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NEWS ABOUT: Rielle Hunter

Rielle Hunter stories: 54 news summaries

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Flirty, New Age Rielle Aimed to 'Save' Edwards

'I let her do my astrological chart': Newsweek columnist

Aug 10, 08 4:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Flirting with John Edwards on a plane 2 years ago, Rielle Hunter looked like a schmoozy blonde trying—and failing—to tempt a presidential hopeful. But as Newsweek reporter Jonathan Darman got to know her, he realized she was documenting Edwards on video—and wanted to help him with New... More »

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John Edwards • affair • New Age • Astrology • Rielle Hunter • Eckhart Tolle

ANALYSIS

 Affair Could
 Topple Edwards

Strategists differ on affect affair will have on career

Aug 10, 08 3:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Although opinions are mixed on the future of John Edwards' political career, most analyists take a dim view, CNN reports. Clintonite James Carville believes that "his political career is in shambles," and Gloria Borger thinks his "lies are "going to put an end, probably, to his... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • affair • adultery • Rielle Hunter

OPINION

 Preening
 Edwards 
 Worse Than
 a Ken Doll

Even his confession to narcissism was narcissistic

Aug 10, 08 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The real John Edwards shocker was not so much his affair, but his admission of narcisissm—yet even that confession was oddly self-loving, writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. While "it isn’t like we didn’t know that the son of a millworker was a little... More »

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John Edwards • affair • Maureen Dowd • Rielle Hunter

Edwards' Ex-Lover
Refuses Paternity Test

She's a 'private person' who's 'not running for office,' lawyer says

Aug 10, 08 6:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - John Edwards’ former lover refuses to get a paternity test “now or in the future” for the baby Edwards denies he fathered, the Washington Post reports.  Rielle Hunter’s lawyer said she is a “private person” who is “not running for public office” and “wishes... More »

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John Edwards • baby • father • paternity test • Rielle Hunter

 Edwards Backer
 Paid Mistress to Move

Prominent donor said he acted on his own to banish Hunter

Aug 9, 08 4:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A former Democratic Party official said yesterday that he paid John Edwards' ex-mistress to leave North Carolina, the Dallas Morning News reports. Fred Baron, a Dallas lawyer who led the party finance committee for 4 years, said he was trying to keep Rielle Hunter from tabloid reporters. “I... More »

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John Edwards • affair • adultery • Rielle Hunter • Fred Baron

Rielle Hunter: High Profile,
Then Out of Sight

Former John Edwards mistress led varied, mysterious life

Aug 9, 08 12:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - John Edwards' former mistress has been a part of high-profile social circles in New York, and Los Angeles, but finding old friends willing to talk about the Rielle Hunter they knew is a tough task, the News & Observer reports. Hunter started out partying with a literary crowd in New... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • affair • National Enquirer • adultery • Rielle Hunter

 What Edwards Was Trying to Tell Us—and Not Tell Us

Jack Flack reads between the lines of scandal-speak

Aug 9, 08 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - John Edwards employed classic damage control methods in finally confessing his affair yesterday—ie, announcing it late on a Friday so it would fade over the weekend, and giving an exclusive interview to ensure a sympathetic questioner and avoid a feeding frenzy. Jack Flack, writing in Portfolio, parses Edwards’ statement... More »

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John Edwards • affair • adultery • confession • Rielle Hunter

 Elizabeth Edwards:
 John Confessed 2 Years Ago

But cancer made coping easier, she writes

Aug 9, 08 6:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards says her husband “made a terrible mistake” in having an affair, but he confessed to her 2 years ago, she writes in a Daily Kos post, months before her breast cancer returned, and "we began a long and painful process in 2006, a process oddly made... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • affair • adultery • Rielle Hunter

UPDATED

 'I Made a Serious Error
 in Judgment' 


Aug 8, 08 6:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - John Edwards released a statement late today acknowledging that he had an extramarital affair and inviting "people who believed in me" to beat him up, saying, "You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself." The ex-senator said he "started to believe... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • affair • infidelity • adultery • Rielle Hunter

(Newser) - John Edwards has admitted that he had an affair with the rumored mother of his illegitimate child, but the onetime presidential and vice presidential candidate denies the child is his, ABC News reports. He says his affair with Rielle Hunter ended too early for him to have been the father... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • Rielle Hunter

OPINION

 Press Is Protecting Edwards 

To get the scoop, hit supermarket checkout line, not newsstand

Aug 8, 08 12:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Don't hold your breath waiting for the mainstream media to cover the John Edwards sex scandal. Despite mounting evidence over 9 months—and even photos in the National Enquirer—the newspapers are assiduously avoiding this story, complains contrarian commentator Alexander Cockburn in the Eureka Reporter, detailing the evidence. More »

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John Edwards • affair • National Enquirer • 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

Pics Surface of Edwards With 'Love Child'

National Enquirer publishes 'spy photo' from LA hotel meeting

Aug 6, 08 3:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - The National Enquirer, continuing its coverage of a child it claims former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards fathered during an extramarital affair, today published photos of Edwards holding the baby while visiting the child’s mother last month in Los Angeles. “His elaborate cover-up is unraveling at the seams,... More »

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John Edwards • National Enquirer • love child • Rielle Hunter

Tabloid: We Caught Edwards Visiting Mistress, Love Child

National Enquirer corners ex-candidate after LA rendezvous

Jul 23, 08 12:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - The National Enquirer claims to have cornered and confronted John Edwards yesterday after a late-night tryst with the woman they have been saying for months is his mistress and the mother of his infant child. The tabloid says its reporters tracked Edwards as he entered a Los Angeles hotel through... More »

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John Edwards • tabloids • affair • National Enquirer • mistress • love child • scandal • Rielle Hunter

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