My Nemesis, David Hans Schmidt DEAD
 

Controversial Publicist Found Dead
Posted Sep 29th 2007 10:53AM by TMZ Staff

Publicist David Hans Schmidt, who plead guilty last month to attempting to extort Tom Cruise, was found dead of an apparent suicide in his Phoenix home on Friday.

Schmidt was under house arrest after agreeing to plead guilty to a $1 million extortion fiasco, using Tom Cruise's stolen wedding photos. According to the AP, authorities went to Schmidt's Phoenix home after a tracking device on him had not moved and he hadn't checked in, said police Lt. Anthony Lopez.

Schmidt is also known for an auction of Paris Hilton's diaries, and for representing Olympic scandal skater Tonya Harding and prostitute Divine Brown, who dallied with actor Hugh Grant. More recently, Schmidt said he was involved in Dustin "Screech" Diamond's nasty sex video.

He was a piece of shit,but somehow I do not believe he would have killed himself-

This guy fucked with the wrong people

he definitly fucked with someone he shouldn't have imo

a piece of shit calling another piece of shit a piece of shit, how ironic.

kb is really that guy with the pink hair and no shirt. $0.02 -bmb

the guy must of had big problems.

http://thebosh.com/upload/2007/07/28/extortingtom.jpg

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Cruise had him killed and made to look like suicide

The scientoligsts rubbed him out.
WG

With a resume like that, narrowing down a list of suspects would be no small feat.

That'd be Scientology.

Yep.. Thats my bet!

That really sucks. He was a very controversial guy but he didn't deserve this.

Knowing this guy the way I did-
There is no way IMHO that he would have killed himself.

He was a wackjob but he was also a huge narcissist.
This story smells fishy

BUT he did fuck with some wrong people.

Also Riddler- the difference between a piece of shit like him and a piece of shit like me is simple....

I do things legally- I have never extorted anyone when it comes to celebrity sex tapes-

I always rep tapes that have releases, Period.

I spoke to him two weeks ago, and he was a different guy. He was losing everything and he told me that once he got out he would have nothing, He was really depressed and was in debt and losing his condo and really had no one to turn to. He didn't think that he was going to be able to recover once he got out. He said he would be close to 50 when he got out and he would have no place to go.

Knowing David, there is no way he would go down without a physical fight.