Amazon blackmail: should we feel sorry for the world鈥檚 richest man?
Sex, power and a French man reading dirty text messages.
The fact that a rich, powerful man had an affair and is getting divorced shouldn鈥檛 be of more than passing interest. But with the Amazon boss Jeff Bezos things are a bit different. Not only is there the eye-watering amount of money involved, he鈥檚 worth around $130bn, but the story took a remarkable turn last week when he published a blog post revealing he was being blackmailed with dirty photos he鈥檇 sent his mistress. If the world鈥檚 richest man can鈥檛 protect his privacy, what hope is there for the rest of us? The 麻豆社鈥檚 Kim Gittleson talks to us about extortion, divorce and 鈥渂elow the belt selfies鈥.
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