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DUBAI, Feb. 10 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has "absolutely nothing to do" with National Enquirer reporting on an extramarital affair with Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos. said the kingdom's foreign minister.
Bezos accused Thursday American Media Inc. (AMI), the owner of Enquirer, of attempting to blackmail him with the threat of publishing "intimate photos" that he would have sent to his girlfriend, unless it states in public that the report published by the American tabloid was not political. motivated.
In a blog post, he spoke of Saudi Arabia's dissatisfaction with the Washington Post's badbadination of Bezos for the murder of his columnist and Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
He also referred to media reports of alleged links between AMI and Saudi Arabia.
"It's something between the two parties, we have nothing to do with it," said Adel al-Jubeir at CBS, "Face the Nation," to the question of whether the Saudi government was involved in Enquirer leaks.
"It seems to me to be a soap opera," he said in an interview for Sunday, whose excerpts were published on the CBS website. Jubeir said he was unaware of any connection between the Saudi government and AMI or its managing director David Pecker.
AMI said Friday that his reports on Bezos were legal and that he was going to investigate his charges.
The badbadination of Khashoggi at the Kingdom's consulate in Istanbul last October severely strained Saudi Arabia's ties with its Western allies, exposed the kingdom to possible sanctions and tarnished the country's rule. image of the de facto ruler prince, Mohammed bin Salman. (Report by Nafisa Eltahir in Dubai, edited by Jason Neely)
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