Report: John Edwards Asks Former Mistress to Marry Him
- Posted on January 6, 2011 at 5:21pm by
Meredith Jessup
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The National Enquirer is breaking yet another story about former Democratic politician John Edwards and his twisted love affair with former campaign videographer Rielle Hunter.
Just one month after his estranged wife Elizabeth succumbed to her battle with cancer, the Enquirer reports that the former presidential candidate has popped the question, asking Hunter to marry him and purchasing a $3.5 luxury beachfront home for the couple and their toddler daughter.
The disgraced presidential candidate popped the question at the same time he told Rielle that he’d be issuing a press statement finally confirming he fathered her daughter Frances Quinn, close sources told The ENQUIRER.
Edwards, 56, released that statement on Jan. 21, and just six days later a spokesperson for his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth confirmed the couple had legally separated after 32 years of marriage. Sources say they expect to be officially divorced within a year, paving the way for the ex-senator to make Rielle, 45, his wife.
“John dropped the proposal bomb on Rielle shortly before he issued his statement” that he was indeed Frances’ father, a close source divulged.
“John knew Rielle had been waiting for a proposal for two long years. Since they’ve gotten involved, she’s followed every order he gave her, going on a cross-country cover-up, hiding away during her pregnancy and after giving birth for the sake of his presidential aspirations.
“Rielle never uttered a peep about their affair publicly, and remained loyal to John. John felt she deserved to know that he wanted to raise their child together, and wanted Rielle in his life as his partner.
“John has said that when his divorce is final, he’ll buy her a diamond ring. But in the meantime, he’s getting them a house.”
The report of an engagement also comes just days after it was revealed that the late Elizabeth Edwards left everything to her children after she died, leaving her former husband completely out of her will.
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Comments (172)
heavyduty
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:47pmI bet his children are real proud of him now. I know if I was that woman I wouldn’t marry him. If he couldn’t stay faithful to his wife, what makes her think that he will stay faithful to her.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 8:28pmArrogance, same as mr. e.
Report Post »LDSmommy
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:47pmIs her body even cold yet?
Seriously though…I pray that once Betsy Morgan starts with The Blaze there will be no more stories that begin with “The National Enquirer is reporting….”.
Report Post »lindyindy46
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:51amYou didn’t have to read it!
Report Post »bocablaze
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:47pmOh dear. Yesterday there was a mention on the Wire section about one of the Kardashian’s getting a new show, and I thought, WTF? I thought this was a serious news site.
Now today John Edward’s marriage plans merit a full story.
Wait…wait… I get it, I finally get it!!! This is the “New Content” we can expect from *cough* Media Heavyweights *cough*
I think it’s a planned distraction from more serious issues. Entertainment news is like a pacifier for childlike minds.
Report Post »BeckIsNuts
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:42amI agree. I’m still waiting for the story on the LDS guy Warren Jeffs.
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:44pmDoes this make him more “honorable”?
Report Post »grannydeb5
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:40pmWhen he first ran for office here in NC I didn’t like him. You wouldn’t believe the number of stupid women voting for him because he was “cute’. Probably the same idiots who voted for Obama.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:33pmwhat a scumbag- oh well we already knew that!!! They deserve each other.
Report Post »Zoe
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:31pmEdwards Lewinski 2013
Report Post »hellotoyou
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:27pmHe better marry he quick I see a orange jumpsuit in his future!
Report Post »hellotoyou
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:25pmBecause we all know this marriage will be based in trust and love. She can never trust him because he cheated on his wife to get her, and love she loves the money.
Report Post »MBA
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:32pmAt least Rielle and John won’t be getting any money from Elizabeth. It’s obvious where the brain were in that marriage and I mean that exactly the way it sounds.
Report Post »nothingbuthetruth
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:23pmThis whole thing is disturbing.
Report Post »inmyhumbleopinion
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:19pmThe stench emitting from these two and this “story” is making me ill…….I’m sure his kids must be SO proud to call him “daddy” (all of them – even the illigetimate one!
Go away, Johnny. Forever. PLEASE. And take what’s-er-name witch-a!
Who needs Match.com, anyway?!?!?
Report Post »Paleo Archer
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:18pmPar for the course…I say.
Report Post »libh8er
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:18pmMay they go to the ends of the earth and jump!
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:08amThat’s exactly how I feel about this! good one
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:14pmThey really deserve each other – I am picturing a “Roller Boogie” themed wedding – see ya’ at the rink!
Report Post »Highland
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:21pmThis is a marriage just bound to succeed, as it clearly is established on honesty and respect. Or is that lies and infidelity?
Report Post »clockwatcher
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:07pmWhite trash.
