Remember that report about the National Enquirer having a literal safe full of Donald Trump-related stories it killed to protect him? Consider this part deux of the Trump Dirt in the Enquirer Vaults tale: The New York Times reports that prior to the 2016 election, Trump and his former lawyer Michael Cohen cooked up a…
All sorts of whacky, abominable tales are rising from the crypt in the wake of this week’s reports that the National Enquirer’s parent company American Media Inc (AMI) aided the Trump campaign by buying exclusive rights to damaging stories (“catch-and-kill” deals) and sat on them, literally, storing them on paper in a…
The Associated Press reports that leading up to the 2016 election, the National Enquirer kept a safe full of documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories that the publication never ran to maintain a friendly relationship with Donald Trump.
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—American Media, publisher of the National Enquirer, was recently the subject of a New Yorker report on its role in buying and then burying stories about President Donald Trump. This wasn’t the first time the company has been accused of doing this sort of thing for powerful entertainers, and…
The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow has a wild report that involves hush money, the National Enquirer, our magnanimous president, an affair, and a possible child from said affair. I feel tired, personally!
If you are one of the 10 million daily viewers of Judge Judy, you know that its eponymous Judith Sheindlin is sharp as a tack and blunt as a hammer. Regardless, the National Enquirer and its sister publication the National Examiner recently published stories claiming Sheindlin was suffering from a host of ailments,…
Thanks to the National Enquirer, the courts will now rule on whether calling someone transgender is defamatory, according to TMZ. In a crazy twist in Richard Simmons’ lawsuit, new filings allegedly state that claiming someone is undergoing gender reassignment surgery isn’t an insult–for example, claiming that he’s…
This week’s National Enquirer, the AMI-owned magazine that has transformed into a propaganda machine for President Trump since his election last year, is more dramatic than usual, which is saying a lot. It’s the kind of cover that would distract you from anything, let alone counting the number of items the person in…
Following the recent successes of The People vs. O.J. Simpson and Making a Murderer, the National Enquirer—a.k.a the O.G. daddy of true crime reporting—has announced its own true crime series National Enquirer Investigates, which will focus on events such as the death of Whitney Houston, the O.J. Simpson trial…
Is there a more anti-American rumor you could start about a presidential candidate???
Charlie Sheen admitted his HIV-positive status to Matt Lauer in mid-November, partially in order to get ahead of a National Enquirer story, but also to stop the stream of people he said were blackmailing him over the information. Sheen had been gossiped about before that piece was released, most notably in an…
It's been a big week for The National Enquirer (the magazine that I once got sent home for reading at school). The publication broke the news that Ellen's house is possibly haunted and alerted faithful readers to a big secret that Jimmy Fallon doesn't want you to know (he loves his wife and child!). And if that wasn't…
Shortly after Philip Seymour Hoffman died, the National Enquirer ran an interview with someone calling himself David Bar Katz, claiming that the two were lovers who'd freebased cocaine together and that he'd seen Hoffman use heroin. Turns out the story was bullshit, and now the tab is apologizing with a new grant for…
The National Enquirer has published a "piece" or "article" called WHITE HOUSE RUN WILL KILL HILLARY. It reads like The Onion decided to take every article written about Hillary Clinton in the past few years and mash them together into a Hillary Clinton conspiracy theorist's wet dream.
There's a hidden danger lurking on beaches nationwide this holiday weekend: if you set aside your London Review of Books to peruse The National Inquirer, the "Best and Worst Celebrity Diets" and "Paula Deen Used Gay Slurs Too!" could be imprinted on your thighs, FOREVER. Or at least until you jump in the ocean.
It turns out that the really super mean horrible copy criticizing women's appearances in the National Enquirer—namely, the tabloid's semi-annual cover stories dedicated to the "WORST Beach Bodies" and "Plastic Surgery Nightmares"—are mostly written by one guy. Naturally, I was dying to know what the authority on…
Today in OKEY DOKEY, acquitted murder suspect and totally innocent kewl dood! all-around sociopathic piece of shit O.J. Simpson is reportedly attempting to sell the knife used in his wife's murder for $5 million. The knife—if it is the knife—was used in the brutal slayings of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson in…
Last week, the National Enquirer had us reeling from a morbid photo shoot in which a model was paid to pose as Whitney Houston's dead body. This week, they take it to a whole new level: The tabloid printed open-coffin images from Whitney Houston's viewing. That's her corpse on the cover. While it is customary, in…
Though neither Jennifer Aniston's nor Kate Middleton's twins have ever materialized, Brad and Angelina are still together and Michael Douglas Deathwatch™ was a failure, tabloid coverage had not sunk as low as it possibly could. Until today. A new low: The National Enquirer printed a story called "Whitney's Final…
