When will people learn that the smartest move is to resist the siren song of talking with the MSM?
Just as when dealing with the IRS - the less said the better. IMO Hunter's assertion that Young 'was in love with' Edwards (even on a platonic level) gives him an out for any unwise moves on his (Young's) part in this entire cover-up/
The JOHN EDWARDS Scandal/TRIAL
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by pausebreak » Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:48 pm
Did you see the video GQ released of the photo shoot? LOL, it even shows her looking at the photos on the computer screen during the shoot. Wonder how her story will change now 
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it's getting better
Before Rielle Hunter, there were “several women,” Andrew Young tells Diane Dimond. The ex-Edwards aide details 2 am jogs, towel-stuffed hotel doors and other clues to a Tiger Woods problem.
Buried in the middle of Lisa DePaulo’s extensive GQ interview with John Edwards mistress Rielle Hunter was an interesting tidbit: Edwards invited Hunter to his hotel room, and apparently had her in bed within an hour of meeting her on a Manhattan street corner. Hardly the behavior pattern of someone who had been faithful to his wife for 30 years. So the next logical questions: Does John Edwards have a Tiger Woods problem? Are there more mistresses out there?
Andrew Young now thinks so. The former aide, who authored the best-selling book The Politician, sat down this morning and detailed for me the evidence of prior flings. “I was one of those ones that turned a blind eye, I didn’t want to see some of the things that I saw,” says Young. “But after I became his absolute confidante he told me about a lot of things.”
“He would use my cell phone and the callback number would be some woman that I’d never heard of before.”
“A lot of women?” I asked.
“ A lot of women,” he responded. “Well, I don’t know that there were a lot of women, there were several women that he told me about. It’s something looking back that I should have been suspicious of and like when were staying in hotels together he would go out for a ‘jog’ at 2 o’clock in the morning, and I would run into that more and more.”
“I’d go to knock on his door in the morning, there’d be towels stuffed underneath the door and I would hear muffled voices, or he would use my cell phone and the callback number would be some woman that I’d never heard of before,” Young continues. “There were signs there I just never paid attention to them because you know … in 9 years, 3 times, we were running for vice president or president, and it was so chaotic, it was easy to overlook these things.”
Young told me that he has now spent over $100,000 defending himself against Hunter’s invasion of privacy suit, and remains convinced that Edwards is bankrolling the action in a vengeful effort to drain him of cash. Young says that he looks forward to facing Hunter, who is scheduled to be under oath for a deposition, next Wednesday. "That's where I go on the offensive,” he says. “Unless she drops suit she's compelled to be there March 24."
In our far-reaching talk, Young also said that he believes there are other copies the sex tape he discovered (whose details I revealed for the first time yesterday in the Daily Beast, that Elizabeth Edwards may have exaggerated her illness to help her husband’s campaign and that he has some issues with the writer who conducted GQ’s Rielle Hunter interview. Here are some of the other details from my sit-down with him this morning:
You spent a lot of time in the car with him driving around the state of NC as candidate, and he has a very magnetic personality, and I can imagine that women would throw themselves all over him. Did he respond to other women?
In public, absolutely not. The first time that I ever caught wind of anything was just when I’d be in the car with him, he was talking to Elizabeth six or seven hours a day… over time I realized that this was more of a mother-son relationship. She was the mastermind behind the campaign. She was the brains behind the operation. And she openly made fun of him for not being as smart… She would ride around listening to books on Einstein’s theory of relativity for fun.
And she did not like the fact that his birth name is Johnny Reid [Edwards], she never called him Johnny Reid like Rielle did.
She didn’t like the name, she didn’t like that he grew up in South Carolina, she didn’t like his parents… it didn’t fit into her image of her perfect cosmopolitan husband. What was perfect for her was living in Georgetown in one of the mansions just down from where the Kennedys used to live…. That was her perfect world.
Back to John Edwards on the road. John Edwards traveled a lot. We now know that the very first night he laid eyes on Rielle Hunter he was in bed with Rielle Hunter. That tells me this is as man that might be used to doing things like this while he’s on the road. Are there other Rielles out there?
Obviously, yes. I was one of those ones that turned a blind eye, I didn’t want to see some of the things that I saw. But after I became his absolute confidante he told me about a lot of things.
A lot of women?
A lot of women. Well, I don’t know that there a lot of women, there were several women that he told me about. It’s something looking back that I should have been suspicious of and like when were staying in hotels together he would go out for a “jog” at 2 o’clock in the morning, and I would run into that more and more. I’d go to knock on his door in the morning, there’d be towels stuffed underneath the door and I would hear muffled voices, or he would use my cell phone and the callback number would be some woman that I’d never heard of before… There were signs there I just never paid attention to them because you know … in 9 years, 3 times, we were running for vice president or president, and it was so chaotic, it was easy to overlook these things.
If John Edwards has the bad decision-making to make one sex tape, do you think he’s made others?
Yes.
You do?
The one I had looks like a double… there’s no voice, there’s no audio, and it looks like a double. You have to go with one of two theories: Either Rielle left that tape behind intentionally—we had four days to pack before we left—you would think that if you had a tape of a presidential candidate having sex that that would be one of the first things that you’d pack. You know, toothbrush, hairbrush, tape presidential candidate having sex… She had four days to pack and she left that there for over a year and then had opportunities when I went back or others went back to get that thing out of there.
She asked for her passport back at one point.
She asked for her passport, she asked for several other items… and it goes to the arrogance of people that run for presidential office, think they’re bulletproof. They that people like us aren’t supposed to know.
I want to clarify something. Do you think he’s made other sex tapes with other women?
I wouldn’t know that. I think that there are other sex tapes. The way that this thing was made and the way that it comes across and the way that it was casually left behind lead you to one of two conclusions: one, that she intentionally left it to be found, or two, that there were other sex tapes and she just forgot about this one.
I’m looking at this [GQ] spread of Rielle Hunter. What if Playboy came calling? She was pretty close to having no clothes on, do you think she’d pose for Playboy?
I don’t think Playboy would ask her.
But what if they did?
