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John Edwards, the former Democratic presidential candidate, has admitted that he had lied by denying an affair and conceded it was possible that friends and supporters had paid hush money to buy the woman's silence. By Toby Harnden in Washington Mr Edwards, 55, a father of three whose wife Elizabeth has terminal cancer, was recently caught by the National Enquirer magazine secretly visiting Rielle Hunter, 42, and her six-month-old baby girl at a Beverly Hills hotel in California. In his televised confession on ABC News, due to be broadcast late on Friday, Mr Edwards, a former Senator for North Carolina who was the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, insisted he was not the father of the child, though he had not taken a paternity test. He stated he had not been in love with Miss Hunter, an obscure film-maker whom he met in... [read full story]
