Sen. John Edwards caught with mistress and love child!

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Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this morning in a Los Angeles hotel by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.

The married ex-senator from North Carolina - whose wife Elizabeth continues to battle cancer -- met with his mistress, blonde divorcée Rielle Hunter, at the Beverly Hilton on Monday night, July 21 - and the NATIONAL ENQUIRER was there! He didn't leave until early the next morning.

Rielle had driven to Los Angeles from Santa Barbara with a male friend for the rendezvous with Edwards. The former senator attended a press event Monday afternoon with L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on the topic of how to combat homelessness.

But a months-long NATIONAL ENQUIRER investigation had yielded information that Rielle and Edwards, 54, had arranged to secretly meet afterward and for the ex-senator to spend some time with both his mistress and the love child who he refuses to publicly acknowledge as his own.

The NATIONAL ENQUIRER broke the story of Edwards' love child scandal last year, when Rielle was still pregnant and Edwards was still considered a strong candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Both parties denied the NATIONAL ENQUIRER report and a close friend of Edwards' came forward and said he was the father of Rielle's baby. But sources told the NATIONAL ENQUIRER a far different story - they revealed that Edwards was engineering a massive cover up of his shocking infidelity.

Sources came forward after that story appeared and told The NATIONAL ENQUIRER that Edwards and Rielle had met secretly several times, so that he could see his baby and continue his relationship with Rielle.

The NATIONAL ENQUIRER learned ahead of time that one such meeting was set for yesterday.

At 9:45 p.m. (PST) Monday, Edwards appeared at the hotel, and was dropped off at a side entrance. NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporter Alan Butterfield witnessed the ex-senator get out of a BMW driven by a male companion and stroll into the hotel.

Said Butterfield: "Edwards was not carrying anything. He walked in alone. He was wearing a blue dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He was looking around nervously before he entered the hotel.

"Once inside, he interestingly bypassed the lobby and ducked down a side stairs to go to the bottom floor to catch the elevator up - rather than taking the elevator in the main lobby. He went out of his way not to be seen."

Meanwhile, Rielle had reserved rooms 246 and 252 under the name of the friend who had accompanied her from Santa Barbara, Bob McGovern. Rielle was in one room and McGovern was in another with her baby. This allowed her and Edwards to spend time alone, a source revealed.

Edwards went out of the hotel briefly with Rielle, they were observed by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and then went back to her room, where he stayed until attempting to sneak out of the hotel unseen at 2:40 a.m. (PST). But when he emerged alone from an elevator into the hotel basement he was greeted by several reporters from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.

Senior NATIONAL ENQUIRER Reporter Alexander Hitchen asked Edwards why he was visiting Rielle and whether he was ready to confirm that he was the father of her baby.

Shocked to see a reporter, and without saying anything, Edwards ran up the stairs leading from the hotel basement to the lobby. But, spotting a photographer, he doubled back into the basement. As he emerged from the stairwell, reporter Butterfield questioned him about his hookup with Rielle.

Edwards did not answer and then ran into a nearby restroom. He stayed inside for about 15 minutes, refusing to answer questions from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER about what he was doing in the hotel. A group of hotel security men eventually escorted him from the men's room, while preventing the NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporters from following him out of the hotel.

Said reporter Hitchen: "After we confronted him about seeing Rielle, Edwards looked like a deer caught in headlights!

"He was clearly surprised that we had caught him at this very late hour inside the hotel.

"Some guests up at this late hour watched the spectacle in amusement from a staircase nearby."

Meanwhile, Rielle's friend McGovern also refused to answer any questions from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER or offer any explanation for her meeting with Edwards.

The Edwards "love child" scandal drew international press attention after the NATIONAL ENQUIRER published a blockbuster investigation about the politician in our Dec. 31, 2007 print edition.

We reported that Rielle, a woman linked to Edwards in a cheating scandal earlier last year, was more than six months pregnant - and we reported that she told a close confidante that Edwards was the father of her baby!

Edwards denied the affair and that he was the father, and in a bizarre twist, a close friend of his, Andrew Young, said he was the father. Young, 41, was married at the time with three children. The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned he still is married.

Sources told the NATIONAL ENQUIRER exclusively that Edwards had engineered a massive cover up of the affair and love child scandal and that Young was taking the blame for his good friend. At the time Rielle had been relocated from the New York area to Chapel Hill in Edwards' home state of North Carolina, where she was living in an upscale gated community down the street from Young. Strangely, Young even had Rielle to his house for dinner with his wife and kids, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned.

Young has been extremely close to Edwards for years and was a key official in his presidential campaign.

Rielle is a self-described filmmaker whose company was hired by a pro-Edwards group called One America Committee. She was paid $114,000 to produce videos for Edwards' campaign and worked with him on those videos.

After our story last December, reporters from other media outlets asked Edwards about the report during a campaign stop in Columbia, S.C.

Edwards responded: "The story is false. It's completely untrue, ridiculous," adding: "Anyone who knows me knows that I have been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years."

Rielle issued her own statement, saying in part: "The innuendos and lies that have appeared on the Internet and in the NATIONAL ENQUIRER concerning John Edwards are not true, completely unfounded and ridiculous."

But a source told the NATIONAL ENQUIRER: "Now that it seems to have blown wide open, Rielle may get her wish - all she wants is for John to marry her and for them to live happily ever after with their baby. She's tired of running and living a lie."

A representative for Rielle had no comment on last night's meeting with Edwards.

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/sen_john_e...celebrity/65193

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

With respect to The Men in Black I think I'll wait until this breaks in the mainstream media.

[Jenn! 918]

Yeah, is the only source THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER?

