John Edwards Love Child ( UPDATE! Names Revealed !!! )

National Enquirer ^ | July 23, 2008

[MindBender26]

UPDATE: The NATIONAL ENQUIRER is revealing new details about the political scoop we broke yesterday - the secret meeting between Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards and Rielle Hunter.

A team of ENQUIRER reporters caught the married ex-senator visiting his mistress and secret love child late Monday night at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles hotel.

As we reported previously, Edwards arrived at the hotel at 9:45 p.m. (PST) Monday, driven by a friend in a BMW, and was seen by ENQUIRER reporter Alan Butterfield.

We can now reveal that the man who drove Edwards was Bob McGovern, the same man who drove Rielle to the hotel from Santa Barbara and rented her room in his name.

He was driving a 1999 four-door midnight blue BMW.

Said Butterfield: "The car had a baby seat in the back for Rielle's infant. He pulled into the parking lot, took a ticket from the automated machine, pulled forward, and stopped right after the parking gate lowered. Edwards got out of the passenger side, walked around the front of the car and went in a side entrance near the swimming pool.

"McGovern parked the car and then slowly walked back inside the hotel and went upstairs."

In the aftermath of our exclusive story, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER has now learned:

* Edwards' advisers are "spitting mad and furious" that his late-night escapades have made international headlines because it could derail his chances of becoming Barack Obama's running mate.

* Edwards has not explained his whereabouts to any members of other news media outlets who have been trying to follow up on the story.

* His mistress, blonde divorcee Rielle, meanwhile, has returned to her home in Santa Barbara, Calif., and sources say she is "in despair" that Edwards might cut off contact with her because their latest rendezvous has been exposed in the media.

After we posted the details of Edwards shocking meeting with Rielle, political sources close to Edwards revealed how he was candidly scolded by his advisors hours later.

One political source divulged: "His advisors told him they were furious that this had been brought out by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER right when Obama is considering whether he's V.P. material with the Democratic National Convention (Aug. 25-28 in Denver) only weeks away.

"From what I hear, John was read the riot act by his people. The fallout from this could cost him the job of running mate. They told him Obama doesn't want to pick someone and be embarrassed by the choice. This 'bimbo eruption' at this critical time will do him absolutely no good.

"While his people are not trying to tell him how to live his personal life, this baggage isn't going to help him convince Obama that he's the right guy to be his veep."

A day after the incident, Edwards traveled to Denver for an appearance at the University of Denver in support of the anti-poverty campaign, called Half in Ten. The very first question put to him at the event was about whether he'd become Obama's running mate.

Edwards was quoted as saying: "I'm not seeking the job. I don't expect to be asked…but anything that Sen. Obama would ask me to do, whether it's in his campaign or in his presidency, I would consider seriously."

But Edwards made no official comment on our bombshell disclosure about his late-night antics less than 24 hours earlier.

Said another source: "He's going out of his way to avoid discussing it - he knows whatever he says will come back to haunt him. If he denies being there, he doesn't want to be found out to be a liar."

In other new details, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned that McGovern, the man who picked up Edwards and dropped him off at the hotel, has become one of Rielle's closest friends.

McGovern reserved rooms 246 and 252 at the Beverly Hilton under his name. Rielle was in one room and McGovern was in another with her baby. This allowed her and Edwards to spend time alone.

Another source said: "Bob McGovern is someone Rielle met in Santa Barbara when she recently moved there. He's become one of her closest friends and agreed to help her see Edwards."

Rielle has not yet made any public comments about her Monday night visit from Edwards

[MindBender26]

1: Adios VP 2: The driver connects them VERY well 3: Terminally ill Mrs. Edwards has not commented.... which is really commenting very loudly. 4: He has no excuse for being in LA

Remember, no pictures posted yet, but this is the National Enquirer.... so there will be pictures. :)

[kromike]

I just wish this had come out after Forrest Gump got tapped.

Apparently, little Johnny was conducting a "pole" of the electorate...