Well, Playgirl could ask me. I have no idea. I will say that this article is very bizarre and … and I would point out that she’s suing me for invasion of privacy and all of this kind of stuff like this and then she does these semi-nude pictures in a national magazine? To me it takes a lot of merit out of her case.
The woman who wrote this article for GQ magazine. You know her. How?
The gentleman who… dropped bombshell report, who dropped in an affidavit claiming that I showed him the sex tape, his name’s Rob Draper… he claimed that I showed him the sex tape and I don’t think I did. He had recommended to me that I hire Lisa DePaulo as a writer, to write my book. And so I signed a confidentiality agreement and we were on the verge of signing a contract, pending her writing a good proposal that landed a good contract. We spent a month and a half or more with her and she had complete access to all of my information.
You showed Lisa DePaulo all of your research, all of your evidence?
Yes, she had complete access to all of my information. And when she wrote this article, she did not contact us to say I’m writing this article, she did not expose that in the article. I don’t know much about the ethics of journalism but it seems to me that that should have been exposed to one of the three principles in this bizarre story, if she’s going to write a story about one of the other two, that she should expose that in the article or at least contact us to see if that’s okay.
Do you believe John Edwards is going to be indicted soon?
I think the grand jury… the grand jury doesn’t tell you anything, but I think the grand jury has put a lot of time, energy and taxpayer money into it, and they’ve been at this for a year and a half, two years, and I think they’re going to do something, I don’t know what.
Looking at his campaign finances and the way he spent money, specifically on Rielle Hunter, do you think he’s guilty of something?
I’d be the wrong one to ask that. I think that they’ve got something they’ve worked very hard on.
A presidential candidate being indicted for the way he spends federal money, that [would be] amazing.
I think the problem facing the grand jury is that when they wrote campaign finance law, there’s no they could have anticipated something like this. This would never be a case on first impressions. But hopefully last impression.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and- ... omen/full/
Before Rielle Hunter, there were “several women,” Andrew Young tells Diane Dimond. The ex-Edwards aide details 2 am jogs, towel-stuffed hotel doors and other clues to a Tiger Woods problem.
Buried in the middle of Lisa DePaulo’s extensive GQ interview with John Edwards mistress Rielle Hunter was an interesting tidbit: Edwards invited Hunter to his hotel room, and apparently had her in bed within an hour of meeting her on a Manhattan street corner. Hardly the behavior pattern of someone who had been faithful to his wife for 30 years. So the next logical questions: Does John Edwards have a Tiger Woods problem? Are there more mistresses out there?
Andrew Young now thinks so. The former aide, who authored the best-selling book The Politician, sat down this morning and detailed for me the evidence of prior flings. “I was one of those ones that turned a blind eye, I didn’t want to see some of the things that I saw,” says Young. “But after I became his absolute confidante he told me about a lot of things.”
“He would use my cell phone and the callback number would be some woman that I’d never heard of before.”
“A lot of women?” I asked.
“ A lot of women,” he responded. “Well, I don’t know that there were a lot of women, there were several women that he told me about. It’s something looking back that I should have been suspicious of and like when were staying in hotels together he would go out for a ‘jog’ at 2 o’clock in the morning, and I would run into that more and more.”
“I’d go to knock on his door in the morning, there’d be towels stuffed underneath the door and I would hear muffled voices, or he would use my cell phone and the callback number would be some woman that I’d never heard of before,” Young continues. “There were signs there I just never paid attention to them because you know … in 9 years, 3 times, we were running for vice president or president, and it was so chaotic, it was easy to overlook these things.”
Young told me that he has now spent over $100,000 defending himself against Hunter’s invasion of privacy suit, and remains convinced that Edwards is bankrolling the action in a vengeful effort to drain him of cash. Young says that he looks forward to facing Hunter, who is scheduled to be under oath for a deposition, next Wednesday. "That's where I go on the offensive,” he says. “Unless she drops suit she's compelled to be there March 24."
In our far-reaching talk, Young also said that he believes there are other copies the sex tape he discovered (whose details I revealed for the first time yesterday in the Daily Beast, that Elizabeth Edwards may have exaggerated her illness to help her husband’s campaign and that he has some issues with the writer who conducted GQ’s Rielle Hunter interview. Here are some of the other details from my sit-down with him this morning:
You spent a lot of time in the car with him driving around the state of NC as candidate, and he has a very magnetic personality, and I can imagine that women would throw themselves all over him. Did he respond to other women?
In public, absolutely not. The first time that I ever caught wind of anything was just when I’d be in the car with him, he was talking to Elizabeth six or seven hours a day… over time I realized that this was more of a mother-son relationship. She was the mastermind behind the campaign. She was the brains behind the operation. And she openly made fun of him for not being as smart… She would ride around listening to books on Einstein’s theory of relativity for fun.
And she did not like the fact that his birth name is Johnny Reid [Edwards], she never called him Johnny Reid like Rielle did.
She didn’t like the name, she didn’t like that he grew up in South Carolina, she didn’t like his parents… it didn’t fit into her image of her perfect cosmopolitan husband. What was perfect for her was living in Georgetown in one of the mansions just down from where the Kennedys used to live…. That was her perfect world.
Back to John Edwards on the road. John Edwards traveled a lot. We now know that the very first night he laid eyes on Rielle Hunter he was in bed with Rielle Hunter. That tells me this is as man that might be used to doing things like this while he’s on the road. Are there other Rielles out there?
Obviously, yes. I was one of those ones that turned a blind eye, I didn’t want to see some of the things that I saw. But after I became his absolute confidante he told me about a lot of things.
A lot of women?
A lot of women. Well, I don’t know that there a lot of women, there were several women that he told me about. It’s something looking back that I should have been suspicious of and like when were staying in hotels together he would go out for a “jog” at 2 o’clock in the morning, and I would run into that more and more. I’d go to knock on his door in the morning, there’d be towels stuffed underneath the door and I would hear muffled voices, or he would use my cell phone and the callback number would be some woman that I’d never heard of before… There were signs there I just never paid attention to them because you know … in 9 years, 3 times, we were running for vice president or president, and it was so chaotic, it was easy to overlook these things.
If John Edwards has the bad decision-making to make one sex tape, do you think he’s made others?
Yes.
You do?
