Lauren Sanchez cuts ties with her brother Michael as it is revealed she gave him a job and $165K'

Lauren Sanchez has been forced to make a difficult split in the wake of The National Enquirer detailing her months-long affair with Jeff Bezos. It’s pretty simple: Jeff Bezos had an extramarital affair, lied about it in his tone-deaf ‘divorce’ tweet and has engaged in a scorched-earth campaign to cover up responsibility for the demise of two families Michael Sanchez to The Washington Post, the newspaper Bezos owns Multiple sources at AMI told The Daily Beast that it was Michael who gave them the story and they have also claimed he acted as a leak for other clients. After the story went live, Michael hit out angrily at its tone and said in an email to The Post: 'It’s pretty simple: Jeff Bezos had an extramarital affair, lied about it in his tone-deaf ‘divorce’ tweet and has engaged in a scorched-earth campaign to cover up responsibility for the demise of two families and the failure to protect the privacy and technology of the man practically owns the cloud, culminating in a Washington Post hit piece written by Sarah Ellison, the writer I handpicked to tell the whole truth,' he said. Billions: Michael Sanchez said that Jeff Bezos posted a 'misleading' tweet about his split from wife MacKenzie in an interview over the weekend He also claimed that Bezos 'never blinked about losing $70 billion' in his divorce, after declaring: 'The truth will come out about my motivations and how much I believe in Jeff and Lauren’s love. Cheers: His sister is actually the second person close to Michael whose texts have shown up in The National Enquirer, with Scotty Neal Hughes suffering a similar leak The American Media board is comprised of four individuals, including: owner David Pecker; Evan Ratner, a partner at Chatham Asset Management; Barry Schwartz, also a partner at at Chatham Asset Management; and David R. Hughes, the former executive vice president, treasurer and chief financial officer of Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. Chatham Asset Management has an 80 percent stake in American Media according to Bloomberg.