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American Media Inc., which publishes supermarket tabloids Star and Weekly World News, will stop publishing three magazines, cutting 9% of jobs, and plans to move the National Enquirer back to Florida from New York. The publisher will fold Celebrity Living, car enthusiast magazine MPH and Shape en Espanol, a spokeswoman said. The National Enquirer will return to its offices in Lantana after moving to New York for a year. The company said the New York office was too expensive.

The state's ethics enforcement agency has found no wrongdoing in its review of a complaint made four years ago against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in connection with a consulting contract he reached with a muscle magazine publisher days before he took office in 2003. The Fair Political Practices Commission, in a letter earlier this month, told a lawyer for the Republican governor that the complaint filed by the California Democratic Party is now closed. The contract with American Media Inc. was estimated to be worth up to $8 million over five years.

The struggling parent of two of the nation's best-known tabloids, the National Enquirer and the Star, is being acquired by a New York investment firm for $300 million. American Media Inc., the Lantana, Fla.-based publishing empire that has suffered from slipping newsstand sales, is being purchased by Evercore Partners, which is also assuming $470 million in debt under the deal announced Tuesday.

American Media Inc. said it would stop printing the Weekly World News, which for 28 years gleefully chronicled the exploits of alien babies, animal-human hybrids and dead celebrities. The company said it would end the print version of the tabloid newspaper with the Aug. 27 issue but would maintain the online version (www.weeklyworldnews.com). American Media is best known as the publisher of the National Enquirer. The Boca Raton, Fla.

The continuing scandal over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's unconventionally intimate relationship with tabloid publisher American Media Inc. is rife with unsavory personal and political implications. But it's also an absolutely crystalline example of the evils inherent in pay-to-play journalism.

Soon after Arnold Schwarzenegger entered the 2003 recall campaign, a tabloid publisher that was recruiting him as a consultant tried to suppress a risque 1983 Playboy video starring the future governor. The video, which had first aired years before on the Playboy Channel, shows him grabbing a scantily clad woman and making other sexually suggestive gestures. American Media Inc.

American Media Inc. said it would stop printing the Weekly World News, which for 28 years gleefully chronicled the exploits of alien babies, animal-human hybrids and dead celebrities. The company said it would end the print version of the tabloid newspaper with the Aug. 27 issue but would maintain the online version (www.weeklyworldnews.com). American Media is best known as the publisher of the National Enquirer. The Boca Raton, Fla.

Thomas H. Lee Partners is teaming with Evercore Capital Partners to take control of the company that owns the National Enquirer. Boston-based Thomas Lee and Evercore will split a $508- million investment in a transaction valuing American Media Inc. at $1.5 billion. American Media's properties include the Enquirer and the Star tabloids.

Clad in white protective suits, investigators set up devices inside the quarantined former headquarters of the National Enquirer to take samples and search for clues in last fall's anthrax attack. The teams of FBI agents and scientists hope to find the letter or package that brought the anthrax into the Boca Raton building and fatally infected a photo editor. FBI investigators also want to compare the anthrax spores found in the American Media Inc.

American Media Inc., home to the National Enquirer tabloid and glossy celebrity weekly Star, said Monday that it would team with "Rocky" actor Sylvester Stallone to launch a fitness-focused magazine. The monthly magazine will be called Sly, the Hollywood action star's nickname, and will be aimed at men ages 35 to 54, American Media said. It will join other magazines -- such as Oprah Winfrey's O, the Oprah Magazine and Martha Stewart Living -- that are named after their muses.

Cameron Diaz accepted "substantial" damages from American Media Inc., publisher of the National Enquirer, on Friday for alleging that she had an affair with a married man, her lawyer said. Simon Smith, a partner with the London law firm Schillings, told London's High Court that the article alleged that Diaz had a "smooching session" with a married producer who worked on her MTV show, "Trippin'." The article was posted to the magazine's website in May 2005.

American Media Inc., which publishes supermarket tabloids Star and Weekly World News, will stop publishing three magazines, cutting 9% of jobs, and plans to move the National Enquirer back to Florida from New York. The publisher will fold Celebrity Living, car enthusiast magazine MPH and Shape en Espanol, a spokeswoman said. The National Enquirer will return to its offices in Lantana after moving to New York for a year. The company said the New York office was too expensive.

Soon after Arnold Schwarzenegger entered the 2003 recall campaign, a tabloid publisher that was recruiting him as a consultant tried to suppress a risque 1983 Playboy video starring the future governor. The video, which had first aired years before on the Playboy Channel, shows him grabbing a scantily clad woman and making other sexually suggestive gestures. American Media Inc.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger kept his job as executive editor of two muscle magazines -- and continued to collect a portion of ad revenue as payment -- for five months after telling one of the publications' top executives that he found the ads for steroid-like substances and penis enlargement inappropriate.

The continuing scandal over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's unconventionally intimate relationship with tabloid publisher American Media Inc. is rife with unsavory personal and political implications. But it's also an absolutely crystalline example of the evils inherent in pay-to-play journalism.

Days after Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped into the race for governor and girded for questions about his past, a tabloid publisher wooing him for a business deal promised to pay a woman $20,000 to sign a confidentiality agreement about an alleged affair with the candidate. American Media Inc., which publishes the National Enquirer, signed a friend of the woman to a similar contract about the alleged relationship for $1,000. American Media's contract with Gigi Goyette of Malibu is dated Aug.

Cameron Diaz accepted "substantial" damages from American Media Inc., publisher of the National Enquirer, on Friday for alleging that she had an affair with a married man, her lawyer said. Simon Smith, a partner with the London law firm Schillings, told London's High Court that the article alleged that Diaz had a "smooching session" with a married producer who worked on her MTV show, "Trippin'." The article was posted to the magazine's website in May 2005.

The largest team of investigators since the FBI began checking for anthrax at the former headquarters of the National Enquirer descended on American Media Inc.'s offices, beginning a 12-hour shift, police officer Jeff Kelly said. Officials wouldn't say how many people were in the Boca Raton building or if any evidence had been found since crews in protective gear reentered the building Friday for the first time since last fall's contamination. The investigation will continue until Sept. 11.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday that he would cancel his multimillion-dollar consulting contract with a publisher of health and bodybuilding magazines, amid complaints of a conflict of interest. The announcement came a day after his top aide dubbed the controversy "much ado about nothing" and rejected calls for Schwarzenegger to end his relationship with American Media Inc. The company publishes Muscle & Fitness and Flex magazines, as well as the tabloids National Enquirer and the Globe.

Kobe Bryant's civil attorneys said in a court filing Thursday that American Media has agreed to pay an unspecified amount of money to the woman who accused the Laker guard of sexual assault. American Media publishes the Globe and other tabloid newspapers that covered the case. The woman's attorneys have argued that only Bryant is responsible for civil damages; Bryant's side has said that the media and other entities may be at fault.