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Letterman’s Confession

by David Kurtz
10.02.09 | 4:38 am

In case you missed it, on his show last night David Letterman unexpectedly revealed the arrest yesterday of a blackmailer for attempting to extort $2 million from Dave with threats of exposing his history of affairs with female staffers on the show — affairs Letterman cops to. Watch.

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