CREATING MONSTERS...

What kind of woman extorts her fifty-something gay brother, “best friend,” groomsman in her star-studded wedding, and Godfather to her son – with false, extortionate allegations of incestuous childhood sexual abuse (statutory rape)? And what kind of man betrays his wife and children for the notorious gold digger who secretly saved his dick pics as what she herself described as “blackmail materials” – just weeks before The National Enquirer used the photos to blackmail him?

Meet my sister Lauren Sanchez and my brother-in-law Jeff Bezos... Lauren is a cunning gold digger with an unquenchable thirst for power and fame; a woman whose malicious lies pushed her own mother to the brink of suicide; and a woman with a long, well-documented history of extramarital affairs, including a prior long-term extramarital love affair with mega-billionaire Dan Friedkin; and a pattern of what her eldest brother and father describe as “toxic, pathological lies.”

Jeff is an autistic, insecure, socially awkward, fame-obsessed nerd who truly believes he stole the homecoming queen from the star quarterback. In my humble opinion, Bezos' autism and Lauren's experience with her autistic son, make controlling Bezos easy for a cunning sociopath like Lauren.

Sounds like an epic ten-episode Netflix series, right? So why is the morally bankrupt global media apparatus totally suppressing this dramatic scandal? To answer that question, a good place to start is their historic, tone deaf, hypocritical, and uber expensive PR campaign which, thus far, has deceived the public by rebranding Lauren as an “author,” “climate change humanitarian,” and “fashion icon” who “came from nothing.” Due to their wealth and power, the mafia-like Jeff Bezos Protection Racket duped The Hollywood Reporter to print lies about Lauren’s heritage and upbringing. The lies were then picked up and republished by lazy, unethical reporters around the world.

Even with the total media suppression, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to decipher the truth. Spoiler Alert: despite THR’s false reporting, we are not “third generation Mexican” and we did not “come from nothing.” Our DNA analysis confirms we are almost 80% European; during our childhood... in Albuquerque, our parents were wealthy owners of Golden Airways, a Cessna Flight Center with ownership of up to twelve private planes at any given time; our amazing grandmother Elsie was a successful restaurateur and infamous bookie; our stepfather Eldon Marr was the Director of the Albuquerque City Council, our mom, Eleanor was the City Clerk; we attended expensive private schools; and Lauren’s first car, at fourteen-years-old, was a red MGB convertible. Nothing indeed.

In 2023, The Information was scheduled to publish a scathing tell-all written by Amy Odell, author of the New York Times best-selling biography of Anna Wintour. This was not your normal PR puff piece. Odell had on-background cooperation from me, Tobie Gonzalez, Lauren’s backstabbing frenemy, and dozens of other intimate sources eager to share the unvarnished truth about Lauren.

Odell’s Editor loved the article. But, on cue, the powers-that-be, including The Information publisher/owner Jessica Lessin, killed the story. That’s right, a bold, independent news outlet “founded with a simple idea: write deeply reported articles…,” an organization that prides itself on its ability to “recruit the best reporters, give them the freedom to write about important topics and tell them not to worry about the small stuff” caught-and-killed a deeply investigated, brilliantly written and legally vetted article about Jeff Bezos’ then-fiancé. Journalism indeed.

Thankfully, around the same time, morally bankrupt Matt Belloni and his sleaze peddlers at PUCK published a scratch-the-surface article which exposed some of the truth about Lauren. Now that my Malpractice and Fraud lawsuit against my corrupt former attorneys, including disgraced fraudster John Pierce, unhinged Jonathan Jenkins, unethical Tom Warren, deeply-troubled Michael Waddington, et al., has been ordered to Arbitration (i.e., everything is now public record), I’m confident “the next Ronan Farrow” will write an unauthorized biography about Jeff and Lauren.

Meanwhile... My book, “Creating Monsters” will be published next year. But, since Bezos owns and/or controls the world’s book publishing machine, I'll continue to share bits and pieces of the truth wherever I can. So, for now, here’s the lawsuit-proof, tip of the iceberg truth about the richest and most famous couple on planet...

