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Over the last decade, [David Hans] Schmidt has emerged as one of the nation's leading purveyors of celebrity porn, the man who brokered the sale of Tonya Harding's wedding-night sex video; arranged for Paula Jones, the former Arkansas state employee who sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment, to pose in the buff in Penthouse magazine; and was the behind-the-scenes wheeler-dealer who obtained topless shots of rescued U.S. Army POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch and nude photos of Amber Frey, the star prosecution witness in the Scott Peterson double murder trial, and then tried to peddle them to Hustler magazine's Larry Flynt.
When a cache of explicit photographs of Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx turned up in May – a workman claims to have found them in a Dumpster outside Foxx's Las Vegas home – guess who got ahold of them? . . .
A Phoenix publicist and agent, Schmidt says he relishes his role as a peddler of Hollywood sleaze. "Somebody has to make the deals," he says. "I'm the CAA of smarm." As such, he occupies a position close to the heart of America's twin obsessions – porn and celebrity in the Internet age.

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Schmidt is obviously an unsavory character, but his attack on Hollywood celebrities might be characterized as feeding a dragon his own waste. Hollywood feeds the sexual appetite in a mass market (i.e., conventional) way--through, for instance, bikinis and approving portrayals of illicit sexual relations. The Hollywood types also crave the attention and fame. Schmidt takes both and turns them against Hollywood. We can't say we like the guy (and he doesn't restrict himself to Hollywood types), but we can't shed a tear for those he exposes.

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