New slap at Letterman
By LEONARD GREENE
A female former staff writer for David Letterman said the comedian's late-night operation was a hostile, sexually charged, male-dominated bastion where women didn't climb the ladder unless they climbed into bed.
Nearly 20 years before Letterman admitted he slept with female staffers, he ran an enterprise rife with rumors about his affairs with subordinates, and looked the other way when other high-level men were sleeping with the staff, Nell Scovell writes in Vanity Fair.
Scovell said that in 1990 she landed what she thought was her dream job, a writing gig on Letterman's show, then on NBC.
But after only a few months, she quit.
"I'd seen enough to know that I was not going to thrive professionally in that workplace," she recalled.
"And although there were various reasons for that, sexual politics did play a major part."
A spokesman for Letterman, who this month reported an extortion attempt over recent affairs with staffers, had no immediate comment on the article.
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