[Catspaw]

Flynt has the pictures of Jessica, says he won't publish them--but will he turn the pictures and negatives over to Jessica so she can destroy them? Naw, that'd be too nice--and Flynt has to squeeze every ounce of publicity out of this.

[milemark]

The pics were without a clear view of the face anyway, so it could have been anyone. He would have been sued blue if he published them and labeled them as Lynch. This way he gets a load of publicity and makes himself look like a good guy, at least to some suckers, even though the whole story was bunk from the beginning. The British tabloids rejected those same photos because they couldn't be identified.