New Book Claims Katie Couric Slept Her Way to the Top

[CGowen]

New Book Claims Katie Couric Slept Her Way to the Top
By Susan Hatch
Aug 29, 2007

Did Katie Couric sleep with married men to claw her way to the top of the heap in the news business? Star Magazine will report this week that in the unauthorized biography Katie: The Real Story, author Edward Klein describes a calculation vixen hidden behind Katie's perky TV personality - and he discussed the book's steamiest details with Star! "Yes, it can be said that Katie tried to sleep her way to the top," Klein tells Star. "Both men helped her achieve some degree of professional success."

The report notes that Katie has been battered by dismal ratings and reports of on-set diva behavior during her one-year tenure as author of the CBS Evening News. Now, the once pristine public image will be dealt another blow with this bombshell book filled with tawdry accusations.

The alleged affairs were suspiciously short-lived, says Klein: "Any emotional attachment on Katie's part did not appear to be particularly strong, since she left both of them and moved on!" Star reports that Katie is still doing her own thing when it comes to romance. Since October 2006, she's been very publicly linked to entrepreneur and tri-athlete Brooks Perlin. "She's out to prove that she's sill sexy, vital, and desirable in the eyes of this young jock," says Klein. Yet by showing off her new boy toy, he adds, the Katie may be risking the prestigious job she worked so hard to get.

More from Star: "After landing her first TV news job at CNN's Atlanta headquarters, Klein claims that Katie plunged into a steamy affair with a married, considerably older CNN exec. Soon, says the author, they were the talk of the newsroom - and were even spotted "making out." Klein writes that the exec saved her from getting fired several times. But even though Katie ditched the CNN honcho when she accepted a job at an NBC affiliate in Miami in the mid-1980's, his marriage soon ended."

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http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272615743.shtml

[DURHAM D]

1. Is there a book in the works about some man doing the same -

say Brian Williams or Charles Gibson.

This story fuckin' sucks.

[noamnety]

6. thank you

I am very sick of both story lines:

Woman who has had more than one relationship is a slut

Woman whose partner is financially more secure than her is a gold-digger. Since men make more than women on average, what the hell does the world expect - that we will all find men who make less than the shit we earn?

[indepat]

2. Say it ain't so Ed

[Auggie]

3. Star Magazine??? Isn't that a supermarket tabloid?

[terrya]

8. Yes

And has been mentioned, Edward Klein is a sleezemonger. I don't give any creedence to this story whatsoever.

[Mist]

12. Yes, he is. He did a smear-fest on Hillary last year--long on inuendo, short on facts. nt

[Captain Hilts]

13. Then you'll love William Mann's book on KHepburn. This crap is happening a lot. nt

[partylessinOhio]

4. Those men must have been hard up to settle for Katie.

:puke:

[billyoc]

5. Top of what?

:rofl:

[LuckyLib]

7. Klein is a sleaze-monger. He's dug around in the lives of the Kennedys and Hillary.

Serious historians don't give him a second glance.

[erpowers]

9. Every Book, Every Woman

It seems that any book that talk about women who made it to the top always says she slept her way to the top. I have heard the same rumors about Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey. I think there are just some people who are upset that women keep getting to the top levels of the business world.

[Captain Hilts]

14. Either that, or they're called gay. nt

[JitterbugPerfume]

10. Who cares?

she is a mediocre newcaster at best

[Captain Hilts]

11. This crap sells. Authors can just make up stuff.

In his book about Katharine Hepburn, William Mann even makes up the contents of her FBI file - a public document - and used tons of anonymous sources and Janet Maslin marveled at all the new material. I'll say!