"Some said 72-hours; others just 24-hours," according to Klein.

When approached about this subject, Matthew Hiltzik, a spokesman for Couric said: "The baseless gossip about this subject doesn't merit a response."

Ed Klein, who previously wrote the book "The Truth About Hillary", paints a scathing portrait of Couric as a one-dimensional prima donna who would do anything to claw her way to the top. One story Klein tells of Couric destroying the marriage of a top CNN Executive because he promised to make her a star.

While on the Today Show, Klein reports that Couric would intentionally eat into Matt Lauer's airtime and that she was jealous of Ann Curry, the news reader on the Today Show.

Lauer threatened to quit "Today" if NBC Executives renewed Couric's 65-Million-Dollar contract.

Because of falling ratings on the CBS-TV Evening News since she became the anchor, Klein says Couric has been forced to accept diminished power, and less influence over Editorial decisions. Certainly things have gone down-hill since Bob Schieffer gave up his interim position at that anchor desk after Rather departed. Schieffer had CBS ratings on the increase before Couric arrived. Now the network is far behind NBC and ABC's Charles Gibson is leading the race displacing Brian Williams who was number one for a long time.

While Couric was taking the hits from Ed Klein, another well known female anchor was the center of questioning actions, a possible divorce and who knows how many lawsuits over millions of dollars.

New York newspapers have been having a field day with the Paula Zahn story. Until recently a leading anchor at CNN, Ms. Zahn told friends that she had a sexless marriage to Richard Cohen which drove her into the arms of another man.
A friend of the former CNN Anchor said the fire went out of the 20-year marriage long before Cohen learned of the affair last August when he found his wife's "lurid" sex diary.

Friends of Cohen tell a different story--that Zahn betrayed him when she "strayed" with his pal Paul Fribourg. "I trusted Paul and I trusted Paula," Cohen told a friend.
"I had no inkling there was a long-term romance."

Cohen, reportedly discovered Ms. Zahn's diary with his 17-year old daughter Haley. The diary details Ms. Zahn's extra-marital affair. Friends of Ms. Zahn contend that her husband showed the diary to Haley and her 13-year old brother Jared. "It was unnecessary and hurtful said another Zahn friend.

Cohen claims he showed the diary only to his 17-year old daughter. A Cohen friend said "Richard does not want to drag Paula's dirty laundry through a public arena.

Last Friday, Zahn filed a 60-page suit in Manhattan Supreme Court demanding a forensic accounting of more than 25-million-dollars which she had entrusted to Cohen.

Cohen, reportedly, refuses to deal with issues of child custody and visitation unless Zahn signs away her right to an accounting. He won't budge. He is so bitter.

Zahn and Cohen have been trying to live together but recently he said he wanted her out of the house. She has moved into a East 76th Street full-floor rental, for which she is reportedly paying forty-thousand-dollars a month.

The Diary in which Zahn reportedly went into extensive intimate details about her extra-marital affair with her husband's friend is also reportedly to have included numerous photos in which Zahn laid bare her alleged affair.

Who knows how the Klein attack book on Couric, or, Zahn's extra-marital affair involving millions and three children, will lead.

One thing seems certain...neither of these well-known television celebrities need another problem with their careers. Katie Couric is just hanging on by a thread and Paula Zahn is without a job at this time. Stay tuned, these stories will be getting more water-cooler talk before the end to either is settled.

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