Ready To Testify

Jury selection began Monday in Pontiac, Mich., in connection with the $50 million lawsuit the family of Scott Amedure has filed against the Jenny Jones TV talk show and its producer, Warner Bros. The civil suit stems from the death of Amedure, a gay man who revealed a crush on a heterosexual friend, Jonathan Schmitz, during a 1995 taping of the show and was killed three days later. Amedure’s family contends the show’s producers lied to Schmitz about the gender of his admirer. But attorneys for Warner Bros. say Schmitz, who faces a second-degree murder charge, repeatedly was told his secret admirer might be a man or a woman. Jones said Monday she is “very much looking forward to testifying. I’m looking forward to being able to set the record straight.”