Amber Frey, the former mistress of
alleged wife-killer Scott Peterson, is finally
baring all - but not on the witness stand.
Nude photos of the 29-year-old massage therapist have
surfaced on a porn Web site, provoking Frey's lawyer,
Gloria Allred, to threaten legal action.
"This is a disgusting attempt to exploit Amber,"
Allred told us yesterday. "She's been very brave in
coming forth to testify, and this is the price she's
been forced to pay."
David Hans Schmidt, who has brokered Playboy
and Penthouse pictorials of Paula Jones, Tonya
Harding, Darva Conger, Divine Brown
and Suzen Johnson, yesterday posted 27 pictures
of Frey on his site.
Frey posed for the shots several years ago after
seeing an ad placed by a photographer in Fresno, Calif.
Allred maintains that "Amber has never given anyone the
right to sell, publish or give away" the photos.
Schmidt insists that he has a signed release, which
he plans to post on the subscription-only site
(www.schmidtysworld.com). He admits that the photos -
which show orthodontics-wearing Frey striking some
awkward poses - aren't the biggest turn-on.
"We offered to rip up the photos and cut Amber in on
the money if she'd pose again," he says. "Her lawyer
said no."
Schmidt had shopped the shots to Penthouse publisher
Bob Guccione and Hustler's Larry
Flynt, but says neither would pay his asking price:
$500,000.
Instead, Schmidt turned to Marvad Corp., a
Seattle-based Internet porn company. He says he closed
the deal to set up the site at Dennis Hoff's
Bunny Ranch brothel in Nevada last month.
Jeter heads to isle with latest
catch
Derek Jeter seems to be playing the field.
We told you recently that the Yankee star had been
seeing Erica Mondor, a Florida beauty who works
for a men's mag. But, according to a source, she's not
the woman Jeter is bringing to $23,000-a-day Necker
Island in November. (Necker Island, owned by Virgin
honcho Richard Branson, is a 74-acre haven
featuring a 12-bedroom villa that has a 20-member
staff.)
We hear her name is Chantel Foster. Word is
that she lives in New York and, like Jeter, comes from a
racially mixed family.
She and Jeter are due to celebrate her 29th birthday
during the week-long trip to the Carribean paradise.
They're also looking to book a cottage in the British
Virgin Islands for two days beforehand.
Jeter, who has dated Mariah Carey and
Jordana Brewster, seems to like island getaways.
A while back, we're told, he headed to the Bahamas with
a woman identified as Misty Houston.
Geffen vs. receivin'
How much money is enough? For David Geffen,
it's $4 billion.
Hollywood's richest man says he doesn't need any more
moola, and will give away every dollar he makes from
DreamWorks SKG, the movie studio he founded with
Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
"I have no interest in making money anymore," the
mogul says in the new Forbes 400 issue. "Everything I
make in the entertainment business will go to charity."
In 1992, Geffen helped his pal Calvin Klein by
buying $62 million of his bonds until Klein could secure
a loan to get them back. And Geffen's already pledged
$200 million to the UCLA medical school.
Ethan on the move
Ethan Hawke is living in heartbreak hotel
after being kicked out by wife Uma Thurman,
according to reports.
The actor checked into a two-bedroom suite at the
storied Chelsea Hotel on W. 23rd St. on Sept. 13,
according to this week's Star magazine.
Hawke, 32, who has been linked to 22-year-old
Canadian model Jen Perzow, is also photographed
in the tab without his wedding ring.
The estranged couple was spotted - along with
children Maya, 5, and Roan, 20 months -
chatting briefly after a Central Park lecture by the
Dalai Lama on Sunday. But that might be the last
time the actors see each other for a while.
Thurman, 33, will attend the L.A. premiere of "Kill
Bill" on Monday, before heading to Europe the next day
for the movie's European press tour. Tuesday night,
Hawke will join Marisa Tomei and Candace
Bergen at Lincoln Center for a screening of "The
Station Agent."
Doghouse to Waldorf
Ousted New York Stock Exchange boss Dick
Grasso had his tail between his legs at Tuesday's
Top Dog Gala for the Animal Medical Center at the
Waldorf-Astoria.
Having lapped up $140 million in pay, Grasso and his
wife, Lori, snuck into the benefit through a back
door. They sat with Home Depot co-founder Kenneth
Langone, the former head of the NYSE's compensation
committee, and his wife, Elaine. Both Langones
are fiercely loyal to Grasso.
Even when we tried to talk canines with him, Elaine
yipped, "No!"
Happily, Henry Kissinger was willing to talk
about his pooch, a black Lab named Abigail who, he
asserted, can speak
Spanish and Italian and is learning Latin. Emcee
Barbara Walters said, "I have a beige Havanese,
whose name is Cha Cha Cha. They were favored by the
Cuban aristocracy. Like them, my dog is in exile."
Touched by 'Angels'
Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" is the most
important play brought to the screen in 20 years, drama
critic John Lahr told a New Yorker Festival
audience this past weekend, referring to Mike
Nichols' upcoming TV miniseries.
The crowd was wowed by a sneak peek at a scene
between Al Pacino, who plays a terminally ill
(and hallucinating) Roy Cohn while Jeffrey
Wright, portraying an angel as well as his nurse,
describes a heaven without him.
To be shown on HBO in December, "Angels" is Pacino's
first stint on the tube and his first time working with
Meryl Streep. The cast also includes Michael
Gambon, Emma Thompson and Mary-Louise Parker.
Nichols said 80% of a movie's success is in the
writing. That was the perfect segue to a panel on
scripts, at which the ever-witty Nora Ephron,
Steven Zaillian ("Schindler's List"),
Stephen Schiff ("Lolita") and
Robert Towne ("Chinatown") described their
methods. When Schiff offered that "screenwriting is
really, really, really fun," Towne and Ephron whipped
their heads around to face each other. Said Ephron: "It
can be heartbreaking."
Surveillance
JEN AND Ben have been shopping again.
We hear that Mr. Affleck and Ms. Lopez, who normally
favor Bentleys, picked out a pickup truck at a
dealership in Savannah, Ga., yesterday ...
WESLEY CLARK was spotted having a word with
Tom Selleck yesterday morning at the Regency. A
rep for Selleck says the actor, an independent who has
reputation for leaning right, simply ran into the
Democratic presidential front-runner and said hello ...
WE LOVE the optimists at Buster's Garage, the
barbecue joint set to open tonight on West Broadway at
Worth St. Someone has already pinned the first bra over
the bar.
With Suzanne Rozdeba
and Ben
Widdicombe
Originally published on
September 25, 2003