Dylan Howard, the National Enquirer editor who was elevated to chief content officer at American Media Inc. following a U.S. Justice Department probe, exited the company on Mar. 31
editor who was elevated to chief content officer at American Media Inc. following a U.S. Justice Department probe of the company in connection with the same secret payoffs scheme that put Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen behind bars, exited the company on Mar. 31.Neither Howard nor AMI immediately responded to a request for comment. Howard’s tenure atop AMI’s tabloid empire brought him to the white-hot center of not just Trump’s narrative but those of Harvey Weinstein and Jeff Bezos as well.
After AMI entered a plea agreement with the Justice Department, Howard transitioned to his CCO position under company head David Pecker. In the new role, he oversaw start-up subsidiary Broad + Water Studios, which produced documentaries whose fare was in keeping with the firm’s tabloid instincts. In November 2019,reported that he’d proposed to secretly pay $1 million to R. Kelly to participate in a TV docuseries he was hoping to develop about the R&B singer’s underage rape allegations.
In 2017 Howard was accused in the Associated Press of sexually harassing employees at AMI’s Los Angeles offices earlier in the decade. The company claimed it’d conducted an internal review at the time and didn’t find serious wrongdoing. He later departed AMI for 15 months to run Celebuzz, where he faced similar allegations. Howard then returned to AMI, promoted to oversee theand all of AMI’s newsrooms out of its New York office.
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