The "Sultan of Sleaze" Found Dead
Posted on Sun Sep 30th, 2007 12:45pm PDT By X17 Staff
David Hans Schmidt, dubbed the Sultan of Sleaze for his involvement in various sex tape shenanigans, who was currently under house arrest for a plot to extort more than $1 million for wedding photos taken at TomKat's wedding, was found dead (of an apparent suicide) in his Phoenix home Friday afternoon, according to the AP. In addition to the TomKat wedding photos, Hans Schmidt was also supposedly involved with brokering deals for the contents of Paris' storage locker, the Colin Farrell/Nicole Narain sex tape and, of course, the instant classic, the Screech sex tape.
Cruise's lawyer, commenting on the discovery, says that Cruise "is not personally involved in this, as he is in Germany" shooting Valkyrie.