According to Rush & Molloy, the tabloid that broke the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter story now claims it can prove Edwards is the father of her baby:
How? We hear that, on the night they caught Edwards visiting Hunter and child at a Beverly Hills hotel, Enquirer reporters grabbed one of the baby’s poopy diapers.
Now, say sources, intrepid Enquirer editor David Perel hopes to compare the infant’s stinky DNA with that of Edwards, who has denied paternity. “All they need is a cup he drank from,” an insider tells us.
“I will neither confirm nor deny possession of a dirty diaper,” Perel said dryly. “But I would like to do a DNA test.”
Edwards got caught on July 22. Today is November 5. That seems like a long time to hold onto some baby crap. I have no earthly idea why they would pick today of all days to announce this. Weird, huh?
Well, in any case, one thing’s for sure: The Tupperware that Perel’s been using to store that doodie-dappled diaper will not be reused.
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My exact thoughts – why is the National Enquirer now pursuing the DNA test on the poopy diaper? Rielle must be trying to get money from Edwards or National Enquirer (or both) now that Fred Baron has passed and the money train has probably dried up. Actually, it’s time to let this go as private matter for the people this involves (ie the Edwards & Hunter) and let it be settled without it being scrutinized by the gossip rags.
Does this mean the National Enquirer is full of s**t?
There was an election yesterday?! How did I miss THAT!
Who won?
William Ayers.
You betcherass he did. My racist grandfather is spinning in his grave. Or he would be if we hooked him up to some kind of grave spinning machine, and he wasn’t a box of ashes sitting on a shelf somewhere in Florida.
I wonder if he voted?
Man, I hated changing my own kids poopy diapers and this person was scrounging through the garbage for one? I hope whoever it was got paid really, really well. “There’s gold in that there diaper.”
As for getting John’s dna, that should be pretty easy. Go to his fancy salon and get some hair from one of his many haircuts. Or perhaps they can get a nail after he gets one of his many mani/pedis. The opportunities are endless.
Timing in the media is everything, I guess…
“…it’s time to let this go as private matter for the people this involves (ie the Edwards & Hunter) and let it be settled without it being scrutinized by the gossip rags.”
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Not.
On.
Your.
Life.
Anyone know who’s ghosting Reille Hunter’s tell-all autobiography?
Something Stinks about this story…
I wonder if this is how Maury Povich does it.
Nah, Maury has wife Connie Chung do his dirty work for him.
John Edwards hair.
With the John Edwards “Breck Girl” video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AE847UXu3Q) getting 70 million hits on its various forms on YouTube, somebody somewhere probably took a clipping of Johnnyboy’s (his nickname prior to the age of 23) hair.
If they can’t, they’ll take his kid’s or parent’s hair, saliva, etc
Even buried cadavers from the Edwards family could theoretically provide a DNA sample.
I showed ten pictures of a Edwards child and Edwards to a forensic archaeologist and asked said person whether Frances Quinn (named after superlawyer John Quinn), was Edwards kid.
“Inconclusive”, said my expert, until we can see the ears.
Strange how every single picture of Frances Quinn I could find had her ears covered.
Edwards might be smarter than I thought… but he’s also probably a bigger horndog than I thought also.
The truth is out there.
As a sidebar, I’m fairly sure that they don’t run DNA on hair clippings.
You need a hair pulled out from the scalp. That way you get the root along with a skin tag from around the follicle, both of which may contain a complete DNA sequence.
Having said that, I say we leave the DNA collection up to Rielle. She looks like a cat fighter. Wait until the hush money stops and she’ll rip a few handfuls outta Edward’s rug in retribution.
Providing that she doesn’t already have a few blue dresses in storage.
Any political story can involve mud slinging, only the Nat has the guts to sling Poo!
Bring it on monkey style, enquirer!
For mtDNA analysis, you can just use the hair clipping, but for y-DNA you need the shaft, root, or bulb.
Anyone who’s ever gotten a personal letter for JE might work too, as the old lick’em style of stamps typically have enough saliva residue to be typed.
John Edwards to make first public appearance since Fred Baron’s funeral.
Speaks at Indiana University
John & Elizabeth Edwards have officially separated?