Bezos: $75M Melania Trump movie ‘good business decision’

Jeff Bezos says he “had nothing to do with” Amazon’s decision to greenlight a multimillion-dollar documentary on Melania Trump, denying the project was an attempt to curry favor with the Trump administration.

“The Melania thing is a falsehood that will not die,” Bezos, the founder of Amazon, told Andrew Ross Sorkin in a Wednesday interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

“I see reported all the time that somehow I was involved in this, and I know we did this at this Mar-a-Lago dinner,” Bezos said, referring to President Trump’s Florida resort home.

“We have denied it. Melania’s office has denied it. It’s not true. I had nothing to do with that,” Bezos told Sorkin.

Amazon MGM Studios reportedly paid $40 million for “Melania,” which premiered in theaters nationwide in February. The film, which follows the first lady in the days leading up to her husband’s........

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