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John Edwards, a former United States Senator from North Carolina, and a Democratic Party vice-presidential and presidential candidate, admitted to an extramarital affair in August 2008. The affair was initially reported in late-2007 by ''The National Enquirer'', a U.S. supermarket tabloid newspaper, but was given little attention outside the tabloid press and political blogosphere. The ''Enquirer'' cited claims, from an anonymous source, that Edwards had engaged in an affair with Rielle Hunter, a filmmaker hired to work for his presidential campaign, with a child produced from the relationship. ABC News reported that Andrew Young, a member of Edwards' campaign team, stated that Edwards asked him to "Get a doctor to fake the DNA results ... and to steal a diaper from the baby so he could secretly do a DNA test to find out if this () indeed his child." The allegations, initially published in late-2007, were denied by both Edwards and Hunter. Young claimed paternity of Hunter's daughter, although no father is listed on the child's birth certificate, and Young has subsequently denied it. In July 2008, several U.S. mainstream media news outlets cited the allegations in relation to Edwards' future political career, as well as in relation to his chances of being selected as a running mate in Barack Obama's 2008 presidential bid. Then, on August 7, 2008, Edwards admitted to ABC News correspondent, Bob Woodruff, that he did have an extended affair with Hunter, but denied that he was the father of Hunter's baby girl. Hunter's sister claimed that Edwards was the father and publicly asked Edwards to take a paternity test to determine whether the child was his. On January 21, 2010, Edwards issued a statement admitting that he was the father of the child in question. After the admission from Edwards that he fathered a child with Hunter, Edwards' wife, Elizabeth Edwards, announced a separation from her husband, with an intention to file for divorce. On January 25, 2010, the existence of an explicit sex tape, featuring Edwards and Hunter, was publicly reported. When Edwards first admitted to the affair, he stated that Elizabeth was in remission from breast cancer. However, it became clear that the affair was still ongoing, even after he and his wife made a joint announcement that her cancer had returned and was found to be incurable. Elizabeth Edwards died on December 7, 2010. ==Rielle Hunter and the Edwards campaign== (詳細はNewsweek'' reported that Hunter had been hired by the Edwards campaign to produce a series of webisodes that portrayed behind-the-scenes life on the campaign trail. Hunter had pitched the idea of creating the series to Edwards when she met him at a bar in New York, where the politician was attending a business meeting. The campaign paid Hunter's production company, Midline Groove, over USD$100,000 for the short documentaries〔 〕 that were uploaded to YouTube upon completion. In 2006, ''Business Week'' included one of the episodes as a feature in a web video. The first apparent mention, in print form, of a possible Edwards/Hunter affair, appeared in the ''New York Post'' on August 27, 2007. The page-six feature published a blind gossip item that asked: "Which political candidate enjoys visiting New York because he has a girlfriend who lives downtown? The poll tells her he'll marry her when his current wife is out of the picture." The mention in the ''Post'' started a tabloid and blogosphere investigation that eventually led to accusations against Hunter and Edwards.〔 In September 2007, Sam Stein, a political reporter for ''The Huffington Post'', reported that the Hunter web documentaries had been removed from the internet and were no longer accessible. Representatives from the Edwards campaign stated that the material could not be used due to campaign finance law.〔 Several days later, ''The Huffington Post'' reported that the videos had been reposted to YouTube by an anonymous user. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Edwards extramarital affair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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