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	CalendarHome.com - Scott Amedure - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Scott's family was dysfunctional and experienced many financial hardships, loss and a variety of other difficult emotional life dramas.
		Scott was not told that Jonathan expressed homophobic characteristics prior to the taping and was coerced into drinking alcohol in the Green Room prior to the taping.
		In 1999, the Amedure family sued the Jenny Jones Show, Telepictures, and Warner Brothers for the ambush tactics and their negligent role that led to Scott's death.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Scott_Amedure (766 words)

	Scott Amedure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scott's family was dysfunctional and experienced many financial hardships, loss and a variety of other difficult emotional life dramas.
		Scott was not told that Jonathan expressed homophobic characteristics prior to the taping and was coerced into drinking alcohol in the Green Room prior to the taping.
		The Amedures and Geoffrey Fieger, their attorney, contends that it was due to the Justice's political bias against the Democratic lawyer who filed a complaint to have them removed with no avail.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scott_Amedure (789 words)

	Scott Amedure
		Schmitz had met Amedure through Riley in the parking lot of apartment building she lived in, which is also where Schmitz lived, maybe back here.
		The clincher is that Amedure’s mother, Pat Graves, claims that Scott told her that he and Schmitz had an affair that evening, and that Scott was thrilled to pieces.
		Scott answers, and Schmitz asked if it was Scott that left the thingy taped to his door, which Amedure admits to.
	www.findadeath.com /Deceased/a/scottamedure/scott_amedure.htm (1238 words)

	CTV.ca - Damage award in Jenny Jones case thrown out- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		"Scott Amedure's murder was a horrible tragedy, but I have always believed that it was fundamentally wrong and unfair to blame the show," she said.
		Amedure was shot to death by Jonathan Schmitz in 1995, three days after Amedure revealed an attraction to Schmitz during a taping of the show in Chicago.
		Amedure's family sued the show, contending Schmitz was ambushed and tricked into believing his secret admirer was a woman.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/20021023/jenny_jones021023/20021023?hub=Entertainment&subhub=PrintStory (356 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Memorial Hall - Amedure 1
		Scott Bernard Amedure was born on January 26, 1963 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
		In 1995, Scott Amedure was shot to death by Jonathan Schmitz three days after Amedure revealed his secret crush on Schmitz during a taping of "The Jenny Jones Show." Amedure's family is seeking $50 million in a negligence suit against the "The Jenny Jones Show," its parent company Warner Bros., and the production company Telepictures.
		Amedure's family believes the show, its parent company Warner Bros. and production company Telepictures started the chain of events that led to the murder, and they are seeking $50 million in a negligence suit.
	andrejkoymasky.com /mem/sco/sco1.html (2870 words)

	The Jenny Jones Murder: What Really Happened? -- Michelangelo Signorile, OUT magazine, June 1995
		The only gay bar for miles, Club Flamingo was the nexus of Scott Amedure's life; this was the place where he worked on and off as a bartender for several years, and where he spent most of his time hanging out.
		Amedure, a lanky, fair-skinned blond whose death certificate describes his ancestry as "Italian-English-Irish-German," was born in Pittsburgh, the youngest of six children, but the family soon thereafter moved to Michigan.
		To gay eyes, it's unmistakably Amedure's: A rainbow flag is in one window, and the rest of the widows are draped in bright pink fabric.
	www.signorile.com /articles/outjjm.html (2633 words)

	GMax - archive stories: Amedure provoked killer, lawyer says in 'Jenny Jones' retrial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The defense lawyer for Jonathan Schmitz said the gay man, Scott Amedure, was to blame because he pursued his client to the point that Schmitz "lost it" three days after the taping of "The Jenny Jones Show."
		Amedure revealed his crush on Schmitz to the studio audience during the show, which was taped but never aired.
		Sabbota claims Schmitz was humiliated, and that Amedure later pushed him over the edge by leaving a suggestive note in Schmitz's front door.
	www.gmax.co.za /look/archivedstories/1999/0820-UStalkshow.html (325 words)

	Story about Amedure case (JJ trial) -- The Fieger Forum
		An Oakland County Circuit Court jury spoke and it was a shocker. The family of Scott Amedure - a man murdered three days after his appearance on "The Jenny Jones Show" by a fellow guest and the object of a same-sex crush - was awarded $25 million.
		Scott Amedure, 32, and Jonathan Schmitz, now 33, appeared on the show March 6, 1995, days after Amedure responded to a plug from the show soliciting guests for a show about same-sex secret crushes.
		Scott Amedure called the show and said he had a crush on Schmitz, who lived in the same Lake Orion apartment complex as Amedure's brother.
	www.voy.com /18011/3/2268.html (1779 words)

