After being the target of an extortion plot, David Letterman was forced to reveal that he has had affairs with female employees on the Late Show and a CBS worker has been arrested and fired in trying to extort the talk show host out of $2 million. The worker is a fellow CBS employee that works on the show “48 Hours” and does not work on Letterman’s show, but after finding out about Letterman’s affairs, the employee wanted a big payoff or they would go public with the information. Letterman decided to go public himself about it and the worker was arrested.

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