It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about her. Not that we’d have heard of her in the first place if the media had their way. But now the National Enquirer, which made fools of all of them, has this update:
When Rielle Hunter, the mother of John Edwards’ love child, demanded more money in child support from the disgraced two-time Presidential loser, he tossed her and their daughter out on the street, sources tell the ENQUIRER exclusively!
Top secret documents obtained exclusively by The ENQUIRER provide undeniable proof that John Edwards is the father of his mistress’ love child – and show that she’s asking for nearly $18,000 a month in support!
But Rielle Hunter’s cash grab so infuriated the disgraced presidential candidate that, sources say, he basically tossed her and their daughter out on the street just days before they were set to move into a house he’d bought for them!
Usually I don’t like a lot of exclamation marks! But then again, these are the guys who broke the story! And kept it alive even as their more “respectable” brethren in newsrooms across the country were trying to sweep it under the rug! So I’ll allow it!
As if Edwards’ week didn’t suck enough already, now details are emerging about the tell-all book by his one-time faithful assistant and uncanny Will Arnett lookalike, Andrew Young:
The underside of modern American politics — raw ambition, manipulation, and deception — are revealed in detail by Andrew Young’s riveting account of a presidential hopeful’s meteoric rise and scandalous fall. Like a non-fiction version of All the King’s Men, The Politician offers a truly disturbing, even shocking perspective on the risks taken and tactics employed by a man determined to rule the most powerful nation on earth.
Just think: This lying, amoral, manipulative creep might have been President of the United States. People would’ve believed in him just because he has a pretty smile and says things they want to hear. We sure dodged a bullet, huh?
But wait, there’s more!
According to FoxNews.com:
In a rare move, North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr announced Thursday that he will oppose the nomination of a U.S. attorney to his state until the investigation of John Edwards is complete.
Edwards, the two-time Democratic presidential candidate who last year admitted an affair with his former campaign videographer, Rielle Hunter, has been under federal investigation by prosecutor George Holding since at least the spring. On Nov. 30, President Obama announced his intent to nominate Thomas Walker to replace Holding, whose tenure expires in September 2010.
Holding is investigating whether Edwards used campaign funds to pay for Rielle’s silence, or whether he spent it on furniture that wasn’t carrying his baby. There’s some concern that Holding won’t be able to finish his investigation before he’s replaced. But that would imply that the current administration is a bunch of ruthless political partisans with an utter disregard for the rule of law. As if!
And hey, guess whose presidential campaigns Thomas Walker has contributed to? Their names rhyme with Juan Tedwards and… hmm, I guess nothing really rhymes with Barack Obama. So that seems pretty inappropriate. But hey, it’s 2009; the more brazen the conflict of interest, the better!
(Thanks to Deceiver supertipster Fortunate Son)
Update: I’m told that Rielle was also namechecked in the latest episode of Gossip Girl. Although these days she’s closer in age to the Golden Girls.
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Yeah. Good thing THAT didn’t happen. Excuse me while I totally don’t sigh with relief over here.
As skeevy as Edwards is–and it’s full-bore, size XXL skeevy–he was rogering one woman over his limit, as far as we know. O is screwing all of us, and he’s making US pay for his dinner. I hate both of them.
Where’s Cherubim? Isn’t there some totally alternate-universe take on this we haven’t heard yet?
Yeah, I remember Reille Hunter. I didn’t read the article, so let me guess what it says. Uh, Reille was steppin out on John, to be with Tiger?
Gosh, I know raising a child can be expensive, but $600 a day? Is the kid on an all-caviar diet?
On the other hand, if you had Edwards’ ill-gotten millions, might that not seem a small price to pay to keep Rielle off of Oprah and her book off of the Amazon bestseller list? Or does he figure most of the damage has already happened, and whatever she does would just (as they say in the military) make the rubble bounce?
Edwards doesn’t HAVE to pay hush money, the media has been doing their level best to ignore her existence as it is.
I’m going to put on my John Edwards shoes for a minute.
Little Frances Quinn Hunter Edwards will be one year old on February 27, 2010.
17 more years of child support payments. 12 months per year. $18,000 per month.
17 x 12 x 18,000 is only $3,672,000, or $3.7M dollars.
The actual present value of that (money doubles every 7 years, interest assumed at a pretty conservative rate of 5%) is only $359,983.
Now John Edwards personal fortune is conservatively estimate at $29M.
source: http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/in-white-house-race-can-voters-avoid-rich-list/2008/01/02/1198949900245.html
So John Edwards has 83 times more money than necc to pay for his baby with Rielle Hunter’s child support payments.
