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Dallas lawyer Fred Baron told The Dallas Morning News today that he made regular payments to the woman that former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards has confessed to having an affair with. Mr. Baron, who was chairman of Mr. Edwards’ presidential campaign finance committee, said he paid money to Rielle Hunter to move from North Carolina to another location.

SEN. JOHN EDWARDS CAUGHT WITH MISTRESS AND LOVE CHILD! 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 divorcée 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...

The baby is John Edwards! At least that's what a former aide to the 2008 US Presidential candidate, , Rielle Hunter (aka Lisa Druck), is claiming. 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 NATIONAL ENQUIRER’s political bombshell comes just weeks after Edwards emphatically denied having an affair with Rielle Hunter, who formerly worked on his campaign. But The ENQUIRER has now confirmed not only that Rielle is pregnant,...

Among the lurid incidents detailed are sexually explicit postings on the Craigslist Web site and another Internet site known as "Hornymatches" in which Jones allegedly posed as Ramos, inviting men to contact her for sex. In doing so, authorities allege, Jones committed identity theft by using her photo, name, home and work phone numbers, work location and birthdate.

Lawmaker arrested for alleged murder of mistress 2007-7-16 A CHINESE lawmaker has been arrested in connection with the murder of his mistress with a car bomb earlier this month. Duan Yihe, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Jinan Municipal People's Congress, is alleged to have hired his nephew-in-law, a Jinan policeman, to plant the car bomb that killed Liu Haiping on July 9, according to a source with the Shandong Provincial Public Security Department. Police found remnants of the bomb in Liu's car after the blast, which killed her on the spot and also engulfed a nearby taxi in...

Jobless and shameless By Nick Britten Last Updated: 1:29am GMT 16/11/2006 An unemployed father of 15 who lives with his wife and mistress is demanding a larger council house after getting both women pregnant at the same time. 'Shameless' Mick Philpott Mick Philpott claims that he cannot look after his women and children properly because they are crammed into a three-bedroom, semi-detached house. The 49-year-old, who has been nicknamed "Shameless Mick" for the way he claims benefits and keeps adding to his brood, is understood to have agreed to a vasectomy earlier this year, but changed his mind. He lives...

EXCLUSIVE - Mistress turns in corrupt China vice admiral-sources BEIJING (Reuters) - One of China's top brass has been charged with accepting millions of dollars in bribes from contractors after one of his mistresses blew the whistle, independent sources with ties to the military said on Wednesday. If found guilty, Vice Admiral Wang Shouye, 63, one of five navy deputy commanders and a member of China's parliament, would be the most senior People's Liberation Army (PLA) officer ever convicted of a crime. "Wang Shouye kept several mistresses. One of them reported him to the authorities" after he refused to give...

A German court fined a man 400 euros (470 dollars) for biting a waitress on the toe and drawing blood after he spilled beer on her foot and she told him to lick it clean. "The waitress did not hold out her foot for him to hurt, but to clean," the judge ruled in the case in Gelsenkirchen, in western Germany, the court said in a statement. The waitress took 10 days off work because of the injury.

.............So common is the practice that it has spawned an industry of private detectives snooping on cheating husbands and their paramours. One such agency, called Debang, based in the western city of Chengdu, underscores how "first wives" are fighting back. Debang was started by divorced women with one goal: to help desperate wives ferret out their double- and triple-timing husbands and make them pay for their indiscretions. Debang wouldn't comment, but informed people say the firm has expanded into several cities and has a staff of more than 100. The mistress boom is contributing to a surge in divorces —...

CNN: Daryn Did Not E-mail Rush; Rush Was Not Referring To Daryn It looks like Media Matters jumped the gun on this one. "Daryn Kagan did not send any notes to anyone about President Bush's speech yesterday," a CNN statement said today. "The item is grossly incorrect. No comment made on Rush Limbaugh's program was a reference to Daryn Kagan." An e-mailer adds: "Let me [as a Rush listener] clarify for you that this week started off w/ Rush joking about a mistress in N.C. The next day he mentioned his 'mistress' in FLA. The day after that it was...

The archdiocese of New York has just announced that Msgr. Clark's resignation from the Rectorate of St. Patrick's Cathedral has been accepted.

