John Edwards Affair

How Infidelity Brought Down John Edwards

Posted 05.31.2012

On Thursday, John Edwards' campaign finance fraud case ended in a mistrial. According the Associated Press, jurors acquitted the former Democratic pre...

Justice Department Unlikely To Retry Edwards

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.31.2012

WASHINGTON — A knowledgeable law enforcement official said Thursday it is unlikely that the Justice Department will retry John Edwards. The off...

Edwards' Fate Hands In Limbo As Jury Resumes Deliberations

AP | Posted 05.22.2012

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The jury deciding the fate of John Edwards in North Carolina has finished a second day of deliberations without reaching a ve...

A Guide To The John Edwards Trial

AP | Posted 05.15.2012

RALEIGH, N.C. — Former presidential hopeful John Edwards' attorneys are presenting his defense against charges that he masterminded a scheme to ...

Emotional Testimony Reportedly Brings Edwards To Tears

Posted 05.10.2012

Emotional testimony provided in the John Edwards trial on Wednesday appeared to strike a chord with the former senator and two-time presidential candi...

Natasha Burton

Will John Edwards' Daughter Ever Forgive Him?

HuffingtonPost.com | Natasha Burton | Posted 05.09.2012

A particularly painful anecdote from John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards’ marriage was made public last Wednesday during the former senator’s embez...

John Edwards Courtroom Still No Place to Find the Truth

David Perel | Posted 05.08.2012

David Perel

The lawyer from Williams & Connolly was right all those years ago: John Edwards turned his life and pursuit of higher office into a private hell that is now playing out in a courtroom where there are no angels as witnesses.

Rielle Hunter Had Wild Idea About How To Hide Affair

Posted 05.04.2012

John Edwards managed to get an aide, Andrew Young, to claim paternity of his love child, but the mother of the child had another idea for hiding their...

Where Is Rielle Hunter Now?

Posted 05.03.2012

Rielle Hunter declared she would love John Edwards "til death do us part" in an infamous interview she gave to GQ in 2010, but a few things have chang...

Wife Of Edwards Aide 'Wanted Proof' She 'Really Was Taking Care Of Rielle'

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.02.2012

Cheri Young, wife of John Edwards' former aide Andrew Young, defended a video she shot in the home of Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter, saying she want...

Edwards Aide's Wife Gives Interesting Testimony

AP | MICHAEL BIESECKER | Posted 05.01.2012

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The wife of an ex-aide to John Edwards broke down on the witness stand Monday as she recounted how the candidate asked the co...

Edwards Aide's Wife Was 'Angry And Disgusted'

AP | By JEFFREY COLLINS and MICHAEL BIESECKER | Posted 04.29.2012

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Andrew Young first saw John Edwards speak at an oceanfront hotel in 1998. He was captivated by the U.S. Senate candidate's speech ...

Katy Hall

Edwards Aide: 'He Said He Loved Me'

HuffingtonPost.com | Katy Hall | Posted 04.27.2012

John Edwards and Rielle Hunter's torrid romance may be over, but their breakup was a happy one compared to what happened between Edwards and Andrew Yo...

Edwards Voicemails Reveal Code To Hide Affair

Posted 04.27.2012

More voicemails from John Edwards have become public as his criminal trial reaches the end of its first week. Transcripts reveal that Edwards used the...

Eliot Spitzer Weighs In On John Edwards Drama

Posted 04.24.2012

As the John Edwards criminal trial entered its second day, Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer weighed in on the drama during a conference call about h...

Trial Hones In On Edwards' Manipulations

Reuters | Posted 04.24.2012

(Adds details) By Colleen Jenkins GREENSBORO, N.C., April 23 (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the criminal campaign finance c...

Things Cool Down Between Rielle Hunter & John Edwards

Posted 04.24.2012

Things have cooled down between John Edwards and Rielle Hunter, the New York Post reports. A server at a restaurant in Charlotte told the Post that...

Edwards Trial Enters New Phase

AP | MICHAEL BIESECKER | Posted 04.24.2012

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Andrew Young was once much more than an aide to John Edwards. The linchpin of the government's criminal case against the ex-...

Edwards Regrets 'Horrible Mess,' Says Friend

The Washington Post | David A. Fahrenthold and David Nakamura April 12, 2012 | Posted 04.13.2012

Last year, by then under criminal indictment, John Edwards sat with a longtime friend in the 10,000-square-foot house that is the centerpiece of his 1...

Lawyer Drama Plagues Edwards Ahead Of Trial

AP | EMERY P. DALESIO | Posted 05.15.2012

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Former presidential candidate John Edwards got his wish Thursday and is changing his defense team ahead of his criminal trial...

John Edwards Makes Curious Sex Tape Request

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 03.03.2012

CORRECTION: WRAL-TV has issued a correction for this story, noting that they interpreted court documents incorrectly and reported that John Edwards as...

John Edwards Sex Tape Case Settled

AP | MICHAEL BIESECKER | Posted 04.24.2012

RALEIGH, N.C. — The purported sex tape of former presidential candidate John Edwards and his mistress will be destroyed within 30 days after a l...

New Developments In John Edwards Trial Revealed

AP | Posted 03.07.2012

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The federal judge set to preside over the upcoming trial of John Edwards met behind closed doors Friday with a federal prosec...

John Edwards Asks To Delay Trial, Citing Illness

AP | MICHAEL BIESECKER | Posted 02.21.2012

RALEIGH, N.C. — Former presidential candidate John Edwards says he has been diagnosed with a medical condition that would make it difficult for ...

The Politician and the Mistress

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 02.08.2012

Christopher Brauchli

Recent events create an awareness that too little guidance has been given politicians on the proper way to deal with problems that arise when the non-politically ambitious partner in an illicit affair.