The weekend brought tragic news, as David Hans "the Sultan of Sleaze" Schmidt—a modern day adventurer who braved dense refuse-bin jungles and abandoned U-Store-It crypts in search of priceless, celebrity-smut treasures—was found dead in his Arizona home of an apparent suicide, where he sat under house arrest waiting sentencing for attempting to extort Tom Cruise for $1 million. The LAT reviews some of Schmidt's greatest hits: