Former Late Show with David Letterman staffer Stephanie Birkitt said in her private diary that she continued having sex with Dave even after moving in with her CBS-producer boyfriend, Robert Halderman, who later allegedly tried to extort him.
According to the New York Post, Letterman and Birkitt enjoyed romantic hikes last fall at his ranch in Montana, where he married Regina Lasko in March.
All the while, Birkitt's beau Halderman, a CBS News producer, was home in Norwalk, Conn. Birkitt told him she and Dave had "a platonic relationship."
"I'm his best friend," Stephanie Birkitt told a worried Robert "Joe" Halderman.
Stephanie Birkitt's rumored cheating on Robert Halderman, her boyfriend of several years, may have driven him to blackmail David Letterman, according to reports.
Apparently, he was such a good friend that at least once a week, he drove Birkitt to the house she lived in with Halderman since he divorced his wife in 2004.
According to the diary, Birkitt, a recent graduate of Benjamin Cardozo Law School in New York, was offered a job by Letterman to be his personal attorney.
Birkitt later tried to use the generous offer to persuade Halderman to have children, saying she'd make good money and he could stay home with the kids.
Halderman reportedly went through the roof when he read Birkitt's diary in December, after she moved out (and somehow inexplicably left her private diary).
It was then he learned she was still carrying on an affair with Letterman.
These details emerged as Letterman returned to the Late Show for the first time since Thursday, when he revealed he'd had sexual affairs with female staffers and became targeted in a $2 million extortion plot by Halderman as a result.
Last night, Letterman attempted to blend humor with earnest apologies as he made many jokes at his own expense, then turned serious as he addressed the affairs, apologizing to wife Regina and his staff for the pain he's caused.
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October 6th, 2009 2:22 PM
Well, well, well Why is this so surpirsing... Not to me. The man is just angery because she wouldn't go out with him. so he is just like a little kid ... I'M TELLING!!!!!!
October 6th, 2009 2:52 PM
sounds like everyone is cheating.
October 6th, 2009 3:21 PM
Do we really care people? He is old and nasty!!
October 6th, 2009 3:21 PM
If this Halderman fellow was having money problems, he probably should have found a better way to express his outrage at finding this girl's journal than going through the roof. Roof repair is expensive.
October 6th, 2009 4:03 PM
He's a creepy jerk. Another example of a man and his mid life crises, who can't admit to being an old fart.WTH would want him..he's dog ugly.
October 6th, 2009 5:18 PM
omg that friggin sucks. :|
October 6th, 2009 5:19 PM
What kind of demented creep reads his ex-girlfriend's diary, then demands extortion money from the ex's old flame? And yeah, Birkitt you twit, if you're going to screw around on your live-in boyfriend, don't be so stupid as to write about in your diary, and then leave the diary behind when you move out!
October 6th, 2009 5:22 PM
This is crazy...
October 6th, 2009 6:14 PM
This is OLD news!
October 6th, 2009 8:30 PM
Letterman is fine; he never was the “Family Values” type. Yes, he probably cheated on his girlfriend now wife. But at least he does go around claiming he is Mr. “Family Values” like some of our politicians (can you just see the grin on all “Fake News” reporters/ commentators and the Palin’s fringe). This has been a tough summer, for Dave, for our economy but at least he did not end up on the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Sanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC).