Don't forget Pecker was an lead investor in George Magazine and helped launch George.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/john-f-kennedy-jr-george-magazine-stars-share-stories-project-1200375/
It was David Pecker (yes, that David Pecker), then CEO of Hachette Filipacchi, who swooped in with a solid deal. Well, solid for Hachette — a notoriously cheap publisher. And so the sexiest magazine in town did not pay the most glamorous rates (except to Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal).