{"id":6203,"date":"2020-02-01T14:32:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T18:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=6203"},"modified":"2020-02-01T14:32:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T18:32:18","slug":"bezos-bombshell-blows-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=6203","title":{"rendered":"BEZOS BOMBSHELL BLOWS UP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>MY GIRLFRIEND&#8217;S BROTHER IS SUING ME<br \/>\n&#8230; Is That Right???<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/3549cf5d8af14eba960bda579596d423_md.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/3549cf5d8af14eba960bda579596d423_md.jpg 728w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/3549cf5d8af14eba960bda579596d423_md-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TMZ<\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-473649854cc7f953da3501851f912d84\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">Now, this is awkward &#8230; the brother of the woman who&#8217;s dating the richest man in the world is suing him. Welcome to the life of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jeff-bezos\/\"><strong>Jeff Bezos<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-cb4784e00a514006a412609a424bd8c7\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \"><strong>Michael Sanchez<\/strong>, the brother of Jeff&#8217;s GF\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/lauren-sanchez\/\"><strong>Lauren Sanchez<\/strong><\/a>, claims Bezos defamed him by falsely claiming Michael was the source of graphic texts, some containing nude images of Jeff.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-14b1c1bc16c747ea910bb6fb4af2cf4c\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">Michael, who says he was Lauren&#8217;s &#8220;dutiful brother and manager&#8221; at the time the textss were released, says he cooperated with authorities during the investigation but was ultimately &#8220;scapegoated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-c28c7b4aaaecec04484256f3362d47e9\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">ICYMI, the feds said last week there was evidence Michael was the source of the graphic messages and got $200k in return for his services.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-d6df484e2aadfeb6013fcce35508c151\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">Michael says as a result of Bezos&#8217;s statements, he suffered substantial harm. He says he was subjected to an FBI raid at his house in full view of the neighbors, he&#8217;s received backlash from friends and business associates.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-c888e825f4aa1cafea6bcc32541da0d2\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">And, no surprise &#8230; Michael&#8217;s suing for punitive damages, saying &#8220;in an amount appropriate to punish and make an example of defendants.&#8221; BTW, Jeff\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2020\/01\/30\/jeff-bezos-adds-thirteen-billion-minutes-amazon-stock-surge\/\"><strong>made $13 billion<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0yesterday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-ced22c3c129186234812f2614e8c54f2\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">He&#8217;s suing both Bezos and P.I.\u00a0<strong>Gavin de Becker<\/strong>\u00a0for unspecified damages.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-b826245cd3a8b1c6756aacdea7c61e6b\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">We reached out to Bezos&#8217; people &#8230; so far, no word back.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-97c883d2aa04efdd498219d8fc3fe3f5\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-block-is-last \"><em>Originally Published &#8212; 7:21 PM PT<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MY GIRLFRIEND&#8217;S BROTHER IS SUING ME &#8230; Is That Right???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}