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EXCLUSIVE: Gossip Cop with David Letterman & Stephanie Birkitt

Truth rating: 10

4:18 pm, October 2nd, 2009

EXCLUSIVE!

 

(AccessHollywood.com)

(Access Hollywood)

Just about four years ago – on September 18, 2005 – when Gossip Cop was a producer at Access Hollywood, I was stuck in legendary Los Angeles traffic en route to the 57th Annual Emmy Awards. At a certain point, fearing that I would be late, I jumped out of the car and started hoofing it as fast as I could in my tuxedo to the Shrine Auditorium for the ceremony.

About three blocks away, I saw David Letterman, dressed in shorts and smoking a cigar, briskly walking away from the auditorium. With him was a woman dressed in black. That was Stephanie Birkitt, Letterman’s former assistant, with whom he had a sexual relationship, and who later took up with “48 Hours” producer Robert “Joe” Halderman, the alleged exortionist who reportedly used her diary and e-mails as proof of her relationship with Letterman in an effort to squeeze the talk-show host out of $2 million.

As I passed Letterman, who was to honor the late Johnny Carson that evening, I heard him mutter to Birkitt, “I’m not going in, I’m not going in” before plopping himself down on a nearby bus bench.

Surprised by what I had heard and seen, I had a cameraman from Access meet me at the bus stop, where I asked Letterman if I could ask him a few questions. He couldn’t have been more gracious.

First I asked Letterman what the heck he was doing on the bench with minutes to go before the Emmys. Letterman, seated next to Birkett, replied, “We’re just waiting on the bus.” Birkitt then added, “We’re actually about to go in.”

When I then asked Letterman why he wasn’t suited up in a tux, he joked that he was going to wear his shorts that evening: “This is it, this is… pretty expensive this is like an Armani,” before being cut off by Birkett, who said, “Are you ready?”

Birkett clearly enjoyed such a closeness with Letterman that she felt comfortable cutting him off while being interviewed on camera.

That was then. Now Gossip Cop hears that their sexual relationship ended before he married longtime girlfriend Regina Lasko in March 2009.

Gossip Cop also hears that there have been no recorded issues of sexual harassment. Letterman owns the production company behind “Late Show,” Worldwide Pants, and an inside source tells us there have been ZERO complaints.

As for how the talk show host is doing amidst the controversy, the source told Gossip Cop, “Eh, not so well.”

 

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  • Chloe

    I like David. I hope he gets through this…..He will….

  • alwaysangels

    I wonder if his (now) wife knew about the affair?

  • marigrace

    Sarah Palin was right, Letterman is “creepy”
    .
    Todd Palin was a wise discerner of character, when he said he wouldn’t want any of his daughters, no matter what age, around Letterman.

  • Pandora

    So… let me get this straight. Your “scoop” is that four years ago you interacted with Letterman at a bus stop and this woman cut him off while speaking. And this means what exactly….?

    I thought this site was all about not jumping to conclusions about people based on scanty evidence!

    I usually enjoy your posts, but you lost me on this one.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Will-Benshoof/100000195240381 Will Benshoof

    I wonder if Dave and his WorldWide Pants are “Equal Employment Opportunity” employers?
    Lets send in Perez Hilton to investigate.

  • kit

    This encounter occurred after Letterman’s son was born, but before he married the child’s mother. No, he wasn’t married, but he was still cheating on Regina Lasko. He had a long term relationship with her, dating back to 1988. And this Birkitt woman wasn’t the only co-worker he, ummmm, “dated”. This kind of thing makes for a wonderful work environment. Even if the relationship was consensual, other co-workers end up resenting the fact that the piece the boss is banging on the side seems to be getting a disproportionate amount of attention and good assignments.

    Letterman is a serial cheater. I expect we’ll find out more disturbing things about Letterman’s life at the “office” in the future.

    And he had the nerve to make jokes about Mark Sanford…..

  • WENDY

    It’s no good for Letterman’s son. I pity Stephanie Birkitt but somehow, she is also responsible for it. She became a temptation for Letterman and this man proven the weakness of the men’s. Well, it’s already there and we don’t control the situations. I just hope that respect for privacy is still there. Halderman will probably need some payday loans for a good lawyer. Stephanie Birkitt is the unwilling center of the David Letterman extortion plot. Stephanie Birkitt is, or was, a long time employee at the Late Show and NBC, and she had a brief affair with Letterman several years ago, which was supposed to have ended before when Letterman’s long time girlfriend and now wife, Regina, gave birth to their son. Turns out that Birkitt’s roommate, one Robert Halderman, stole her diary, found out what had happened and attempted to extort David Letterman of $2 million, or he would reveal the affair. Letterman fessed up anyway, and the matter is now in the hands of the New York Police Department, who will probably shoot an unarmed person, not Halderman, in response.

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