Nat'l Enq-Elizabeth To Divorce "Serial Cheater" Edwards."she will take him for everything he's got."

[masuki bance]

JOHN AND ELIZABETH EDWARDS $53 MILLION DOLLAR DIVORCE



Elizabeth Edwards has finally had enough - she's threatened to divorce her cheating husband John and claim her share of their $53 million fortune!

The ENQUIRER has learned Elizabeth dropped the divorce bombshell after learning a former campaign aide is claiming Rielle Hunter, the mother of Edwards' love child, isn't the only woman he seduced on the campaign trail!

Furious at his betrayals, Elizabeth - still battling Stage 4 breast cancer - has vowed to destroy her husband of 32 years by disclosing everything she knows about his political career in divorce court, insiders say.

"Elizabeth had always sworn she wouldn't divorce John. But every person has a breaking point, and Elizabeth's friends believe she's reached hers," an insider told The ENQUIRER.

"Elizabeth made it clear to John that she will take him for everything he's got. She will divorce him and claim their $53 million fortune.

"Elizabeth knows every dirty little secret in her husband's political past. She's been his confidant for years, and she's always kept quiet. But now she's prepared to reveal all his secrets in open court."

Elizabeth's patience finally ran out when she learned about the scandalous claims in a tell-all book by her husband's former campaign aide Andrew Young, the married father of three who once claimed that he'd fathered Rielle's child in a bid to protect his boss.

"Elizabeth was read portions of Young's book proposal, and she flipped out," said the source.

"What really pushed her over the edge is Young's allegation that John had other affairs with women on the campaign trail.

"Elizabeth basically told John that if she found out that was true, she'd have to divorce him because then he'd be a 'serial cheater.'

"John claims Young's book is a pack of lies."

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/john_edwards_elizabeth_53_million_dollars_divorce_other_mistresses/celebrity/67405

Yes, The Enquirer. Like it or not, they have been consistently right on this story.

[BlooInBloo]

1. I move that all national enquirer linked posts be automatically moved to the lounge.

[tammywammy]

2. Seconded n/t

[Missy Vixen]

25. The Enquirer hired up many, many investigative reporters

when newsrooms around the country were laying them off at the time of the OJ Simpson trial.

They're right more often than they are wrong.

[busybl]

56. Iused to think it a rag too

like when they said Steve McQueen was dying of cancer. It was true. they are right most of the time.

[Missy Vixen]

60. They get sued when they're not

The beginning of their being taken seriously, though, was when the NYT called them the "paper of record" during the OJ Simpson trial.

[donheld]

57. I move that all national enquirer linked posts be automatically moved to the Trash.

[FreedomTrain]

61. Why? They were right from the start about this.

If they hadn't gone with this story we might've been calling John McCain president now.

If any posts should be moved to the Trash, it's those that still defend Edwards.

[vadawg]

3. though i understand her sense of betrayal, is revenge all she wants to do with the time she has left

seems kinda sad alround to me, though he is still a dingo...

[Missy Vixen]

26. What do you suggest she do with the time she has left?

What would you do if your husband cheated on you, fathered a child with the other woman, then wasn't even man enough to claim that child as his own? How would you feel if you had to live through this on a national scale?

If she was a doormat, people here would assail her. She fights back, and they STILL assail her. What is it that you think she should have done?

I'm on her side. Nobody should have to live through this, especially while suffering with Stage IV breast cancer.

:mad:

[vadawg]

27. mayby do something that will have some meaning, you really believe that

the best thing she can do with the time she has left is try to destroy her husband, her childrens father. I think if this is true and shes looking to get revenge then its a petty way to spend your last days.

[Missy Vixen]

30. She's already done something with "meaning"

She gave that man four beautiful children, and did nothing but support his ambitions her whole marriage.

I'm sure that she's crushed you don't approve of her life or what she feels she has to do with it.

:eyes:

[vadawg]

31. frankly i just see it all as a soap opera, and she can feel free to do as she pleases

but when her time has gone and she has spent her last days trying to get revenge she will look petty whether youlike it or not..

[redqueen]

47. Perhaps she's worrying about her kids' inheritance.

It's nice that you're focused on how she'll look and all... but consider that maybe she knows more about 'meaningful' than you do.

[busybl]

58. maybe when you know you're dying

you don't give a crap about what it looks like to the neighbors.

