Ratings bonanza.

Letterman's on-air admission of staffer sex last Thursday scored him 5.8 million viewers, and last night he apologized his way to a 4.2 rating ...

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http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/10/letterman_sex_scandal_good_for.html

That Dude Mostly Blackmailed Letterman Just to Make Him Feel Pain, Allegedly:The New York Post's daily Letterman angle is that Joe Halderman,

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Sexy Letters Exist Maybe: Hello, the Daily News still has some fight in it! New York's slightly less skeevy tabloid gets back in the Letterman Scandal Game with today's story: Stephanie Birkitt wrote (but never mailed) "'trashy' love letters

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Who's Leaking All This?: Yesterday we mused over who might be the source for all this inside info about the case. Letterman's camp? Halderman's lawyer? Birkitt's friends? Judging by what's come out today, we can safely assume: It's the fucking cops.

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http://gawker.com/5376159/letterman-scandal-shock-fling-caused-love-letters-anger