Heh heh heh...what a deserving scumbag...

[rob777]

As much as I would like to see Edwards exposed, I NEVER would give even a small amount of credibility to the National Enquirer.

[Locomotive Breath]

Why couldn’t they have waited until AFTER BO selected JE as his running mate? I’m from NC and I would just love to see this hypocritical clown embarrassed to the max.

[gorush]

...campaigning his brains out.

[abb]

Of course the elephant in the room is that the Drive-By Media hasn't uttered a peep about any of this. It makes one wonder what else they didn't report back when they used to control the distribution systems.

"What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -

[Fresh Wind]

The Enquirer is said to be a tool of the Clintons.

[K-oneTexas]

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[JennysCool]

I think the Enquirer has proven to be much more credible than sensationalist rags like the New York Times.

[CowboyJay]

You mean he’s not gay?

Two solid ‘guilty’s’.

[abb]

As much as I would like to see Edwards exposed, I NEVER would give even a small amount of credibility to the National Enquirer.

Haven't you by now learned the mantra of the Drive-By Media when accusing conservatives of wrongdoing? "It's not the nature of the evidence, it's the seriousness of the charge." I hope Edwards and the Drive-Bys choke on this.

[Jay777]

Blog Reaction Roundup

[r9etb]

We can now reveal that the man who drove Edwards was Bob McGovern, the same man who drove Rielle to the hotel from Santa Barbara and rented her room in his name.

Is this Mr. McGovern...?

[Diogenesis]

National Inquirer is tied to the Clintons.

And the credibility the mag has been good in the past.

Donna Rice on the lap of Gary Hart.
From the cover of the June 2, 1987, issue of the National Enquirer

[tflabo]

this is the National Enquirer.... so there will be pictures. :)

[Miss Didi]

Of course the elephant in the room is that the Drive-By Media hasn't uttered a peep about any of this. It makes one wonder what else they didn't report back when they used to control the distribution systems.

Not a peep from the Drive-Bys but Rush talked about it today. So there ya go.

[what's up]

This oughtta be good! (I read they even have pictures of reporters chasing Edwards around the hotel....yummy!)

Some of the dynamics:

*Nix on Edward's for VP
*High-profile National Dem scandal uses up Obama's airwaves
*Dem women enraged when it's revealed that Edwards has been cheating on his terminally ill wife

[Liberty Valance]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2MQ04ESSx8
James Taylor - Millworker

</:o)))~

[r9etb]

She's got a very "Kennedy" look about her....

[TomGuy]

Of course, none of this has any bearing on the fact that the owner of the N E is a friend of the Clintons.

[what's up]

I NEVER would give even a small amount of credibility to the National Enquirer

Well, they were right about Frank Gifford, weren't they?

[Vinnie]

Man hands!!

[pgkdan]

That’s the best he could do? Sheesh, he’s prettier than she is.

[Gay State Conservative]

Mrs Edwards must find it very consoling that her hubby is warming up for wife #2.Given that half of what he has is hers she should write her will in such a way as to put a serious crimp in his style....post-Elizabeth.

[DainBramage]

His advisors were beside themselves because he screwed around with someone not pro abortion.

[TomGuy]

I NEVER would give even a small amount of credibility to the National Enquirer.

They are the one who National-ized the Clinton-Lewinski affair.

In their defense they have broken some major stories. Not many, but some.

[mw19]

I know, the National Enquirer! But, if this was untrue, couldn’t Edwards sue them back to the stone age? It’s pretty detailed stuff. He is America’s #1 trial laywer!

[Brett66]

There’s apparently two Americas, those with mistresses and those without.

[yorkie01]

The body’s not even cold and he’s pulling a Juan McCain. Elizabeth, the mansion’s yours and the kids. Sending him packing with his houseboys.

[codercpc]

How can the National Enquirer not have pictures?

Yesterdays article mentioned a photographer, didn't it? Are they waiting to expose them, figuring he will dig himself a hole? He hasn't denied it yet, has he?

