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Gabrielle Cusumano on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:50:00 AM
"John Edwards assured his mistress that they'd be together after his cancer-stricken wife died..." National Enquirer
(Update)EDWARDS' CRUEL WIFE JAB: REPORT
By DAN MANGAN
Excerpted From The New York Post at:
August 20, 2008
John Edwards assured his mistress that they'd be together after his cancer-stricken wife died, according to a new bombshell report.
Just before the former presidential contender confessed his adultery to ABC News on Aug. 8, he secretly flew Rielle Hunter and her 6-month-old child, Frances Quinn, from California to the US Virgin Islands, according to the National Enquirer, which first exposed their affair.
And after the interview, in which he denied loving Hunter or fathering the baby, he called her to say, "We'll be together when Elizabeth is gone," the tabloid reported.
For her part, Hunter bragged that Edwards is "a real good lover," the Enquirer said.
[...]The Enquirer, citing sources, also reported that 55-year-old Edwards:
* Slept with Hunter the night they met in a New York City bar in 2006.
* First told Hunter, 44, he loved her during a trip to Africa. "I broke down in tears," she told a friend.
* Flew to Boston on the same plane with 59-year-old Elizabeth and Hunter, who was the campaign videographer, right before his wife learned of the affair.
* Said he "wouldn't hear of" an abortion after he impregnated Hunter in 2007. Excerpted. For more of this article go to: The New York Post at: http://www.nypost.com/seven/08202008/news/nationalnews/edwards_cruel_wife_jab__report_125243.htm
Is Rielle Hunter leaking Edwards info to the National Enquirer?
"Imagine if it was Hunter who sold the
Enquirer the blurry photo of
John Edwards holding the baby of indeterminate paternity that
David Perel declined to offer any details about..." Neel Shah
By Neel Shah 08/14/08 11:15 AM
Another issue of the National Enquirer, another round of sordid allegations about the extent to which John Edwards is lying about his affair with Rielle Hunter.
The four new pieces:
• Edwards didn't confess until after a campaign staffer walked in on him and Hunter having an "intimate moment" in hotel room. Word eventually got to Elizabeth Edwards, who then confronted John, who then admitted the whole thing. But this all happened after he'd already declared his candidacy for the presidency.
• The whole public tango over the DNA test, with Edwards saying he wants one and Hunter saying she doesn't: choreographed!
• Texas lawyer Fred Baron is still sending $15,000 a month to Rielle and $20,000 a month to alleged baby fall guy Andrew Young. (The New York Post has a reporter in Raleigh who interviewed a bunch of Young's neighbors; all pretty much expressed doubt that Young fathered the baby, but say he's loyal enough to Edwards to shoulder responsibility.
• Edwards last week called Hunter to tell her, "Of course I love you. Don't worry, we'll get through this."
As for how the Enquirer keeps getting access to information such as the intimate details of a private phone call while other major media outlets who have now devoted significant time and resources to the story still can't prove anything, Sharon Waxman ventures the obvious: they pay for stuff! We mentioned back on Wednesday that Hunter herself very well might be squeezing cash out of both Edwards and the Enquirer, and that the whole thing with her weird mystic friend Robert McGovern setting up the Beverly Hilton meeting had the faint whiff of blackmail gone awry. Writes Waxman:
"Imagine if Hunter was blackmailing Edwards for money—or, for more money, since she was already being paid a monthly stipend. And if she were pressuring him by leaking information to the National Enquirer. And if she tipped off the Enquirer to the July meeting, including such details as the number of rooms rented, and who was in them."
Imagine if it was Hunter who sold the Enquirer the blurry photo of John Edwards holding the baby of indeterminate paternity that David Perel declined to offer any details about, including who took it, or where, when, or how it was taken! (He told CNN last week that we can "presume" he paid for it.)
By Neel Shah 08/14/08 11:15 AM