{"id":200,"date":"2009-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/communitynews\/2009\/10\/blackmail-a-local-celebrity-mo.html"},"modified":"2009-10-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T00:00:00","slug":"blackmail-a-local-celebrity-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/communitynews\/2009\/10\/blackmail-a-local-celebrity-mo.html","title":{"rendered":"Is It &#8216;Blackmail a Celebrity&#8217; Month?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrities have always been known to run into trouble with their popularity. Many times however, they can use their publicity for their own protection. What do you make of all the blackmail stories that have been circulating lately? It originally began with John Travolta and lately David Letterman is getting the hit.  Take a look at what <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/go\/thread\/view\/59723\/20246601\/Somebody_tried_to_extort_Letterman_too\">all the talk is about<\/a>.<br \/>\nRead what others are saying:<br \/>\n&#8220;Celebs have always been sitting ducks for such things.  There are folks who just wait for someone with $ to do something compromising.  And then they take full and unfair advantage,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/ireneadler\">notes IreneAdler<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/erey\">Member Erey<\/a> writes, &#8220;I kind of like Letterman&#8217;s blunt attitude to it all &#8211; just out there in the open with it.  Not the kind of person I would choose to extort.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrities have always been known to run into trouble with their popularity. Many times however, they can use their publicity for their own protection. 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