Had MBS’s regime learned of Bezos’s relationship with Lauren Sanchez and tipped off the National Enquirer or even supplemented the information it received from Michael Sanchez? That possibility might make certain logical sense if you squinted hard enough. David Pecker had once unsuccessfully courted Saudi investors to finance AMI’s purchase of Time. To boost their prospects, AMI executives had even produced a sycophantic ninety-seven-page glossy magazine, called The New Kingdom, on the eve of the crown prince’s U.S. tour. But at least from my vantage point, at this particular moment in time,
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