Edwards' Mistress Planning Tell-All

John wants to help raise love child; wife Elizabeth enraged

(NEWSER) - John Edwards is moving his former mistress and their 18-month-old daughter into his North Carolina neighborhood, the National Enquirer reports. Sources tell the tabloid that the former Democratic presidential candidate is determined to be involved in raising his child with Rielle Hunter. Edwards’ wife, Elizabeth, is said to have “exploded in a rage” at the news. More»

Dem begged Young to claim love child as own

(NEWSER) - John Edwards was apparently desperate for aide Andrew Young to pretend to be his baby’s daddy. In a proposal for Young’s tell-all book, leaked to the New York Times, Young says Edwards promised he’d be “taken care of for life,” if he went through with the ruse. “You know how much I love you,” Edwards said. “You know I’d walk off a cliff for you, and I know you’d walk off a cliff for me.” More»

(NEWSER) - There could soon be another tome trying to cash in on the John Edwards melodrama. Andrew Young, the Edwards aide who claimed to be the father of Rielle Hunter’s child, is shopping a tell-all book, the Daily Beast reports. Young says he feels betrayed by Edwards, who cut off all contact with him after the scandal became public. More»

With book, betrayed Elizabeth trades privacy for payback

(NEWSER) - Elizabeth Edwards knew her husband’s run for president could implode the moment his affair with Rielle Hunter came out, but she played the loving wife role anyway. “It was hard to walk away,” writes Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. “Just as it’s hard to walk away from her desire to prosecute her husband now in public, while still taking the marriage ‘month by month.’” More»

Memoir excerpt reveals reaction, recovery after John's affair

(NEWSER) - In Elizabeth Edwards memoir about coming to terms with her husband's disastrous affair, she tries to understand why he was "targeted” by videographer Rielle Hunter and why he fell for it. "I have come to understand his liaison with this woman, if I have, not as a substitute for me. Those with any fame or notoriety or power attract people for good reasons and bad. Some want to contribute and some want to take something away for themselves. They flatter and entreat, and it is engaging, even addictive." she writes in an excerpt in TIme. More»