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NEWS ABOUT: Andrew Young

Andrew Young stories: 9 news summaries

 How Edwards' 
 Aide Morphed 
 From Devotee 
 to Sellout 

Tell-all author was disturbingly attached to senator, to his wife's dismay

Oct 1, 09 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Andrew Young was right there every time John Edwards needed a Diet Coke, dry cleaning, a ride from the airport, and finally a babydaddy for his mistress. The "personal servant" who turned tell-all author—other aides even called him Edward’s “butt boy”—showed a fierce devotion... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • Senate • aide • Andrew Young • scandal • senator • celebrity tell-alls • Rielle Hunter • paternity • extramarital affair

 Elizabeth Edwards 
 Ready to Divorce: Tab 

John Edwards may have fathered Rielle Hunter's baby, but it's those other women...

Oct 1, 09 9:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards is ready to divorce John and air all his dirty laundry in court, sources tell the National Enquirer—a tabloid that's been surprisingly accurate when it comes to the Edwards scandal. Elizabeth’s breaking point by way of former aide Andrew Young’s upcoming tell-all: “What... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • divorce • sex scandal • Andrew Young • love child • political scandal • Rielle Hunter

(Newser) - An irate Elizabeth Edwards is taking borderline-anonymous shots at her husband's former mistress in blog comments. The disgraced ex-senator's wife lambastes Rielle Hunder using the pseudonym "Cherubim"—which makes it easy for insiders to guess her identity. "It's Elizabeth," a source tells Rush & Molloy... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • North Carolina • infidelity • adultery • Andrew Young • Election 2008 • senator • vice presidential candidate • Rielle Hunter • marital infidelity

 Edwards Aide's 
 Tell-All Finds Publisher 

Ex-aide Andrew Young's book expected to expose cover-up, reveal Edwards' paternity

Sep 23, 09 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - If John Edwards wants to cop to fathering Rielle Hunter’s baby on his own terms, he’d better act quickly. Former aide Andrew Young—who took Edwards' fall as babydaddy—will have his tell-all published by St. Martin’s Press in wake of a prominent New York Times story... More »

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John Edwards • Andrew Young • book • love child • political scandal • Rielle Hunter • book deal

Edwards Told Aide He'd Be 'Set for Life' in Paternity Ruse

Dem begged Young to claim love child as own

Jun 30, 09 10:49 AM CDT
(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... More »

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John Edwards • Andrew Young • book • celebrity tell-alls • Rielle Hunter • book deal

Yep, There's a Sex Tape, Says Edwards Aide

Young gave Hunter a place to stay...and then found a steamy video

Jun 28, 09 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - What's a sex scandal without a sex tape? A source who got a peek at the tell-all book proposal penned by Andrew Young—the Edwards aide who claimed to be the father of Rielle Hunter’s child—tells the New York Daily News that Young found a videotape of Hunter... More »

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John Edwards • politics • Andrew Young • sex tape • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair

Lawyers Who Quashed Affair Rumors Had Edwards Ties

Cover-up indicates affair began earlier than Edwards admits

Aug 15, 08 6:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two lawyers who acted seemingly independently in December to defuse rumors of John Edwards' affair had links to a key backer, the New York Times reports—lawyer Fred Baron, whose wife donated to Edwards' nearly defunct political action committee just as it paid Rielle Hunter $14,000 4 months after... More »

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John Edwards • affair • infidelity • Andrew Young • Rielle Hunter

 Dems: 'Say it
 Ain't So, John'

Convention role in Jeopardy unless Edwards settles mess

Aug 7, 08 3:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - John Edwards is under increasing pressure from senior Democrats to address published reports he has been having an affair with a former campaign worker and is the father of her child. Edwards' status in the party and his role in the upcoming national convention are at stake, reports the Charlotte ... More »

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John Edwards • Democratic National Convention • affair • National Enquirer • Andrew Young • Rielle Hunter • campaign worker • paternity

FBI Spied on Coretta Scott King

Documents expose four-year surveillance campaign

Aug 31, 07 3:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - FBI agents mounted a four-year spying operation to scrutinize Martin Luther King's widow, Coretta Scott King, following the assassination of the civil rights leader. The newly released documents reveal that the Nixon administration feared Mrs. King, who died last year, might unite the civil rights movement and anti-war protesters into... More »

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FBI • Richard Nixon • surveillance • Martin Luther King Jr. • Coretta Scott King • Henry Kissinger • Andrew Young • Southern Christian Leadership Conference • civil rights movement

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