The one I had looks like a double… there’s no voice, there’s no audio, and it looks like a double. You have to go with one of two theories: Either Rielle left that tape behind intentionally—we had four days to pack before we left—you would think that if you had a tape of a presidential candidate having sex that that would be one of the first things that you’d pack. You know, toothbrush, hairbrush, tape presidential candidate having sex… She had four days to pack and she left that there for over a year and then had opportunities when I went back or others went back to get that thing out of there.
She asked for her passport back at one point.
She asked for her passport, she asked for several other items… and it goes to the arrogance of people that run for presidential office, think they’re bulletproof. They that people like us aren’t supposed to know.
I want to clarify something. Do you think he’s made other sex tapes with other women?
I wouldn’t know that. I think that there are other sex tapes. The way that this thing was made and the way that it comes across and the way that it was casually left behind lead you to one of two conclusions: one, that she intentionally left it to be found, or two, that there were other sex tapes and she just forgot about this one.
I’m looking at this [GQ] spread of Rielle Hunter. What if Playboy came calling? She was pretty close to having no clothes on, do you think she’d pose for Playboy?
I don’t think Playboy would ask her.
But what if they did?
Well, Playgirl could ask me. I have no idea. I will say that this article is very bizarre and … and I would point out that she’s suing me for invasion of privacy and all of this kind of stuff like this and then she does these semi-nude pictures in a national magazine? To me it takes a lot of merit out of her case.
The woman who wrote this article for GQ magazine. You know her. How?
The gentleman who… dropped bombshell report, who dropped in an affidavit claiming that I showed him the sex tape, his name’s Rob Draper… he claimed that I showed him the sex tape and I don’t think I did. He had recommended to me that I hire Lisa DePaulo as a writer, to write my book. And so I signed a confidentiality agreement and we were on the verge of signing a contract, pending her writing a good proposal that landed a good contract. We spent a month and a half or more with her and she had complete access to all of my information.
You showed Lisa DePaulo all of your research, all of your evidence?
Yes, she had complete access to all of my information. And when she wrote this article, she did not contact us to say I’m writing this article, she did not expose that in the article. I don’t know much about the ethics of journalism but it seems to me that that should have been exposed to one of the three principles in this bizarre story, if she’s going to write a story about one of the other two, that she should expose that in the article or at least contact us to see if that’s okay.
Do you believe John Edwards is going to be indicted soon?
I think the grand jury… the grand jury doesn’t tell you anything, but I think the grand jury has put a lot of time, energy and taxpayer money into it, and they’ve been at this for a year and a half, two years, and I think they’re going to do something, I don’t know what.
Looking at his campaign finances and the way he spent money, specifically on Rielle Hunter, do you think he’s guilty of something?
I’d be the wrong one to ask that. I think that they’ve got something they’ve worked very hard on.
A presidential candidate being indicted for the way he spends federal money, that [would be] amazing.
I think the problem facing the grand jury is that when they wrote campaign finance law, there’s no they could have anticipated something like this. This would never be a case on first impressions. But hopefully last impression.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and- ... omen/full/
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by Fashionista » Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:03 pm
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by sarge » Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:28 pm
Thanks, Fash. She looks younger. I guess that is what a little help from the Plastic surgeon and make up can do for you.
Those girls and photographers must have got an eyeful from the first part of the shoot.
Those girls and photographers must have got an eyeful from the first part of the shoot.
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by PerryPeabody » Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:43 pm
Fashionista wrote:<center><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1578134492" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=72293822001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gq.com%2Fvideo%3FvideoID%3D72293822001&playerId=1578134492&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed>
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Re Rielle Hunter's claim that she thought they were only shooting for a head shot, excuse my crudeness but perhaps she was thinking of another type of head shot.
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by gwen » Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:50 pm
PerryPeabody wrote:Re Rielle Hunter's claim that she thought they were only shooting for a head shot, excuse my crudeness but perhaps she was thinking of another type of head shot.
I thought the same thing, perry!
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by Fashionista » Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:05 pm
sarge wrote:Thanks, Fash. She looks younger. I guess that is what a little help from the Plastic surgeon and make up can do for you.
Those girls and photographers must have got an eyeful from the first part of the shoot.
PerryPeabody wrote:Re Rielle Hunter's claim that she thought they were only shooting for a head shot, excuse my crudeness but perhaps she was thinking of another type of head shot.
What she probably found to be repulsive & cried for two hours =makeover or not ...professional photographer or not
the camera doesn't/didn't lie
Watch how she plays to all of the cameras! Oh, she thinks she’s the sexiest supermodel in the world
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<center>John Edwards' Other Women
2 a.m. jogs, towel~stuffed hotel doors</center>
Before Rielle Hunter, there were “several women,” Andrew Young tells Diane Dimond. The ex-Edwards aide details 2 a.m. jogs, towel-stuffed hotel doors, and other clues to a Tiger Woods problem.
Buried in the middle of Lisa DePaulo’s extensive GQ interview with John Edwards mistress Rielle Hunter was an interesting tidbit: Edwards invited Hunter to his hotel room, and apparently had her in bed within an hour of meeting her on a Manhattan street corner. Hardly the behavior pattern of someone who had been faithful to his wife for 30 years. So the next logical questions: Does John Edwards have a Tiger Woods problem? Are there more mistresses out there?
Andrew Young now thinks so. The former aide, who authored the bestselling book The Politician, sat down this morning and detailed for me the evidence of prior flings. “I was one of those ones that turned a blind eye, I didn’t want to see some of the things that I saw,” says Young. “But after I became his absolute confidant, he told me about a lot of things.”
“He would use my cellphone and the callback number would be some woman that I’d never heard of before.”
“A lot of women?” I asked.
“ A lot of women,” he responded. “Well, I don’t know that there were a lot of women. There were several women that he told me about. It’s something looking back that I should have been suspicious of and like when were staying in hotels together he would go out for a ‘jog’ at two o’clock in the morning, and I would run into that more and more.”
“I’d go to knock on his door in the morning, there’d be towels stuffed underneath the door and I would hear muffled voices, or he would use my cellphone and the callback number would be some woman that I’d never heard of before,” Young continues. “There were signs there I just never paid attention to them because you know … in nine years, three times, we were running for vice president or president, and it was so chaotic, it was easy to overlook these things.”
