Five years ago, Kyle Schott was at a Nike football camp in Palo Alto, Calif. Heading into his senior year at Liberty High School in Renton, the all-league tight end was the subject of recruiting interest from Arizona and Oregon, but holding out for something closer to home. "I want to hear from the U Dub," he told an editor from Scout.com at the time.
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After his night out with Reid, witnesses say, Schott (pictured in court) quickly shaved his beard.
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When playing tight end at Liberty, Schott was ranked among the nation's top recruits by Scout.com. He also made a mark in wrestling, placing second in the Class AAA Region 2 tournament as a junior. But Schott wasn't destined for collegiate athletics. He started his freshman year in 2003 at Washington State University planning to eventually "have a stable career and obviously make a lot of money, have lots of friends, travel the world, marry, start a family, not get divorced, and retire somewhere beautiful and peaceful," according to his MySpace profile, which has since been removed from the site.
Four years later, he was sitting in a Pullman courtroom, accused of rape.
Turns out, settling down was merely Schott's goal after college. First there was the years-long party that dominates the lifestyle of many a Wazzu undergrad. Schott's MySpace profile photo shows him holding an American flag, arm draped around a blond coed, shirt open, gut hanging over white pants. Here he notes that "living in Pullman & drinking pretty much go hand in hand." Another friend's page shows Schott and two friends standing next to a club with the old Studio 54 logo. The city isn't identified, but the caption says it's the club "Kyle got kicked out of."
This past Sept. 21, Schott pleaded not guilty to one count of second-degree felony rape and three related burglary charges. He was released the same day on a $100,000 bond. He has since dropped out of school and, under court order, is living with his mother in Renton. He is not allowed to drink and is prohibited from being within a half-mile of a sorority, fraternity, or dormitory building.
Court records from both King and Whitman counties, where Schott has lived, indicate no previous run-ins with the law, and Whitman County Prosecutor Denis Tracy says he couldn't find any prior arrests in a background search. Whether Schott was involved in the rape of a girl at the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority on WSU's campus will be decided in a court of law. But the story of how Schott came to be on the wrong end of such accusations began the night he met Christopher Jack Reid, an adult-film actor working under the pseudonym "Jack Venice." (Reid also faces charges of rape and burglary.)
Reid and Schott met on Sept. 12. Their subsequent night of carousing traversed WSU's bars, off-campus housing, fraternities, and sororities, and ended with a call to police at 4:40 a.m. on Sept. 13, informing the authorities that a Kappa Alpha Theta sorority sister had awoken while being sexually assaulted. Now the high-school football star from Renton and the porn actor from Los Angeles will stand trial in Whitman County after allegedly breaking into two other sororities, flashing students, attempting to get into a fraternity, and finally raping a student.
Schott probably didn't begin his night planning for a sexual assault; he was likely just looking for a bit of fun with a bizarre character he met in a bar. But sometimes, when the alcohol starts flowing, good people make very bad choices.
Last July, Reid was a contestant on a television game show entitled Without Prejudice. The program, created by the Game Show Network and the NAACP, employs a panel of judges who are presented with increasing bits of information before awarding one contestant $25,000.
Reid lasted through the rounds that explored contestants' education and work history, revealing that he finished high school in 2000 before joining the Marines, where he was part of the initial ivnvasion of Iraq. (A U.S. Marine Corps staff member at the enlistment office in Quantico, Va., confirms that Reid served from 2000 to 2004. Marine spokesperson Maj. Manuel Delarosa says he was stationed in Najaf, Iraq, in 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom.)
After Reid finished his tour of duty, he and a friend were trying to decide what to do next. The subject of adult film came up. Where most people might joke about the possibility of supplementing their income in the flesh trade, Reid took the career option seriously, heading to Los Angeles and quickly landing jobs. According to IMDb.com, Reid has made 95 adult films since 2004, including On Your Knees Bitch and 5 Guy Cream Pie 22. During the game show, Reid told panelists he makes $600 per scene, netting an annual income of about $180,000.
In 2005, Reid began appearing in films produced by California-based Shane's World, an outfit run by Megan Stokes that attracted national attention when it started hosting "college invasions," wherein the company would take professional female adult actors on tour, set up parties at colleges, and film undergrad males having sex with pros. Since then, the company has gained increased notoriety: Stokes appeared on The Tyra Banks Show this past May 17 on an episode entitled "Dorm Porn" to discuss the use of amateur college students for professional pornography.
