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Mon 10 Oct 2009Letterman hoping public will forget about affairs
THE AMERICAN talk show host David Letterman last week confessed to his millions of viewers that he had had sexual relationships with the women who work on his television programme. Letterman was trying to ward off a blackmail attempt; indeed he had successfully done so, writes ANN MARIE HOURIHANE
Quite the Duke Of Wellington he was. It was the Duke of Wellington who told a blackmailer to publish and be damned. Here was Letterman doing the 21st century equivalent. His blackmailer had threatened, among other things, to write a screenplay about him.
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