[MarkT]

Well, indeed there are two Americas. One, where the rich one has a wife dying of cancer and a mistress w/ a love child and the other where the poor only have a wife dying of cancer.

[tflabo]

Her royal Shysterness....

[K-oneTexas]

 Web videos at site: http://celebrity.rightpundits.com/?p=2795

Rielle Hunter Biography

As a biography, Rielle Hunter is a producer and aspiring actress. She has been described as “formerly hard-partying girl who claims that she found enlightenment.” She is credited with writing and starring in “Billy Bob and Them”.

Rielle met Edwards at a New York Bar. Of the meeting she says,

“I didn’t think it was John Edwards because the public persona did not mesh at all with the person who was sitting in front of me.”

Hunter has a video production company, which was hired by John Edwards on a $100,000, six-month contract to terminate December 31, 2006. The allegations stem from this relationship. Hunter denies all allegations and says their relationship was strictly professional.

Interestingly, the Enquirer also says that Hunter is now living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in a gated community a few blocks away from Andrew Young, a key official in Edwards’ campaign. Supposedly young has been in charge of looking after Hunter while she stays in hiding. And apparently HE is claiming responsibility for the baby, despite being married with children himself.

Only time will tell if this is true, but it could just be another scandal born of dirty politicking.

See more photos of Rielle Hunter and the John Edwards videos.

[Jim Noble]

it could derail his chances of becoming Barack Obama's running mate

Gee, ya think?

[Diogenesis]

Hmmmmm. Even Spitzer pays less for more.

[Miss Didi]

RUSH: Surely, Mr. Snerdley, you jest when you ask me why the mainstream media is not covering this? I think you are just trying to provoke me into mentioning it myself. The National Enquirer, is running an exclusive and they say they have pictures of it. The Breck Girl, John Edwards, having an affair, caught red handed with the babe and his love child at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles either Sunday night or Monday night, I forget the days. And they were watching him. They have been following the story for six months and they saw him go in and they saw him come out. He tried to get out of the hotel at 2:40 a.m. I'm really shortening this up, but he saw them; they saw him, and he ducked into a bathroom in a basement. He had gone in a side entrance to avoid the lobby going in the hotel and coming out. They know the room numbers. There was a woman from Santa Barbara who is the babe, and a guy from Santa Barbara, a friend, drove her down to LA for the meeting with the Breck Girl, and a love child was with him. They had two rooms at the hotel according to the Enquirer. The guy and the baby in one room and the Breck Girl and the babe in another room right down the hall from each other on the same floor. The baby was not part of the meeting for awhile, the Breck Girl said hello to the baby, and then the Breck Girl and the babe were in the room by themselves. No cameras in there, nobody knew what went on. The Breck Girl then tried to leave. The National Enquirer reporters and photographers snapped it.

The funniest part of this to me is the Breck Girl ran into a bathroom and feverishly got on a cell phone calling hotel security to come rescue him. I'm picturing in my head the Breck Girl's combing his hair in there getting ready for his big exit knowing that there are photographers out there. It hasn't been reported anywhere. The story's been contained in the blogosphere. The Enquirer first hinted about this six months ago and, of course, the Enquirer has been taken as gospel in stories involving me with virtually every newspaper organization in the world quoting them. The Enquirer was taken as gospel during the O.J. Simpson trial and even given credit for breaking several news stories. Byron York ran a piece last week at National Review Online in their corner blog and he wondered if this was going to break out into the Drive By Media, will it break out in the mainstream media. The reason you would ask this is, "Hey, he's on the list of potential vice presidential picks for Obama." I'm thinking Obama probably called him up when he heard about this, said, "Senator Edwards, you are not the Senator Edwards that I knew, but I need you to get together with my preacher for some counseling." And then of course everybody, the blogs are all alive, "How could he do this with his wife having cancer," and so forth, that angle. But nobody has any evidence that what was going on in the hotel room was anything other than two people sitting there watching Larry King Live repeats even though it was at like 2:40 in the morning when the Breck Girl tried to escape out of there. And when he was spotted by the media, he acted like they had caught him at something. Have you seen a word about this any today? You haven't. You literally have not. So I'm just picturing the Breck Girl in that bathroom combing his hair on the phone to hotel security begging for a way out of there.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: When this Breck Girl story first hit, a friend of his said, "No, no, no, I'm the one having an affair, that's my love child." And the Enquirer says, "We know that's not true." So they've been following him around for six months trying to prove it and they think they proved it earlier this week. The Breck Girl did what every reprobate guy does: love 'em and leave 'em. Check in the hotel Breck Girl, don't just go in there for a couple hours of quickies and leave at 2:40 in the morning. Check in, pal. Leave at a normal time. Not that I'm an expert, don't misunderstand.

