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Meanwhile, Rielle’s friend McGovern also refused to answer any questions from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER or offer any explanation for her meeting with Edwards.
The Edwards “love child” scandal drew international press attention after the NATIONAL ENQUIRER published a blockbuster investigation about the politician in our Dec. 31, 2007 print edition.
We reported that Rielle, a woman linked to Edwards in a cheating scandal earlier last year, was more than six months pregnant – and we reported that she told a close confidante that Edwards was the father of her baby!
Edwards denied the affair and that he was the father, and in a bizarre twist, a close friend of his, Alexander Young, said he was the father. Young, 41, was married at the time with three children. The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned he still is married.
Sources told the NATIONAL ENQUIRER exclusively that Edwards had engineered a massive cover up of the affair and love child scandal and that Young was taking the blame for his good friend. At the time Rielle had been relocated from the New York area to Chapel Hill in Edwards’ home state of North Carolina, where she was living in an upscale gated community down the street from Young. Strangely, Young even had Rielle to his house for dinner with his wife and kids, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned.

Young has been extremely close to Edwards for years and was a key official in his presidential campaign.

DBKP wrote about the unlikeliness of Young being the father and the hoops the campaign had to jump through to keep the whole affair quiet.

But with the help of a compliant press, the affair stayed hushed–until the Enquirer, like so many times before–caught the VP candidate in the hotel.

Rielle is a self-described filmmaker whose company was hired by a pro-Edwards group called One America Committee. She was paid $114,000 to produce videos for Edwards’ campaign and worked with him on those videos.
Reporters from other media outlets asked Edwards about The NATIONAL ENQUIRER report during a campaign stop in Columbia, S.C.
Edwards responded: “The story is false. It’s completely untrue, ridiculous,” adding: “Anyone who knows me knows that I have been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years.”
Rielle issued her own statement, saying in part: “The innuendos and lies that have appeared on the Internet and in the NATIONAL ENQUIRER concerning John Edwards are not true, completely unfounded and ridiculous.”
But a source told the NATIONAL ENQUIRER: “Now that it seems to have blown wide open, Rielle may get her wish – all she wants is for John to marry her and for them to live happily ever after with their baby. She’s tired of running and living a lie.”

All of the Edwards’ apologists in the world will have a hard time explaining this away.

As will Bob Schieffer of CBS, who said that since Edwards denied the affair, there wasn’t anything there to report.

DBKP will have updates throughout the next 24 hours.
UPDATES to come

by Mondoreb

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[Doug Ross has a complete recap of the blow-by-blow (so to speak) in the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter affair, "Enquirer: John Edwards Visits Rielle Hunter and their Love Child. Doug was one of the only sites which covered the Edwards-Hunter action from the beginning and stayed with the story. He also supplied some intrepid, original detective work along the way. Check it out.]

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