[havocmom]

39. Or maybe keeping THEIR assets in HER children's hands

instead of letting the girlfriend live high on the work of someone else's lifetime. I can see her point rather clearly. She probably isn't having a lot of fun in her remaining time anyway. Working to protect what is hers for her offspring makes a lot of sense.

[grasswire]

4. won't he need that money to care for their children?

I realize this tabloid story is likely bogus, though.

[vadawg]

6. good point #1

[EmeraldCityGrl]

12. She will set up trusts with trusted executors.

Those kids are not going to suffer financially a day in their lives.

[kskiska]

16. I remember their older daughter Cate

saying that she would raise the smaller children if anything happened to her mother. Elizabeth could will the money to Cate.

[CreekDog]

33. if she dies everything they have goes to him

if she divorces him first and takes him to the cleaners, he will get whatever he needs for the kids, but the rest, every dime that she gets can go directly to the kids and not through John who for all we know may have another family and other paternity claims in the next few years.

in fact, Elizabeth could do more for her kids by taking him to the cleaners now than she could by staying with him and i'm talking financially.

[cherokeeprogressive]

5. "Elizabeth knows every dirty little secret... and she's always kept quiet..."

Forgive me if I don't cheer for her.

[vadawg]

7. good point #2

[TexasObserver]

8. She should get everything to which she's remotely entitled.

He'll end up paying her and his baby momma child support.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

9. Hell hath no fury...

[redqueen]

48. I can't stand that saying. How many women kill their wandering SO's?

The scales are so very far from balanced... but still with that stupid saying.

[tomm2thumbs]

10. Can't argue with their record on this issue - been right thus far

[vadawg]

11. in some ways the edwards really are the family that keeps on giving

its getting to be like a long drawn out soap opera, you keep wondering whats next to come out..

[WatchWhatISay]

13. don't blame this on both of them

I think she's tried to handle this in a classy way, but he's making it impossible

[Jack Rabbit]

14. A broken clock, twice a day and all that

It's still the National Enquirer. It's still only slightly more reliable than FoxNews.

So, Do you have a reliable source??

[masuki bance]

15. ...

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The "Edwards Rumor" debunked.....

http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/10/11/161518/89


National Enquirer, Wonkette, bullshit bucket
by Jerome Armstrong, Thu Oct 11, 2007 at 04:15:18 PM EST

Rielle Hunter released the following statement through a spokesperson:


"The innuendoes and lies that have appeared on the internet and in the National Enquirer concerning John Edwards are not true, completely unfounded and ridiculous.

My video production company was hired by the Edwards camp on a 6 month contract, which we completed December 31, 2006.

When working for the Edwards camp, my conduct as well as the conduct of my entire team was completely professional.

This concocted story is just dirty politics and I want no part of it."

Just a total bullshit story.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3603202&mesg_id=3603248

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NYT Public Editor: Sometimes, There’s News in the Gutter

Sometimes, There’s News in the Gutter
By CLARK HOYT
Published: August 9, 2008

The John Edwards “love child” story finally hit the national news media and made the front page of yesterday’s Times. For weeks, Jay Leno joked about it, the Internet was abuzz, and readers wondered why The Times and most of the mainstream media seemed to be studiously ignoring a story of sex and betrayal involving a former Democratic presidential candidate who remains prominent on the political stage.

They could ignore it no longer when Edwards, who had been running away from reporters for weeks, sat down with ABC News and admitted he had an extra-marital affair and lied repeatedly about it. He denied he fathered Rielle Hunter’s 5-month-old daughter, as the National Enquirer reported in December before the baby was born. Before Edwards’s admission, The Times never made a serious effort to investigate the story, even as the Enquirer wrote one sensational report after another: a 2:40 a.m. ambush by the tabloid’s reporters at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles after Edwards spent hours in a room with Hunter and her baby; an allegation of $15,000 a month in “hush money;” a grainy “spy photo” of him with a baby...

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[roguevalley]

17. her conduct was impeccable? What a sow.

[saracat]

18. Except for the fact that Young is a sociopath whom Eliabeth has always hated

She writes about him in her book. It isn't likely she would take seriously anything he has to say.There is also an artcle in Politico that detailsthe weirdness of Young and even his friends agree he is writing this book only because baron dropped dead and his money spigot dried up.

[masuki bance]

19. Isn't Young the one who claims to have the sex tape of Edwards? nt

[cali]

32. and so why did JE keep this sociopath around for years?

