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AMI buys In Touch, Life & Style and Closer

American Media Inc. has tightened its grip on the celebrity magazine market.

Page Six has learned that AMI has purchased In Touch, Life & Style and Closer from German publisher Bauer.

It also picked up its teen titles including J14, Girls’ World and Lifestory.

Sources say that staff will be informed at an all-hands meeting on Friday morning.

AMI, which puts out the National Enquirer, Star, Ok! and Radar Online, among others, purchased Us Weekly from Wenner Media in 2017. It now controls all the celebrity weeklies apart from People magazine.

The company — headed by David Pecker — began consolidating the celebrity market in 2011 when it bought Ok! from British outfit Northern and Shell.

It also reportedly made a grab to buy People from Time Inc. before it was sold to Meredith.

The company’s strategy has been to squeeze profits from the titles — which have generally been struggling to hold on to readers — by using one staff to produce an ever-growing number of magazines.

In Touch Weekly has been in the news of late because of its place in the Stormy Daniels scandal. The magazine interviewed Daniels in 2011 about her alleged affair with Donald Trump, but didn’t publish the story after getting legal threats. It finally published the interview in March 2018, making headlines around the world.

A request for comment from Bauer was not immediately returned.