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    Rielle Hunter, John Edwards's Mistress, Appears Before Grand Jury

    Posted:
    08/6/09
    Filed Under:John Edwards, Woman Up
    As the campaign financing investigation of former presidential contender John Edwards staggers forward, Rielle Hunter, the famously married Edwards's former girlfriend, appeared before a grand jury Thursday to testify, presumably, about the $114,000 that Edwards's political action committee paid her video production firm.
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    The Associated Press reports that Hunter entered the Raleigh courthouse through a back entrance, "holding a young child." Hunter has a 17-month-old daughter, widely speculated to be Edwards's child but whose paternity has not been publicly verified. Edwards's wife, Elizabeth, claims she has no idea whether her husband fathered the little girl.
    Hunter's grand jury testimony follows earlier questioning of Edwards's onetime aide, Andrew Young. During the presidential primaries last year, Young stated that he was the father of Hunter's child but, more recently, wrote in a leaked book proposal that Edwards is the dad and that the candidate and Hunter "talked about getting married."

    The campaign financing investigation, confirmed by Edwards last May, is apparently progressing apace, and the grand jury needn't wait to read about Edwards's activities in the separate memoirs the two witnesses are writing.



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