• Ann Louise Bardach: My Tenant, Rielle Hunter
• Diane Dimond: Edwards Sex Tape DetailsYoung told me that he has now spent more than $100,000 defending himself against Hunter’s invasion of privacy suit, and remains convinced that Edwards is bankrolling the action in a vengeful effort to drain him of cash. Young says that he looks forward to facing Hunter, who is scheduled to be under oath for a deposition, next Wednesday. "That's where I go on the offensive,” he says. “Unless she drops the suit, she's compelled to be there March 24."
In our far-reaching talk, Young also said that he believes there are other copies of the sex tape he discovered (whose details I revealed for the first time yesterday in The Daily Beast), that Elizabeth Edwards may have exaggerated her illness to help her husband’s campaign, and that he has some issues with the writer who conducted GQ’s Rielle Hunter interview. Here are some of the other details from my sit-down with him this morning:
You spent a lot of time in the car with him driving around the state of North Carolina as candidate, and he has a very magnetic personality, and I can imagine that women would throw themselves all over him. Did he respond to other women?
In public, absolutely not. The first time that I ever caught wind of anything was just when I’d be in the car with him, he was talking to Elizabeth six or seven hours a day… over time I realized that this was more of a mother-son relationship. She was the mastermind behind the campaign. She was the brains behind the operation. And she openly made fun of him for not being as smart… She would ride around listening to books on Einstein’s theory of relativity for fun.
And she did not like the fact that his birth name is Johnny Reid [Edwards], she never called him Johnny Reid like Rielle did.
She didn’t like the name, she didn’t like that he grew up in South Carolina, she didn’t like his parents… it didn’t fit in to her image of her perfect cosmopolitan husband. What was perfect for her was living in Georgetown in one of the mansions just down from where the Kennedys used to live…. That was her perfect world.
Back to John Edwards on the road. John Edwards traveled a lot. We now know that the very first night he laid eyes on Rielle Hunter he was in bed with Rielle Hunter. That tells me this is a man that might be used to doing things like this while he’s on the road. Are there other Rielles out there?
Obviously, yes. I was one of those ones that turned a blind eye, I didn’t want to see some of the things that I saw. But after I became his absolute confidant, he told me about a lot of things.
A lot of women?
A lot of women. Well, I don’t know that there a lot of women, there were several women that he told me about. It’s something looking back that I should have been suspicious of, and like when were staying in hotels together he would go out for a “jog” at two o’clock in the morning, and I would run into that more and more. I’d go to knock on his door in the morning, there’d be towels stuffed underneath the door and I would hear muffled voices, or he would use my cellphone and the callback number would be some woman that I’d never heard of before… There were signs there I just never paid attention to them because you know … in nine years, three times, we were running for vice president or president, and it was so chaotic, it was easy to overlook these things.
If John Edwards has the bad decision-making to make one sex tape, do you think he’s made others?
Yes.
You do?
The one I had looks like a double… there’s no voice, there’s no audio, and it looks like a double. You have to go with one of two theories: Either Rielle left that tape behind intentionally—we had four days to pack before we left—you would think that if you had a tape of a presidential candidate having sex that that would be one of the first things that you’d pack. You know, toothbrush, hairbrush, tape of presidential candidate having sex… She had four days to pack and she left that there for over a year, and then had opportunities when I went back or others went back to get that thing out of there.
She asked for her passport back at one point.
She asked for her passport, she asked for several other items… and it goes to the arrogance of people that run for presidential office, think they’re bulletproof. They that people like us aren’t supposed to know.
I want to clarify something. Do you think he’s made other sex tapes with other women?
I wouldn’t know that. I think that there are other sex tapes. The way that this thing was made and the way that it comes across and the way that it was casually left behind lead you to one of two conclusions: One, that she intentionally left it to be found, or two, that there were other sex tapes and she just forgot about this one.
I’m looking at this [GQ] spread of Rielle Hunter. What if Playboy came calling? She was pretty close to having no clothes on, do you think she’d pose for Playboy?
I don’t think Playboy would ask her.
But what if they did?
Well, Playgirl could ask me. I have no idea. I will say that this article is very bizarre and… and I would point out that she’s suing me for invasion of privacy and all of this kind of stuff like this and then she does these semi-nude pictures in a national magazine? To me, it takes a lot of merit out of her case.
The woman who wrote this article for GQ magazine. You know her. How?
The gentleman who… dropped the bombshell report, who dropped an affidavit claiming that I showed him the sex tape, his name’s Rob Draper… he claimed that I showed him the sex tape and I don’t think I did. He had recommended to me that I hire Lisa DePaulo as a writer, to write my book. And so I signed a confidentiality agreement and we were on the verge of signing a contract, pending her writing a good proposal that landed a good contract. We spent a month and a half or more with her and she had complete access to all of my information.
You showed Lisa DePaulo all of your research, all of your evidence?
Yes, she had complete access to all of my information. And when she wrote this article, she did not contact us to say I’m writing this article, she did not expose that in the article. I don’t know much about the ethics of journalism, but it seems to me that that should have been exposed to one of the three principals in this bizarre story, if she’s going to write a story about one of the other two, that she should expose that in the article or at least contact us to see if that’s OK.
Do you believe John Edwards is going to be indicted soon?
I think the grand jury… the grand jury doesn’t tell you anything, but I think the grand jury has put a lot of time, energy, and taxpayer money into it, and they’ve been at this for a year and a half, two years, and I think they’re going to do something, I don’t know what.
Looking at his campaign finances and the way he spent money, specifically on Rielle Hunter, do you think he’s guilty of something?
I’d be the wrong one to ask that. I think that they’ve got something they’ve worked very hard on.
A presidential candidate being indicted for the way he spends federal money, that [would be] amazing.
I think the problem facing the grand jury is that when they wrote campaign-finance law, there’s no way they could have anticipated something like this. This would never be a case on first impressions. But hopefully last impression.
Investigative journalist and syndicated columnist Diane Dimond has covered the Michael Jackson story since 1993 when she first broke the news that the King of Pop was under investigation for child molestation. She is author of the book, Be Careful Who You Love—Inside the Michael Jackson Case. She lives in New York with her husband, broadcast journalist Michael Schoen.