The climate abusing private jets, helicopters, yachts (with their own support yachts), SUVs, and sports cars; lack of real friends; desperate, and cringe-worthy me-me-me public appearances, are a good place to start. Although Lauren’s odd pre-scandal social media footprint has been completely scrubbed, with a bit of digging, common sense, and an assist from the WayBack Machine, the whole truth is easy to understand.

The best place to start is the clues revealed in our eldest brother Paul’s brutal “Fuck Fuck Game” email to Lauren:

“We have had a sick toxic relationship for years… a living hell for me, all the lies I had to tell for you so you could continue playing the Fuck Fuck Game. You put mom through hell, she aged 10 years before my eyes and she will never get that back… you have the same disease… you’re co-dependent, you are addicted to Adderall, Zanax, and alcohol.”

Paul is on-target about Lauren’s lies, extramarital affairs, addictions, and abuse. His email also gives us a glimpse into Lauren’s unique “Jekyll & Hyde” mix of love and generosity versus her callous ability to cut off anyone who has the courage to tell her the truth.

Another good place to look is Lauren’s Instagram page. Despite zero pre-2020 climate change posts, it’s now full of staged and overly-filtered photos celebrating Lauren’s globetrotting, carbon-polluting, private jet trips to attend fashion shows and to meet global leaders to discuss – you guessed it – climate change! Other photos celebrate tone-deaf and cringe-worthy public spectacles like the time Jeff and Lauren gave $100 Million to almost-billionaire Dolly Parton, as well as an abundance of strange, overly filtered, cringe-inducing solo selfies which defy logic.

After years of suppressing the truth about Lauren’s checkered past, and her complete puppet master control over the formerly richest man in the world, real journalists are starting to sniff around. Soon, the whole world will know the truth about Lauren’s long history of destructive, pathological lies, cheating, mistakes, and misdeeds (e.g., accepting payments from her billionaire boyfriend’s company for work on Amazon’s completed $25 Million Superbowl commercial, aborted at the last minute in January 2019 because of concerns about the alleged corporate payments to Lauren).

Thus far, I’ve ignored almost all interview requests because Bezos and my ex-brother-in-law, Patrick Whitesell, literally have total control over the morally bankrupt global media apparatus. The best evidence includes their ability to coerce Washington Post and TMZ to publish blatantly false and defamatory hit pieces; their ability to catch-and-kill The Information story and the first-person essay Eriq Gardner asked me to write in April 2019 while Matt Belloni was still Editor at The Hollywood Reporter; their ability to control fraud journalist Brad Stone, etc., etc.

Bottom line: As I've explained again and again, publicly and privately, until Jeff and Lauren apologize for lying about me, I will continue to tell the truth about them – anywhere I can.

Background: Seven years ago, I was falsely accused by CIA-connected Gavin de Becker, Bezos’ delegated “Amazon Investigator,” of being part of a crazy “politically motivated” conspiracy with conservative operatives including Roger Stone and Carter Page – to “take down Jeff Bezos to please President Trump.”

On cue, Washington Post — Bezos’ not-so-independent newspaper (long before Bezos’ 2024 Election Interference) — published vicious, false, and defamatory hit pieces which mentioned Roger Stone and President Trump twenty-five times each… twenty-five times! This, despite my secret meetings with Washington Post reporter Sarah Ellison, and my sincere offer of “access to everything, warts and all” — including contracts, emails, texts, photos, videos, and audio recordings which proved everything I did protected Bezos, Lauren, and our families – long before their grotesque Venice wedding proved that irrefutable fact, once and for all.

Thankfully, de Becker overshot the runway. Based on Bezos’ “heroic” Medium essay which brilliantly exposed The National Enquirer’s dick pic blackmail; and based on de Becker’s nonsensical claim that “there is no evidence of a hack,” published by his unethical allies at The Daily Beast, the FBI launched a federal investigation.

During the Grand Jury process, I cooperated fully, voluntarily turning over my iPhone and laptop for a full forensic analysis. I provided access to all evidence and testified truthfully under oath in a federal court building; and again under oath in two Depositions. Based on my full cooperation, the FBI quickly determined the men running The National Enquirer while operating under a Criminal non-prosecution Agreement did not “obtain” Bezos’ pornographic dick pic photos from me. An irrefutable fact the media refuses to report to this day.

