SEN. JOHN EDWARDS CAUGHT WITH MISTRESS AND LOVE CHILD!

National Enquirer via Drudge ^ | 7/22/08

[meandog]

No details yet...developing. Wonder what he was doing at Beverly Hilton? Woman involved? Ailing Elizabeth no where to be seen.

[meandog]

(God please forgive me for wishing woe on my fellow man But I'd love do see this dirt bag in an Elliott Spritzer mess!)

[Graybeard58]

The horror of it all! Edwards staying at a hotel.

[vietvet67]

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/sen_john_edwards_caught_with_mistress_and_love_child_in_la_hotel/celebrity/65193

[TonyInOhio]

Woman involved?

Wrong sex.

[Gay State Conservative]

Woman involved?

With Edwards I'd want to know if a guy was involved.

[lormand]

"The horror of it all! Edwards staying at a hotel."

LOL

I once stayed at a hotel too. Scandalous.

[tiredoflaundry]

rut roh !

[lesser_satan]

People stay in hotels all the time with no sexual shenanigans involved. I stay in hotels a lot, sometimes 15 days a month, and I wish there were MORE sexual shenanigans involved.

[meandog]

This is what was going on back last year... click here ...but he denied it, nothing proven.

[Diogenesis]

Visitation?

Flashback:

"NATIONAL ENQUIRER WORLD EXCLUSIVE: JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SCANDAL!
The woman linked to Presidential candidate John Edwards in a cheating scandal
is more than six months pregnant and telling a close confidante that
Edwards is the father of her unborn child, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.

... The ENQUIRER has now confirmed not only that Rielle is pregnant,
but she is also living in Chapel Hill, N.C. in a gated community, just a few streets away from Andrew Young,
who has been a key official in Edwards’ campaign.

Young has been in charge of looking after Hunter, according to sources,
and she has been careful to stay out of sight during Edwards’ campaign.

“Rielle told me she had a secret affair with Edwards. When she found out that she was pregnant she said he was the father.”
Rielle loves Edwards and will do anything to protect him, the source said.
“Rielle told me while Andrew Young is a friend, she’s not romantically involved with him,” says the source close to Rielle."

[tobyhill]

***Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this morning in a Los Angeles hotel by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.***

This maybe big.

[BunnySlippers]

In a room or in the restaurant? Makes a difference.

[Always Independent]

Oh he was just in town for some trim. I mean a haircut.

[BunnySlippers]

Was it with the Babymama?

[NYC Republican]

Read the story, a nice little scandal there.

[PetroniusMaximus]

[Miss Didi]

How dare the Breck Girl steal the headlines from Little Barry at summer camp. The nerve of Drudge. (rolling eyes)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Sen. Edwards is therefore the perfect VP choice.

[b4its2late]

A democrat resume enhancer!

[Interesting Times]

Looks like the Enquirer has the goods on Edwards. Either that, or he’s going to be the scandal sheet’s new owner...

[indylindy]

uh, was The Silky Pony there with a female or male guest?

[Coffee200am]

Somebody needs to contact the maid for more dirt on this story

[kristinn]

Edwards went out of the hotel briefly with Reille, was observed by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and then went back to her room, where he stayed until attempting to sneak out of the hotel unseen at 2:40 a.m. (PST). But when he emerged alone from an elevator into the hotel basement he was greeted by several reporters from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.

Senior NATIONAL ENQUIRER Reporter Alexander Hitchen asked Edwards why he was visiting Rielle and whether he was ready to confirm that he was the father of her baby.
Shocked to see a reporter, and without saying anything, Edwards ran up the stairs leading from the hotel basement to the lobby. But, spotting a photographer, he doubled back into the basement. As he emerged from the stairwell, reporter Butterfield asked questioned him about his hookup with Reille.

Edwards did not answer and then ran into a nearby restroom. He stayed inside for about 15 minutes, refusing to answer questions from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER about what he was doing in the hotel. A group of hotel security men eventually escorted him from the men’s room, while preventing the NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporters from following him out of the hotel.

Said reporter Hitchen: “After we confronted him about seeing Rielle, Edwards looked like a deer caught in headlights!

“He was clearly surprised that we had caught him at this very late hour inside the hotel.

\ “Some guests up at this late hour watched the spectacle in amusement from a staircase nearby”

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

This should give him a leg up for VP.

[Rebelbase]

Obama is in the Middle East so we know it wasn’t him.

