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The Final Suspects
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In this special behind the scenes episode of The Killing Of JonBenet: The Final Suspects, the audience is brought into the inner circle of the investigative team as they listen into a production meeting at the onset of the project. Executive Producers Dylan Howard and Matt Sprouse talk to investigative reporters Doug Longhini and Doug Montero, as well as the mysterious internet expert known only as Jameson, about the upcoming investigation that will utilize deceased lead detective Lou Smit’s list of uncleared suspects. If you have information that could help our investigators and the Ramseys identify JonBenet’s killer, please email us at tips@justiceforjonbenet.com
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US magazine

‘The Killing of JonBenet: The Final Suspects’ Producer Shares John Ramsey’s ‘Heartbreaking’ New Confession

Ahead of the premiere of “The Killing of JonBenét: The Final Suspects,” executive producer Dylan Howard met up with the late JonBenét Ramsey’s father, John Ramsey, who participated in the highly anticipated podcast.
“He said something that was so heartbreaking,” Howard reveals in a special behind-the-scenes episode. “He said to me that JonBenét was killed because of him.”
The investigative journalist explains that John, 76, believes he and JonBenét were “targeted” ahead of her death in December 1996.
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“He had just sold his business to a significant company that obviously gave him millions and millions of dollars. So someone may have been jealous of his success,” Howard speculates. “He said to me, ‘I live every day knowing that my daughter was killed, likely, because of me.’ And that broke my heart.”
John and Patsy Ramsey leave their attorney Lin Wood’s office during a break in the Ramseys’ questioning by Boulder, Colorado, authorities in Atlanta, Georgia.
Fellow executive producer Matt Sprouse notes that John is aware it may be “too late to get justice” in the unsolved case, but the businessman hopes “to get these answers for his children and his grandchildren.”
“He knows that it’s too late to get justice in some ways for JonBenét because someone has gotten away with this for 23 years, but at least he can go to his grave knowing that he found answers for his family,” Sprouse says.
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JonBenét was found dead on Christmas Day at her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. A handwritten ransom note was also infamously discovered in the house.
Initially, authorities suspected that John and his wife, Patsy Ramsey, were involved in the murder, but the couple, along with JonBenét’s brother, Burke Ramsey, were eventually cleared.
If you have information that could help investigators and the Ramseys identify JonBenét’s killer, please email tips@justiceforjonbenet.com.
The post ‘The Killing of JonBenet: The Final Suspects’ Producer Shares John Ramsey’s ‘Heartbreaking’ New Confession appeared first on RadarOnline.
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American Media Inc. executive Dylan Howard is out after more than a decade at the publishing company, Variety has learned exclusively.
Howard’s contract, which expired on March 31, was not renewed. Reasons for his departure were not immediately clear, though rumors of his exit had been brewing internally at the owner of Us Weekly and InTouch magazines for weeks, multiple sources said, with another adding the decision not to renew Howard’s contract was mutual. The unflinching tabloid editor had become the subject of media storms surrounding Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump in recent years.
Howard and American Media did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for comment.
Howard most recently served as a senior vice president in corporate development, where he was said to be conceiving scripted and unscripted projects in the true crime arena. Prior to that, Howard spent six years as the editor in chief of AMI digital gossip property RadarOnline, and previously served as chief content officer for all the David Pecker-run publications including the National Enquirer, Closer, Life&Style and InTouch.
Numerous media reports over the past year suggested Howard had been sidelined at AMI with his editorial role being minimized, as he’s switched his focus to TV and literary projects.
The Australian-born journalist rose to prominence as a tabloid reporter by exposing major stories like Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic rants and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s secret child. He was a key figure in Ronan Farrow’s reporting regarding Weinstein’s enablers with Farrow reporting that Howard was a Weinstein accomplice who dug up dirt on women accusing the fallen movie mogul, who is now serving a 23-year prison sentence for rape and sexual assault.
Howard famously threatened to sue the Pulitzer Prize-winning Farrow and his publisher over his best-selling book, “Catch & Kill,” which is about a journalist being threatened by systems of powerful men. (The phrase “catch and kill” refers to the practice of tabloid editors buying stories and then burying them, so they never see the light of day.)
Howard was also accused by Farrow and The Wall Street Journal of burying stories about President Trump with Farrow writing that the Australian tabloid executive shredded incriminating documents about Trump when he oversaw the Enquirer, which never published the documents.
In 2019, Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, accused Howard and American Media of extortion and blackmail after the Enquirer published an exposé about his extramarital affair and included racy texts to his now-girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, which forced Bezos to publicly announce his divorce. The Amazon founder made his accusations known in a lengthy written piece, where he said Howard threatened to print a nude photo of Bezos and Sanchez, unless the Bezos-owned Washington Post eased up on their “politically motivated” coverage of AMI.

