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David Pecker, the longtime publisher of the tabloid National Enquirer, is leaving the role as part of a deal unveiled Friday in which the paper’s parent company American Media LLC said it was merging with Accelerate, a national wholesale distribution company. Pecker, the longtime, often controversial president and CEO…

UPDATE, 10:05 AM: The owners of the National Enquirer now have a bigger problem than a pissed off and fighting back Jeff Bezos: the feds. Just a day after the Amazon founder published a detailed overview of the attempts by the David Pecker-run tabloid to halt his investigation into how private texts and photos got…

After weeks of seeing his private life flooded into the public, Jeff Bezos went online today to accuse Donald Trump's pals at the National Enquirer of attempting to strong arm him with intimate photos, texts and an intent to ruin him with Amazon shareholders. “Any personal embarrassment AMI could cause me takes a back…

The three years in prison that Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen received today wasn't the only bad press the increasingly besieged former Celebrity Apprentice host was handed. The feds also revealed Wednesday that the owners of the National Enquirer have provided “substantial and important assistance” to them…

Anderson Cooper spoke exclusively with Karen McDougal in her first TV interview since she filed a lawsuit earlier this week against American Media Inc., to be released from an agreement with the company. McDougal claims she had a 10-month affair with President Donald Trump, and was paid $150,000 for a tabloid maneuver…

A former Playboy model who says she thought she was selling her story about her alleged affair with Donald Trump to The National Enquirer parent American Media Inc. for publication now is suing to be released from that deal, The New York Times reports. Although the $150K deal required Karen McDougal to remain silent…

A top editor for The National Enquirer and other supermarket tabloids has been accused of sexually charged conduct — including discussing his sex life in the newsroom, forcing women to watch or listen to pornographic material, and referring to himself by the nickname “Dildo.” The Associated Press detailed the allegatio…

I thought American Media already owned the 37-year-old magazine devoted to soap operas. But it turns out that the company has just been operating it for the last year or so under license from Source Interlink Media. Source Interlink bought Soap Opera Digest in 2007 from Primedia, which bought it in 1991 from News…

The Vladar Company and American Media, Inc. have teamed up to pump some iron. The production company and the publishing company are working together on an as-yet-untitled bodybuilding film. The docudrama will follow the world's leading bodybuilders, like Phil Heath, Kai Greene, Branch Warren and Dennis Wolf, as they…