[tobyhill]

***Senior NATIONAL ENQUIRER Reporter Alexander Hitchen asked Edwards why he was visiting Rielle and whether he was ready to confirm that he was the father of her baby.
Shocked to see a reporter, and without saying anything, Edwards ran up the stairs leading from the hotel basement to the lobby. But, spotting a photographer, he doubled back into the basement. As he emerged from the stairwell, reporter Butterfield asked questioned him about his hookup with Reille.***

Even if this is untrue it sure would make for a good A&E Movie.

[JennysCool]

John Edwards two years after this hits the fan:

"Yew! Yes, yeww! Can make money in real estate!"

[SE Mom]

Oh my. It looks as though there may be a there, there...

[what_not2007]

Having worked in the magazine industr 7 years, where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire.

[Sub-Driver]

He was getting his hair done - a simple wash and dry - nothing here - move on.........

[Bob]

In a room or in the restaurant? Makes a difference.

...at 2:40 this morning...

Are any of the hotel's restaurants open at 2:40 AM? Somehow, I doubt it.

[4yearlurker]

Edwards was in the restroom channeling. Is that so wrong??!!

[iowamark]

“”Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this morning in a Los Angeles hotel by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.

The married ex-senator from North Carolina - whose wife Elizabeth continues to battle cancer — met with his mistress, blonde divorcee Rielle Hunter, at the Beverly Hilton on Monday night July 21 - and the NATIONAL ENQUIRER was there! He didn’t leave until early the next morning.

Rielle had driven to Los Angeles from Santa Barbara with a male friend for the rendezvous with Edwards. The former senator attended a press event Monday afternoon with L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on the topic of how to combat homelessness.

But a months-long NATIONAL ENQUIRER investigation had yielded information that Rielle and Edwards, 54, had arranged to secretly meet afterward and for the ex-senator to spend some time with both his mistress and the love child who he refuses to publicly acknowledge as his own.

The NATIONAL ENQUIRER broke the story of Edwards’ love child scandal last year, when Rielle was still pregnant and Edwards was still considered a strong candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Both parties denied the NATIONAL ENQUIRER report and a close friend of Edwards’ came forward and said he was the father of Rielle’s baby. But sources told the NATIONAL ENQUIRER a far different story - they revealed that Edwards was engineering a massive cover up of his shocking infidelity.

Sources came forward after that story appeared and told The NATIONAL ENQUIRER that Edwards and Rielle had met secretly several times, so that he could see his baby and continue his relationship with Rielle.
The NATIONAL ENQUIRER learned that one such meeting was set for yesterday and observed the secret meeting.
At 9:45 p.m. (PST) Monday Edwards appeared at the hotel, and was dropped off at a side entrance. NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporter Alan Butterfield witnessed the ex-senator get out of a BMW driven by a male companion and stroll into the hotel.
Said Butterfield: “Edwards was not carrying anything. He walked in alone. He was wearing a blue dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He was looking around nervously before he entered the hotel.

“Once inside, he interestingly bypassed the lobby and ducked down a side stairs to go to the bottom floor to catch the elevator up - rather than taking the elevator in the main lobby. He went out of his way not to be seen.”
Meanwhile, Reille had reserved rooms 246 and 252 under the name of the friend who had accompanied her from Santa Barbara, Bob McGovern. Reille was in one room and McGovern was in another with her baby. This allowed her and Edwards to spend time alone, a source revealed.

Edwards went out of the hotel briefly with Reille, was observed by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and then went back to her room, where he stayed until attempting to sneak out of the hotel unseen at 2:40 a.m. (PST). But when he emerged alone from an elevator into the hotel basement he was greeted by several reporters from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.

Senior NATIONAL ENQUIRER Reporter Alexander Hitchen asked Edwards why he was visiting Rielle and whether he was ready to confirm that he was the father of her baby.
Shocked to see a reporter, and without saying anything, Edwards ran up the stairs leading from the hotel basement to the lobby. But, spotting a photographer, he doubled back into the basement. As he emerged from the stairwell, reporter Butterfield asked questioned him about his hookup with Reille.

Edwards did not answer and then ran into a nearby restroom. He stayed inside for about 15 minutes, refusing to answer questions from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER about what he was doing in the hotel. A group of hotel security men eventually escorted him from the men’s room, while preventing the NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporters from following him out of the hotel.

Said reporter Hitchen: “After we confronted him about seeing Rielle, Edwards looked like a deer caught in headlights!

“He was clearly surprised that we had caught him at this very late hour inside the hotel.

