Laurence Schexnayder

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Laurence Schexnayder
Spouse(s)	Sally Jupiter (1947 - 1956)
Actor	Frank Cassini

Laurence Schexnayder was Sally Jupiter's manager, and later, her first husband.

They married in 1947, shortly after Jupiter retired as the first Silk Spectre. The nine-year marriage was tumultuous, especially after Jupiter had her only child, Laurel Jane, in 1949. The two divorced sometime in 1956. It is revealed late in Watchmen that Laurie's father, whom she believed to be Hooded Justice, was in actuality the Comedian, with whom Jupiter had an affair while married. Knowing that Jupiter had an affair during their marriage, Schexnayder became despondent; Laurie, while speaking with Jon Osterman on Mars, recounts an argument between Sally and Laurence where Sally angrily tells her husband that the man she'd had the affair with was more attentive to her own needs. It is not revealed whether Schexnayder knew the identity of the man.

In chapter five of his book, Under the Hood, Hollis Mason describes Schexnayder as "tireless and shrewd." Schexnayder had supposedly understood that costumed adventuring was becoming increasingly unpopular.

During the Minutemen era Schexnayder also convinced Jupiter not to press charges against the Comedian, who attempted to rape her following a photo shoot of the group in 1940. Its possible this incident made him realize who Laurie's father really was.