump alliance, plus the Saudi connection – which deserve to be thoroughly investigated. But I also tapped out of the story when Lauren Sanchez’s brother started talking. It was clear that David Sanchez was one shady character, and it was also clear that he had a hand in selling out his sister and her then-married lover, Jeff Bezos. As it turns out, that’s exactly what happened:
The National Enquirer paid the brother of Jeff Bezos’ mistress $200,000 for the racy text messages and other dirt used in their story that sunk the billionaire’s marriage, a report said. The tabloid paid the money to Michael Sanchez, the brother of Bezos mistress Lauren Sanchez, with an upfront contract in exchange for the text messages used in an 11-page spread about their affair that was published in January, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Michael Sanchez, who has been a longtime source for the Enquirer, began speaking to the tabloid about Bezos and his sister’s relationship last fall, according to the report. Sanchez and the Enquirer finalized the deal on Oct. 26. The Enquirer’s lawyer, Cameron Stracher, included an upfront payment in the contract to prove the story would not be a “catch and kill” operation similar to the ones it had carried out on behalf of President Trump during the 2016 presidential election, the newspaper reported.
Yeah. We been knew. Put aside the Saudi connection and the fact that David Pecker went after one of Trump’s perceived enemies for a moment. What this story boils down to is a mistress and her married lover being sold out by someone close. What did David Sanchez do, take his sister’s phone and send himself all of their texts and selfies and such? I think that’s exactly what happened. I also think it’s possible that Lauren Sanchez was in on the scheme, and the richest man in the world got rooked by two bargain-basement Florida hustlers, a brother-and-sister con artist team.
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