Why is Regina Lasko i the news right now?”
Regina Lasko is the long time beau of David Letterman. Regina was a girl friend who lived in with David Letterman for a long time before both got married recently. Regina bore David a son. Regina Lasko and David Letterman’s son is about 5 years old I believe. All this is in the news because in the The Daily Show tonight (Thursday) David Letterman got all serious and said he went in front of the grand jury. Something that he has never done before. The reason he went in front of the grand jury was because he was been blackmailed for $2 million dollars. The reason for extortion was basically that somebody became privy of the information that David Letterman was having inappropriate relationships with staffers who worked on his team. Regina Lasko Bio Wiki Regina became David Letterman’s girlfriend in 1989 and moved in with him in 2001. The couple live in North Salem, New York. Eventually they married in March, 2009. Lasko is formerly a production manager and colleague in show business. She
CBS “Late Show” host David Letterman shocked his audience Thursday with the revelation that he had sexual relationships with female staffers on his show and that he has been the target of an extortion attempt because of the acts.The 62-year-old comedian told his studio audience during the taping of Thursday night’s show that he had received threats to pay someone $2 million or his relationships with female employees would be made public. Letterman said he turned the matter over to the district attorney’s office in Manhattan, which set up a sting operation that resulted in the arrest of the person behind the blackmail attempt. Letterman, who was married in March to long-time companion Regina Lasko, did not offer any kind of time line as to when the sexual encounters with employees took place. Letterman and Lasko have a 5-year-old son, Harry. Letterman said the man who tried to extort the money from him was caught by police after trying to cash a “phony” $2 million check that authorities
David Letterman Affairs Led to Extortion Attempt Against Letterman and Wife Regina Lasko. Some more details of the case make this seem even more like something you would see in the movies, because it is an employee of the show 48 Hours that has been charged with attempted grand larceny and has also been suspended from the network pending the investigation. It sure sounds like he felt that there was no way that Letterman would let this information get out to the public, and that he would pay any amount of money in order to keep the skeletons in his closet a secret for much longer. The blackmail attempt spooked Letterman though, and he went to authorities instead of even dealing with the person who was trying to extort money from him and his family.