Report Post »Tmwatz
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:03pmWhat a surprise
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:02pmHe hasn’t even got the dignity to show any kind of respect for his late wife. Maybe he is a little miffed over Elizabeth’s will since she left him nothing. Rightfully so, her children should recieve her estate. She knew that he would marry his mistress and was smart enough to read the writing on the wall .She knew that if John were to marry Rhiel and died before her Elizabeths children would be left with nothing. Kudos to you Elizabeth. God bless your children. May you rest in peace.
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:19pmVery sound reasoning. Bet we’ll hear more about the Will naming her side of the family to take care of her underage children. If I were Elizabeth, I would have done anything I could to keep the mistress from raising my children when I died.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:20pmIn my not-so-humble opinion, he never respected his wife in the first place. No man who respects his wife, and has true for her, takes a mistress.
Libs can call me old-fashioned, and that’s okay. True feminists will call him an abuser. Feminazis, probably never; I discount the NOW gang as truly representative of women.
This icon of the Left abuses women, far as I’m concerned. Sure, Leftists can quibble that marriage is slavery, so I’ll run with them. Going by their view, the late lady was abused–even in passing–by her husband who obviously disregards her very life, let alone her passing.
If men are slave-masters and all else that Leftist women claim, they have their poster boy in John Edwards.
This time, the most obvious slave-master is a Leftist.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:01pmSince they’ve gotten involved, she’s followed every order he gave her,
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So she was ordered by Edwards to pose for those almost noodie pics in GQ ?
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:01pmI am so glad this ho is getting that piece of slime, they deserve one another, but it doesn’t say anything about his other young children, I wonder if the older daughter is going to raise them.It is such a shame for the kids, I hope and pray they will all be ok. It is so sad they lost their Mother and their father had to be what he is,
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:28pmI agree. I hope that the oldest daughter Kate, steps in and parents Jack and Emma, as their father has shown that he is no parent and has no scruples.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:01pmRemember now: Edwards has long been an icon of the Left.
Report Post »TennesseeConservative
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:58pmRevenge for being cut out of the will. This guy is a real view of the left, only thinking of themselves. Wake up America, this is the left, a graphic illustration of who they are and the way they think.
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 5:58pmShe’s dead!!! Let’s get Hitched Woo-hoooooooo………………… Sorry Lil’ S.O.B…………………
Report Post »marathon_mom
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 5:57pmNow here’s a shock… seriously, this is news?
Report Post »obama_binpharteen
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:02pmWell ofcourse it’s news, it came from the National Enquirer.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 5:57pmI actually hope she accepts. Americans need more stupid, pointless dreck to keep them drooling at the TV or computer screen. The invitation list won’t consist of friends and family so much as “news” reporters. If you care where this turd is or what he’s doing, you have to be just completely insubstantial as a human being. Not even worthy of comparing to a train wreck at this point.
Report Post »Plankchapel
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 5:57pmAnd Elizabeth didn’t leave John a cent!
Oh, well. May he and his law practice go down in ashes–just as his marriage to Elizabeth did.
Talk about a scum bag!!!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:30pmSomehow that is very good justice of what she done to him. Leaving him completely out of her own will. Very poetic indeed.
Report Post »Barb1954
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:30pmHe’s a blood-sucking TRIAL Lawyer and there is plenty of money to be made for him. I never liked him here in NC and always thought he was a JERK!
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:51pmToo bad she didn’t have the will to kick him in the nads before she went on.
Report Post »flyguync
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:34pmActually, ole Lizzy did kick him in the nads by leaving him out of her will!
Report Post »Plankchapel
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:22amWhen you lie with dogs, you end up with fleas.
Report Post »UPSETVET
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:40amJohn Edwards is a “scum-bag” but he’s also a “douche-bag”. He’s a multi-millionarie who has amassed a fortune representing clients and winning law suits against big cooperations. He faked a “I’m a friend of the poor and down troddened” image while living in a huge multi-million dollar mansion and getting $800 haircuts. What a phoney ! It’s a shame that a jerk like John Edwards had to exposed his dying wife to such a disgraceful extra-marital love affair shortly before her death. But she got the last laugh, scratching his name off her will and leaving everything to the kids. I hope John and his wife move into their beachfront home and disappear from public view. I want to puke everytime I see his face on the news. I bet his new bride will take him to the cleaners in a few months. Good !
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 5:56pmRielle Hunter was for it before she was against it.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:14pmBlaze! You are hitting a low when you start reporting information from a gossip magazine!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE, give us substance, not gossip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:15pmPoor Elizabeth’s body is barely cold in the ground. So much for a polite waiting period before he asks his “main punch” to marry him, and even had the audacity to go to the funeral (appearance is everything) and sit with his children. Bet they will just love their new step mother – it will be “his” and “ho’s”.
