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David Hans Schmidt dead at 47
The Arizona Republic recalls the beginnings of Schmidt's infamous career. He described a day in the early 1990s when he was buying groceries and saw a Star magazine that featured Gennifer Flowers, a TV news reporter, discussing her affair with Bill Clinton. Schmidt had a brainstorm. He figured he could start a bidding war between the leading men's magazines for nude photos of Flowers. According to his biography, he tracked Flowers down at a Dallas hotel and signed her to a deal. Other clients quickly followed, including Paula Jones, another Clinton scandal figure; Divine Brown, the prostitute who said she was hired by actor Hugh Grant; and Suzen Johnson, a flight attendant whose hotel-room liaisons with football analyst Frank Gifford were captured on tape. Schmidt also brokered deals for celebrities who weren't caught in scandals but just wanted to show some flesh. Those included Olympian Katarina Witt and actress Shari Belafonte. Schmidt also obtained and brokered embarrassing material on non-client celebrities. The Los Angeles Times lists some highlights: * Explicit photographs he said were found in the Dumpster at Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx's Las Vegas home. * [Paris] Hilton's sex diaries, which along with other personal items had been discovered in a Los Angeles-area storage locker. (A Hilton spokesman said at the time that the items were illegally obtained.) * A homemade sex tape starring Colin Farrell and former Playboy playmate Nicole Narain. * A sex tape involving Fred Durst, lead singer of Limp Bizkit. * Nude pictures of Amber Frey, the key prosecution witness in the Scott Peterson double-murder trial. * Nude photos of rescued U.S. Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch. (The photos were offered up to Larry Flynt for publication in his Hustler magazine, but he ultimately declined to publish them.) Then there was last year's bidding war over the Screech sex tape. And Schmidt's personal website, still online at Hans News, currently promotes an O.J. Simpson sex tape, which supposedly "involves Mr. Simpson snorting cocaine in a hotel room and engaging in sexual intercourse with one prostitute and his x girl-friend Ms. Christine Prody." His twin brother says that Schmidt suffered from "lifelong depression behind that air of bravado". That sounds familiar. Rest in peace, dude.
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