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CBS Producer Arrested For Trying To Extort $2 Million From David Letterman

Robert "Joe" Halderman, an Emmy Award-winning CBS producer who worked for 48 Hours has been arrested for trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman over sexual affairs the late night host had with female employees. Halderman was taken into police custody yesterday by two plain-clothes police officers outside of the CBS studio in New York City on charges of attempted grand larceny.

Halderman threatened to write a screenplay that would reveal Letterman's conquests, and he left left a package with a letter in Letterman's car demanding $2 million. On The Late Show last night Letterman told his audience that when he got in his car three weeks ago, he found a package with a letter saying, "I know that you do some terrible, terrible things and that I can prove you do some terrible things." Letterman said, "At 6 in the morning, all you can think about is every terrible thing you've ever done in your entire life...If you know me, I am motivated by guilt. I am just a towering mass of Lutheran, Midwestern guilt...So I get to the office and I say to myself, 'I hate doing things like this, but maybe I'll call my attorney.'"

Letterman called his lawyer to set up a meeting with Halderman, and after two meetings took place, a check was delivered. "I was worried for myself, I was worried for my family," the late night host said. "I felt menaced by this, and 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. My response to that is yes, I have. Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Yes, it would, especially for the women."

Yikes! But we feel like Halderman did get some of what he wanted, because now we all know Dave had sexual relations with some of the women in his office...



Hmm...maybe Halderman should have written the screenplay and had it picked up by a major studio before he went public with it? Probably would have been a better idea!

SEE MORE:
  >   David Letterman's Extortionist Sentenced To Six Months Behind Bars - May 04, 2010
  >   David Letterman Calls Affair "Stupid Behavior," Trying To Put Marriage Back Together - Apr 30, 2010
  >   Letterman Extortion Plot Won't Get Tossed Out - Jan 19, 2010
  >   Letterman Blackmail Suspect To Ask Court To Drop Case - Nov 10, 2009
  >   Sex Scandal Helps Boost David Letterman's Ratings! - Nov 02, 2009

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Posted by: Anonymous

dave sleeps around on behind he's wife '''what dick prick '''''' so fake



Posted by: Anonymous

I love how the dip shits in the audience were laughing as if what he was saying was actually funny. Letterman is a dirtbag. I feel sorry for his wife and son.



Posted by: Anonymous

he made them a true victim by covering he's ass
on national t.v im done with that show



Posted by: Anonymous

Who cares? He didnt force any of these women into something they didnt want to do, it happens get over it!



Posted by: Eve

Whatever people he had sex with the women. Women want to have sex too you know. Such a small minded double standard. Love Dave, glad he didn't let that ass blackmail him. Women, and this is coming from one, stop hating/judging every man out there cause of your own issues. Get over yourselves and lose the bitterness! Your heart will feel so much lighter. I speak from experience.



Posted by: Anonymous

I'm just wondering why he said "had sex" with those ladies...why not "had an affair" or dated? It sounds so cold and uncaring. Something is fishy about this whole thing..why did he have to tell everyone?



Posted by: Anonymous

Remember the movie, " Van Helsing"?
Part of the beginning, when Van Helsing
went to confess to the pope?
In the confessional, he said, father forgive, for I have..
And the pope cut him off and said,"Sinned,yes, you're good at that".
Who isn't???



Posted by: Anonymous

ha ha ha ha ha, dave's best joke!



Posted by: Anonymous

And for his penance; say 4 Sister Mary Elephants and 10 skip the rope with Blind Melon Chitling....



Posted by: Anonymous

Totally agree 7:29. The audience did sound like morons laughing but they might've thought he was kidding around. He was very manipulative the way he told the story, in a half-jokey way, making the audience laugh so what he did seemed less bad, playing the victim to the hilt, and not telling anyone what he did until the very end of the story so he already had their sympathy. This little speech was probably very very planned out for maximum control and dramatics and sympathy.



Posted by: Anonymous

It's not a simple matter of 2 people having sex. Letterman is the boss and he had sex with a subordinate. Not even a high level subordinate. Also they said it was more than one.

