Kinky Dave!

[jiang bao]

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/20...rman-arrested/

On last night's installment of The Late Show with David Letterman, the host turned serious during a shocking admission to his studio audience.

Letterman opened up about a $2 million extortion plot against him, in which someone dropped off a package three weeks ago that threatened to expose the comedian's affair with female co-workers. A note in the package read:

"I know that you do some terrible, terrible things - and I can prove you do these terrible things."

As cameras rolled, Letterman said he chose to take action: "This morning, I did something I've never done in my life. I had to go downtown and testify before a grand jury.. I had to tell them all of the creepy things that I had done... The creepy stuff was that I have had sex with women who work for me on this show."

Late Show Host

Letterman has a 5-year-old son, Harry, with Regina Lasko, the woman with whom he's been for 23 years and married earlier this year.

Incredibly, the host said he took part in a sting operation against the blackmailer. Letterman actually met him, handed over a counterfeit $2 million check and the man was arrested on Thursday.

Reports indicate the culprit is Robert Halderman, a producer for 48 Hours, who lived with the staffer - Stephanie Birkitt - with whom Letterman slept. (The incident allegedly happened prior to Harry's birth and prior to Dave's marriage.)

After his explanation of events, Letterman said: "I don't plan to say much more on this particular topic."

[xJadedx]

How is that kinky?

He had sex with his coworkers, so that makes him a cheater, which is wrong in my books, but nothing kinky about it.

[Ken Cheng]

How is that kinky?

He had sex with his coworkers, so that makes him a cheater, which is wrong in my books, but nothing kinky about it.

That depends on *how* he had sex with them, but I'm personally not interested in that.

I don't think this will hurt Letterman's reputation at all. In fact, I expect his show will get a boost from the publicity, which is bad news for NBC and Conan O'Brien.

What will be interesting to see is if O'Brien, Jay Leno, and the other late night comics will riff on this in their monologues. I don't think they will. I think there's an unspoken gentlemen's agreement among them to not go after each other in their jokes.

[jiang bao]

Changed to "Naughty"

[tweety365]

Eh, no big surprise. I keep hearing on the news that everyone is "shocked". C'mon, the man is worth millions, famous, and there are loads of beautiful women around him. It will only be shocking if he does NOT cheat.

[pemberly]

technically, he wasn't married at the time.

and i must say that letterman is a really smart man. if this news had come out another way, people would all be focusing on his affairs. now, this has turned more into a blackmail story with his sexual relationships as merely a backdrop.

[Candide]

I used to think he's alright. Now I think he's a really smart cookie.

Respect++