Ex-tabloid boss reveals how much he spent buying and killing stories about Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods at Trump hush money trial
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David Pecker described his “catch and kill” operations for Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods and Mark Wahlberg at Donald Trump’s hush money trial Thursday.
The former National Enquirer honcho said shortly after Schwarzenegger announced his run for California governor in 2003, more than 30 women came forward to the magazine claiming affairs or sexual harassment against the actor, who at the time was married to Maria Shriver.
Silver-haired Pecker, 72, testified he spent “hundreds of thousands of dollars” buying up the negative stories for the bodybuilder-turned-movie star, with whom he was working on a magazine deal for his company, American Media Inc. (AMI), at the time.
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