Like clockwork, the centerpiece of de Becker’s distract-distract-distract strategy instantly switched from a “conservative take down” to a “hack” by Mohammad bin Salman, the future King of Saudi Arabia. Lazy media ass-kissers, including Brad Stone, and others on Bezos’ payroll at Washington Post and Business Insider, pivoted without any push back; conveniently ignoring de Becker’s prior widely published claims that there is “no evidence of a hack.”

Then, in January 2020, as John Quinn and Mike Zeller, my pit bull attorneys at Quinn Emmanuel, “the most feared law firm in the country,” were negotiating a private settlement to make me whole for the destruction of my business and reputation, I received a phone call from Gary Baum, a respected journalist at The Hollywood Reporter. Baum informed me that Endeavor/IMG Chairman Patrick Whitesell, my sister’s soon-to-be-ex-husband — a man with more skeletons in his closet than Stephen King, was peddling the false and defamatory claim that I sold stories to The National Enquirer, including the “nanny drama” scandal involving Whitesell's client Ben Affleck.

The following week, my attorneys sent Bezos, Whitesell, and de Becker a draft of the fact and evidence packed “RICO Complaint” which exposed the mafia-like conspiracy which framed me with false claims that I “sold out” Bezos and Lauren as part of a “politically-motivated” plot which did not exist.

That got their attention. A few days later, I received a $6 Million “and more” settlement offer. Although the destruction of my business and reputation was worth much more, to protect my family, I agreed to accept whatever the “and more” final figure was (estimated to be $25 Million) at a scheduled final settlement meeting the following week.

In a shocking twist, the settlement was derailed by proven Malpractice and Fraud committed by John Pierce, the disgraced founding partner of Pierce Bainbridge, one of my law firms at the time. With the statute of limitations deadline looming, I was forced to do the impossible: find last-minute replacement counsel to file an extremely complex defamation lawsuit against the richest and most powerful men in the world.

Due to an unethically undisclosed conflict involving Whitesell, Endeavor, and Quinn Emanuel, on January 31, 2020, a watered-down version of the RICO Complaint was filed by Enoch Liang, my “front man” counsel (with Zeller still calling all of the shots from behind-the-scenes). The watered-down Complaint left my hard, non-Hearsay evidence on the table because Liang was not “up to speed.” I was promised he would file a beefed up Amended Complaint, with all of our hard evidence, as soon as he was able to get up to speed. Trusting Zeller and Liang turned out to be a massive mistake.

The next business day, Bezos’ slick, high-powered attorneys filed an anti-SLAPP Motion which immediately halted everything. Months later, L.A. Superior Court Judge Doyle delivered a controversial and deeply-flawed anti-SLAPP ruling which allowed Bezos and de Becker to escape justice.

Confused by the aborted settlement, and mistakenly believing I was “coming after her – no matter what” – Lauren commanded Terry Bird, her personal attorney, a former federal prosecutor who should know better, to deliver a false and defamatory statement, on-the-record, to her close friends at TMZ.

When that reckless move didn’t stop me, Lauren began telling a series of bizarre, extortionate lies which she hoped would silence me. Included were ridiculously false claims that I abandoned vehicles in Mexico to defraud insurance companies, stole a photo of her in a bikini and sold it to a tabloid, and the nonsensical lie that I broke into the gated and walled Whitesell mansion to steal documents from their aborted 2016 divorce.

Although I’ve said it many times, it’s worth repeating: I would never sell out Jeff and Lauren; everything I did, including a strategic “win-win” deal with the devil protected them, and our families; I have never sold a photo in my entire career; and my strategic cooperation agreement with The National Enquirer strictly prohibited them from publishing the non-pornographic photos I used solely to verify the affair.

For clarity, verifying the affair Jeff and Lauren wanted to be public was my only contractual obligation. That simple “win-win” agreement allowed me to delay and soften the inevitable scandal by at least four months. For the avoidance of doubt, had de Becker not torpedoed my secret cooperation agreement, the fact that Bezos and Lauren dick pics and nude photos to each other and other embarrassing details would never have been published (e.g., Bezos’ rejection of his biological father’s dying wish, quotes from his aunt Kathy Jorgenson, the couple’s use of a psychic, etc.).

Most importantly, Jeff and Lauren knew and authorized my PR plan to negotiate a strategic cooperation agreement with whichever media outlet approached us first, most likely TMZ, The National Enquirer, Daily Mail, or Page Six.

