Los Angeles-based billionaire Ronald W. Burkle is denying a Thursday report in the New York Times that he’s in talks to buy the troubled National Enquirer from American Media.
“We are not interested in, looking at and have not approached AMI about buying the National Enquirer,” a spokesperson for Burkle and his Yucaipa Companies investment firm told TheWrap, also saying that no reporter from the Times had called prior to publication.
A rep for AMI did not respond to a request for comment from TheWrap; a Times spokesperson wrote: “As our story notes, New York Times reporters reached out to a representative for Yucaipa Companies and did not hear back before publication.