China city eyes official affairs   By Francis Markus BBC News, Shanghai A Chinese city has called for officials to admit to any extra-marital affairs they may be having. China is concerned that public money is being spent on mistresses The demand by the authorities in the eastern city of Nanjing is an apparent attempt to stem corruption. It has been claimed that almost all the corrupt officials convicted in China had mistresses. But there has long been argument over whether having concubines was part of the cause of corruption, or just a side-effect. Among what they call their suggestions...

/begin my translation 95% of Corrupt Officials in China have mistresses 04/21/05 Recently, an increasing number of Chinese officials are going to a temple and pray that their corruption are not exposed(Beijing, AFP) According to (Apr) 20th issue of The Epoch Times, Wu Chang-zhen(?), an expert in current 'Marriage Law' of China, announced the statistic that 95% of communist party officials, whose corruptions were exposed, had mistresses. In particular, during the investigation of those involved in 102 corruption scandals in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Zhuhai in 1,999, 100% of them had mistresses, which was a real shock. Using a pretty woman...

Was Agnès Sorel, the first official royal mistress of France, poisoned? Grenoble (France), 2 April 2005 - The ESRF has gone back in time to study the reason behind the sudden death of the beautiful mistress of French king Charles VII, in the XV century. Thanks to synchrotron light, pieces of Agnès Sorel's hair and skin have been studied. The evidence obtained makes it possible to suggest plausible causes of death. The way she died is not known yet, however, incredibly high levels of mercury have been found in her remains. This finding opens the door to numerous hypotheses. The...

hello all of you ,why you don't accept the fact that usa is an occupation power in irak,what are we doing there:killing innocent people,steeling their oil,distroying their country,burning their houses,they don't tell us to come,usa invade irak without the support of un,neither the support of international community,american soldiers in irak are terrorising children ,men and women killing babies ,throwing heavy bombs on their heads,it is a murder ,it is a genocide ,it is a crime it is not a liberation,it is a colonisation,a destruction of a soverein country,that's why the bush administration is a threat to our word they are...

WHEN titian-haired publish ing titan Judith Regan took up with former top cop Bernard Kerik, she thought she'd met her match. And vice versa. But the illicit relationship came tumbling down, a friend of Regan's told me, not when she discovered her married lover had another mistress. It ended horribly after Regan learned Kerik's wife was pregnant. After that jolting discovery, Regan — as volatile, driven and foul-mouthed as any man — began using other words to describe her lover. "He's maniacal. Insane," a terrified Regan confided in a pal. Kerik, she said, had Regan followed to Los Angeles. He...

The Rev. Al Sharpton reportedly lavished his alleged mistress with expensive gifts, including a $7,000 watch and jewels. Al and Kathy Sharpton, who were married for more than two decades, split up in April 2003 — around the time the Rev. started an affair with Marjorie Fields-Harris, the executive director of his National Action Network, the Village Voice reports today. [snip] In addition to the gifts, the Voice said that Sharpton gave Fields-Harris a job at the National Action Network that didn't require much work. The pair also traveled together, sharing accommodations in $4,000-a-night hotels — paid for by...

LONDON - Prince Charles was a "hopeless" lover who rarely slept with Princess Diana, according to a never-before-seen video to be shown next week. The late princess also claims her husband brazenly admitted carrying on an affair with his mistress and Queen Elizabeth brushed off her complaints. Diana recalls - in the 1993 tape made by her former voice coach - how "absolutely traumatized" she was when a TV interviewer asked the newly engaged couple if they were in love and Charles replied, "Whatever 'in love' means." After their marriage, their sexual relationship was "odd," with Charles sleeping with her...

A stunning new development threatens to blow the lid off the secret affair between Bill Clinton and a super rich Westchester County divorcee that was first revealed by the Enquirer in early June.A pedestrian outside Clinton's Harlem office says she was run over by the woman we have identifed in previous reports as Bill Clinton's mistress--and the Enquirer has the police report from the incident.The accident victim charges the entire incident has been covered up. What's more, insiders say the ex-husband of Clinton's secret lover is furious about the affair.The issue that goes on sale Friday features an interview with...

A husband and wife were having dinner at a very fine restaurant when this absolutely stunning young woman comes over to their table, gives the husband a big open mouthed kiss, then says she'll see him later and walks away. The wife glares at her husband and says, "Who the hell was that?" "Oh," replies the husband, "she's my mistress." "Well, that's the last straw," says the wife. "I've had enough, I want a divorce!" "I can understand that," replies her husband, "but remember, if we get a divorce it will mean no more shopping trips to Paris, no more...