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Lawyers Who Quashed Affair Rumors Had Edwards Ties

Cover-up indicates affair began earlier than Edwards admits

(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...

Jamie Lynn's Baby Daddy Cheated: Tabloid

Spears' fiance had affair while she was pregnant

(Newser) - Jamie Lynn Spears has bigger problems than being an unwed teen mom. Her college dropout fiancé, Casey Aldridge, had a “hot and heavy” affair through the end of the 17-year-old's second trimester, reports In Touch. "He totally instigated it and pursued me,” revealed 28-year-old Kelli Dawson, who...

Tab Claims Edwards Continued Affair

Mistress was flown away before confession

(Newser) - The National Enquirer, having finally forced John Edwards to confess to the affair with Rielle Hunter that he had strenuously denied, isn't backing down on the parts of the story Edwards still swears aren't true. This week the supermarket tabloid insists that Edwards is indeed the father of Hunter's child—...

He's 99% Honest&mdash;Really!
 He's 99%
 Honest—Really!
Opinion
Aug 12, 2008 11:41 AM CDT

He's 99% Honest—Really!

Edwards falls short of any standard of truth-telling

(Newser) - Every sex scandal has a defining sound bite, and John Edwards’ declaration that “being 99% honest is no longer enough,” is destined for the hall of fame, writes Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post. The thing about honesty is that last percentage is a killer. Given the size...

What Makes Her Stay With Him?
 What Makes Her Stay With Him?
Aug 11, 2008 12:25 PM CDT

What Makes Her Stay With Him?

Power and career dreams behind decision to stay

(Newser) - As Elizabeth Edwards becomes the latest political wife to stand by her man in the face of adultery, Good Morning America takes a look at what drives women to stay when wedding vows are broken. And Edwards' conundrum—like that of Silda Wall Spitzer, Hillary Clinton, and an estimated 22%...

Flirty, New Age Rielle Aimed to 'Save' Edwards
Flirty, New Age Rielle Aimed to 'Save' Edwards
glossies
Aug 10, 2008 4:21 PM CDT

Flirty, New Age Rielle Aimed to 'Save' Edwards

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

(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...

Affair Could Topple Edwards
 Affair Could
 Topple Edwards
ANALYSIS
Aug 10, 2008 3:22 PM CDT

Affair Could Topple Edwards

Strategists differ on affect affair will have on career

(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...

Preening Edwards Worse Than a Ken Doll
 Preening
 Edwards 
 Worse Than
 a Ken Doll
OPINION
Aug 10, 2008 11:41 AM CDT

Preening Edwards Worse Than a Ken Doll

Even his confession to narcissism was narcissistic

(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...

Edwards Backer Paid Mistress to Move

Prominent donor said he acted on his own to banish Hunter

(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 made...

Rielle Hunter: High Profile, Then Out of Sight

Former John Edwards mistress led varied, mysterious life

(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...

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

Jack Flack reads between the lines of scandal-speak

(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...

Elizabeth Edwards: John Confessed 2 Years Ago

But cancer made coping easier, she writes

(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...

'I Made a Serious Error in Judgment'
 'I Made a Serious Error
 in Judgment' 
UPDATED
Aug 8, 2008 6:40 PM CDT

'I Made a Serious Error in Judgment'

(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...

Press Is Protecting Edwards
 Press Is Protecting Edwards 
OPINION
Aug 8, 2008 12:54 PM CDT

Press Is Protecting Edwards

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

(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.

Dems: 'Say it Ain't So, John'
 Dems: 'Say it
 Ain't So, John'
Aug 7, 2008 3:46 AM CDT

Dems: 'Say it Ain't So, John'

Convention role in Jeopardy unless Edwards settles mess

(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 ...

Cuckold's Web Vendetta Wrecks Banker's Career
Cuckold's Web Vendetta Wrecks Banker's Career
ANALYSIS
Aug 5, 2008 10:59 AM CDT

Cuckold's Web Vendetta Wrecks Banker's Career

Bitter online campaign pays off when ex-wife's disgraced lover resigns

(Newser) - The resignation last week of a top Wall Street banker, supposedly to “spend more time with his family,” was actually the result of a successful Internet vendetta by the cuckolded husband of a woman with whom Steve Rattner had had an affair. Rattner tells the New York Times...

Edwards 'Love Child' Story Shows Press Double Standard

Media are hypocrites about hypocrisy

(Newser) - The press jumped all over Larry Craig’s bathroom dalliance not because he was gay, it was claimed, but because he was a hypocrite with an anti-gay voting record. But no one is piling on John Edwards, whom the National Enquirer says it caught visiting his mistress and love child...

Tabloid: We Caught Edwards Visiting Mistress, Love Child

National Enquirer corners ex-candidate after LA rendezvous

(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...

Cynthia 'Not Out to Mutilate' A-Rod

Slugger's wife denies spending spree, takes high road in spilling to Post's Adams

(Newser) - Cynthia Rodriguez says she’s “not out to mutilate” husband Alex Rodriguez and while she considers her marriage to the New York Yankees star over, she’ll be there for him when he cracks up, she tells Post columnist Cindy Adams. Of reports on her escape to Paris: “...

Wife: A-Rod, Madonna Had 'Affair of the Heart'

Betrayed spouse's lawyer says infidelity wasn't physical

(Newser) - Alex Rodriguez’s relationship with Madonna amounted to “an affair of the heart,” not physical infidelity, his estranged wife's lawyer tells People. A-Rod had dinners with his sweetie, constantly listened to her music, and dumped his agent for her Kabbalah-loving manager, the New York Post reports.

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