Amazon’s chief won’t be bullied
IF there is one thing becoming the world’s richest person teaches, it’s survival.
In a world where billionaires are vilified as lame, unethical and selfish as socialism becomes the new chic, Amazon boss
Jeff Bezos personifies how to withstand whatever life throws at him.
But even by Bezos’ standards, he has endured a traumatic month.
He survived a spectacular attempt by US tabloid magazine the National Enquirer, run by Donald Trump’s former pal David Pecker, to ruin him as it revealed his affair with married TV host Lauren Sanchez.
It was humiliating enough for him to announce his split from wife Mackenzie, but Bezos was able to bring his marriage to an end with a modicum of dignity.
Within hours, however, it was followed by lurid details of his relationship with Sanchez.
But, after launching an investigation to discover who leaked his tell-all texts about his affair to the magazine, he was then the target of a further assault from The Enquirer’s gorilla.
Last week he was threatened that if he refused to stop trying to find the source and stop his Washington Post newspaper’s attacks on the magazine, X-rated pictures including a “d*** pick” he swapped with Sanchez would be published.
It was, in his own words, blackmail and distortion.
Again, Bezos’ superior survival senses kicked in.
He refused to be cowed and instead decided to publish the emails from
The Enquirer.
He wrote: “I prefer to stand up, roll this log over, and see what crawls out.”