Does Jeff Bezos Have a Legal Case Against the National Enquirer?

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, accused The National Enquirer Thursday of engaging in “extortion and blackmail” by threatening to publish intimate images of the billionaire unless he agreed to drop his investigation into how the tabloid obtained his private communications. The Enquirer has a number of strong defenses it could mount against a criminal extortion charge that could make the case hard to win, says Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor. The Enquirer could argue it was following the advice of its lawyer, using an “advice of counsel defense,” since some of the emails Bezos published were allegedly written by Jon P. Fine, who is identified as deputy general counsel for AMI.

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