Report Post »Flagwaver
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:19pmThis guy needs to be first place in the douche hall of fame!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:26pmThis will still come back to bite him; and he just needs to disappear down the rabbit hole and vanish from all of sight forever. Too bad he cannot take the rest of the Progressives along with him once and for all, letting the people get on with our lives.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:35pm@Untamable Kate
Wish to inform you there is another poster using the name snowleopard2300 in immitation of mine; just wanted to let you know for they seem to be posting on a few of the other parts of the sight.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:39pmOk, thats just sick….with his wife barely gone, he is already well on his way to plan B….ugh
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:43pmHe’s probably thinking conjugal visits…dirtbag…
Report Post »Comm Marine
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:53pmThe National Enquirer broke the Edwards affair. MSM would report it. Pajamash, go back to sleep
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:58pmSnow, is he putting the cat art on his name too ? I haven‘t seen it I’m still Discussing the birther thing with ABC.
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:08pmThis is another HUFFPO story……Mr Beck?????????????????? whats up?????????????
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:39pmshorthanded12…Try reading the article…It clearly states that the National Enquirer broke the story…
Report Post »oldguy48
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:42pmI know he is a scumbag politican, and a scumbag lawyer before that, but he has hit rock bottom (almost) in the scumbag hall of fame.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 8:00pmWhat a scum bag – his wife has hardly been dead and he gets engaged!! I have been so disappointed in him but now I am just angry. What about his other kids, is he going to raise them or expect his older daughter to raise them? What an arrogant human being – I wish I had clippers and could shave his head bald – then he won’t look so cute in the mirror anymore. http://wp.me/pYLB7-uT
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 8:17pmWALKWITHME1966, if I had clippers it wouldn’t be his hair I would take care of, I would consult with Lorena Bobbit and that would be the last child he fathered.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 8:20pmDick head is stupid, of course she’ll keep saying yes for everything, when all the goods cease, she’ll get a divorce and Edwards will turn O.J. on her.
As Chris Rock so eloquently put it, don’t agree what O.J. did, I understand why..
Report Post »mcfinch
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 8:32pmGood for him.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Video Website
Report Post »Leslie_Benedict
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:06pmIs this now the blaTMZe?
Report Post »PeterThePainter
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:12pmWho gives a ****……….
Report Post »Alaren
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:57pmFor everyone complaining about using the enquirer as a source need I remind you that they are the one‘s who initially broke the Edward’s affair story. As far as the people saying that this is a sellout/huffpo story and that Beck has sold out give me a flipping break. If anything this story illustrates a person that many on the left believed to be a good salt of the earth man who truly cared for the downtrodden, (such as little sally with the cleft pallet), and would make a marvelous president. It also illustrates how little the mainstream media really delves into the lives of liberal democrats by comparison to any conservative.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:34pm@pajamash and others….
Anyone else remember that the Enquirer broke the Edwards affair in the first place ?.. or how about tracking down O.J. in those “ugly ass shoes” .. they seem to be doing the job the MSM won’t … outing liberals.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:37pmEveryone that has curse words for this real sh!!!& head remember he is a very typical white lawyerly ACLU lovin Democrat. Why would this behavior be strange at all? Hell, Look at Billary and Hill they do it in front of everyones face and pay no cost for their business arrangment. I have a huge problem with all the elites in both parties. Off to watch the rest of Sarah Palin’s Alaska. In this issue she is shooting shot guns and going camping. When are we going to have a regular rugged individual in the big house?????
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:04amBoth of them need a big ole A sewn to the front of their clothing to represent adultery and a big ole L tatooed on their forehead to represent LOSER.
Which one is sicker? Him for asking or her for accepting? Disgusting.
Report Post »free2bme1961
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:10amI hope she said “yes”, so that it doesn’t become a further distraction!
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:19amWhat a perfect example of a good progressive.
Report Post »taskmaster78
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:14amHow Touching. Douche bag!
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:51amWhat a lucky lady. A proposal from a notorious narcissist. He’ll do anything for political expediency.
Report Post »I’m dry for free entertainment. I’m rubbing my hands together in anticipation.
lylee
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:29amThat John Edwards, what a noble guy!
Report Post »BeckIsNuts
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:41amHolier than thou Glenneth has a divorce in his wake. Who is he to make hay out of Edward’s tragedy? This is very typical of Glenn’s nasty side. He tormented a competitor in the past – a nice woman BTW who never attacked Glenn – for being overweight. Nice job Glenn.
Report Post »Dandylyon
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:27pmHAY HAY people, Edwards is gearing up for another run at the potus seat.Give the guy a break,he has proven to be a true Democrat and true to there ways as examples of good people,
You go Eddie!!
Morgan where are you?this is crap news.
Report Post »GayDem4Beck
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:18pm@mcfinch Good for him ??? Really. He can cheat in his marriage, on his dieing wife, father another child, lie about and still get married again. But I am not allowed to get married to my partner of 7 years ?
Report Post »KayMichelle
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:11pmHey, this gossip paper was the only rag that reported on Edwards. All the others knew and were silent. They should get some respect for that.
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