That's abuse of power and sexual harassment. It is. Add her youth to the mix and it's really predatory. Then there's the fact that he has a little kid and just got married. Then that he's a public figure with a lot of influence and has a public responsibility. He had to come forward. He's on tv every night and had to say something. Of course he couldn't pay the guy off. Letterman said he still would've had no guarantee the guy wouldn't write the book.



Posted by: Anonymous

I wonder if when he said "had sex" he meant doing the Lewinski thing...then he felt no guilt with his girlfriend. I bet that's it.



Posted by: Kittykat

He may have just married his wife in recent years but they have been a couple for around 25 years. I think they way he put it out there was disrespectful to his wife.

Regarding the women he had affairs with:
unless they come out and say he forced them to have sex and their jobs were in jeopardy if they didn't have sex with him, I say it his and their damn business and nobody elses. We live in a day and age where women can file sexual harassment charges if they are legimately sexually harassed. If they didn't thats their damn fault.



Posted by: Anonymous

No fool is going to come out and say do me or get fired. It's implicit in their positions. It's not so easy to file a sexual harassment suit. And when women do, idiots like 10:48 say "the bitch just wants money."

You need a lawyer (expensive), you need proof, you need to be willing to go through the trauma and inevitable publicity, and you are guaranteeing yourself no further work in entertainment because men have the power.

Only a simpleton doesn't get the reality and the power differential.

If he wants to be a sleaze and betray his family and the public, at least prey on an equal. They never seem to and there's a reason for that.



Posted by: Anonymous

Stephanie Birkitt will realize that she was used as time goes by and she gains life experience. Right now she probably thinks it was flattering that a big star zeroed in on her. Letterman is a predator.



Posted by: Anonymous

What kind of a douche forces his staffers to wear palin wigs and glasses during sex.



Posted by: Anonymous

I heard that x17 staff writers are forced to have sex with Brandy. She puts a strap on on and bends them over (males and females). X17 paps blow her husband just because they want to. Brazilian fags, what do you expect.



Posted by: Nina

If I was his wife I'd dump him straight away,..sorry,but,who would put up with something like that?I'd feel really embarrassed after that.......



Posted by: carlo

Dirty old man!!!!!!!1111wuarrrrgh!



Posted by: mariana

ohh come on!!!if the sex was consent, and it look like it because non of these women went to the police or something, I hear that was before he got married, who cares, and we don´t know the situation on that time between his wife and him at the time, so if good that he did not play along with the blackmail, why are you so suprise ´people have relations, affair, one nights stand with people of their office and a lot of time is just because they want it, if he was unfaithful is his wife issue not ours, stop judging other people lives and look at your life better I bet you are not perfect, is easy to judge when you are not the one in the loop



Posted by: Anonymous

9:23 AM. It's a Van Helsing script dude!



Posted by: Anonymous

He must be out, what behavior does he you teach our kids? He shal pay for his mistakes and be on trial and not any more on the show.



Posted by: Judy

So, "Anonymous" you think that females of any age don't seek, beg, etc., to have sex with someone who in their minds is a wonderful, impressive star? I have been in the music biz for over 25 years and trust me, I'm a female who has seen female after female do ANYTHING to get near the star, including "doing" every male from roadies to truck drivers to get a chance to have sex with the "star". It happens a LOT, and there are few men "stars" who will ever turn these females away. And, thanks Viagra, for only making a sex drug for men only. Apparently, only younger women are left to enjoy sex. Regarding teaching our kids? Why would your children know about Dave Letterman if YOU haven't talked about it to them? Or worse, you never monitored if they were actually SLEEPING at night? PARENTS, not their teachers or their friends know about or talk about Dave Letterman or any of the thousands of men who will absolutely have sex with any female who offers herself to them. Wake up, people. Keep your heads in the sand, and ignore what has been going on for as long as this country has been around, or go to another country. Or, keep watching Jon and Kate to get your jollies. PLEASE. Too many people mess up, for anyone to throw a stone at anyone for something they just do NOT have a clue about. Women, if you want se so badly you try it with a TV, movie, etc., person, but a dildo and leave the men alone. Men, you already know what you can do.







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