[saracat]

34. She didn't.She actually had him barred from her house in 2007.

Andthe fact that she didn't like him was affirmed by the rest of the staffers.He was pushy and aggressive and manipulative.He was actually removed from Jim Hunts campaign for similar reasons.He got too "close" to candidates and tried to take over their lives.As I said, he talks about it in her book.As for JRE, he had a problem with the fact that Young didn't actually do anything to warrent "firing". He was just "overnice". JREe kept putting him in positions father and farther away from intimate contact.Even the other staffers admit that Young was very good at his job.

[busybl]

59. he knows where the bodies are buried

[SoCalDem]

20. I wish she would have done it sooner..and anyway, everything he has (and she has)

will go to the kids anyway. It's not as if she's a healthy young 30-something who's hot to find a new man..

She needs some peace and calm..not a bunch of daily drama that drips out monthly/weekly/daily..

It's obvious that he did not/does not value their marriage, so why spend the time left to you , with a guy who's a total creep..

[JI7]

21. i think she was trying to see how she can keep the money for her kids

with Edwards having that other baby there is a chance Hunter might be able to get a lot of it.

[SoCalDem]

22. He's not going to end up with Hunter...

He'll admit paternity, and then pay support..but I doubt very much that he would actually marry her..

Even if he did, there would be a killer pre-nup..

Is he still all that "rich" anymore?

[JI7]

28. i think he would have and that was one reason for Elizabeth writing the book

where she mentions it. and the tour that followed along with appearances on Oprah etc.

but even with her kids having money she doesn't want Rielle to get any of it.

[mainer]

43. Reports have Hunter moving into the Edwards neighborhood

And then there was his promise of a post-Elizabeth rooftop wedding.

There's a very good chance Rielle could end up with John. They do have a child in common now.

[Raine]

23. Good, she needs to throw his cheating ass

right out the door and take all his worldly goods, I wish she had done it long ago. :thumbsup:

[Quantess]

24. Yes, the Enquirer has been consistently right about John Edwards.

I love the Enquirer, LOL!

But I question you, masuki bance. Most or all your posts are consistently negative toward Democrats. Have you just watched too much FOX news, or something?

[Contrary1]

29. I'm not seeing a whole lot of difference lately between the National Enquirer and GD. n/t

[Vinca]

35. She's stayed a whole lot longer than the average woman. Can't blame her.

[AspenRose]

36. Between this and the Sarah Palin alleged baby scandal, how's a girl supposed to keep up?

:dunce:

[WeDidIt]

37. Well, The National Enquirer has been right every step of the way so far on this story

so I have to give this latest update a bit of credence.

[mainer]

38. She needs to protect her children's inheritance. She needs to divorce him.

By all accounts, Rielle Hunter and John Edwards will pick up where they left off after Elizabeth dies. Which means that Rielle will get the marital assets -- and Elizabeth's children may get nothing.

Elizabeth needs to do this for her own kids.

[inna]

42. good point. after he supposedly promised her a rooftop wedding in NYC with Dave Matthews band...

... i wouldn't put anything past Edwards.

... and he used to be my preferred candidate. :(

[cbdo2007]

40. I still don't believe Edwards had the affair.

You know it can't be true if you read about it in the Enquirer!!!

[undeterred]

41. He has admitted to it.

[cbdo2007]

49. You can't trust him...he's been under a lot of stress these past few years.

One day the truth will come out and he'll be vindicated.

[masuki bance]

52. LOL!

Good one.

[Cleita]

44. Please.

Elizabeth Edwards is a DUer although she hasn't posted here since the election because of rudeness directed her way. I, for one, enjoyed her informative posts. I don't question that the National Enquirer has their facts right. It's the way they present their facts that is so heinous. I hope one of these days Elizabeth comes back and sets the record straight.

[suffragette]

51. I'm with you, Cleita n/t

[tammywammy]

54. I think she stopped posting when DUers were gleeful that Laura Ingraham was diagnoised with cancer

[redqueen]

45. Aw hell.

This shit is just never gonna die, is it?

[Hell Hath No Fury]

46. I wouldn't blame her in the least if she did.

That woman has put up with a whole lotta shit, and if she is in the place where she is saying "enough!", I say godspeed and make sure to get as much as you can, and leave it in a trust for your kids.

[truebrit71]

50. Good.

.

[mzmolly]

53. Do you ever post anything favorable in regard to Democrats?

:hi:

[busybl]

55. good, you can dress a rat in a suit, but it's still a rat.