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John Edwards Trial: Will Rielle Hunter Testify?
Originally posted 05/14/2012 03:05PM
She's the witness everyone is anxiously awaiting at the John Edwards trial. The courtroom is packed daily with anticipation, with talk of setting up an overflow room for extra reporters if she appears.
Rielle Hunter, the mistress with whom Edwards has a child, has been at the center of his campaign corruption trial, but so far has been an invisible presence – only spoken about by other witnesses.
As the defense for former presidential candidate begins its case, lawyers are faced with whether to call Hunter as a witness, a decision both fraught with risk but offering a potential windfall.
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John Edwards Trial: The Top Shocking Revelations
Originally posted 05/11/2012 02:15PM
At its core, it's a case about money, but at each stage John Edwards's character also seems to be on trial.
After 14 days of testimony in a Greensboro, N.C., courtroom, prosecutors on Thursday rested a case that both alleged criminal misuse of campaign funds and laid bare the implosion of a once-promising political figure.
Even before the defense called its first witness, legal analysts said the prosecution's case was far from a slam-dunk.
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John Edwards Called Mistress Rielle Hunter a 'Crazy Slut,' Says Witness
Originally posted 04/24/2012 03:00PM
When John Edwards learned that Rielle Hunter was pregnant with his child, he reacted with disbelief – and a verbal swipe at his mistress, a witness testified Tuesday.
"She's a 'crazy slut,' " former aide Andrew Young says Edwards told him.
Testifying Tuesday in the second day of Edwards's criminal trial in Greensboro, N.C., Young recalled delivering the news to Edwards in the summer of 2007 after Hunter called Young at home.
Describing his phone conversation with Edwards, Young testified, "He was very concerned. He was angry."
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Cate Edwards's Wedding Dress: See Photos
Originally posted 10/26/2011 01:00PM
It was Monique Lhuillier for Cate Edwards's recent wedding to her longtime beau, Trevor Upham, and there were no wardrobe changes, either.
The elegant bride wore the strapless gown with its elaborately draped skirt for dinner and dancing, too, during her Oct. 22 nuptials.
As for that dress, a girlfriend of the bride said it was love at first sight for Cate. "That was the first dress she tried on," the girlfriend tells PEOPLE, "which was fitting because Trevor was her first love."
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Elizabeth Edwards's Daughter: I'll Be Thinking of Mom on My Wedding Day
Originally posted 09/23/2011 08:00PM
Cate Edwards is getting ready to walk down the aisle and though her late mother, Elizabeth, won't be there for the ceremony, the bride-to-be says she'll be in her thoughts.
"We got engaged shortly before she passed away, and we got a chance to really talk about what the wedding would be like," Edwards tells Andrea Mitchell in an NBC News report.
"[My mom] was so happy because she loves my fiancé [Trevor Upham]," she says, "and knew that I was on this path that she was happy with and comfortable with."
As for the ceremony, Cate, 29, says, "We talked a lot about the wedding and little details, and I'll obviously be thinking about her a lot that day."
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John Edwards Indicted on Charges of Misusing Campaign Funds
Originally posted 06/03/2011 03:10PM
A federal grand jury has charged John Edwards with breaking campaign finance laws by using political funds to cover up his affair and out-of-wedlock child with Rielle Hunter while he was running for president in 2008.
He was indicted Friday in North Carolina on six counts, including conspiracy, four counts of illegal campaign contributions and one count of false statements.
Edwards arrived Friday at the federal courthouse Winston-Salem, N.C., with his daughter Cate for his initial appearance before U.S. District Judge Patrick Auld. Edwards pleaded not guilty.
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Elizabeth Edwards Leaves John Out of Her Will
Originally posted 01/06/2011 04:10PM
A week before her death, Elizabeth Edwards filed a will.
She lists her worldly possessions – "furniture, furnishings, household goods, jewelry, china, silverware and personal effects and any automobiles" – and says it'll all be divided among her three children.
Absent in the document dated Dec. 1 was any mention of her estranged husband John Edwards, 57, although he is still living in their home.
John admitted he had an affair in 2006 while Elizabeth's breast cancer was in remission and that he had fathered a child.
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Elizabeth Edwards's Final Joy: Daughter Cate's Engagement
Originally posted 12/11/2010 12:00AM
In the days before Elizabeth Edwards's doctors told her further cancer treatment was futile, daughter Cate gave her mother the happiest news: She was engaged to longtime sweetheart Trevor Upham.
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Elizabeth Edwards Was 'My Second Mother,' Says Nanny
Originally posted 12/10/2010 08:05AM
Elizabeth Edwards left behind not only her three children, but a grieving former nanny who says Edwards was like a mom to her, too.
"I lived with them for a lot of years every single day," Heather North, a nanny for the Edwards family for five years, tells Boston's WHDH. "She's my second mother. She helped shape the person that I am. We love her dearly. She is an amazing woman."
North was hired to care for the family's two youngest children, Emma Claire and Jack, and was with Edwards in Boston when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. Edwards died Tuesday at 61 after a six-year battle with the disease.
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Elizabeth Edwards's Funeral to Be Held Saturday in Raleigh
Originally posted 12/08/2010 04:05PM
The funeral for Elizabeth Edwards, who died Tuesday at age 61 after a six-year battle with breast cancer, will be held Saturday in Raleigh, N.C.
The service will be open to the public, a family spokesman tells PEOPLE, and will take place at the Edenton Street United Methodist Church at 1:00 p.m.
The church is the same one where the funeral for Edwards's son Wade was held when he died. Edwards will be buried beside her son in the nearby Oakwood Cemetery.
In the wake of her passing after a long struggle, family and friends have launched elizabeth-edwards.org, where people can leave stories, share their thoughts, and find out more information about arrangements as details are made available.
– Sara Hammel
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