Billy Jensen Instagram – When a true crime story became part of the Trump hush money saga.
I was pretty excited to be featured in Men’s Journal for solving murders with social media (this was before the books). But when I got the magazine, which always has a moody male actor or athlete on the cover, I was confused—as was every other reader. I would later learn the cover was part of the contract in the catch and kill Donald Trump allegedly worked with American Media. Before the election in 2016, AM bought former Playboy Playmate Karen Mcdougal’s life rights for $150k—which meant she couldn’t openly discuss her alleged 2006 affair with Trump. Macdougal later sued to get her rights back, claiming they only bought the rights to kill the Trump story. The two settled, under the conditions that they put Macdougal on this cover.
So that issue, which the edit team really did not want to publish, sold poorly due to reader confusion, is now part of American history in Trump’s bizarre hush money trial.
Thank you Rachel Maddow for the “Facebook detective” shoutout. | Posted on 31/May/2024 03:15:35