I’m guessing Edwards would’ve happily paid many times that last year to make this problem disappear forever, but the problem is, there will be houses to buy for Rielle, and fance dresses for Rielle, and new BMWs every year (can’t drive last years model), ad infinitum.
The beautiful Rielle Hunter is using the very secrecy John Edwards forced her to endure to legally blackmail him. It would be a perfect movie plot where the final scene has a balding, elderly John Edwards hunched over his desk, furiously scribbling out check after check until his hands bleed.
John Edwards only solution is to take this to court and admit its his baby.
Rielle Hunter won’t settle for anything less than being the most expensive babymamma in the history of politics.
She has him over a barrel. Elizabeth Edwards knows, hell, everybody in America knows its John’s baby. Edwards will only gain face in public by embracing that fact. Combined with the fact that Andrew Young’s book is coming out and Rielle will be racing the book…
JOHN, YOU OWE IT TO YOUR REAL FAMILY TO TELL THE TRUTH.
DO A PUBLIC NEWS DUMP THE THURSDAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND THIS WILL ALL BLOW OVER BY THE END OF MARCH. TELL IT ALL IN PLAIN ENGLISH.
SAVE YOURSELF JOHN. ITS YOUR ONLY PATH TO REDEMPTION.
AND THAT MY FRIENDS, IS EXACTLY WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN. YOU READ IT HERE FIRST.
I forgot one very important thing. John Edwards has to wait until after the grand jury investigation wraps up before he settles things with Rielle.
He has to promise her the moon to get her to be the most “cooperative” witness.
If the grand jury does not indict Edwards (and Obama firing the hold Attorney General and hand appointing a John Edwards campaign donor to be the new Attorney General bodes well for that fact), he will come clean right away.
Okay, WHY hasn’t this been made into a TV movie already?
Who?
But won’t he still have to pay child support if she says her daughter is his and a DNA test proves it? I’m confused, probably since I don’t have any love child I’m demanding disgusting amounts of money for.
Is anyone else creeped out by her site? It looks a cult website, or something of the sort.
Only if sparkly-unicorn-obsessed prostitutes have their own cult. Wait, that’d explain where my neighbor goes every Sunday. Never mind.
Your time for the doubling of money is wrong. The ‘rule of 72′ says that periods x rate = 72. So it takes 14 years to double at 5%. To double in 7 years, the rate would have to be 10%; 7 x 10 = 72 (almost). Otherwise shown, 1.05 ^ 7 is only 1.41; 1.05 ^ 14 = 1.98. 1.10 ^ 7 = 1.95. Close enough for gov’ment work.
Yeah brian, you’re right, and you can tell I don’t edit before I hit submit
I started that thought with what’s really going to happen 7 years, then I thought… what’s the worst possible rate he’ll get and I came up with 5%, so that’s kind of the most likely to worst case scenario.
That whole post is in limbo until JE finds out what his grand jury status is. The second that the grand jury doesn’t indict or an Edwards donor is appointed to oversee the grand jury (Thomas Walker, incoming Attorney General), Edwards can stop worrying about appeasing Rielle and start worrying about saving money on child support.
Report: John Edwards bought Charlotte home for former mistress Rielle Hunter
http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2009/12/14/daily6.html
The underside of modern American politics — raw ambition, manipulation, and deception — are revealed in detail by Andrew Young’s riveting account of a presidential hopeful’s meteoric rise and scandalous fall. Like a non-fiction version of All the King’s Men, The Politician offers a truly disturbing, even shocking perspective on the risks taken and tactics employed by a man determined to rule the most powerful nation on earth.
Is this a book about Obama?
Andrew Young, described as the almost homo-erotically slave worshipping campaign aide “Jim” in Elizabeth Edwards’ book, has two interviews scheduled for both GMA and ABC.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/john-edwards-trusted-aide-andrew-young-speaks-abc/story?id=9340046
In other John Edwards news, Edwards apparently flew on a campaign donor’s ( and alleged Grand Jury witness’) private plane to a meeting with her.
The donor in question, Bunny Mellon is a 99 year old heiress who apparently succumbed to John Edwards’ charms, and allegedly donated a large sum to Rielle Hunter, not dissimilar to Fred Baron’s activities.
Hee, “Bunny Mellon”. That’s pretty much a 1950s porno name.
Imagine being 99 and called “Bunny”.
Someone needs to tell Rielle that he uterus is not an ATM. Edwards is slime. Let’s just set that one up and say it out loud – he’s slime.
Rielle is the female grifter whose moral compass only points to $$$. A child’s needs are set by the state – that should be the maximum for “child support” – until it’s made transparent and accountable. It’s not “mommy support”, but often becomes such.
Steven