10 Facts About National Enquirer

1.

In 1974, The National Enquirer began running Bill Hoest's Bumper Snickers, a cartoon series about cars and drivers, collected by Signet into a paperback reprint two years later.

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2.

In 2010 there was some speculation that the National Enquirer might receive a Pulitzer Prize for its investigation of Edwards.

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3.

Republican governor's announcement about her daughter's pregnancy came hours after The National Enquirer informed her representatives and family members of Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol's child, that we were aware of the pregnancy and were going to break the news.

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In February 2018, after a similar situation involving Stormy Daniels was confirmed, McDougal confirmed her story to Ronan Farrow for The New Yorker, stating that the National Enquirer had loosened the terms of the contract after Trump was elected but that she was unsure of how much she could discuss under the terms of the agreement.

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5.

In February 2019, Jeff Bezos alleged that the National Enquirer had threatened to publish private messages and photographs belonging to Bezos and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, if Bezos did not stop The Washington Post, which he owns, from pursuing journalistic inquiries into how the publication obtained those messages and photographs.

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6.

Bezos said that in 2018, the year in which Saudi Arabian officials reportedly murdered Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi, the National Enquirer had published a glossy magazine, The New Kingdom, promoting Saudi Arabia.

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7.

In 2006, the National Enquirer was the first newspaper to reveal that O J Simpson had written a book, If I Did It.

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8.

In February 2012, the National Enquirer published a photo of Whitney Houston in an open casket on its front page.

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9.

Funding was diverted from the National Enquirer, once considered to be the company's principal publication, to Star magazine.

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10.

In 1987, the publisher of the National Enquirer trademarked the phrase, which uses the alternative spelling of "inquiring".

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