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aklim · #13 10-03-2009, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by mpolli

But that is what he did. He sold it. There might not be a crime here. I don't know the facts but it might be something like:

Guy write's an unauthorized biography/script of a celebrity, containing unflattering information. (nothing new there)

Guy offers said work for sale. (nothing new there)

Someone buys it. (nothing new there)

Happens to be bought by subject. (Its a free country)

But when you warn the "buyer" that it will ruin his life if he doesn't buy it, that becomes something else.

The D.A. said that Halderman waited outside Letterman's Manhattan apartment Sept. 9 at 6 a.m. to give him a package and say that he needed a "large chunk of money." He was hoping to sell a "screenplay treatment" and told Letterman that his life was about to collapse around him.

The one-page treatment mentioned "your beautiful loving son" [Harry, born in 2003] and said Letterman's "world was about to collapse around him." He also referred to "ruined reputation and severe damage to his professional and family lives."

Halderman allegedly said he should contact Letterman by 8 a.m. to further discuss the matter. Letterman immediately called his lawyer. Halderman and the lawyer met at the Essex House hotel on Sept. 15, at which point Halderman allegedly attempted to extort $2 million from Letterman, 62, in exchange for keeping quiet about sexual activity between the Late Show host and female employees of his program.