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The National Enquirer tabloid is being sold to James Cohen, the owner and CEO of newsstand company Hudson News, its parent company announced Thursday.
The deal announced by American Media Inc. also includes two other supermarket tabloids, Globe and the National Examiner. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The sale comes after the Enquirer was caught up in a federal investigation of illegal campaign contributions to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016. In September of last year, American Media reached a “non-prosecution” agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in which it admitted to paying former Playboy model Karen McDougal $150,000 for the rights to her story about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in order to “suppress the woman’s story so as to prevent it from influencing the election.”
AMI also admitted that it made the payment to McDougal “in concert with [Trump’s] presidential campaign, and in order to ensure that the woman [McDougal] did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election.”
The Enquirer has also been accused by Amazon chief Jeff Bezos of trying to blackmail him by threatening to publish explicit photos of him. The tabloid denies the charges.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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