\ “Some guests up at this late hour watched the spectacle in amusement from a staircase nearby.”

Meanwhile, Rielle’s friend McGovern also refused to answer any questions from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER or offer any explanation for her meeting with Edwards.
The Edwards “love child” scandal drew international press attention after the NATIONAL ENQUIRER published a blockbuster investigation about the politician in our Dec. 31, 2007 print edition.
We reported that Rielle, a woman linked to Edwards in a cheating scandal earlier last year, was more than six months pregnant - and we reported that she told a close confidante that Edwards was the father of her baby!
Edwards denied the affair and that he was the father, and in a bizarre twist, a close friend of his, Alexander Young, said he was the father. Young, 41, was married at the time with three children. The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned he still is married.
Sources told the NATIONAL ENQUIRER exclusively that Edwards had engineered a massive cover up of the affair and love child scandal and that Young was taking the blame for his good friend. At the time Rielle had been relocated from the New York area to Chapel Hill in Edwards’ home state of North Carolina, where she was living in an upscale gated community down the street from Young. Strangely, Young even had Rielle to his house for dinner with his wife and kids, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned.

Young has been extremely close to Edwards for years and was a key official in his presidential campaign.

Rielle is a self-described filmmaker whose company was hired by a pro-Edwards group called One America Committee. She was paid $114,000 to produce videos for Edwards’ campaign and worked with him on those videos.
Reporters from other media outlets asked Edwards about The NATIONAL ENQUIRER report during a campaign stop in Columbia, S.C.
Edwards responded: “The story is false. It’s completely untrue, ridiculous,” adding: “Anyone who knows me knows that I have been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years.”
Rielle issued her own statement, saying in part: “The innuendos and lies that have appeared on the Internet and in the NATIONAL ENQUIRER concerning John Edwards are not true, completely unfounded and ridiculous.”
But a source told the NATIONAL ENQUIRER: “Now that it seems to have blown wide open, Rielle may get her wish - all she wants is for John to marry her and for them to live happily ever after with their baby. She’s tired of running and living a lie.”

A representative for Reille had no comment on last night’s meeting with Edwards.””

[King Hawk]

Ahhhhh, no wonder there was no media in NH for McCain. They were all following around the Dimocrats.

Just the image of watching him run down the hall into the men’s room is funny!

[JennysCool]

Edwards did not answer and then ran into a nearby restroom. He stayed inside for about 15 minutes

...conversing with his old friend Larry Craig.

[Osage Orange]

Edwards did not answer and then ran into a nearby restroom.

ROFLOL!!!

[quark]

If Silky Pony gets some Bubba Clinton “cred,” he'll be a lock for the ‘Rat VP nomination.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Now I know what he meant by two American’s. One from South Carolina one from California.

[rodeo-mamma]

He was probably with another man. Funny this story just came up, only this morning I was thinking about how Al Gore sounds like a homo as I sat listening to him talk on the radio. Really, it wouldn’t be a shocker. Two good looking men with such unglamorous wives something just doesn’t sound right. It’s not just the fact that they are not glamorous, but more importantly how neither woman even tries to attempt to ever be glamorous. I don’t know it just seems odd considering how successful both men are.

[Snickering Hound]

Ummm, are they sure he was meeting a woman?

[AuntB]

Deals are being made as we speak.

Democrat leader to republican leader: Okay, you guys ignore Edwards and we’ll ignore your candidate cheating on his sick wife years ago. Deal?

Popcorn time!

[winodog]

In on the first page for a FR classic!

[Enchante]

AW, Johnny-boy, and here we were hoping you’d be Obambi’s VP running mate!! Looks like the Breck Girl is out of the running. Love child created while his wife was battling cancer.....oh, Johnny-boy, you should have consulted with Eliot Spitzfong about how to avoid such emotional and financial entanglements!!

[tobyhill]

It was just one of those 2:40am video sessions.

[Responsibility2nd]

Well, Well!

Won’t John F’n Kerry be oh so jealous?

[toddlintown]

Shoulda kept it in a lockbox.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[sbMKE]

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Looks like the Enquirer has the goods on Edwards.

He quit the race for an incomprehensible reason, so I daresay someone has the goods on him.

[Miss Didi]

Do you think Matt has this up to take away from Little Barry's horrific presser today? Little Barry's not going to like it if the Drive-Bys devote too much time on this story...after all, tomorrow The Jerk Messiah speaks from Berlin.