Did John Edwards Really Ask a Judge Not to Destroy His Sex Tape With Rielle Hunter?
- Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:20pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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John Edwards, former Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States, has been in the news of late. Not in regards to the presidential campaign season well underway, but rather two scandalous court cases involving the former North Carolina senator and his mistress Rielle Hunter.
Edwards is preparing for an upcoming trial in April, where the once rising star of the Democratic Party faces charges for illegally using campaign money in 2008 to cover up his ongoing affair with Hunter. The affair took place while Edwards’s cancer-stricken wife was out campaigning for him.
Fox News reports that Hunter just settled a lawsuit last week against former Edwards aide Andrew Young, where she was seeking to recover personal items she said Young and his wife took from a house she was renting in 2007 while she was pregnant. These items included a sexually explicit video she recorded with Edwards during his 2008 presidential campaign, and photographs of him with their daughter. The Youngs had claimed Hunter abandoned the items as trash. ABC News reports that under the terms of the settlement, all known copies of the sex tape were to be destroyed within 30 days. If other copies of the tape surface later, the agreement required those to be destroyed as well.
The already startling case took a strange turn Friday evening when it was reported that Edwards filed a request in the U.S. District Court in Greensboro, asking a judge to not destroy the sex tape he filmed with his mistress. WRAL originally reported the story which was picked up by several media outlets including Fox:
“John Edwards has asked a judge not to destroy a sex tape he made with his former mistress Rielle Hunter that was slated for destruction under a settlement reached last week, WRAL-TV reported.
A request filed Friday in US District Court in Greensboro said Edwards ‘intends to request, by subpoena or other procedure, certain materials covered’ by provisions of the injunction.
Edwards asked the court to enforce an automatic stay ‘with respect to any transfer or destruction of items’ until the request can be made.”
With a looming corruption trial and no further explanation for why Edwards’s counsel requested a stay on the decision to destroy the property, it was unclear why the former senator would not want to put the scandal to rest. Melinda Henneberger of the Washington Post speculated several legal reasons why Edwards might want to keep the tape, but it is now unclear whether the former senator even requested it.
At 4:57p.m. Saturday, WRAL updated their story where the report of the sex tape request originated Friday evening, submitting that the station misinterpreted the court documents involving Edwards.
“Editor’s Note: WRAL News initially interpreted court documents incorrectly and reported that John Edwards asked for a delay in the court-ordered destruction of a sex tape he made with Rielle Hunter. In the order returning the tape and other items to Hunter, Judge Carl R. Fox allowed Edwards or other parties to delay that destruction, but specifically exempted the tape from any stay.”
The updated story reads that Edwards still asked a judge Friday to “keep some materials ordered returned to his mistress from being destroyed.” The Superior Court judge in the Young case had offered Edwards the ability to request that destruction of any of Hunter’s property, except the sex tape, be delayed. WRAL reports that in documents filed Friday, Edwards’ attorneys wrote that they will “consult with the government regarding the appropriate method,” and reserved the right to request that some items be turned over to their team.
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Longbow
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 1:23pmEven in his mugshot the hair and smile are perrrrrrfect. What a complete phoney, everything about this guy creeps me out.
He is the lyin’ political hypocrite personified. If you ever meet someone, anyone, that looks and talks like this guy, cover your wallet and RUN.
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 2:20amI think Edwards tipped off Obama when Obama came to his residence and was choosing a VP. I think Edwards warned Obuma that there might be a scandal in the works, which is why Obuma passed on picking Edwards for that goof Biden. That can be the only explanation as to why Obama picked that clown Biden over Edwards for his VP candidate.
Report Post »MBA
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 12:07pmonce a freakin’ pervert, always a freakin’ pervert. Kinda like the politicians in dc. once a corrupt politician–always a corrupt politician–no going back. No wonder this country is so messed up–all the policians in dc can do is sit around playing with their “things” while stealing from the tax payers . What a disgusting system they have made of the representation of this country. Oh I forgot, they think they are in charge because they are the only “smart” people everyone else is stupid.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 9:07pmI just wish he had been a front runner when the truth came out which only proves the dem’s sprang the story.
Report Post »Baja
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 11:44amI hope his corruption woes don’t interfere with his speech at the Democratic National Convention. He certainly is a wonderful poster child for the left. His ethics and morales represent his party quite accurately. I would love to his mug shot with a shaved head.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 12:00pmThat’s a $400 hair cut you know.
Report Post »UnswervingPatriot
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 9:44amExrepublisheep? Wouldn’t it be better to say Currentlyduped?
