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(Updated with statement from David Pecker’s reps) National Enquirer’s parent company have been fined for violating election law in 2016. Per the Wall Street Journal, A360 Media LLC agreed earlier this month to pay $187,500 as part of a settlement with the Federal Election Commission. The settlement has to do with a…

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…

UPDATED, 12:37 PM: American Media Inc. will sell its National Enquirer and two sister pubs for $100 million to Hudson Media CEO James Cohen. The travel retail company is known for its airport newsstands, the Washington Post reports. The paper adds that AMI’s decision to sell the Enquirer, which is run by longtime…

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…

Investigative reporter Ronan Farrow has claimed that the National Enquirer and its parent corporation American Media Inc. threatened him over his work, echoing complaints made earlier today by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. In a series of tweets, Farrow said American Media Inc., the National Enquirer parent, had sent him and…

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…

Charlie Sheen is suing the National Enquirer over the publication of a story claiming the then-19-year-old actor raped a 13-year-old Corey Haim when the two were filming 1986’s Lucas. Sheen’s lawsuit, filed Friday in Los Angeles, accuses American Media’s tabloid of an "egregious, hurtful and disgusting campaign of…

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…

Bill Cosby is still facing a potential criminal trial over the alleged 2004 drugging and sexual assault of a Temple University employee but he won't be facing the matter in a civil case after all – by his own choice. "Plaintiff William H. Cosby, Jr. hereby voluntarily dismisses the above-captioned action without…

One day before Bill Cosby is scheduled to appear at a preliminary hearing in a Pennsylvania court where he faces a trio of felony second-degree aggravated indecent assault charges that could land him behind bars for a decade, the 78-year old actor today was denied a pause in the proceedings so he could pursue an…

Bill Cosby looks to be getting schooled as to what constitutes public and non-public information by the National Enquirer – in the courts, not the checkout line. "Plaintiff's claim against AMI must be dismissed in its entirety because the settlement agreement does not prevent AMI from publishing publically available…