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How the World’s Richest Man, Jeff Bezos, Crashed His Marriage

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Jeff Bezos sent shirtless selfies, a photograph of his genitals and gushing, sexual text messages to Lauren Sanchez while the pair carried on an eight month affair which involved private jet rendezvous, intimate dinners and sleepovers at each other’s marital homes, it has been claimed.

The Amazon billionaire and his mistress, whose relationship was laid bare by the National Enquirer on Wednesday and Thursday, also stayed in hotels together – including one in Boston hours after the rest of the Bezos family had left.

The magazine, which followed the pair for four months after snapping Sanchez and her sister getting off Bezos’ private jet in October, claims that at one stage, Bezos’ wife of 25 years MacKenzie uncovered their affair when she looked at his plane’s flight manifest and found Sanchez’s name was the only one on the passenger list.

According to the Enquirer’s sources, Bezos is ‘in love’ with Sanchez and has told her, in less explicit language than his other texts,: ‘We don’t have to worry about the parachute opening because we are jumping together.

‘We are sharing the parachute and it will land safely. We have chosen each other.’

In addition to going to each other’s homes, he once booked a private bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel for them to spend the night in just five blocks from his marital mansion.

The Enquirer claims that Bezos only announced his divorce on Wednesday morning because he knew it was about to expose his affair with Sanchez.

The magazine also alleges that he tried desperately to stop it from running its series of photographs which document their affair, apparently asking one friend: ‘Can’t I buy the story from them?’

The 54-year-old, who is worth $140 billion, has not commented on the story but a source insisted to DailyMail.com that he and Sanchez began seeing each other after he and MacKenzie had parted ways.

In their divorce statement on Wednesday, the couple said they had been under a trial separation and ‘loving exploration’ for some time.

His allegedly raunchy text messages to Sanchez, who is married to Hollywood mega agent Patrick Whitesell and has three children (two with him and one from a previous relationship with an NFL star), date back to April.

BEZOS’ SEXTS TO SANCHEZ

‘I love you, alive girl. I will show you with my body, and my lips and my eyes, very soon.’

 ‘I want to smell you, I want to breathe you in. I want to hold you tight.… I want to kiss your lips…. I love you. I am in love with you.’

‘I miss you. I want to kiss you right now and tuck you in slowly and gently. And maybe in the morning wake you up and not be quite so gentle with you.’

‘Your energy and ideas and competence and SPIRIT turn me on. You make me better. You’re meant for me.’

‘I am so full of love for you. My heart is growing just so it can have room for you. It’s bigger than it’s ever been and still swelling.’

‘I want to hold you tight.… I want to kiss your lips…. I love you. I am in love with you.’ 

‘You know what I want? I want to get a little drunk with you tonight. Not falling down. Just a little drunk. I want to talk to you and plan with you. Listen and laugh … I basically WANT TO BE WITH YOU!!! Then I want to fall asleep with you and wake up tomorrow and read the paper with you and have coffee with you 

In one, he reportedly told the 49-year-old: ‘I love you, alive girl.  I will show you with my body, and my lips and my eyes, very soon.’

In another, the magazine claims he said: ‘I want to smell you, I want to breathe you in. I want to hold you tight.… I want to kiss your lips…. I love you. I am in love with you.’

Others are more X-rated including one where he is said to have told the former Extra and Fox host: ‘I miss you. I want to kiss you right now and tuck you in slowly and gently.

‘And maybe in the morning wake you up and not be quite so gentle with you.’

In another, he allegedly said: ‘Your energy and ideas and competence and SPIRIT turn me on.

‘You make me better. You’re meant for me.’

In addition to shirtless photographs he took standing in front of mirrors, including one in a steamy room where the magazine claims he was wearing just a towel, he also sent Sanchez an ‘unsparing’ photograph of his genitals which it said was too graphic to publish.

It was previously reported that the pair had been dating since June, months before she separated from her husband, Hollywood mega-agent Patrick Whitesell, and nine months before Bezos announced his split from his wife, MacKenzie, on Twitter.

