david letterman sex scandal

It's time to look back to a simpler, less vicious time in late night television when the alleged extortion of a major talk show host and his office flings was all the rage in the daily news rags.

Robert Halderman, the 48 Hours producer accused of extorting Late Show host David Letterman, lost his recent bid to have a judge throw out his grand larceny charges. His defense claimed that what Letterman and the FBI call his actions blackmail, he called it simply an offer to buy a screenplay about the talk show host's life.

Call me crazy, but offers to do artistic work don't usually involve threats of dragging people through the mud for personal gain and profit. Then again, I've never worked for NBC.

The scary-looking man to the right who looks like he's trying to swallow your soul through your computer screen has made one of his boldest statements yet.

Robert Halderman, the man federal prosecutors have fingered as the David Letterman extortionist, has laid (ahem) a claim on his case that uses Tiger Woods' recent trysts as evidence to back up his innocence.

His attorneys claim since Woods paid one of his gaggle of secret girlfriends to keep things quiet, that should earn their client a get-out-of-jail-free card for making the same gracious offer to Letterman. That only makes the tiniest bit of sense if the person Letterman was having sex with was Halderman. Actually, forget I just said that. Whoops, too late.

It turns out the David Letterman sex scandal hasn't reached its climax. It was just napping.

The National Enquirer reports that the Late Show host may have been caught on camera getting it on with a member of his staff.

The footage in question came from a surveillance camera in the show's offices that Letterman and his "much younger female co-worker" did not know had been installed in the building. The tape may be released when Robert Halderman, Letterman's extorter, goes to trial or when some sick son of a bitch with nothing but time on his hands and bandwidth to waste decides to post the thing on the Internet. For the sake of humanity, its vision and waning sex drives, don't. Just don't.

[via Fark]