[dearolddad]

That’s the best he could do? Sheesh, he’s prettier than she is.

And he has much prettier hair

[Cedric]

What a load of rubbish, the man is married and his wife has cancer!

No way this scurrilous story is true!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Rielle must be a lesbian.

[tflabo]

Edwards statement from 2007 campaign for Pres.

"Elizabeth and I are so grateful for your prayers and wishes. Your support means a great deal to us during this difficult time.

As you may have heard, yesterday we found out that Elizabeth’s breast cancer is back, but confined mainly to her bones. Although this isn’t the news we wanted to hear, we are very optimistic. Having been through many struggles together in the past, we know that the key is to keep your head up, keep moving and be strong. At that’s exactly what we intend to do.

Elizabeth and I have been married for nearly 30years and we will be in this every step of the way together. We will keep a positive attitude and always look for the silver lining—that’s what we do.

Although the cancer is no longer curable, it is treatable, and many patients in similar circumstances have lived full,normal lives. We expect nothing less for Elizabeth. She expects to do-all the things next week that she did last week.

Our campaign goes on and it goes on strongly. We are so proud of the campaign we have run run—a campaign based on ideas and reaching out to people. This campaign is not about me or Elizabeth—it’s about all the people we have met these past few years and people like them all across America—people struggling with poverty; people worried about feeding and clothing their kids; people facing hardships overseas.

Both of us are committed to this campaign. We’re committed to this cause and we’re committed to changing this country we love so much.

Thank you again for your support and for standing with us."

John Edwards

[KosmicKitty]

Donna Rice would definitely win the beauty contest. That’s not a very flattering pic of Breck Girl’s hone.y

[CowboyJay]

"Rielle met Edwards at a New York Bar"

What a perfect setting. Edwards has always worn his Southern pride and blue-collar heritage like one of those fakish $5 clip-on ties from Wal Mart.

[Oratam]

Ha! She’s look like him — a slightly emaciated version of him. What a narcissist!

[Lijahsbubbe]

WOW!!!

They’re falling like dominoes - Hillary, Jackson, Edwards.
Not a good year for the good old boys club. hehe

[KosmicKitty]

formerly hard-partying girl who claims that she found enlightenment

Well, now, that explains it. She sure does have that "rode hard and put up wet" more than once look about her.

[norton]

Good Lord!
If you asked a stranger to guess which one was the guy - it'd be a toss up.

Favorite quote from the article:
"Edwards' advisers are "spitting mad and furious" that his late-night escapades have made international headlines because it could derail his chances of becoming Barack Obama's running mate."
Yeah, it's a shame BJC can't run again, they'd have been perfect.

[tflabo]

What a "Year of the 'Rat" its turning out to be!

Musk-Rat love.

[tioga]

Kennedy look - you mean “ugly”??

[Diogenesis]

Hillary is still available.

[Iron Munro]

The Enquirer has been on this story since last fall when they first broke it.
At that time Edwards denied the charge and the Enquirer didn’t push it.
They probably didn’t have irrefutable proof but it looks like they kept the investigation going.

Sooner or later they were bound to get the goods on Mr. Squeaky Clean.