Which brings us full circle to Lauren’s extortionate lies. At the risk of dignifying the lies, it's important to hammer home the fact that all of them are false: Although I did have a Jeep stolen while I was in college, my stepfather had recently cut me off; for switching schools without his permission. That included canceling my insurance. Therefore, insurance fraud was impossible because I didn’t have insurance on the Jeep.

It’s a similar situation with Lauren’s lie about the divorce documents. Aside from the common sense fact that no one steals divorce documents, Lauren apparently forgot she asked me, in front of a witness, and via text, to review the divorce documents so I could advise her on how to extract a larger divorce settlement from Whitesell — with the promise of a fifteen percent commission on the difference between the 2016 divorce settlement figure of $50 Million, and the 2019 figure (estimated to be $150 Million). In the process, Lauren instructed me, again in front of a witness, and via text, where and when to pick up the divorce documents, which she had hidden in a Goyard bag in the corner of her massive closet.

When all of those lies failed to silence me, Lauren and her attorney told the monstrous, extortionate lie that I sexually abused her throughout our childhood… in California. Putting aside the irrefutable facts that I’m gay, I’ve never been accused of any crime, and we never lived in California as children... I’ve never sexually abused anyone in my entire life — let alone one of my four sisters.

As already proven by a mountain of evidence, including passionate testimony contained in sworn Declarations from our parents, friends, and close relatives, all signed under penalty of Perjury, Lauren was lying. But… unless you’ve been falsely accused of sexual abuse of a minor (statutory rape) you can never understand the pain and suffering I endured.

In the immediate aftermath I was terrified that I’d be arrested at any moment. After confronting my parents, who I blame for allowing Lauren to become the “Jekyll & Hyde” monster she became, I had unimaginably painful phone conversations with my husband about which of my attorneys to contact if/when I was arrested, and how to quickly navigate through the bail process to get me out of jail before they killed me. For real time perspective, I placed the call to my husband while hiding in the hallway fearing the FBI would be there to arrest me at any moment.

Then I reported the monstrous extortionate lie to the FBI. After a thorough investigation, FBI Special Supervisory Agent Cody Burke made a CRIMINAL referral to the U.S. Attorney. That forced Lauren and Bird to admit the monstrous, extortionate lies in Court – alleging they were told as “a negotiation tactic” – although no negotiations were underway at the time. Deeply biased Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark A. Young did nothing to discipline the now-admitted false rape accusers. Justice indeed.

Now What?

Just over two years ago, I wrote a Medium essay exposing the media co-conspirators who framed me for “selling out” Bezos and Lauren. Contrary to false claims from Bill Isaacson, Bezos’ overly emotional pit bull attorney, my story has never changed. That’s because it’s not a “story” — it’s the truth. Again, everything I did protected Bezos, Lauren, and our families. Anyone who thinks money was a motive is an idiot. Period. Full stop.

When asked directly why Bezos was fighting a Court-ordered Deposition in a lawsuit against the sleazy tabloid which blackmailed him using the pornographic penis selfie photos he sent his mistress / employee throughout 2018, Isaacson said, “Because Michael is a bad person.” That’s rich.

I have a long, well-documented history of protecting my sister, family, friends, and victims of sexual assault, including victories against clients represented by Paul Weiss LLP. Although I am guilty of protecting Jeff and Lauren, two narcissists whose lying and cheating destroyed their families, my life-long record of protecting my sister, family, and clients does not make me a “bad person.”

A bad person is someone who lies to his wife, friends, family, and business colleagues. A bad person is someone who betrays his wife and children. A bad person is someone whose cheating breaks up families. A bad person is someone who pays his mistress out of corporate funds. A bad person is someone who uses a psychic to “imprint” his betrayed wife, then discusses the possibility of using his wife as a tabloid source. A bad person is someone who lies about it all — including swearing, under penalty of Perjury, that he knows nothing about the sources who provided his pornographic dick pic photos to a tabloid — all after publication of his “heroic” Medium essay in which he boasts about a blank check investigation to identify sources.