According to the Enquirer, the pair met several times for illicit trysts as often as six times in two weeks.

Its investigation began after Sanchez was seen getting off his private jet on October 18.

She was wearing a WME hat which represents her husband’s talent agency.

Jeff and MacKenzie were most-recently seen attending Senator John McCain’s funeral in early September in Washington, DC. He was still wearing his wedding ring which he also had on on Sunday.

It was through her husband that Sanchez is believed to have met the richest man in the world.

Over the last several years, both couples have been photographed at glitzy events including the Vanity Fair Oscars party. Bezos reportedly propositioned Sanchez behind her husband’s back while they honored the Oscar-winning film Manchester By The Sea.

The National Enquirer will publish photos of Bezos and Sanchez in this edition set to hit the stands on Thursday. Bezos announced his divorce in anticipation of the photos’ release

He, according to the magazine, whispered to her: ‘You can’t fight chemistry’.

On October 30, the pair met again for an intimate dinner at Capo, an upscale restaurant in Beverly Hills, where they were joined by two other people witnesses say were largely ignored.

After the dinner, Sanchez went back to Bezos’ home and was seen leaving the next day, the magazine said.

They also spent time in her Santa Monica marital home where, according to the enquirers’ reporters, they drew the blinds on an area of the yard where she keeps a hot tub one evening.

The next day, she sent a team of landscapers who had shown up for work away. Bezos emerged from the house hours later, according to the magazine’s timeline.

There were also several meeting on his private jet which is what piqued MacKenzie’s suspicion, according to the magazine.

She reportedly once found a flight manifest for the $65million gulf stream which listed Sanchez as the only other passenger.

Bezos, according to the magazine’s source, passed it off as a business-related encounter, a not entirely implausible explanation given Amazon’s Hollywood connections through its film studio, Sanchez’s husband’s talent agency and the fact that she herself owns an aerial footage production company.

The TV personality put her flying skills on show by whisking Bezos away in her chopper so the pair could enjoy a private romantic hike.

In November, the pair retreated one evening to a private bungalow in the Beverly Hills Hotel – five blocks from Bezos’ house – after an intimate dinner.

They also stayed together at the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston hours after MacKenzie and the rest of the Bezos family had left, according to the magazine.

The family was in town to attend Bezos’ son’s graduation from MIT. While they were at the ceremony, Sanchez, it is claimed, was put in a room in the same hotel where they were occupying a private suite.

Once the family left, Bezos is reported to have stayed and loved-in with Sanchez until the following day.

Sources tell The Enquirer that the affair has ‘blindsided’ Sanchez’s husband Patrick.

Bezos released a statement revealing the split on his Twitter account yesterday in a bid to present the news in a favorable light.

He and his wife described each other as ‘cherished friends’ and gave the impression it was amicable.

‘If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it all again,’ they said in a joint statement that he published on Twitter.

The Enquirer says it trailed Bezos and Sanchez in what it calls the ‘largest investigation’ in the magazine’s history, with its photographer catching the lovebirds ‘doing the dirty on their spouses’.

They say they followed Bezos and Sanchez ‘across five states and 40,000 miles, tailed them in private jets, swanky limos, helicopter rides, romantic hikes, five-star hotel hideaways, intimate dinner dates and ‘quality time’ in hidden love nests.’

A source told the magazine that Sanchez and her husband had been officially separated since fall.

‘Patrick and Lauren Sanchez have been separated for a while.

‘Their marriage has been off and on for a while, and they tried hard to fix things, but in the fall they officially separated,’ a source told the magazine.

Culled from Daily Mail Online

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The Day of The Jackal Author, Frederick Forsyth, Dies at 86

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Best-selling author Frederick Forsyth, known for thriller novels including The Day Of The Jackal, has died at the age of 86, his agent has said.

“We mourn the passing of one of the world’s greatest thriller writers,” Jonathan Lloyd said in a statement.

