Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 30, 1994                   TAG: 9411300070
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WILLIAMSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

FORMER BEAUTY QUEEN COULD FIND THAT CRIME DOES PAY

The former Miss Williamsburg was convicted in West Virginia last week of seven misdemeanors involving an alleged plot to kill a romantic rival and the rival's parents. The jury found the 23-year-old Newport News woman innocent of four felonies, including attempted first-degree murder.

Lippard faces a possible 61/2 years in jail when she is sentenced Jan. 4.

She also faces the possibility of earning up to $1million for her story, said David Hans Schmidt, president and founder of David Hans Schmidt Public Relations Inc.

Schmidt said people are captivated by the story of a beautiful woman, spurned by her lover, who seeks revenge.

``Many of us fantasize about hurting our enemies, but we don't act on the impulse,'' Schmidt said. `` ... What we are not beckons us.''

``If she acts quickly, she could make anywhere from half a million to a million dollars,'' he said.

Schmidt declined to say who would be interested in paying such sums, but he said a pictorial in a men's magazine probably would be the single most lucrative item in the package.

Lippard's lawyer, Paul Detch, said his client is not interested in ``exploiting her privacy. She's a sensitive young woman with a great deal of dignity.''

But, ``Nobody's talked hard cash to us,'' Detch said. ``Nobody's talked that kind of bucks.''