Dave Letterman, Sexual God

[CountDeMoney]

CBS "Late Show" host David Letterman shocked his audience Thursday with the revelation that he had sexual relationships with female staffers on his show and that he has been the target of an extortion attempt because of the acts.

The 62-year-old comedian told his studio audience during the taping of Thursday night's show that he had received threats to pay someone $2 million or his relationships with female employees would be made public.

Letterman said he turned the matter over to the district attorney's office in Manhattan, which set up a sting operation that resulted in the arrest of the person behind the blackmail attempt. Letterman, who was married in March, did not offer any kind of time line as to when the sexual encounters with employees or the extortion took place.

Letterman said the man who tried to extort the money from him was caught by police after trying to cash a fake $2 million check that authorities had instructed the comedian to give to the man. Thursday morning Letterman testified against the extortionist, he said.

"This morning, I did something I've never done in my life," Letterman told his audience. "I had to go downtown and testify before a grand jury."

Letterman said his sworn testimony included acknowledgment of his sexual relationships with members of his staff.

"Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would," he said. "I feel like I need to protect these people. I need to certainly protect my family."

Lisa Bloom, CNN legal analyst, said Thursday night on-air that the affairs were with "at least two female staffers."

"There are also potential civil implications..." Bloom said. "I mean sexual harassment..."

[Ed Anger]

Awesome.

[Caliga]

*shrug*

He and every other Hollywood-type.  Big deal.  Chicks dig money and power.

[Viking]

She: Ooo, I feel something hard.
Dave: Thats my pacemaker.

[merithyn]

The man has definitely led an odd life when it comes to his personal life. Why is it people think they can do this to him? Or is it that they do it to all celebrities and we just hear it from him?

Behind the laughs, David Letterman's life has been peppered with a scary collection of loonies and criminals.

Perhaps one of the darkest times in the talk show host's private life came in 2005 when cops uncovered a plot to kidnap Letterman's then 22-month-old son, Harry.

They arrested 43-year-old Montana handyman Kelly Allen Frank and charged him with plotting to break into the "Late Show" host's isolated 2,700-acre ranch and snatch Harry and the child's au pair. Frank wanted $5 million for their return.

Frank, who previously had served time for stalking and intimidating a woman, pleaded innocent at first but later cut a deal and copped to felony theft and other lesser charges. He was sent away for 10 years in July 2005.

Five months later, two weeks before Christmas, another wacko came out of the woodwork, this one in New Mexico.

Colleen Nestler went to a Santa Fe district judge with a complaint that sounded like a bad joke. She said Letterman was somehow expressing his desire for her through code words such as "Marry me, Oprah," signals, and eye gestures.

Dave's influence forced her to go bankrupt and caused her "mental cruelty" and "sleep deprivation," she claimed. The judge bought Nestler's complaint and granted her request to order Letterman to stay 9 feet away from her and "no longer think of her."

Letterman's lawyer quickly had the "absurd and frivolous" action rescinded.

The first and perhaps best known trouble-maker in Dave's life was Margaret Ray, a Connecticut woman who drew national attention in the late 1980s when she stole Dave's Porsche sports car and then claimed she was his wife when stopped at a New York tollbooth.

In 1993 Ray trespassed at Dave's New Canaan home and camped out on his tennis courts. She spent seven months behind bars for that violation.

A few years later Ray was arrested in Westfield, Ind., - near the Carmel home of Dave's mom, Dorothy - for allegedly trying to steal vitamins and a backpack from a store.

In 1998, the 46-year-old Ray knelt in front of a 100-car freight train near a small Colorado train and was killed. Letterman called her death "a sad end to a confused life."

[Caliga]

Maybe alot of insane people enjoy late nite television?

[Ed Anger]

Maybe alot of insane people enjoy late nite television?

Normal people are in bed at 11 pm.

[Caliga]

Normal people are in bed at 11 pm.

I note that all of the Languish crazies are happily posting away at 3am each day.

[PDH]

I note that all of the Languish crazies are happily posting away at 3am each day.

And just how do you note this?

[Caliga]

And just how do you note this?

Timestamps on posts?  Duh.

...and no, I'm not talking about the Euros here.  I understand how time zones work.

[Eddie Teach]

Normal people are in bed at 11 pm.

I note that all of the Languish crazies are happily posting away at 3am each day.

When I'm up at 3, I'll watch Red Eye rather than posting on Languish.

[Alcibiades]

And just how do you note this?

Timestamps on posts?  Duh.

...and no, I'm not talking about the Euros here.  I understand how time zones work.

Shhh!  He's a professor.   

[Malthus]

And just how do you note this?

Timestamps on posts?  Duh.

...and no, I'm not talking about the Euros here.  I understand how time zones work.

They are wasting quality time which could be used to stalk Letterman.

[PDH]

And just how do you note this?

Timestamps on posts?  Duh.

...and no, I'm not talking about the Euros here.  I understand how time zones work.

A bit too convenient of an explanation, MR. LANGUISH CRAZY!

[derspiess]

I'm still not sure I understand who he said he was protecting

Anywho, totally aside from this, Dave just ain't what he used to be