Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Exposes David Pecker's Blackmail

Amazon chief Jeff Bezos published a remarkable post on Medium Thursday, where he exposed a concerted blackmail effort on the part of AMI head David Pecker to blackmail Bezos into retracting statements about his motivation for publishing stolen texts and photos between Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, his mistress.

After the National Enquirer article, Bezos hired a private investigator, reasoning that if someone of his means was subject to blackmail and extortion and didn't fight back, they'd get away with it every time with people who have fewer resources. According to Bezos, an AMI official told him Pecker was "apoplectic" over the investigation.

Pecker's apoplexy led to the first extortion attempt, made by AMI Chief Content Officer Dylan Howard, who urged Bezos to reconsider and withdraw his claims that the hit was politically motivated, and closing with an appeal to "common sense."

Here's the inventory, as listed in the email:

However, in the interests of expediating this situation, and with The Washington Post poised to publish unsubstantiated rumors of The National Enquirer’s initial report, I wanted to describe to you the photos obtained during our newsgathering.

In addition to the “below the belt selfie — otherwise colloquially known as a ‘d*ck pick’” — The Enquirer obtained a further nine images. These include:

· Mr. Bezos face selfie at what appears to be a business meeting.

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