Edwards Fathered Hunter's Baby, Say Hunter's Sister And Friend

***UPDATE 8/13 11:30 AM***

The New York Daily News' gossip section today features a quote from someone who has seen Rielle Hunter's baby:

"She looks like John Edwards in a onesie."

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Entertainment Tonight and The Insider will air interviews on Wednesday August 13 with the sisters of John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter (real name Lisa Druck). Roxanne and Melissa Druck took the opportunity to talk about various aspects of the scandal. According to a press release advertising the program:

Roxanne tells [Entertainment Tonight] that if she could speak to Elizabeth Edwards, "I'd giver her a big hug and say I'm sorry for what they both did. I feel a lot of empathy for Mrs. Edwards. I'd love to tell her how sorry I am for her children. I'm very ashamed my sister had an affair with such a public man."

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Roxanne goes on to say, "I've seen the pictures of the baby she looks like John Edwards. She's got his eyes and jaw line and lips, but she does have Rielle's nose."

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Last Friday, Sen. John Edwards acknowledged having had an affair with Hunter, but denied tabloid claims that he is the father of the baby girl Hunter delivered in February. "My niece is not a bastard, I just don't think it's right," Roxanne said.

This morning on CBS' The Early Show, Pigeon O'Brien, a friend of Rielle Hunter, said that John Edwards lied about the timeline of the affair and said she also believed that Edwards is the father of Hunter's child.

RODRIGUEZ: He says it started five months later when his campaign hired her.



O'BRIEN: Yeah, that's not true. That's not true. It started in the
winter of '06. They became involved at that point, not later in the summer when she was hired to work for the political action committee.



O'Brien also thinks Edwards is the father of Hunter's child. "I don't see any other explanation," O'Brien told Rodriguez. "She would not have a child with someone that she didn't love, and she loves him."

Comments

[Alterion]

The title of this article is incomplete:

"Edwards fathered Hunter's baby, say Hunter's sister and friend who are both giving media interviews and working on book deals."

[harleanc]

Indeed. With friends like that...
How sad that these two would betray their friend and sister just to get their 15 minutes of fame. What ugliness--and yet they sit in judgment of this woman for what she did? They're all behaving abominably.

[Agentlady007]

Working on book deals for that? I better start on my encyclopedia.

[PollyTics]

Roxanne goes on to say, "I've seen the pictures of the baby she looks like John Edwards. She's got his eyes and jaw line and lips, but she does have Rielle's nose."
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WHAT? Since when do tiny little newborns actually LOOK like people other than what mummy and daddy want them to look like? Now, John Edwards MAY have fathered this child, but the idea that HPo and others would actually give credence to what these sisters MAY think about this affair is positively ludicrous!

What ever happened to research?.

[PollyTics]

What is going on here at HPo???

You are now posting GOSSIP pages from different rags as evidence of something in our political world? This is simply untoward!

[NKR]

"This morning on CBS' The Early Show, Pigeon O'Brien..."

PIGEON!??!? I think its pretty obvious that Edwards knocked up that headcase, but I wouldn't trust anything coming from a person who goes by the name of Pigeon. Pigeon?? Geez her parents didn't even give her a chance.

[nanapat]

I'm with you on this..

[Alessan]

Pigeon, (Linda Tripp) spilled the beans to the Enquirer, October, 2007, just before Iowa primary.
WHAT A GOOD FRIEND, since the story turned out to be true regarding the affair, she threw
her friend and her lover under the bus for money. With friends like this who needs enemies.
The women is a mad dog and should be put down..

[littlepuffycloud]

I'd kill my sister if she went on tv to give her 2 cents' worth about me. These women can't be close and do this to one another.

[SUNRAI]

She probably did it with her sister's blessing. That's her way of getting the story out without saying anything her self. It's a set up!

[nanapat]

Her sister left out the fact that their father was arrested and convicted for his insurance scheme of brutally killing "show horses" for their equistrian insurance money.. Check out stories in Palm Beach Post and Ocala Star Banner here in Florida..

[totallynext]

my thoughts exactly. How close can you be - the baby is 5 months old and see has not see it? But only pictures.

If she was such a close - I think she would have been by her sisters side immediately.

[Agent420]

So f u c k i n g what. Get a life or should I say go buy a life.

[cryptkeeper]

The sisters must not be very close;either geographically or emotionally since she has only seen the baby in pictures, sad.

[Winnipeg]

Not in office and no chance of being appointed to any major politcical position (for now anyway) so why are they bothering about John Edwards screw ups because the Olympics are on and the candidates for President are take a break before the Conventions. Once both are over John and what's her name will be yesterday's new to everyone but the Edward's family.

