· Explicit photographs he said were found in the Dumpster at Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx's Las Vegas home.

· 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.)

To that we'd add the Marcia Cross nudie-pic bonanza found in the garbage outside her home, and, of course, Screeched, the infamous Dustin Diamond sex tape, in which the full extent of the Saved by the Bell star's telephone-pole-scaled endowment was laid bare for a largely disinterested public. With Schmidt gone, we shudder to think how many celebrity fellatory adventures recorded for posterity will remain unbrokered, their timeless supplications to "touch my balls and my ass" never heard by a sex-tape hungry public.

• Man charged in Tom Cruise extortion plot found dead [LAT]

He's pleading guilty to one count of transmitting threatening communications with the intent to extort. When sentenced, he will face up to two years in prison, one year of supervised release and a substantial monetary fine.

Also revealed in the papers: in June 2007, Schmidt met with [Tom] Cruise's representatives and told them, "It would not look good for anyone if the photographs become public."

Later, during a July 2007 meeting, Schmidt told Cruise's representatives that he would "hunt down to hell and back anyone who crossed him."

While we're comfortable in the knowledge that justice has been duly served, something about Schmidt's threatening overtures towards Cruise's camp in June have left us extremely curious as to just what kind of sensitive material might have been contained in the purloined portraits. Short of a telephoto shot accidentally revealing the inner circuitry of the Suri-bot, we'd be hard pressed to envision a single scenario captured at this happy occasion that might shed an unflattering light, up to and including the unshackling of the war bride for the couple's ceremonial first "Silent Dance," performed before the gathered crowd to the hushed strains of an instrument-miming OT orchestra.

• Man in Tom Cruise Extortion Plot Cops Plea [Extra]

Phoenix-based agent David Hans Schmidt has gotten his hands on more than 200 personal photos of the titian-tressed actress.

"There are some pictures of her showering outside," Schmidt tells us. "She looks absolutely gorgeous. And yes, the carpet does match the curtains." [...]

Her lawyers argue that no matter where the photos were found, they are the copyrighted property of Cross and her husband, Tom Mahoney, who may have taken some of them. [...]

Schmidt is representing the owner of a carting firm hired to remove trash from Cross' home in L.A. According to Schmidt, one of the firm's employees discovered the photos when he got to the dump. [...]

Schmidt says his client also has Cross' tax returns. "I know how much she made, but out of respect for Ms. Cross, I won't discuss it," he says.

Although it may already be too late in this instance, Cross and Mahoney may want to invest in a paper shredder, an affordable home office device which could easily have circumvented the impending release of a 13-month calendar entitled "Delicious Housewives," featuring such titillating pin-up material as a naked Cross amateurishly Photoshopped in front of Old Glory as July's "Miss Firecrotch Firecracker," as well as April's magnified reproduction of lines 1 through 28 of her 2005 tax return.

• Naked ploy for Cross' cash [NY Daily News]

"Sultan of Sleaze" David Hans Schmidt appeared on Howard Stern's radio show this morning to plug Dustin Diamond's own entry into an already crowded field of celebrity sex tapes featuring furry, squeaky-voiced children's television stars. Apparently, Diamond's previous boasts to Stern about his megalithic manhood were not exaggerated:

David went on to say the tape featured two women with Dustin, who he noted had "a telephone pole" between his legs. David also said the scene ended with Dustin performing a "Dirty Sanchez" on one of his costars, although it was more the smell of the "moustache" than being able to see it that made the act so disturbing.

When Howard played tape, he commented that he couldn't believe the size of Dustin's penis in its flaccid state, while Robin referred to it as "a tree."

The movie, apparently retitled Screeched after Saved By The Smell tested poorly in the all-important "0 - 120-year-old humans with an active gag reflex" demographic, is now available for pre-order on electronic smut purveyor extraordinaire ClubRedLight.com, where a truly terrifying banner ad taunts us with a close up of Diamond's wiggling index finger moments before it embarks upon an erotic spelunking expedition. (It's a modified Sanchez, due to the relatively high difficulty level of trying to fashion convincing poo-whiskers with a telephone-pole-sized paintbrush.)

• The Rundown [HowardStern.com]
• Screeched [ClubRedLight.com]