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...blackmailing scheme, it was almost comically bad: the alleged extortionist threatened to write a screenplay about Letterman's affairs. "He's going to take all of the terrible stuff he knows about my life - and there seems to be quite a lot of terrible stuff he knows about - and he's going to put it in a movie," explained Letterman on the show. Still, the host was clearly unnerved. "I want to reiterate how terrifying this is," he said. "I am a seething mass of Lutheran Midwestern guilt." (See the top 10 late night jokes...
...Apparently neither the extortion attempt, nor the fact that Letterman slept with women on his show, were news to Letterman's wife of seven months, Regina Lasko, who had told Letterman's mother Dorothy Mengering about it earlier in the day. "I'm looking forward to seeing the show to see what he has to say," Mengering told the New York Daily News. "I really just found out today...
Lasko and Letterman have a 5-year-old son, Harry, and have been dating since 1986. The comedian now wants to put the "bizarre experience" behind him. "I need to protect my family, I need to protect myself. I hope to protect my job," he said in one of his serious moments, before making a joke about how nobody in the grand jury believed he had had sex. (See the top 10 political sex scandals...
...While Letterman seems to be in no immediate risk of losing either his family or his job (ratings from last night's telecast will likely be stratospheric), his troubles may not be over. Having sex with people who were his employees or whom he managed could leave him, or CBS, open to a sexual-harassment lawsuit. It's certain the comedian has given the network's lawyers plenty of reasons to be up at night...
...Letterman has also probably given truckloads of material to other comedians - or even his own writers. Let's just say he may come to regret calling his company Worldwide Pants...