UPDATE: 10:30 PM ET: TMZ has learned the identity of the alleged extortionist who was arrested today. His name is Robert Halderman. He's 51 years old and lives in Norwalk, CT. Halderman has a business in Manhatten, where he was arrested today.
David Letterman says someone has demanded $2 million from him in return for not blowing the lid on Letterman's sexual liaisons in his office.
Letterman said on his show tonight he received a package 3 weeks ago from someone claiming to have info about sexual escapades between Letterman and some female employees on his staff.
According to Nikki Finke the individual said Letterman would have to pay $2 million to keep the info secret.
Letterman went on to say he contacted the Special Prosecution Bureau of the Manhattan D.A.'s office. He said the D.A. investigated and cut a phony $2 million check to the alleged extortionist who was arrested today.
Letterman says he testified today before the grand jury. In his testimony, he says he acknowledged sexual relationships with members of his staff.
Letterman married his girlfriend of 23 years last March
― velko, Friday, 2 October 2009 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
zzzzz
― wH1N1 g. swinegarten (k3vin k.), Friday, 2 October 2009 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
very well said
― gore vitalic (s1ocki), Friday, 2 October 2009 04:11 (fourteen years ago) link
more like $$$$$
― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Friday, 2 October 2009 04:12 (fourteen years ago) link
because of the fact that it was a potential extortion attempt
Apparently, Halderman is (was) a producer on CBS' true crime show 48 Hours.
Erm, if there's one thing I've learned from watching a lot of true crime shows is that extortion schemes rarely ever work.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 October 2009 06:26 (fourteen years ago) link
You never hear about the ones that work.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 2 October 2009 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
always the gaptoothed guys
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 07:55 (fourteen years ago) link
how the hell did he think he could get $2 million out of this? he shoulda been more reasonable w/ his demands.
― iatee, Friday, 2 October 2009 08:00 (fourteen years ago) link
This is the most fucked-up country re sexual mores on earth. Like, more than Italy.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 08:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah... I was going to ask, do all American men in a position of authority treat their female juniors as their sexual playthings?
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 2 October 2009 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link
um
― wH1N1 g. swinegarten (k3vin k.), Friday, 2 October 2009 11:31 (fourteen years ago) link
do all female juniors go for it?
― Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Friday, 2 October 2009 11:37 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone got some gum
― ( ´_ゝ˙) (Dr. Phil), Friday, 2 October 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, October 2, 2009 4:03 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
not more than italy.
― gore vitalic (s1ocki), Friday, 2 October 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
not more that rapeonia
― fleetwood (max), Friday, 2 October 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
what kind of stuff do you think letterman says while doing sex
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
hasn't david letterman suffered enough?
― aarrissi-a-roni, Friday, 2 October 2009 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
shes in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33IIAk5cEKs
― ice cr?m, Friday, 2 October 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
real dirty Top 10 lists
xxp
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
top ten reasons i am having sex with u
― gore vitalic (s1ocki), Friday, 2 October 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
he just grins like a death's head
― Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Friday, 2 October 2009 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
would you like to eat a sandwich in Dave's office ;)
― brownie, Friday, 2 October 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
the rod stewart chimp dance was great, stephanie was always a traet on the show. we all liked steph, dave, but you took it too far. TOO FAR!
http://i35.tinypic.com/2dlrslc.jpg wonder how soon this will be taken down from the CBS website
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
he lost his father, larry "bud" melman, in the holocaust. who are we to judge such a tormented soul?
― velko, Friday, 2 October 2009 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
whoa the chick he always referred to as "Monty"?
― feed them to the (Linden Ave) lions (will), Friday, 2 October 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yes!
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
wonder if he called her Monty... in bed
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
In a 2002 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Birkitt called Letterman "the best boss I've ever had."
She expanded on that claim in a 2003 interview with her alma mater, telling a Wake Forest publication:
Aside from being incredibly funny and personable he is generous, kind, and is great fun to play catch with. I really couldn't ask for a more fun work environment. Dave is truly the greatest boss I could ever have.
― velko, Friday, 2 October 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
full monty amirite
― brownie, Friday, 2 October 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Aside from being incredibly funny and personable he is generous, kind, and is great fun to make love with. I really couldn't ask for a more fun work environment. Dave is truly the greatest boss I could ever have.
― gore vitalic (s1ocki), Friday, 2 October 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
can't believe nobody caught that
this puts "did you see or touch any monkeys" in a whole new context
A SEXUAL CONTEXT IN FACT
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
in the bed.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 2 October 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder if Letterman will now apologize for all the mercilous ribbing of Bill Clinton's peccadilloes.
― o. nate, Friday, 2 October 2009 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
No, he really only ribbed for our pleasure.
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I really stopped watching him when the Clinton dick jokes became a nightly staple, but this adds an amusing sheen of hypocrisy.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
not so sure hypocrisy is the right word for it, since his Clinton jokes were never really self-righteous criticisms of adultery as much as they were just general laffs about the ridiculousness of it all. in this case Letterman is openly poking fun at himself about it, too, so the sheen is really more irony than anything.
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
You mean we're not gonna give DL a moralistic beatdown for using his boss-man position to score with women? That's just for, oh, maybe another hot thread this week?
(I am NOT drawing any equivalencies btwn the respective artists' actions, which are very different, so far as we know)
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I've read your writing elsewhere and know you cannot possibly be that fucking stupid.
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
thank you.
Cuddly ol' Uncle Dave has built up enough goodwill that ppl will tend to forgive him, tho. SEE?
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
TELEVISION IS A COOL MEDIUM
i have not read your writing elsewhere so as far as i know you are that fucking stupid
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I already figured Letterman was just another Arthur Godfrey-type horrible boss before this.
― Aimless, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I just watched Letterman's confession from last night, and I think "I am a tower of Midwestern Lutheran guilt" is probably the most honest thing he's ever said on TV.
Also, being in his position in American culture is very much like holding elected office. There's not much difference anymore.
I know from your "writing" what a fucking dick you are, n/a.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
well whatever cocktail of emotions Jay Leno is a tower of, it's not very good at producing lols
xp oh he's a dirtbag for sure, and it must feel extraordinary to know you are not among the fools who have been duped into making an emotional investment into the moral character of this Legendary Entertainment Celebrity
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
no, I have some warm feelings toward DL, given that he made one of the few must-watch shows in the last quarter-century of American TV (from '82 til maybe the Crispin Glover kick -- was that around '92?). AND I give him points for declaring himself "creepy."
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
'87, but yeah that's about '92 in Morbs years
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, yer right, his studio audience went tourist/frat by the end of the '80s.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
j'deteste an impure studio audience
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link