	Gay News From 365Gay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The family of Scott Amedure won a $29.3 million award against Warner Brothers and the talk show, but the decision later was thrown out.
		Amedure revealed his attraction to Schmitz during the taping of the show in Chicago.
		Amedure's family sued the talk show in 1995, contending Schmitz was ambushed and tricked into believing his secret admirer was a woman.
	www.365gay.com /newscon04/06/062204JonesCourt.htm (400 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Memorial Hall - Amedure 2
		His lawyers admitted he had killed Mr Amedure, but contended the show had humiliated had Mr Schmitz, and that he was fighting alcoholism, depression and a thyroid condition.
		For this trial, in essence, the defense is blaming the victim, Scott Amedure, the 32-year-old unemployed bartender who proclaimed his interest in his neighbor Schmitz on a taping of The Jenny Jones Show.
		It is the second time Schmitz has been found guilty of the 1995 shotgun murder of Scott Amedure, a gay acquaintance who surprised Schmitz by confessing his crush during a taping of The Jenny Jones Show.
	andrejkoymasky.com /mem/sco/sco2.html (1615 words)

	PlanetOut News: "Jones" Plaintiffs Rest Case
		Scott Amedure's family mourned him in such heartfelt testimony on April 27 that the Oakland County, Michigan Circuit Court jury and spectators were moved to join them in their tears.
		Amedure's mother, father and three brothers each took the stand to affirm their untroubled acceptance of his sexual orientation, their love for him, and their continuing sense of loss since his death.
		Scott's mother said her heart was "torn apart" and that, "Only a parent can understand the grief of losing a child." Graves said she still doesn't want to believe that Scott is really gone.
	www.planetout.com /news/article-print.html?1999/04/28/1 (739 words)

	CNN - Jury awards $25 million in Jenny Jones wrongful-death suit - May 7, 1999
		Jurors watched the taped episode showing Amedure talking about a sexual fantasy involving Jonathan Schmitz and Schmitz's reaction when the fantasy is shown to him -- he buries his face in his hands.
		Amedure, 32, was killed a few days after the 1995 taping.
		Amedure's parents, who sued the show and its distributor, Warner Bros., contended that a mentally unstable Schmitz was tricked by the producers into believing his secret admirer would be a female.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/TV/9905/07/talk.show.slaying (312 words)

	The Michigan Daily Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Scott Amedure's family is suing "The Jenny Jones Show," its producer and distributor for Amedure's slaying by Jonathan Schmitz.
		Amedure's family alleges the show tricked a mentally troubled Schmitz into appearing on an episode, then humiliated him by letting Amedure reveal his crush on Schmitz.
		On the witness stand yesterday, Jones bristled at claims by Amedure family attorney Geoffrey Fieger that she ridiculed Schmitz before a studio audience in pursuit of ratings and ad revenue.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1999/apr/04-13-99/news/news15.html (317 words)

	Intellectual Property Professional Information Center: 'Jenny Jones' Show Not Responsible For Wrongful Death of Guest
		Jonathan Schmitz and Scott Amedure participated in the taping of a segment for the "Jenny Jones" talk show, which was never broadcast.
		Amedure "just smiled at" Schmitz, at which point Schmitz retrieved the gun from his car and fatally shot Amedure.
		Amedure's personal representatives brought a wrongful death action against the show, its owner and its producer.
	ipcenter.bna.com /pic2/ip.nsf/id/BNAP-5FGL7D?OpenDocument (473 words)

	Court TV Online - T R I A L S - Jenny Jones Civil Trial
		Amedure's family is seeking $50 million in a negligence suit against "The Jenny Jones Show." In 1995 Amedure was shot to death by Schmitz days after revealing his secret crush on him during a taping of the program.
		Amedure is shown describing his sexual fantasies about Schmitz and hugging him when he came on stage.
		Noting that Schmitz was convicted of Amedure's murder and that the conviction was overturned on appeal, Feeney said Amedure's killer will not testify at the civil trial because he is awaiting his second criminal trial.
	www.courttv.com /trials/jennyjones/040199_am_ctv.html (873 words)

	Supreme Court rejects claim against Jenny Jones Show in Scott Amedure's murder: Queer Day
		The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from the family of Scott Amedure, who sued after Amedure was killed in 1995 after admitting he had a secret crush on another man during the taping of the "Jenny Jones Show." Amedure, 32, was fatally shot by his crush, Jonathan Schmitz, then 24.
		Amedure's family won a $29.3 million award against the show.
		The Michigan Court of Appeals later said the murder was "completely unforeseeable" and overturned the award.
	www.queerday.com /2004/jun/22/supreme_court_rejects_claim_against_jenny_jones_show_in_scott_amedures_murder.html (113 words)

	GMax - archive stories: Jury finds talk show liable; awards family $25 million (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Amedure was killed by Jonathan Schmitz in 1995 three days after Amedure regaled a "Jenny Jones" studio audience with his sexual fantasies about Schmitz, who said he is heterosexual.
		Amedure's father, Frank, said he hopes the verdict sends a message to other talk shows.
		Amedure, 32, went on the "Jenny Jones" segment titled "Same-Sex Secret Crushes." As the audience whooped with delight, Ms.
	www.gmax.co.za /look/archivedstories/1999/0508-UStalkshow.html (456 words)

