Claim: Letterman Brought Along Staff-Squeeze Stephanie Birkitt Along on Vacations... With Wife and Son

Dom Irerra has a joke: "My girlfriend can be so nice, but I really wish she could get along better with my wife."

According to the NY Post, Letterman didn't get that that was a gag.

And the No. 1 reason David Letterman is a cad: The "Late Show" host brought the assistant he was sleeping with on Caribbean vacations with his wife and their young son, sources told The Post.

Letterman's wife, Regina Lasko, had no clue the comic was having an affair with his pretty, much younger assistant Stephanie Birkitt -- a $200,000-a-year employee -- when she was tagging along on the cozy, romantic trips, sources said.

Lasko, 48, "has to be really, really pissed" to learn recently that Letterman was so brazen as to have invited his paramour on vacations with their 6-year-old son, Harry, a source said.

At least one jaunt was to the Caribbean island of St. Barts.

How did he get away with it? Simple: He's rich, and he brought along a bunch of people to hide her in a bodyguard of lies:

Lasko -- a former show staffer herself who married Letterman in March after 23 years as his girlfriend -- believed that Birkitt was only an innocent "friend" and "co-worker" at the time. Letterman also brought other friends and co-workers along for the ride.

It really takes a lot of the tensions out of a marriage when you can slip away from your wife on vacation to boink your mistress.

The article, by the way, states that this affair was not over during Letterman's marriage, and that he went on long hikes with Birkitt at a ranch as late as last fall.

And, apparently, she was sleeping with him even while she was living with this other guy, the blackmailer.

I can sorta understand why he was pissed.

posted by Ace at 03:46 PM

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