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Katie Couric and her sex life is the subject matter of a new book, reports to Star Magazine. Katie Couric is painted as hoochie who slept with married men in order to climb the ladder to the top.
Star Magazine reports this week that, in the unauthorized biography Katie: The Real Story, author Edward Klein talks about a cold calculating woman hidden behind Katie’s perky TV personality.

The book presents a rather scathing portrait of the woman known around the world as “America’s Sweetheart.”

The book insinuates that Couric slept her way to the top, that she’s a shrewd and calculating businesswoman, ambitious to a fault, who routinely put her career ahead of her marriage to the late attorney Jay Monahan. Critics are calling the book a hatchet job, but fans say it does a good job of unmasking Couric for who she really is, reports FOX News.

“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 alleged affairs were all 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 Magazine reports that Katie, “After landing her first TV news job at CNN’s Atlanta headquarters, Couric dove into a steamy affair with a married, considerably older CNN exec. They were spotted “making out.” Klein writes that the exec saved her from getting fired many times. Katie ditched the CNN honcho when she accepted a job at an NBC affiliate in Miami in the mid-1980′s.

The report also details that once in Miami, Klein claims that Katie quickly lined up another high-profile lover, a 12-years-older, married, dad-of-two who was a media spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department.

Klein was on the Big Story yesterday, here is a partial transcript.

“EDWARD KLEIN, AUTHOR OF “KATIE: THE REAL STORY”: Thanks for having me.

JARRETT: I almost finished it. You portray her, I think it’s fair to say, as domineering, manipulative, calculating, prima donna, and I’ll give an example or two in just a moment. But I kept thinking as I read this that if a man had done what she had done we would be applauding him as strong and clever and driven, perfectionist. So, in a way, are you kind of drawing a sexist double standard?

KLEIN: I hope not. I like writing about women because I think women are more interesting than men, more multi-dimensional. But in Katie’s case, I don’t think it’s because she’s a woman that I described her in the terms that you just did but because from an early age she had this single vision of achieving a goal and everything was secondary to it.

JARRETT: But we applaud men for being like that.

KLEIN: I don’t unapplaud her for this.

JARRETT: All right. Well, it’s not complimentary the way you do it. For example, Chapter 17, opening line on page 139: “Katie had never hesitated to make use of men who could advance her career.” You repeat the line almost verbatim then on page 153. Look, I mean, my point is, don’t men do that and doesn’t everybody do that? It’s called networking, positioning. It’s smart business.

KLEIN: Yeah, well the fact of the matter is that Katie, as a young woman starting off in the business, in fact did sleep with a married guy who was in a position to help her get ahead.

JARRETT: Now there are some who deny that, that he was already divorced at the time.”

Star Magazine has a lot more on the book in this week’s print edition.

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