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John Edwards Nabbed With Mistress Rielle Hunter and Love Child

One the same day he entertained notions of being chosen as Senator Barrack Obama's Presidential running mate, former Senator, Presidential candidate and Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee was caught meeting his mistress Rielle Hunter at the Beverly Hilton.

Edwards, who ran his campaign with the backdrop of his wife Elizabeth's announcement that she had cancer, was seen by a reporter for the Enquirer go into the hotel alone, wearing a blue dress shirt and "looking around nervously before he entered the hotel."

The number two man on the Democratic Presidential ticket from 2004 avoided questions from two reporters in the basement of the hotel and, after hiding out in the bathroom for 15 minutes, was eventually escorted by hotel security passed the reporters.

Rielle Hunter, a former campaign worker, had reserved two rooms at the hotel, the other occupied by friend Bob McGovern and the baby. This arrangement was believed to allow Edwards and Hunter their own private space for the late night encounter.

News of this affair had been reported, and subsequently denied, by the Enquirer in December of 2007. The "other woman" was unnamed at the time, but Hunter made a point to refute the allegations anyway.

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‘National Enquirer’ Still Chasing John Edwards–Affair Story; Claim to Have Caught Him in Hotel Tryst

The National Enquirer has been doggedly pursuing their claim that John Edwards had an affair and subsequent love child with documentarian Rielle Hunter. The story flared up in October of last year, when the Huffington Post also joined in on the speculation, but has died down since then. With Edwards's withdrawal from the Democratic presidential primary in January, we haven't heard a word about it (from anyone other than the Enquirer, at least) in months. But the tabloid's editors must be really annoyed that they didn't manage to push the story into the mainstream media, because they've apparently had reporters following Hunter and her baby around ever since and now claim to have finally caught Edwards trying to meet up with her. According to their report, they watched Edwards slip into the Beverly Hilton last night (where Hunter had two rooms rented under a friend's name) around 9 p.m. When he emerged, at nearly 3 a.m., the Enquirer reporters pounced — and began to literally chase Edwards around the hotel. Writer Alan Butterfield says he confronted Edwards in the basement as he was exiting (notably not though the lobby), and this is what he says happened next:

Shocked to see a reporter, and without saying anything, Edwards ran up the stairs leading from the hotel basement to the lobby. But, spotting a photographer, he doubled back into the basement. As he emerged from the stairwell, reporter Butterfield questioned him about his hookup with Reille.

Edwards did not answer and then ran into a nearby restroom. He stayed inside for about 15 minutes, refusing to answer questions from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER about what he was doing in the hotel. A group of hotel security men eventually escorted him from the men's room, while preventing the NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporters from following him out of the hotel.

Butterfield also noted: "Some guests up at this late hour watched the spectacle in amusement from a staircase nearby." It's a tragedy they weren't quoted, because the view from an outsider of this particular scene, whatever it was in reality, must have been priceless.

[Ban Hammer 12,835]

wave bye bye to that vp slot.

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John Edwards, Rielle Hunter, and Elizabeth Edwards

I have no idea if the allegations that former presidential candidate John Edwards has a love-child with Rielle Hunter are true–though his actions seem pretty damning.

But let me be the first to point out that, if the allegations are true, Elizabeth Edwards can take advantage of North Carolina’s unusual tort law to sue Hunter for alienation of affection. When we last looked at the state of affairs in North Carolina in 2006, there were 200 such suits a year, with some verdicts in the six and seven digits. Of course, Mrs. Edwards would need a trial lawyer willing to take on her husband first.

Efforts to abolish the tort in the state have not been successful, though it is worth noting the fact that several dozen states have abolished heartbalm statutes without anyone suggesting that this tort reform is constitutionally problematic.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I thought the rumor that he was gay was much more believable. That woman is not attractive...at all.

The Edwards Drama: A Statement from Rielle Hunter

MyDD's Jerome Armstrong has secured a statement from Rielle Hunter, the woman with whom John Edwards has been accused of having an affair.

From MyDD's site:

"The innuendoes and lies that have appeared on the internet and in the National Enquirer concerning John Edwards are not true, completely unfounded and ridiculous. My video production company was hired by the Edwards camp on a 6 month contract, which we completed December 31, 2006.

When working for the Edwards camp, my conduct as well as the conduct of my entire team was completely professional.

This concocted story is just dirty politics and I want no part of it."

Technically, I wish Hunter had said flatly: "I had no sexual affair of any kind with John Edwards." Some on the right will read her statement as a non-denial denial.

But at least someone has said something in defense of Edwards as he has been quiet. If the veracity of Hunter's denial is solid, then Edwards and/or Hunter should demand a retraction from the National Enquirer and sue if they don't get it.

-- Steve Clemons

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002415.php

[Nagishkaw 510]

I thought the rumor that he was gay was much more believable. That woman is not attractive...at all.

It wasn't her face he was interested in. Now I can understand why the rebel yell.

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I thought the rumor that he was gay was much more believable. That woman is not attractive...at all.

It wasn't her face he was interested in. Now I can understand why the rebel yell.

I'm confused.

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That woman is not attractive...at all.

She looks aiight in that second pic.

The Edwards Drama: A Statement from Rielle Hunter

This is from Oct 2007.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I'm skeptical. John and his wife have been through a lot...if he really needed to blow his stack off he could simply hire a nameless prostitute.

[Nagishkaw 510]

She has a rather long jawline.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

She has a rather long jawline.

lol...Nagi...if that's what gets his goat, he could just find himself a horse.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

wave bye bye to that vp slot.

Actually, he had said awhile back that he wouldn't accept a VP offer.

It's going to be an Obama/Clinton ticket...mark my words.