Bobot, you are truly a sage for the age, because option 3 is what Pecker chose, too!
This story appeared on the AP 32 minutes ago and is taking off like a SpaceX rocket.
This is great. “Hey, everybody! A tabloid is trying to blackmail me! Here’s what they said!” It really is the best way to stick it to their faces. Very cool he actually published the letter from the dickwad attorney.
So, apparently nobody… even his own attorneys… knew Bezos was going to do this.
Also, this is the lawyer that wrote the letter. Accused of sexual harrassment himself, his self-given nickname was “Dildo”.
So… Pecker used Dildo to threaten the publishing of dick pics of the CEO of a company named “Amazon”.
What a time to be alive!
I think I love you.
Could I have laughed any harder? Why, no. No, I couldn’t. 
I can’t wait to see these corrupt creeps get taken down!!!
Dildo better guard his bar license.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t blackmail a crime? Who could we expect to see going to jail over this?
What do the Duke of Wellington and Jeff Bezos have in common?
“Publish and be damned!”
Well done, Mr Bezos!
That was my immediate thought as well.
Being a party to blackmail sure sounds like “conduct unbecoming” to me.
I’d love to see Mr. Pecker declared a flight risk and denied bail for this extortion attempt. Let him sit in jail for the 4-5 years it will take for this to come to trial.
That’s quite smart of Bezos, and actually considerate of his lawyers.
You know there’s going to be fall-out, and a lawyer named Dildo would likely try to make allegations against Bezos’s lawyers, just to muddy the waters.
This is Bezos, the world’s richest man, essentially saying, “Don’t worry, guys, I’ve got this.”
Real richest man, not that fake billionaire stuff that someone has been peddling. 
Problem with coming at a man worth $100 billion is that if he spends half his fortune on revenge, he still has $50 billion to really make it hurt.
David Pecker just happens to be blackmailing his buddy Donald Trump’s nemesis (OK, one of his nemesises), and I’m sure Trump had nothing to do with it.
Also, anyone want to take bets that Pecker is behind other blackmail. Say of certain Senators from South Carolina who are inexplicably nice to Trump now?
Or a Blue Origin rocket…
Stolen from Twitter:
Lucius Fox: Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands; and your plan, is to blackmail this person?
Lucius Fox: Good Luck
Aye; I keep hearing that in my head too.
Just a reminder of an old news story, one that deserved to get more play than it did.
In this case, the Trump Administration was directly involved in the blackmail. And it didn’t work back then,either. Joe told them to go ahead and run the story.
Yes, but…it’s complicated, according to the law-talking blogs and tweets I’m reading.Here’s an unrolled Twitter thread from Renato Mariotti, CNN legal analyst and former Federal Prosecutor. Summing up, it’s despicable, and extortion in the common sense of the word, but prosecutors are unlikely to seek prosecution. The idea appears to be that AMI will argue that this is an attempt at a legal settlement - see numbers 11, 12, and 13.
Here’s another one from Popehat, discussing the precedents in this sort of case, and the line between discussing a settlement, and (criminal) extortion.
And yeah, however the courts turn out, it is not wise to piss off one of the world’s richest people, and it looks like AMI managed that quite nicely.