[Rogue55]

My feelings too. If the MSM really wants a story, I think they should investigate who tipped off the National Enquirer that Edwards would be at the hotel that night. A guy from the Enquirer said they had proof Edwards had met with her before that night. Who gave them that proof? Since this story has been out there for so long, why did it all just come to fruition a few weeks before the Democrat Convention. Why did Reille Hunter tell anyone about her rendezvous with Edwards and the baby?

I almost spit up my drink when I heard "Pigeon" describe Ms. Hunter as a woman of great integrity and honesty. She has an affair with a married man and then apparently couldn't keep her mouth shut about it. Way to pick them, John.

Come on...there has to be some conspiracy theorists out there......

[AMonkey]

I agree.

[psk]

So true, just who was it that spilled the proverbial beans here.

I also think he has every right to a DNA test with this kid as it has been insinuated by Hunter, her family and friends and all the media that Edwards is the father. Baby's privacy my eye! That woman made sure that baby had none by blaring all over the country the slept with a married man.

[nanapat]

Perhaps it was a 'woman scorned' that spilled the bean's in which case you have your choice of two either Rielle Hunter or Elizabeth Edwards.. RH for getting back at Edwards for not leaving his wife and EE knowing that JE losing his political career would be payback for his cheating on her..

[dawlishgal]

Me too....How can any woman with integrity get involved with a cheating man with two small children whose wife has a potentially fatal disease. To me the most tragic thing about this mess is how scared Elizabeth Edwards must be because she is sick and now has the additional worry about her husband's simply awful taste in women....how could anybody deal with the twin threats of cancer AND the chance of Reille Hunter or somebody like her as stepmother for one's children. It is heartbreaking that John's narcissim and disloyalty forced Elizabeth into this position.

Bill Clinton, too. He chose women with no decency AND big mouths. Republicans who mess around (GHWB) apparently chose women who know how to keep their mouths shut and how to use birth control. Of course, Edwards himself could have used birth control....why didn't he? It is almost as though he wanted to make the biggest career-suicide move he could possibly make short of burning a flag or hugging bin Laden..

[MissingAmerica]

John Edwards is no longer an issue; Obama is the candidate. Why not drop this. Anybody remember that Cindy McCain broke up John's first marriage? Is there a time limit on infidelity? Further, our current president is getting drunk and making a fool of himself at an international event. It seems to me that our president making a drunken fool of himself should be more of a concern than an two consenting adults making an innocent baby.

[dawlishgal]

Republicans DO think there is a time limit....they have been here on Huffpost harping about that very thing, and absolutely gleeful that McCain is getting away with philandering and Edwards isn't.

Of course, Republicans delight in getting away with stuff. Look at the way their childish leader had his minions slime an innocent adopted child, and they--even the respectable-seeming ones like my former neighbors the bank president and his wife who gardens-- still kept their lawn signs and presumably voted for the thug and his thuggish VP. Look at the way their thugs got relected, even after everybody and anybody who pays attention knew that they had lied us into a war for oil and invaded a sovereign country that had done nothing to us.

That "family values" platform is just a scam...another Rovian ploy to make hay out of huge moral deficiency of his party members and their candidates by pretending the other side is the *ONLY* side with that particular problem..

[oldsceptic]

This should be a "non-news" story...but since it seems to be so important, I'm just wondering why Edward's misbehavior is fair game while McCain's extra-marital affairs are not even mentioned in passing--especially leaving his injured wife to marry the much younger (and quite a bit richer) Cindy?

[heights]

There really is only ONE silver lining that I can think of in this extramarital affair of John Edwards. He has made Anne Coulter look ridiculous by proving himself once and for all that he's not gay!!

[sprthmmr]

You are a fool, like many others posting here.

I'm a gay man, and I have three children. How does having children prove that someone is heterosexual?

Millions of gay people have children. Millions more are CLOSETED within marriages that have children. What do you think all those huge mega-churches are full of? Closeted gay men with their wives and children.

Please do some homework before you post something so naive and foolish.

[heights]

Okay, point taken. I guess I wasn't thinking really clearly when I posted earlier. Thanks for making me realize that these things can be more complicated than they appear to be sometimes. I didn't mean to offend anyone.

[verhaftik]

I honestly don't care if it is his baby, not his baby, or is a product of parthenogenesis. Why the flying F should we? It's a family matter. It is also a very tedious news story.

[HopeandChange]

Isn't it illegal to use campaign funds as hush money? Were there some taxes he avoided paying? I think Johnny's going to prison!!!

[Alessan]

Who said the money is campaign funds, that must be proved... Don't forget John Edwards is a multimilliare and has some super rich friends.

[dadw5boys]

IN IRAQ AND AFGANISTAN THE U.S. SOLDIERS WERE STILL WORNDERING WHY THEY ARE THERE !!!!!!!!!!!

[TheKiddy]

You are all like carrion crows.