	Forum of a Dead Hero - Read the Rambling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1995, Scott Amedure was shot to death by Jonathan Schmitz three days after Amedure revealed his secret crush on him during a taping Jenny Jones show concerning same-sex secret crushes.
		The prosecution claimed that Schmitz's rage and killing of Amedure was a direct result of the embarrassment he suffered on the nationally syndicated talk show and that the producers of the show were negligent in that they should've better screened Schmitz before having him on the show.
		But the judge stacked the deck against the JJ Show when he gave his instructions to the jury that they must side with the Amedure family is they feel "The Jenny Jones Show" played any role in Scott Amedure's murder.
	www.deadhero.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=88 (1153 words)

	PrideSource: U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear civil side of the Jenny Jones Murder case
		The family of Scott Amadure was awarded $25 million by an Oakland County jury in May 1999, in one of the largest monetary judgments in Michigan's history.
		Despite the apparent premeditation, Schmitz was twice convicted of second-degree murder in the case; at his first trial in 1996 and again at a 1999 retrial he won on a technicality.
		But the Amedure family claimed that the television show shared in the responsibility for the death for ambushing the mentally unstable Schmitz and coaxing him to appear on the show under false pretenses.
	zzz.pridesource.com /article.shtml?article=8355 (381 words)

	Zap2it Print Ready Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The 2 to 1 ruling reverses an Oakland County jury's 1999 decision that found the show's owner, Warner Bros., and its distributor, Telepictures, liable for the death of Scott Amedure.
		The family of murder victim Scott Amedure contended that the talk show booked a mentally ill Jonathan Schmitz on the show in 1995 believing he would meet a woman and was humiliated into murder when his secret admirer turned out to be Amedure.
		"Scott Amedure's murder was a horrible tragedy, but I have always believed that it was fundamentally wrong and unfair to blame the show," says host Jenny Jones.
	tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/utils/tve_article_print/1,1144,,00.html?current_url=271\|78589\|1\|&search_id=1&cntn_id=78589 (255 words)

	"Jenny Jones" Vindicated - Oct 23, 2002 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Amedure, who was gay, admitted during the March 1995 Jenny Jones taping that he had a thing for Schmitz.
		After the murder, Amedure's family sued The Jenny Jones Show's owner, Warner Bros., and distributor Telepictures in civil court, claiming the program was liable for the man's slaying.
		"Scott Amedure's murder was a horrible tragedy, but I have always believed that it was fundamentally wrong and unfair to blame the Show," said Jones.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,10719,00.html?newsrellink (658 words)

	Jenny Jones held liable for death: 5/8/99
		Amedure was killed by Jonathan Schmitz in 1995 three days after the two took part in a "Jenny Jones" taping at which Amedure regaled the studio audience with his sexual fantasies about Schmitz, who said he is heterosexual.
		Amedure's family accused the show's producers and owners of negligence in putting a mentally troubled Schmitz on the show and humiliating him.
		Amedure, 32, went on the "Jenny Jones" segment titled "Same-Sex Secret Crushes" to talk about his feelings for Schmitz, an acquaintance.
	www.s-t.com /daily/05-99/05-08-99/a10wn053.htm (708 words)

	Oasis Magazine: News and Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But let's temper that with the knowledge that Scott Amedure lost his life at the hands of Jon Schmitz: not The Jenny Jones Show.
		Amedure and Schmitz appeared on an episode of The Jenny Jones Show taped on March 6, 1995, at which time the 32-year-old Amedure revealed his "secret crush" on the then 24-year-old Schmitz.
		In 1996, Schmitz was convicted of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 25-50 years, but the verdict was overturned in September, 1998 on a technicality regarding jury selection.
	www.oasismag.com /Issues/9906/news-jenny.html (332 words)

	GLAAD: Toledo Blade Says "Nice Try" to Schmitz's Beef with Jenny Jones
		Amedure, resulting in the victim's unfortunate loss off [sic.] life.
		It points out that the Jenny Jones Show did not kill Amedure - that instead, it was Schmitz himself - and illuminates the sensationalism and drama which have surrounded the case from its beginning.
		Thanks to reporting like the Toledo Blade's editorial, though, readers are able to discern the fact that the killing was motivated not by his appearance on the show, per se, but rather, by his own homophobia.
	www.glaad.org /action/al_archive_detail.php?id=1682 (379 words)

	Gay Today: Top Story
		Following a surreal and bizarre performance by the defense attorney, who pretended to be Jon Schmitz and delivered a "first-person" narrative from the mind of the killer, Pendergast returned with a dramatic rebuttal.
		The execution of Scott Amedure has always been about planning and the elimination of a gay man whose only offense was being attracted to another man. In this case, the other man was one who couldn't abide the thought that such an attraction might lead others to think he was gay himself."
		Scott Amedure transgressed that rule and it cost him his life.
	gaytoday.badpuppy.com /garchive/events/082799ev.htm (867 words)

	Fans of Fieger
		The Jenny Jones civil trial followed the murder of Scott Amedure, who had appeared on a 1995 taping of an episode devoted to secret crushes.
		Amedure describe his sexual fantasies before both him and a live audience.
		Schmitz had bipolar disorder and had attempted suicide, and asked why she didn't write a note of condolence to the Amedure family after Scott was killed.
	www.fansoffieger.com /lawweek.htm (1180 words)

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