Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has accused his friend`s brother, Michael Sanchez, of hiding his property in a $2.5 million bungalow in West Hollywood to avoid reimbursement of legal fees. Jeff Bezos` legal troubles with his girlfriend`s brother, Michael Sanchez, have taken another turn. What began two years ago as a tabloid revealing Bezos` relationship with his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez has since led to investigations into his brother Michael, the National Enquirer and even Saudi Arabia`s crown prince, as well as a lengthy legal battle between Michael Sanchez and Bezos. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday in a court filing that his girlfriend`s brother tried to avoid reimbursement of his legal fees by hiding his ownership of a $2.5 million property. The brother, Michael Sanchez, sued Bezos and his security chief Gavin de Becker unsuccessfully for defamation. Sanchez was ordered to reimburse $254,404 in legal fees. The filing marked the latest development in an ongoing legal battle between Bezos and Sanchez. The couple have been locked in a legal battle since the National Enquirer broke news of Bezos` affair with Lauren Sanchez, a former TV host, in 2019. The outlet published texts from Amazon`s founder to Sanchez and claimed in an email to Bezos that he had also received nude photos.
Jeff Bezos received $218,000 in legal fees, the latest development in the high-profile legal drama surrounding Amazon`s CEO. Warren said Sanchez is now appealing Bezos` compensation order for legal fees. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John Doyle said in March that Bezos would instead receive $218,385 in legal fees, plus an additional $36,000 for other costs. A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ordered Sanchez to reimburse Bezos about $250,000 in legal fees. The lawsuit was dismissed and Bezos demanded about $1.7 million to cover his legal fees. A California judge dismissed the defamation suit in November, ruling that Michael Sanchez`s claims that journalists had told him Bezos` team had identified him as a leaker were not sufficient evidence of wrongdoing. Sanchez, who is appealing the rejection, was ordered to pay Bezos and Becker`s legal fees totaling $254,404. Michael Sanchez has previously called Bezos his sister`s fiancé, though the couple have not announced an engagement©. “We respectfully disagree with the court`s decision and look forward to justifying Mr. Sanchez on appeal,” Tom Warren, Sanchez`s attorney, said in an emailed statement to Insider at the time. William Isaacson, an attorney representing Bezos and Becker, said in an emailed statement to Insiders that “journalists will certainly review the court`s decision if they consider Michael Sanchez as a source.” “As Mr. Bezos well knows, Mr.
Bezos Sanchez`s lawyers are aggressively pursuing an appeal against the anti-SLAPP decision. If Mr. Sanchez succeeds, Mr. Bezos will owe nothing. Yet earlier this week, Sanchez authorized his team to coordinate with Mr. Bezos` lawyer on the payment of the verdict. If Mr. Bezos` lawyers had bothered to contact Mr. Sanchez`s lawyer before filing a complaint against him, they would have known that was the case,” Warren said. Earlier this week, Sanchez authorized his team to coordinate with Mr. S. S.
Bezos on the payment of sentence,” attorney Tom Warren said in a statement to the newspaper. In a court filing Thursday, Sanchez called on a California judge to sanction Bezos “for recklessly pursuing and denying requests for sanctions,” the Seattle newspaper reported. Bezos published the email in a February 2019 blog post, claiming that National Enquirer`s parent company, American Media, was blackmailing him. At the time, de Becker told The Daily Beast that Michael Sanchez was “among the people we talked to and looked at” when they tried to figure out who leaked the texts and photos. He added: “If Mr. Bezos` lawyers had bothered to contact Mr. Bezos` lawyer. Sanchez before filing a complaint against him, they would have known that this was the case. A month later, de Becker, whom Bezos hired to find out how the Enquirer made headlines, told The Daily Beast that Michael Sanchez was “among the people we talked to and looked at.” Sanchez has yet to pay Bezos and Becker, the Seattle Times reported Friday. In a statement to Fox Business on Saturday, Sanchez`s attorney, Tom Warren, said the Bezos case against his client was a “bullying tactic.” Tom Warren, an attorney for Sanchez, told insiders in a statement that “Mr. Bezos` fee request is obscene, even grotesque, in many ways. Bezos has a personal net worth of more than $193.5 billion, according to Forbes.