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Before Rielle Hunter, there were “several women,” Andrew Young tells Diane Dimond. The ex-Edwards aide details 2 a.m. jogs, towel-stuffed hotel doors, and other clues to a Tiger Woods problem.
Buried in the middle of Lisa DePaulo’s extensive GQ interview with John Edwards mistress Rielle Hunter was an interesting tidbit: Edwards invited Hunter to his hotel room, and apparently had her in bed within an hour of meeting her on a Manhattan street corner. Hardly the behavior pattern of someone who had been faithful to his wife for 30 years. So the next logical questions: Does John Edwards have a Tiger Woods problem? Are there more mistresses out there?
Andrew Young now thinks so. The former aide, who authored the bestselling book The Politician, sat down this morning and detailed for me the evidence of prior flings. “I was one of those ones that turned a blind eye, I didn’t want to see some of the things that I saw,” says Young. “But after I became his absolute confidant, he told me about a lot of things.”
“He would use my cellphone and the callback number would be some woman that I’d never heard of before.”
“A lot of women?” I asked.
“ A lot of women,” he responded. “Well, I don’t know that there were a lot of women. There were several women that he told me about. It’s something looking back that I should have been suspicious of and like when were staying in hotels together he would go out for a ‘jog’ at two o’clock in the morning, and I would run into that more and more.”
“I’d go to knock on his door in the morning, there’d be towels stuffed underneath the door and I would hear muffled voices, or he would use my cellphone and the callback number would be some woman that I’d never heard of before,” Young continues. “There were signs there I just never paid attention to them because you know … in nine years, three times, we were running for vice president or president, and it was so chaotic, it was easy to overlook these things.”
• Ann Louise Bardach: My Tenant, Rielle Hunter
• Diane Dimond: Edwards Sex Tape DetailsYoung told me that he has now spent more than $100,000 defending himself against Hunter’s invasion of privacy suit, and remains convinced that Edwards is bankrolling the action in a vengeful effort to drain him of cash. Young says that he looks forward to facing Hunter, who is scheduled to be under oath for a deposition, next Wednesday. "That's where I go on the offensive,” he says. “Unless she drops the suit, she's compelled to be there March 24."
In our far-reaching talk, Young also said that he believes there are other copies of the sex tape he discovered (whose details I revealed for the first time yesterday in The Daily Beast), that Elizabeth Edwards may have exaggerated her illness to help her husband’s campaign, and that he has some issues with the writer who conducted GQ’s Rielle Hunter interview. Here are some of the other details from my sit-down with him this morning:
You spent a lot of time in the car with him driving around the state of North Carolina as candidate, and he has a very magnetic personality, and I can imagine that women would throw themselves all over him. Did he respond to other women?
In public, absolutely not. The first time that I ever caught wind of anything was just when I’d be in the car with him, he was talking to Elizabeth six or seven hours a day… over time I realized that this was more of a mother-son relationship. She was the mastermind behind the campaign. She was the brains behind the operation. And she openly made fun of him for not being as smart… She would ride around listening to books on Einstein’s theory of relativity for fun.
And she did not like the fact that his birth name is Johnny Reid [Edwards], she never called him Johnny Reid like Rielle did.
She didn’t like the name, she didn’t like that he grew up in South Carolina, she didn’t like his parents… it didn’t fit in to her image of her perfect cosmopolitan husband. What was perfect for her was living in Georgetown in one of the mansions just down from where the Kennedys used to live…. That was her perfect world.
Back to John Edwards on the road. John Edwards traveled a lot. We now know that the very first night he laid eyes on Rielle Hunter he was in bed with Rielle Hunter. That tells me this is a man that might be used to doing things like this while he’s on the road. Are there other Rielles out there?
Obviously, yes. I was one of those ones that turned a blind eye, I didn’t want to see some of the things that I saw. But after I became his absolute confidant, he told me about a lot of things.
A lot of women?
A lot of women. Well, I don’t know that there a lot of women, there were several women that he told me about. It’s something looking back that I should have been suspicious of, and like when were staying in hotels together he would go out for a “jog” at two o’clock in the morning, and I would run into that more and more. I’d go to knock on his door in the morning, there’d be towels stuffed underneath the door and I would hear muffled voices, or he would use my cellphone and the callback number would be some woman that I’d never heard of before… There were signs there I just never paid attention to them because you know … in nine years, three times, we were running for vice president or president, and it was so chaotic, it was easy to overlook these things.
If John Edwards has the bad decision-making to make one sex tape, do you think he’s made others?
Yes.
You do?
The one I had looks like a double… there’s no voice, there’s no audio, and it looks like a double. You have to go with one of two theories: Either Rielle left that tape behind intentionally—we had four days to pack before we left—you would think that if you had a tape of a presidential candidate having sex that that would be one of the first things that you’d pack. You know, toothbrush, hairbrush, tape of presidential candidate having sex… She had four days to pack and she left that there for over a year, and then had opportunities when I went back or others went back to get that thing out of there.
She asked for her passport back at one point.
She asked for her passport, she asked for several other items… and it goes to the arrogance of people that run for presidential office, think they’re bulletproof. They that people like us aren’t supposed to know.
I want to clarify something. Do you think he’s made other sex tapes with other women?
I wouldn’t know that. I think that there are other sex tapes. The way that this thing was made and the way that it comes across and the way that it was casually left behind lead you to one of two conclusions: One, that she intentionally left it to be found, or two, that there were other sex tapes and she just forgot about this one.
I’m looking at this [GQ] spread of Rielle Hunter. What if Playboy came calling? She was pretty close to having no clothes on, do you think she’d pose for Playboy?
I don’t think Playboy would ask her.
But what if they did?
Well, Playgirl could ask me. I have no idea. I will say that this article is very bizarre and… and I would point out that she’s suing me for invasion of privacy and all of this kind of stuff like this and then she does these semi-nude pictures in a national magazine? To me, it takes a lot of merit out of her case.
The woman who wrote this article for GQ magazine. You know her. How?
