PART 1: So, one of my friends informed me a few days ago that my ex-bf (significantly younger, lives abroad) pushed a poetry book online (visibly under the gay poetry category), and that the guy on the cover looked "an awful lot like" me. She sent me a screenshot of it, and I realized that it was a photo of me taken by my ex a few months prior to our break-up.
The photo was heavily manipulated, and my face was replaced with a human skull, to either make me look like a monster or to make sure that I wouldn't be able to sue him for it. I can't be recognized by association, so I'm able to put it out there with ease of mind. But my hair, jawline, neck, and ears were kept almost intact -other than the overall smudge(?) effect- to the extent that one of my close friends immediately recognized me the moment she saw it. She'd also read the book to see if he revealed my identity in it, and he didn't plainly, but the closing poem was apparently made entirely of our text messages.
I downloaded the book to secure it as evidence in case he removed it from Kindle, and skipped to the end. There it was, a shitty poem in which he put together a hefty number of my farewell messages together, edited & recreated some sentences to combine them into some sort of a narrative letter in which I poetically (??) explained to him in detail why I was leaving him. He wasn't being subtle about it either as he named the poem "your last messages to me, unrecognizable", and it couldn't be further away from the truth. Even though he "allegedly" rendered them unrecognizable, they literally, in every way, matched the ones I'd sent him on iMessage at the time.
There were even reviews from some people we both knew while we dated, and a few of them were not faint in letting everyone know that the book "perfectly" encapsulated what it was like to date a narcissist & sociopath and even made snarky comments about how they knew who it was the book talked about. It was clear that he asked them to read the book because none of those simpletons had ever mentioned even touching a book in their lives.
I immediately contacted Amazon's customer service, even pulled some strings, and had them remove the book. But it was back up online again the next morning as, clearly, the little bitch appealed to the take-down or republished it. The comments from people we mutually knew were gone at least, but this isn't exactly solving my problem. I also enlisted the help of friends in reporting his Twitter account as spam until it was put on hold, and we were successful. He got a new account, which is irrelevant because he now has zero followers.