Forsyth published more than 25 books, also including The Odessa File and The Dogs of War, and sold 75 million books around the world, he said.

His publisher Bill Scott-Kerr said: “Still read by millions across the world, Freddie’s thrillers define the genre and are still the benchmark to which contemporary writers aspire. He leaves behind a peerless legacy which will continue to excite and entertain for years to come.”

Born in Kent in 1938, Forsyth joined the RAF at the age of 18 before becoming a war correspondent for the BBC and Reuters. He revealed in 2015 he also worked for British intelligence agency MI6 for more than 20 years.

Many of his fictional plots drew on his real-life experiences around the world.

He made his name with his first novel, 1971’s The Day Of The Jackal, which he wrote when he was out of work.

“[I was] skint, in debt, no flat, no car, no nothing and I just thought, ‘How do I get myself out of this hole?’ And I came up with probably the zaniest solution – write a novel,” he said.

It is a gripping tale, set in 1963, about an Englishman hired to assassinate the French president at the time, Charles de Gaulle.

The Day Of The Jackal was turned into a 1973 film starring Edward Fox as the Jackal, and then became a TV drama starring Eddie Redmayne last year.

Mr Scott-Kerr said working with Forsyth had been “one of the great pleasures of my professional life”.

“The flow of brilliant plots and ideas aside, he was the most professional writer an editor could hope for,” he said.

“His journalistic background brought a rigour and a metronomic efficiency to his working practice and his nose for and understanding of a great story kept his novels both thrillingly contemporary and fresh. It was a joy and an education to watch him at work.”

Singer Elaine Paige, a friend of Forsyth, said she felt “total sadness” at the news of his death.

“His academic knowledge of places, palaces and geography was bar none,” she wrote on X. “He’ll be much missed for so many reasons.”

English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who worked with Forsyth on Love Never Dies, the follow-up to Phantom of the Opera, said: “He really understood the romance and thrills which make the Phantom such an alluring character.

“Thank you Frederick, for creating stories which will live on for generations in your honour.”

And Conservative MP Sir David Davis said his “great friend” was a “terrific man” and a “fabulous wordsmith”.

“He was a great believer in the old values – he believed in honour and patriotism and courage and directness and straightforwardness and [was] a big defender of our armed forces,” he told Sky News.

Forsyth followed The Day Of The Jackal with The Odessa File in 1972, which was adapted for the big screen in a film starring Jon Voight two years later.

The author had written a follow-up, Revenge of Odessa, with fellow thriller writer Tony Kent, which will be published this August.

His other best-selling works included 1984’s The Fourth Protocol, which became a film starring starring Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan.

He was made a CBE for services to literature in 1997.

He had two sons with first wife Carole Cunningham. His second wife Sandy Molloy died last October.

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Ukraine: You’re Playing with Fire, Trump Warns Putin

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US President, Donald Trump, warned Vladimir Putin Tuesday that he is “playing with fire,” taking a fresh jab at his Russian counterpart as Washington weighs new sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine war.

Trump’s latest broadside showed his frustration with stalled ceasefire talks and comes two days after he called the Kremlin leader “absolutely CRAZY” following a major drone attack on Ukraine.

Moscow, which invaded Ukraine in February 2022, insisted it is responding to escalating Ukrainian strikes on its own civilians and accused Kyiv of trying to “disrupt” peace efforts.

Diplomatic efforts to end the war have intensified in recent weeks, but Putin has been accused of stalling peace talks.

“What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire!” Trump said on his Truth Social network.

Trump did not specify what the “really bad” things were.But the Wall Street Journal and CNN both reported that the Republican are now considering fresh sanctions as early as this week.

Trump told reporters on Sunday he was “absolutely” weighing such a move.

The White House said Trump was keeping “all options” open.

“This war is Joe Biden’s fault, and President Trump has been clear he wants to see a negotiated peace deal. President Trump has also smartly kept all options on the table,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told AFP in a statement.

Biden, Trump’s Democratic predecessor, imposed sweeping sanctions after Russia’s invasion.

Trump has so far avoided what he says could be “devastating” sanctions on Russian banks.

But Trump’s recent rebukes mark a sharp change from his previous attitude towards Putin, of whom he often speaks with admiration.

His frustration at his failure to end a war he said he could solve within 24 hours boiled over at the weekend after Russia’s drone barrage killed at least 13 people.

“I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY!” Trump posted.

Russia has kept up attacks despite a phone call eight days ago in which Trump said Putin had agreed to immediately start talks.

Moscow did not react to Trump’s comments on Tuesday, but it earlier sought to blame Ukraine for the impasse.

“Kyiv, with the support of some European countries, has taken a series of provocative steps to thwart negotiations initiated by Russia,” the Russian defense ministry said.

Civilians including women and children were injured in what it said were Ukrainian drone strikes. Russian air defenses destroyed 2,331 Ukrainian drones between May 20 and 27, it said.

Fresh drone attacks were also reported overnight to Wednesday.Russian authorities said almost 150 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted, including 33 heading toward Moscow.

Ukraine said it is Russia that targeted civilians.

“We need to end this eternal waiting — Russia needs more sanctions,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak said Tuesday on Telegram.

US lawmakers have stepped up calls for Trump to slap sanctions on Russia.Veteran Republican Senator Chuck Grassley called for strong measures to let Putin know it was “game over.” Two other senators, Republican Lindsay Graham and Democrat Richard Blumenthal, also called for heavy “secondary” sanctions on countries that buy Russian oil, gas and raw materials.

Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg told Fox News that the next peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, if they happen, would likely take place in Geneva after Moscow rejected the Vatican as a venue.The aim would then be to get Trump, Putin and Zelensky together “and hammer this thing out,” he added.

The Swiss government would not confirm that it would host the talks.

“Switzerland remains ready to offer its good offices,” the foreign ministry told AFP in a statement, adding that it was “in contact with all parties.”

Russia and Ukraine held their first direct talks in more than three years in Istanbul in early May.

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Biden Diagnosed with ‘Aggressive Form’ of Prostate Cancer

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Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was diagnosed on Friday with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office said in a statement on Sunday.

The diagnosis came after Mr. Biden reported urinary symptoms, which led doctors to find a “small nodule” on his prostate. Mr. Biden’s cancer is “characterized by a Gleason score of 9” with “metastasis to the bone,” the statement said.

The Gleason score is used to describe how prostate cancers look under a microscope; 9 and 10 are the most aggressive. The cancer is Stage 4, which means it has spread.

“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” according to the statement from Mr. Biden’s office, which was unsigned. “The president and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.”

Mr. Biden, 82, left office in January as the oldest-serving president in American history. Throughout his presidency, Mr. Biden faced questions about his age and his health, ultimately leading him to abandon his re-election campaign under pressure from his own party.

Prostate cancer experts say that Mr. Biden’s diagnosis is serious, and that once the cancer has spread to the bones — where it tends to go — it cannot be cured. But Dr. Judd Moul, a prostate cancer expert at Duke University, said men whose prostate cancer has spread “can live five, seven, 10 or more years.”

The first line of attack is to cut off the testosterone that feeds prostate cancer. Dr. Moul said that when he started out as a urologist in the 1980s, this was done by removing a man’s testicles. Today, men have a choice of two drugs given by injection that block the testicles from making testosterone or a pill that does the same thing. In addition, men take drugs that block any testosterone that manages to be made despite the drugs that inhibit its production.

Dr. Moul said he sees men Mr. Biden’s age with similar prostate cancer diagnoses on a regular basis. “Survival rates have almost tripled in the last decade,” he said.

On Monday, Mr. Biden posted a picture on social media with his wife, Jill Biden, along with a statement saying: “Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support.”

President Trump, who has repeatedly bashed Mr. Biden and blames him for most of the country’s problems, was among those who issued supportive statements on Sunday evening.
Source: The New York Times

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