The gentleman who… dropped the bombshell report, who dropped an affidavit claiming that I showed him the sex tape, his name’s Rob Draper… he claimed that I showed him the sex tape and I don’t think I did. He had recommended to me that I hire Lisa DePaulo as a writer, to write my book. And so I signed a confidentiality agreement and we were on the verge of signing a contract, pending her writing a good proposal that landed a good contract. We spent a month and a half or more with her and she had complete access to all of my information.
You showed Lisa DePaulo all of your research, all of your evidence?
Yes, she had complete access to all of my information. And when she wrote this article, she did not contact us to say I’m writing this article, she did not expose that in the article. I don’t know much about the ethics of journalism, but it seems to me that that should have been exposed to one of the three principals in this bizarre story, if she’s going to write a story about one of the other two, that she should expose that in the article or at least contact us to see if that’s OK.
Do you believe John Edwards is going to be indicted soon?
I think the grand jury… the grand jury doesn’t tell you anything, but I think the grand jury has put a lot of time, energy, and taxpayer money into it, and they’ve been at this for a year and a half, two years, and I think they’re going to do something, I don’t know what.
Looking at his campaign finances and the way he spent money, specifically on Rielle Hunter, do you think he’s guilty of something?
I’d be the wrong one to ask that. I think that they’ve got something they’ve worked very hard on.
A presidential candidate being indicted for the way he spends federal money, that [would be] amazing.
I think the problem facing the grand jury is that when they wrote campaign-finance law, there’s no way they could have anticipated something like this. This would never be a case on first impressions. But hopefully last impression.
Investigative journalist and syndicated columnist Diane Dimond has covered the Michael Jackson story since 1993 when she first broke the news that the King of Pop was under investigation for child molestation. She is author of the book, Be Careful Who You Love—Inside the Michael Jackson Case. She lives in New York with her husband, broadcast journalist Michael Schoen.
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by ThePhoenix » Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:46 pm
Politicians, and wealthy men in general, are like rock stars when it comes to women hitting on them and being faithful to their spouses.
Anyone who believes Edwards was faithful to Elizabeth prior to Hunter is smoking something. The only reason Hunter is still in the picture is because of that baby. Why don't these foolish men use protection? Hunter might think she's his new one and only but you can bet, just like El Tigre, that there are many more women sharing Johnny's bed.
Anyone who believes Edwards was faithful to Elizabeth prior to Hunter is smoking something. The only reason Hunter is still in the picture is because of that baby. Why don't these foolish men use protection? Hunter might think she's his new one and only but you can bet, just like El Tigre, that there are many more women sharing Johnny's bed.
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by gwen » Wed May 19, 2010 12:35 pm
John Edwards Plea Deal To Avoid Jail Time In The Works, National Enquirer Reports
Disgraced politician John Edwards is seeking a plea deal with federal authorities in order to avoid serving any time in prison, the National Enquirer reports. Edwards is under investigation by the FBI and the IRS for campaign violations regarding payments to his former mistress Rielle Hunter.
Edwards is "terrified" of going to jail, according to the Enquirer source, and "he's willing to cop to a misdemeanor charge" to avoid jail time, but "is asking to keep his law license."
This is just the latest revelation in a scandal that refuses to go away. Rielle Hunter recently went on Oprah to dish about her relationship with Edwards, confirming among other things that the couple made a graphic sex tape.
Former Edwards confidante Andrew Young, who initially tried to cover for his boss by falsely claiming paternity of Edwards' love child with Hunter, accused Hunter of lying in the Oprah interview in an effort to "deflect blame" from herself.
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Disgraced politician John Edwards is seeking a plea deal with federal authorities in order to avoid serving any time in prison, the National Enquirer reports. Edwards is under investigation by the FBI and the IRS for campaign violations regarding payments to his former mistress Rielle Hunter.
Edwards is "terrified" of going to jail, according to the Enquirer source, and "he's willing to cop to a misdemeanor charge" to avoid jail time, but "is asking to keep his law license."
This is just the latest revelation in a scandal that refuses to go away. Rielle Hunter recently went on Oprah to dish about her relationship with Edwards, confirming among other things that the couple made a graphic sex tape.
Former Edwards confidante Andrew Young, who initially tried to cover for his boss by falsely claiming paternity of Edwards' love child with Hunter, accused Hunter of lying in the Oprah interview in an effort to "deflect blame" from herself.
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by yankee-in-france » Wed May 19, 2010 2:38 pm
ThePhoenix wrote:Politicians, and wealthy men in general, are like rock stars when it comes to women hitting on them and being faithful to their spouses.
Anyone who believes Edwards was faithful to Elizabeth prior to Hunter is smoking something. The only reason Hunter is still in the picture is because of that baby. Why don't these foolish men use protection? Hunter might think she's his new one and only but you can bet, just like El Tigre, that there are many more women sharing Johnny's bed.
I agree with you on this, TP, and especially about using protection. Hell, even teens know contraception, what is it? She told him that she was sterile ... perhaps, I don't know. He is an intelligent man. Even if he loved her, did he really want another child at that time.
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<center>John Edwards's daughter: Our lives were 'savaged'</center>
By Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, PEOPLE.com
June 25, 2010 -- Updated 2034 GMT (0434 HKT)
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(PEOPLE.com) -- Elizabeth Edwards -- and, for the first time, daughter Cate -- are opening up about John Edwards's infidelity and the breakup of the marriage.
In PEOPLE's edition next week, Cate, 28, who lives in Washington and clerks for a federal judge, and her mother talk candidly about their relationships with John now, Elizabeth's cancer and other issues.
"There are the things she taught without words," Cate writes about her mother in a bonus essay for PEOPLE. Like, "how to continue to live your life on your own terms when it somehow becomes savaged by people you never invited into it."
PEOPLE's extensive interview was Elizabeth's first in more than a year and her first public comments since several tell-all books and interviews about the former presidential candidate's affair called Elizabeth's own character into question earlier this year.
"It's my story and I'm writing it from here on out -- nobody else," Elizabeth says in the interview as the paperback edition of her bestselling book "Resilience," is released.
The paperback includes a new chapter reflecting on the worst of the fallout from husband John's infidelity and on their split at the end of last year.
See full article at PEOPLE.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/cel ... index.html?
By Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, PEOPLE.com
June 25, 2010 -- Updated 2034 GMT (0434 HKT)
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</center>(PEOPLE.com) -- Elizabeth Edwards -- and, for the first time, daughter Cate -- are opening up about John Edwards's infidelity and the breakup of the marriage.
In PEOPLE's edition next week, Cate, 28, who lives in Washington and clerks for a federal judge, and her mother talk candidly about their relationships with John now, Elizabeth's cancer and other issues.
"There are the things she taught without words," Cate writes about her mother in a bonus essay for PEOPLE. Like, "how to continue to live your life on your own terms when it somehow becomes savaged by people you never invited into it."
PEOPLE's extensive interview was Elizabeth's first in more than a year and her first public comments since several tell-all books and interviews about the former presidential candidate's affair called Elizabeth's own character into question earlier this year.
"It's my story and I'm writing it from here on out -- nobody else," Elizabeth says in the interview as the paperback edition of her bestselling book "Resilience," is released.
The paperback includes a new chapter reflecting on the worst of the fallout from husband John's infidelity and on their split at the end of last year.
See full article at PEOPLE.com
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Interesting, Fash. That is one article/book I would like to read.
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Elizabeth Edwards: 'When I Closed the Door' on John
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Hollywood to fast track John Edwards movie
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by gwen » Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:02 pm
Feds Issue New Subpoenas in John Edwards' Sex Scandal Investigation
Grand Jury to Hear Testimony on Whether Candidate Siphoned Campaign Cash to Love Nest
An investigation into whether John Edwards illegally funneled funds from his presidential campaign to cover up an affair with a staffer who bore his love child intensified this week, as federal investigators subpoenaed a host of new witnesses to appear before a grand jury, sources close to the investigation say.
The grand jury in Raleigh, North Carolina has been investigating Edwards, accused of providing a love nest for mistress Rielle Hunter for over a year.
At the conclusion of an initial investigation into whether Edwards used contributions to hide away Hunter and staffer Andrew Young, Justice Department officials in Washington instructed local investigators to keep digging, interviewing more people to find out exactly who donated money, sources told ABC News affiliate WTVD-TV.
The new subpoenas were directed at witnesses with knowledge of the money, sources said.
The panel meets on the first Wednesday and Thursday of each month, but its schedule is sealed. Neither investigators nor Edwards' attorney knew if the jury would hear testimony in the case this week.
"The investigation is ongoing," James P Cooney III told ABCNews.com. The government, he said, does not have to disclose its grand jury witness lists or schedules as it would in a criminal trial.
If the panel chooses to indict Edwards, the former North Carolina senator and Democratic presidential candidate would be charged with a crime and could be brought to trial.
Edwards' affair with staffer Hunter first came to light in October 2007, at the height of the presidential primary, when the National Enquirer accused him of cheating on his wife Elizabeth, recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
In August 2008, Edwards admitted to ABC News that he carried on an affair with Hunter. Soon after that he admitted he was her baby's father.
John Edwards Case: Federal Subpoenas Issued
Edwards has been keeping a low profile ever since. Young, a once-loyal aide who lied about fathering Edwards' daughter himself, later came forward to accuse the presidential hopeful of misappropriating funds, ultimately launching the federal probe.
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NBC Reports Charges may be near for Edwards
NBC News is reporting this morning that charges may be near in the marathon federal investigation of former Democratic U.S. Sen. John Edwards.
Prosecutors are believed to have been looking into whether Edwards, a former vice presidential candidate, violated campaign laws in covering up his affair with Rielle Hunter, a former campaign videographer who now lives in Charlotte.
The federal grand jury in Raleigh that's heard evidence in the case isn't scheduled to meet again until March. But NBC reported the 2-year-old investigation is at "a decisive point."
"Sources close to the investigation say Justice Department attorneys are now conducting a final review of evidence, and an indictment could come within days or weeks," the network said. "In what could be an ominous development for Edwards, prosecutors already are making arrangements to record the sworn
testimony of a key witness for possible use in a future trial, said the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"'It would be surprising now if he wasn't indicted,' said Stephen Saltsburg, a former federal prosecutor and George Washington University law professor. 'If John Edwards was aware that the money was being paid to hide his mistress .... and it was done to help his campaign, then he's in trouble'."
Edwards attorney, Wade Smith of Raleigh, told NBC that he doesn't believe "there is evidence that John violated any election laws."
Prosecutors reportedly plan to record the testimony of 100-year-old Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. Former Edwards aide Andrew Young -- who once claimed paternity of Edwards' child with Hunter -- has written that the wealthy Mellon gave $700,000 that was used for Hunter's living expenses. He called it "Bunny money."
http://campaigntracker.blogspot.com/201 ... z1E4oYdPeQ
NBC News is reporting this morning that charges may be near in the marathon federal investigation of former Democratic U.S. Sen. John Edwards.
Prosecutors are believed to have been looking into whether Edwards, a former vice presidential candidate, violated campaign laws in covering up his affair with Rielle Hunter, a former campaign videographer who now lives in Charlotte.
The federal grand jury in Raleigh that's heard evidence in the case isn't scheduled to meet again until March. But NBC reported the 2-year-old investigation is at "a decisive point."
"Sources close to the investigation say Justice Department attorneys are now conducting a final review of evidence, and an indictment could come within days or weeks," the network said. "In what could be an ominous development for Edwards, prosecutors already are making arrangements to record the sworn
testimony of a key witness for possible use in a future trial, said the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"'It would be surprising now if he wasn't indicted,' said Stephen Saltsburg, a former federal prosecutor and George Washington University law professor. 'If John Edwards was aware that the money was being paid to hide his mistress .... and it was done to help his campaign, then he's in trouble'."
Edwards attorney, Wade Smith of Raleigh, told NBC that he doesn't believe "there is evidence that John violated any election laws."
Prosecutors reportedly plan to record the testimony of 100-year-old Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. Former Edwards aide Andrew Young -- who once claimed paternity of Edwards' child with Hunter -- has written that the wealthy Mellon gave $700,000 that was used for Hunter's living expenses. He called it "Bunny money."