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 9:41amWhat the hec is he smiling about?Is that his mug shot?Does he have a clue that he is a pig and is in big trouble?When a nasty tape of raunchy sex with his raunchy skank is his biggest concern then we see clearly that he has mental issues and the shame of it is that probebly 90% of our government has the same illness.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 8:56amWhile Edwards in PRISON I hope the “boys” make another on with him at the center of attention then sell it to the gay community for entetainment.
Report Post »Rubba dub dub Johnny boy!
progressiveslayer
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 9:13amJohnny won‘t do well in prison unless they send him to club fed and even then I’m not to sure.
Report Post »Slowman101
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 8:41amEdwards is a pig. He had a wonderful wife and he totally did her wrong. Now he wants the tape back? They ought to sell it on an X rated website. Any profits (key word ANY) go to cancer research. I still think a little jail time would do him good.
Report Post »Dodsfall
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 8:28amOf course he wants the tape destroyed. There may have been a couple of frames in it where his hair is messed up a little.
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:45amBefore they destroy the tape they should make the progressives in congress that supported this creep watch the film (Why the long face Senator Kerry?).
Report Post »Qtaug
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:26amDoes this ass make the Democrats look big?
Report Post »teahugger
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 8:51amnow that’s funny!
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:24amI think the dems should invite John Edwards to testify on the need for contraception coverage.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 4:39amDoes anyone care about John Edwards, or his trashy woman? Don’t waste the space.
Report Post »NotPoliticallyCorrect
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 2:01amHe heard Rush would pay big monehh for ‘em…lol
Report Post »Southerner01
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 9:10amHey, if Edwards publishes the sex tape, I’ll pay for his contraception… as long as it’s a vasectomy!
Report Post »UnswervingPatriot
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 9:42amYeahhh, I don’t think so … maybe Kieth Olberman, it‘s a close as he’ll get.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 1:11amHe is a dem. You can’t aind any sick thing they would not do.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 1:16amoops That FIND
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:13amHe’s so creepy he wears a shirt and tie and gives a big smile for his mug shot. I think I noticed a few hairs out of place on his head but I‘m sure he’s a little disheveled from everything that’s going on in his life.
Report Post »merik59
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 1:09amDestroy the tape already & move on. Isn’t what these people did with campaign funds bad enough without the pornography, too? John Edwards is a tasteless, incompetent cad. There is nothing new or original in what he has done & he just needs to go to prison, now. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn all of our government reps need to go to prison for breaking various laws. What a country where the biggest lawbreakers enjoy the biggest perks of all time. Too bad God is not into lightning strikes right about now. The show would be incredible, I’m sure.
Report Post »waspanglosaxon
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 12:34amWhy don’t John Edwards, Bill Clinton and Newt (‘Open Marriage’) Gingrich get together and costar with their various wives and mistresses and make the hottest porno film of all time? Porno stars and politicians are basically in the same business anyway: screwing the public.
Report Post »Southerner01
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 9:13amThen you could use the tape to replace waterboarding. Seeing all three of those wrinkly old guys naked at once would be torture indeed.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 9:42amYou haven’t seen anything yet. The Ron Paul & Miss Fluke sex tape will be released next week…
Report Post »TROONORTH
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 9:55am“Seeing all three of those wrinkly old guys naked at once would be torture indeed.” HEY NOW! Speaking as a wrinkly old guy myself and speaking for all the other wrinkly old guys . … . .. .. . .. .. . well maybe you’re right. Burn the tape. Burn Edwards too.
Report Post »rsanchez1
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 12:15amHis wife died of Cancer, and he keep spitting on her grave.
Report Post »GlennaBeckski
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 12:05amDoes anyone really care? Sheeesh
Report Post »omgfolks
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:10pmWell of course he did since he is likely going to prison he can hide this in his ‘Legal Papers’ and enjoy them for years to come.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:38pmAhhhh, that’s it!
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:41pmThe old spank bank.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:06pmIt must be worth keeping…
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:58pmHe’s not done getting his jollies.
Report Post »TheConservativeChicano
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:54pmIs this guy for real or what? He actually wants to keep his sex tape in tact and not destroy the evidence that unraveled both his marriage and presidential aspirations? It is hard to wrap ones mind around such a complete dirt bag but what do you expect from a lawyer?
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:27pmProbably wants to sell it in this sick day and age to pay legal bills, and he’s a lawyer.
That’s rich huh? lol. I don‘t like to relish fellow Americans’ downfalls, but this one is good.
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