Report: John Edwards bought Charlotte home for former mistress Rielle Hunter (and more …)
Rumors have been circulating for several days through Charlotte’s Eastover neighborhood that former U.S. Sen. John Edwards bought a home here for his admitted former mistress, Rielle Hunter. And now the National Enquirer is reporting in its Dec. 21 issue that Edwards has, in fact, bought a house here that the Charlotte Business Journal has identified as a residence on Providence Road.
Edwards, the vice presidential nominee on the 2004 Democratic ticket and a presidential candidate last year, saw his political career derail after details of the affair emerged. In late 2007, the Enquirer first reported claims from an anonymous source that Edwards had an affair with a campaign worker, later revealed to be Hunter, a filmmaker hired to produce YouTube videos for Edwards’ 2008 presidential campaign.
Hunter gave birth to a daughter in February 2008. At the time, Edwards campaign aide Andrew Young said he was the father. Young later retracted that claim.
According to the latest Enquirer article, Edwards backed out of an arrangement to lease the Charlotte home to Hunter after she asked him for nearly $18,000 per month in child support. Hunter and her child were to have moved into the house on Dec. 1, the article states.
Late last week, the home appeared vacant.
Lynn Salton of HM Properties, the agent that handled the sale, told the Charlotte Business Journal last week that she did not know the identity of the buyer of the two-story, brick single-family home. “I did not meet the people who bought the house,” Salton says.
The house sold for $535,000 — $60,000 below the original listing price of $595,000. The 2,850-square-foot home, built in 1951, features four bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms and an attached two-car garage.
(Excerpt) Read more at charlotte.bizjournals.com …
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