These are the main players in the explosive saga of Jeff Bezos' love life and his war with the National Enquirer

A former TV anchor and licensed pilot, Sanchez was photographed with Jeff Bezos by the Enquirer. She is currently married but separated from Hollywood agent Patrick Whitesell.

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According to the emails published in Bezos' Medium post, the Enquirer threatened to publish photos of Sanchez as well as Bezos. Sanchez has yet to speak out about the story.

In his Medium post, Jeff Bezos addresses David Pecker directly, entitling it "No thank you, Mr Pecker." Pecker is the chairman and CEO of American Media Inc (AMI), which owns the National Enquirer.

Bezos played up Pecker's links to US President Donald Trump in his blog post, referring to its role in the "so-called 'catch and kill' process." This involved the Enquirer buying the story of playmate Karen McDougal, who had an affair with Trump, in order to keep it under wraps.

The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Pecker's association with Trump caused him to hit pause on the Enquirer's first story about Bezos and Sanchez.

Three people familiar with the matter told The Post that the piece was ready to publish in early autumn 2018, but Pecker wanted to wait until after the midterm elections so as not to draw further attention to his links with Trump.

AMI has consistently denied its reporting on Bezos is politically motivated. "American Media emphatically rejects any assertion that its reporting was instigated, dictated or influenced in any manner by external forces, political or otherwise," it told the Post this week.

Bezos said in his blog post that an "AMI leader" told him Pecker was "apoplectic" about Bezos' investigation.

Donald Trump also got a namecheck in Jeff Bezos' blog post.

Bezos said that Donald Trump "wrongly" thinks of him as an "enemy" due to his ownership of The Washington Post, a paper which Trump often criticises as being bias against his administration.

Bezos said Trump's animosity was evidenced, "by his many tweets." It's true, Trump has tweeted antagonistically about Bezos — at one point praising the Enquirer for its investigation and mocking Bezos for his divorce, giving him the moniker Jeff "Bozo."

Trump is also reportedly "obsessed" with taking down Bezos' main venture, Amazon. The president has accused the company of abusing the US postal service and hurting "tax paying retailers."

Gavin de Becker has known Jeff Bezos for 20 years, and is his head of security. Bezos said in his blog post that he hired de Becker to conduct a private investigation into who leaked his texts to the Enquirer.

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De Becker went on the record with The Daily Beast about the investigation last week, saying he believed the leak and the investigation were politically motivated, and said he was questioning Lauren Sanchez's brother.

In the AMI emails Bezos published, the Enquirer demands that both Bezos and de Becker, release public statements, "affirming that they have no knowledge or basis for suggesting that AM's coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces."

According to the Washington Post, AMI's chief content officer Dylan Howard first started looking into Bezos and Sanchez's relationship after he saw a photograph of them on a VIP viewing platform for a rocket launch at Bezos' company Blue Origin.

Howard was also reportedly furious that Bezos pre-empted the Enquirer's story on him by tweeting his divorce first.

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One of the emails published in Bezos' blog post is from Howard. In it, Howard describes the photos The Enquirer "obtained," including a picture of a "'below the belt selfie.'"

Marty Singer has a fearsome reputation as a Hollywood lawyer whose client roster at one point included Bill Cosby. Singer is Gavin de Becker's attorney, and the conduit to both de Becker and Bezos as evidenced in the published emails.

AMI's Deputy General Counsel Jon Fine emailed Singer laying out its terms — namely that Bezos and de Becker release statements that the Enquirer's investigation was not politically motivated in return for the intimate pictures being kept under wraps.

Michael Sanchez became a part of the story when Gavin de Becker said he'd questioned Sanchez about the leaked texts.

Sanchez has been a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, and has links to former Trump campaign figures Carter Page and Roger Stone.

Sanchez denies leaking the texts, and on Tuesday told The Washington Post that he believes de Becker may have been behind the leak in an effort to sabotage Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's relationship.

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