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'I'd kill myself first!' John Edwards 'suicidal' over facing jail, claim pals
Disgraced politician John Edwards is said to be deeply depressed - to the point of being suicidal - over the prospect of a criminal trial that could end with him being jailed if found guilty.
The 57-year-old former Presidential candidate reportedly told a close friend: 'I won't go to jail. I'd kill myself first!'
He has lost 20lb in the last year and is a 'broken spirit,' reports the National Enquirer
According to the Enquirer, a close source said: 'I think John is suicidal. He knows that if he's indicted, prosecutors will try to get him to serve jail time and make an example of him.
'He's absoluetly despondent over the fear of prison.
'Over the last year, he's lost about 20lb and friends are concerned that he's escaping reality with booze.
'In early March, his legal team told him there was a strong chance he could be indicted, and John completely lost it.
'He cried his eyes out and said, "I won't go to jail. I'd kill myself first!"'
The Enquirer first broke the story of Edwards's affair with blonde divorcee Rielle Hunter. A series of exclusives charted his sordid double life and his efforts to cover up the birth of his love child, daughter Frances Quinn, who is now three.
The former North Carolina senator has been under federal grand jury investigation since April 2009 for alleged payments to take care of Miss Hunter in violation of campaign rules.
Probes have been carried out by both the IRS and the FBI.
Complicating matters for Mr Edwards is the actions of Andrew Young, the former aide who helped cover up the affair by claiming he was Frances Quinn's father.
Mr Young, who later admitted he lied to protect Mr Edwards, wrote a book about his role in the cover-up.
Now Mr Edwards is said to be worried about the prospect of Mr Young taking the stand as the prosecution's star witness.
Mr Young has claimed that two wealthy supporters of the Edwards camp pumped vast sums of money into the campaign for the cover-up.
The case of the mysterious alleged sex tape involving Mr Edwards is also gathering pace.
Mr Edwards has had to give evidence over Miss Hunter’s request to get the purported 'private and personal' recording back from Mr Young.
Mr Hunter is suing Mr Young for the return of the tape that reportedly Mr Edwards performing sex acts on her.
Mr Young’s wife, Cheri, said on Oprah Winfrey's show last year: ‘I won't give any fine details, but I'll tell you yes, he is naked.
‘He is performing sexual acts. The woman is holding the camera. He is aware he is being taped.’
According to the Wall Street Journal Mr Young has described the tape as like ‘watching a traffic pile-up occur in slow motion - repelling but also transfixing.'
Now Edwards fears for the future of his family.
His three oldest children - Harvard-educated lawyer Cate, 28, Emma, 12, and Jack, ten - are still mounring the passing away of their mother Elizabeth, who died of breast cancer in December.
A second source told the Enquirer: 'John isn't hiding the fact that he's terrified of going to prison, but he's also extremely distraught about what will happen to his children.
'He's severely depressed and even John's parents, who are very close to him and their grandkids, are on edge.'
Mr Edwards recently took his three oldest children to a beach resort fior as getaway.
According to the Enquirer, the source said: 'John's children are all that he has left, and the trip was a way for him to say goodbye.
'He doesn't want to leave the children, but he says he can't go on living like this. His spirit is broken.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -pals.html
Disgraced politician John Edwards is said to be deeply depressed - to the point of being suicidal - over the prospect of a criminal trial that could end with him being jailed if found guilty.
The 57-year-old former Presidential candidate reportedly told a close friend: 'I won't go to jail. I'd kill myself first!'
He has lost 20lb in the last year and is a 'broken spirit,' reports the National Enquirer
According to the Enquirer, a close source said: 'I think John is suicidal. He knows that if he's indicted, prosecutors will try to get him to serve jail time and make an example of him.
'He's absoluetly despondent over the fear of prison.
'Over the last year, he's lost about 20lb and friends are concerned that he's escaping reality with booze.
'In early March, his legal team told him there was a strong chance he could be indicted, and John completely lost it.
'He cried his eyes out and said, "I won't go to jail. I'd kill myself first!"'
The Enquirer first broke the story of Edwards's affair with blonde divorcee Rielle Hunter. A series of exclusives charted his sordid double life and his efforts to cover up the birth of his love child, daughter Frances Quinn, who is now three.
The former North Carolina senator has been under federal grand jury investigation since April 2009 for alleged payments to take care of Miss Hunter in violation of campaign rules.
Probes have been carried out by both the IRS and the FBI.
Complicating matters for Mr Edwards is the actions of Andrew Young, the former aide who helped cover up the affair by claiming he was Frances Quinn's father.
Mr Young, who later admitted he lied to protect Mr Edwards, wrote a book about his role in the cover-up.
Now Mr Edwards is said to be worried about the prospect of Mr Young taking the stand as the prosecution's star witness.
Mr Young has claimed that two wealthy supporters of the Edwards camp pumped vast sums of money into the campaign for the cover-up.
The case of the mysterious alleged sex tape involving Mr Edwards is also gathering pace.
Mr Edwards has had to give evidence over Miss Hunter’s request to get the purported 'private and personal' recording back from Mr Young.
Mr Hunter is suing Mr Young for the return of the tape that reportedly Mr Edwards performing sex acts on her.
Mr Young’s wife, Cheri, said on Oprah Winfrey's show last year: ‘I won't give any fine details, but I'll tell you yes, he is naked.
‘He is performing sexual acts. The woman is holding the camera. He is aware he is being taped.’
According to the Wall Street Journal Mr Young has described the tape as like ‘watching a traffic pile-up occur in slow motion - repelling but also transfixing.'
Now Edwards fears for the future of his family.
His three oldest children - Harvard-educated lawyer Cate, 28, Emma, 12, and Jack, ten - are still mounring the passing away of their mother Elizabeth, who died of breast cancer in December.
A second source told the Enquirer: 'John isn't hiding the fact that he's terrified of going to prison, but he's also extremely distraught about what will happen to his children.
'He's severely depressed and even John's parents, who are very close to him and their grandkids, are on edge.'
Mr Edwards recently took his three oldest children to a beach resort fior as getaway.
According to the Enquirer, the source said: 'John's children are all that he has left, and the trip was a way for him to say goodbye.
'He doesn't want to leave the children, but he says he can't go on living like this. His spirit is broken.'
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