Less than two weeks ago, Michael Sanchez, the brother of Bezos’ girlfriend, sued Howard, Pecker and American Media for defamation, claiming he had not tipped off the National Enquirer about Bezos’ affair and did not leak pornographic materials of Bezos and his sister to the tabloid. Sanchez’s suit said because of AMI, his professional career and reputation have been ruined, and he has become estranged from his own family. In response to the filing, AMI said, “The fact, as we have maintained throughout, is that Mr. Sanchez sold the National Enquirer the story about his sister’s secret affair and was the sole source for its reporting. His frivolous lawsuit underscores what his true motivation is, his own greed.”
Howard was also implicated when American Media Inc. paid $150,000 to Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claimed an affair with Trump, to buy the exclusive rights to her story, which never ran. Following scrutiny for the McDougal hush money payout and fallout from the Bezos expose, AMI made a $100 million deal to sell the National Enquirer to James Cohen, the heir to Hudson News, which as of today, has still not closed. A source says the much-delayed deal has not been called off, and prior to the COVID-19 crisis, the buyer was still working through details, but with the economic crisis spurred by the pandemic, business across all industries is on pause.
Howard’s departure comes as American Media announced company-wide salary cuts, in the wake of the coronavirus, though the publishing company was financially troubled long before the viral outbreak. All of the company’s titles, such as Us Weekly, cut employees’ salary by 23% on Apr. 1.
When announcing company-wide pay cuts last week, American Media Inc. released a statement to media, noting that no layoffs have occurred. “American Media is committed to doing everything we can during the COVID-19 crisis to ensure our staff maintain their employment and health benefits,” a spokesperson for the company said.
Prior to the coronavirus-prompted salary cuts at AMI, both RadarOnline and Men’s Journal underwent sweeping staff reductions with the men’s lifestyle magazine relocating to the west coast and laying off New York-based employees. Insiders say RadarOnline was hit the hardest, among the company’s layoffs.


American Media’s pay cuts come as the advertising business has been shaken by coronavirus’ impact, causing other publishing company to slash salaries, including Buzzfeed, which recently announced temporary cuts. The entire entertainment industry has been deeply affected by the pandemic with production shut down across television and film and deal-making halted in Hollywood, resulting in the talent agencies being particularly hit hard with layoffs and staff-wide salary reductions. Mega corporations, like Disney, have furloughed employees, as theme parks remain closed and chairman Bob Iger gave up his multi-million annual salary.
After a brief departure from American Media when he ran the celebrity site CelebBuzz, Howard had been back with AMI since 2013 and became editor-in-chief of RadarOnline, and later was named editor of the National Enquirer. During his rise at AMI, Howard was a key lieutenant to Pecker, who remains atop the publishing company.
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Dylan Howard, the National Enquirer editor who was caught in a hush-money scheme to silence women who claimed they had affairs with President Trump, has reportedly left the supermarket tabloid’s parent company, American Media Inc.
Howard — an 11-year veteran at American Media who in 2014 was promoted to chief content officer, the top editorial post in the company — left when his contract expired on March 31, according to Variety, which first reported the news.
In addition to silencing women’s allegations of affairs with Trump, Howard also was alleged in the Ronan Farrow’s Pulitzer Prize winning book “Catch and Kill” to have helped disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein dig up dirt on his accusers. Howard threatened, but never actually filed, a lawsuit after the book was published.
American Media, which also publishes US Weekly, Star magazine and a host of other celebrity-focused titles, declined to comment on Howard’s reported departure. Howard did not return e-mails and calls from Media Ink.
As Media Ink first reported, Howard was sidelined in early 2019 after he was accused by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos of trying to blackmail him. The Enquirer had obtained steamy selfies that Bezos had allegedly sent to his mistress Lauren Sanchez, prompting Bezos to announce he was divorcing his wife MacKenzie Bezos days before the tabloid published its story.
Howard was said to have threatened to publish the salacious photos of Bezos — including what Howard described in an e-mail to Bezos as “d–k pics”— unless Bezos released a statement saying the first explosive expose on his affair was not politically motivated.
Instead, Bezos posted a story on Medium deriding what he said was a blackmail attempt. After the Bezos controversy, Howard was removed from his role overseeing the tabloids and reassigned as a VP for TV and video projects.
At the time, American Media had already cooperated with a federal investigation into the so-called “catch and kill” stories that it purchased but never published in order to silence accusers of Trump who said they had flings with him years before he decided to run for president.
The Wall Street Journal broke the story that American Media paid $150,000 to Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who claimed she had a yearlong fling with the married Trump. In a second instance, American Media was accused of being a conduit for hush money between porn star Stormy Daniels and Trump’s ex-fixer, Michael Cohen.
Trump has denied the affairs. Cohen is currently serving a three-year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty for his role in arranging the 2016 payments to cover up what he called “my boss’ dirty deeds.”
In exchange for turning rat, American Media CEO David Pecker and Howard were granted immunity in the federal case in the US Southern District of New York. But one of the terms of the deal was that the company stay out of legal trouble for the next three years.
The Bezos and Karen McDougal controversies were said to be a major reason that Chatham Asset Management, which owns 80 percent of American Media, sought to sell the Enquirer to extinguish heat the secretive hedge fund was getting from its investors.
In April 2019, American Media said it had a deal to sell the Enquirer and several smaller supermarket tabloid titles to a new company headed by James Cohen, the CEO of magazine wholesaler Hudson News, for $100 million.
Cohen did not return calls and the company has declined comment on the long-stalled Enquirer deal which sources speculated is dead in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. Even if completed at the original price, the $100 million in cash would not be enough to satisfy the debt load believed to be around $400 million. In an odd twist due to past financial upheavals, shareholders and debt holders are one and the same at the company.
American Media has been beset by financial woes for quite some time. On April 1, the company said it was slashing all company salaries by 23 percent as a response to the coronavirus. At the time, the company said there were no layoffs.
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