Everyone has heard about a time when a two people who worked with eachother have had a sexual relationship. This is a very common thing that is heard about throughout the world and very normal. But is it always heard about with a famous person like David Letterman? David Letterman is a very well known comedian. He is famous throughout the world. Letterman made a mistake by cheating on his wife and having sexual relations with someone who worked on the set of his T.V. show. Just because he is so famous, does that mean it's okay to gossip about his whole life? Just because he is caught in a celebrity scandal does not mean that every move he makes should be watched. "I have sex with women who work for me on the show" Letterman admitted to his audience one night. 
If matters couldn't get worse for Letterman, his case keeps getting more embarrassing. A man named Robert Joel Halderman got involved by blackmailing Letterman. The man gave Letterman a one-page screenplay treatment depicting the talk- show host as a great success whose "world is about to collapse around him." Halderman also provided photographs to go along with this screenplay. This is absolutely disgusting to me. In no way does Letterman's situation have anything to do with anyone else. Letterman wrote the man a fake $2 million check to keep him from speaking out. When the man knew it was fake he gave Letterman's limo driver a one-page draft of the screenplay and included his whole love life. It is disturbing that this man spent so much time investigating his love life and making it all his business.
If the man thinks this is such sexual harassment that Letterman committed he should check again. It is not sexual harassment if the girl was happy and in a relationship with Lettermen. Letterman may have slept around with some of the woman but most of them had strings attached. They actually had realtionships. None of the woman were tricked into having sex with him or lead to believe there relationship was something when it wasnt. I do not agree with her being under age or the fact that he cheated on his wife, but i don't think it is any ones business but Letterman's. Sexual harassment has to be viewed again and closely looked at. Under the definitions of sexual harassment, it says"the harasser's conduct must be unwelcome." Letterman could have been convicted due to the under age woman. However, Letterman's neighbors told the press they saw the Letterman take the woman out on dates and "the woman seemed very happy" according to Law.com. Another thing said of sexual harassment is, "Unlawful sexual harassment may occur without economic injury to or discharge of the victim." That means that the victim is injured. None of these woman were injured or pushed into having intercourse with him. Sexual harassment isn't a funny thing. It is sick and cruel. What makes it even crueler is being accused of committing it, when you never did, especially when you are on national television and the amount of viewers you have will decrease.
Cases of sexual harassment that have happened in the past are way worse than this. Those ones should be payed close attention to.
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Halderman "plead not guilty, and he stands by that plea," Mr Shargel, Halderman's lawyer, said after the arraignment in a telephone interview. There are two sides to every story and everyone knows that. However, there is no need for everyone to be in someone's business and start to blackmail. Letterman has enough in his life going on at the moment rather it was his fault or not. He has made a huge mistake and will suffer on his own without someone black mailing him about it. Jay Leno's T.V. show, "The Tonight Show," has gone up 20% due to people not watching Letterman as much.
Although this was a terrible thing that happened, and shouldn't have happened, it got way blown out of proportion and it was his business only. Robert Halderman should have never gotten involved. Sexual harassment violates the Title VII of the Civils Rights Act of 1964. It is not something that should be joked about or taken as an oppertunity to get money from a black mail.
At this point, Letterman is trying to make amends with his wife. He feels terrible for everything that has happened and is trying to apologize to everyone affected. "I want to apologize to all of my staff and wife for my stupid behavoir" Letterman said.
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I agree with you completely. David Letterman did a horrible thing but he should not get this much hatred for it. It is a personal life and if someone not famous did something like it, it probably would not even be in the news. I dont think it was sexual harrasment if the girls new what they were doing and if they were in a relationship. This man that black mailed him is horrible and has no life. He is just trying to make other people misrable. I think people should stop making a big deal on personal lives when they make mistakes.
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