A bad person is someone who pushes his true friend, fierce protector, and future brother-in-law, under the bus — then uses his power, wealth, not-so- independent newspaper, and pit bull attorneys to bury, bankrupt, and silence him. A bad person is someone who falsely accuses her fifty-something gay brother of theft, breaking-and-entering, selling stolen goods, insurance fraud, and monstrous sexual abuse. No, I take that back. That’s not a bad person. That’s a very bad person.

With the benefit of hindsight, three filed lawsuits, and others on deck, the results speak for themselves. Against all odds, and with guidance from Santa Fe-based psychic Lynsey Rubin, Jeff and Lauren are married, Lauren thus far has gotten away with stealing her book idea from her yoga instructor, Alanna Zabel, and the two are shamelessly faking their “heroic” climate change image.

Meanwhile, MacKenzie Scott is a real author and truly sincere and heroic philanthropist who is quietly, passionately, and genuinely changing the world. Whitesell is… uh… happily? remarried to Pia Miller, a twenty-years-younger version of Lauren — but terrified about pending revelations in Court about his racist take down of Tobie Gonzalez (yup! - same Tobie... Lauren’s frenemy rival for a co-host spot on The View), secret 2018 yacht video of Whitesell grinding up against a teenage boy named Henry, and other “blackmail materials” — all collected and saved by Lauren — then shared with me and others. Most importantly, my beloved niece and nephews are happy and healthy – although Lauren completely cut me off from them and I’ve not seen or spoken to them in over seven painful years.

Through the most detailed Due Diligence they’ve ever conducted, my attorneys proved each and every one of my allegations. In the process, they also disproved each and every one of Lauren’s false, extortionate allegations against me. Every. Single. One.

Although much of the truth has already been revealed in Court, now, because Bezos and Whitesell literally own and/or control the morally bankrupt media, there’s been a complete blackout on the totally repressed scandal, including any developments in my favor. So, it’s important to share some of the latest:

o Their $6 Million dollar “and more” settlement offer – which I agreed to accept before it was derailed by Malpractice and Fraud – is now public.

o Pierce’s Malpractice was exposed, ironically by John Harris, an attorney working for Dylan Howard, the former Editor of The National Enquirer, the man who blackmailed Bezos with his own pornographic penis selfie photos — photos which were “obtained” from someone other than me.

o I sincerely believe Bezos committed Perjury in a desperate attempt to avoid testifying under oath — in a lawsuit which revolves around his dick pics, lies, cheating and other misdeeds.

o The National Enquirer whistleblower identified Whitesell as one of the sources.

o After my strategic ruse was revealed (i.e., “a friend of a client” willing to verify the Bezos affair for $200,000) Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, TMZ, Page Six, THR, New York Times, Brad Stone, Sarah Ellison, Alex Berzon, and all of the fraud “journalists” who crave Bezos’ approval, stopped covering the story.

o The stories from Bezos, de Becker, and The National Enquirer executives’ keep changing. My story has never changed.

At this point, you’re probably asking, Why should I care about these rich, horrible, narcissistic liars? The answer is not much of a complexifier. If you care about truth and justice, you should care. If they can destroy my life, business, and reputation, they can destroy anyone.

As I’ve said many times: this isn’t just about me. I’m merely a pawn in a sordid saga with no heroes & many villains. In the near future, the world will learn the whole truth about the mafia-like tactics used by the rich and powerful “anonymous” people who framed me.

That includes the motives behind Lauren’s and Bird’s extortionate lies and Bezos’ “source” Perjury; the motives of Whitesell and other sources who helped The National Enquirer “obtain” Bezos’ dick pic photos; the motives of de Becker, the man who, regardless of sources, failed to protect the privacy of the richest man in the world — before launching ridiculous, “widely published” politically motivated conspiracy distractions — as well as the identities and motives of the unethical journalists with whom they collude.

The revelations will unfold, not because journalists suddenly begin to ethically cover the story. Rather, it will all unfold because of revelations in Court, including my Malpractice, Fraud, and Breach of Fiduciary Duty lawsuit against my corrupt former attorneys which has been ordered to arbitration by wise, no bullshit, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark Epstein.

In the meantime, my offer of full, unfettered access to the facts and all evidence, including the recordings of Bezos and I discussing sources is open to any journalist. Just ask. And, my advice to Bezos has never changed… run!

Stay tuned…

– Michael Sanchez