John Edwards: former mistress Rielle Hunter won’t take a paternity test for daughter
John Edwards has a problem now. John Edwards’ ex-mistress Rielle Hunter will not have a paternity test for her daughter, though John Edwards is willing to take one.
John Edwards’ ex-mistress Rielle Hunter says she won’t have a paternity test conducted on her daughter – not now, not ever.
“Rielle is a private individual. She is not running for public office. She wishes to maintain her privacy and her daughter’s privacy,” her lawyer, Robert Gordon, said in a statement Saturday. “Rielle will not participate in DNA testing or any other invasion of her or her daughter’s privacy now or in the future.”
Edwards likely obliterated his political career Friday by admitting he cheated on his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, with Hunter, a videographer on his presidential campaign. But he insists he could not have fathered Hunter’s 5-month-old daughter, Frances, because the “short” fling ended in 2006.
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The North Carolina Democrat said he would be “happy” to take a paternity test – and according to ABC News, Hunter’s younger sister challenges him to do so.
A spokeswoman for the ex-senator declined to comment. Edwards publicly confessed to straying after being dogged by the National Enquirer for 10 months. The supermarket weekly first reported last fall that he had a love child with Hunter, a one-time Manhattan party girl.
Edwards initially denied those allegations. He copped to an affair 19 days after Enquirer reporters trailed him to a late-night meeting with Hunter at a Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel. Both Hunter and Andrew Young, the former Edwards staffer who claims to be the father of the little girl, were apparently hiding out yesterday.
A neighbor told the Daily News that Hunter moved into her posh Santa Barbara home, which overlooks the Pacific, in June, but hasn’t been seen in weeks. Hunter had few visitors and was “not very friendly” when approached, said the neighbor, who declined to give her name.
“It was very strange to me, a woman living in a house like that by herself, with just a baby,” she said. “I thought, ‘What is she hiding?’”
Former Edwards campaign finance chair Fred Baron on Friday said that – without Edwards’ knowledge – he had personally given Hunter and Young money to get out of North Carolina and away from reporters.
Yesterday, the Edwardses kept out of sight while a media army set up camp outside their 102-acre estate in Chapel Hill, N.C.
In an ABC “Nightline” interview Friday, Edwards said he agreed to see Hunter last month because “she was having some trouble” and he feared she might blab.
“I wanted her not to tell the public what had happened,” he said. “Very simple. That’s the reason I went.”
He said a friend of Hunter’s, Bob McGovern, called him to set up the meeting at the Beverly Hilton. It was there that National Enquirer reporters ambushed him the night of July 21 and reported on the rendezvous, raising new questions that ultimately forced him to confess.
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Damn, they are breaking him down. His wife is sick and this is just in poor taste. So what if he got some azz, he loves his wife and that is all that’s important. He loves his wife and that is evident!!!
GUEST WHAT ASSOCIATED PRESS…. my friends wife cheated on him…. NEWS AT 10. OH and there’s also genocide in Africa and stuff…but YEAH MY FRIEND WIFE CHEATED ON HIM!!!!!!!!!!!
This guy almost became presidend and had no problem lying to the public throught his campaign to cover it. That’s the issue, not that he had $ex, who cares about that, it the fact that he lied to the public for a whole year to cover up some indiscretion and he almost became our president.
Just an observation. Hunter is better looking than his wife. Hunter’s attractiveness is probably what got John hooked besides an affair is supposed to be exciting sex!
A ***** lives what a ***** is; what sweetened the goats mouth burnt his a$$. The s=crew-ing you’re getting is not wprth the s-crew-ing you’ll get. Eddie my boy, this rules you out as a possible VP contender. I now nominate OPRAH for that position. She – like Bloomberg – does not need the money and can serve for a dollar annually. Everybody loves OPRAH. So boredickey says ……OBAMA/OPRAH tickey for 2008.
Of course she won”t participate in a paternity test ….. THAT WAS THE PLAN that Edwards went to talk to her about at the hotel! He looks like the good guy offering to take the test while SHE says she’ll never take the test. If she agrees to a test, her monthly check goes from around $15,000 to about $1,500. C’mon
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