National Enquirer’s David Letterman “Sex Tape” Bombshell Fails to Detonate
11:55 am, October 21st, 2009
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The National Enquirer is doing its part to keep the David Letterman ‘sextortion’ scandal going, even if it means resorting to the old trick of promising something exists when no one can prove otherwise. In this case: a supposed sex tape.
According to so-called “sources,” a studio surveillance tape is said to have “caught the 62-year-old star and a much-younger female co-worker in a compromising position… when they went outside his private office ‘love nest’ to another portion of the studio.” The tab claims the tape surfaced only recently, and that “a copy” may have been made before the original was erased.
Right.
Sources told the supermarket tab it’s “unclear” if Stephanie Birkitt, whose ex-boyfriend Robert Halderman is accused of blackmailing Letterman for $2 million, is the woman shown on the “grainy” footage.
OK. There is no tape.
Even by the Enquirer‘s reporting, no one has watched the tape, no one can identify who’s in it, no one can provide any details beyond the broadest ‘love nest’ rumors outlined in New York dailies weeks ago, and the bulk of the piece is filler about possible ramifications and background on the extortion case – but not about the “tape” itself.
A source close to Letterman confirmed to Gossip Cop that the existence of a sex tape is “not true.” Forgive us for thinking this ridiculous rumor is just a Stupid Magazine Trick.
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