Halderman: Dave Bedded '6 or 7' Staffers

Stephanie Birkitt is getting the most attention, but she's not be the only staffer David Letterman seduced—not by a long shot, says accused extortionist Robert Halderman. Halderman puts the figure at “six or seven,” a friend tells the New York Daily News. “He would fly them out on a chartered plane to the Indy 500 and put them up in five-star hotels.”

Regardless of the number the Late Show host slept with, “to say that he preyed upon women is absurd,” a former staffer says. In other Letterman news, a source close to his wife Regina Lasko says Lasko was the one who forced the comic to apologize a second time on Monday. The second statement “wasn’t something Dave wanted to do at all,” the source tells Fox News. “He wanted the whole thing to blow over.”