Posted on 12/05/2010 11:46:58 AM PST by Libloather
Heiress Bunny Mellon plays unlikely role in Edwards sex scandal
By Carol Eisenberg
January 29, 2010 at 9:08am
A few weeks before former presidential candidate John Edwards came clean to the world about fathering an out-of-wedlock child with his campaign videographer Rielle Hunter, he made a special visit to see Rachel Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellon at her estate in Virginia.
Mellon, the 99-year-old widow of the philanthropist and banking heir Paul Mellon, had been one of the biggest donors to Edwards’ presidential campaign. Along with the late Fred Baron, Edwards’ longtime friend and finance chairman who died of cancer last year, “Bunny” Mellon, as her friends call her, also provided money which was used to resettle Edwards’ mistress in California and pay her bills, according to Andrew Young, the former Edwards aide who once claimed to be the father of Hunter’s baby. Young has since recanted the paternity story and has written a tell-all book about the scandal.
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Bunny Mellon is the eldest child of Gerard Barnes Lambert, a founder of Warner-Lambert (now part of Pfizer) whose claim to fame was marketing his father’s invention of Listerine by making bad breath a social disgrace. Thanks in part to her father’s success, she was wealthy way before she ever met and married banking heir Paul Mellon in 1948 – a second marriage for both.
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Ya think it possible John Edwards faces his worst fear, Jail time?
No fool like an old fool?
“He’s such a naughty boy.”.
Well Mama Mellon did not know the money was going for Edward’s mistress when she gave him that. At least that is what was written many months ago. She may be old but she knows about money and she wouldn’t give it to another female parasite.
Is that you? (Could explain a lot.) Free Listerine for life IS pretty sweet, though.
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