MANHATTAN — Former presidential hopeful John Edwards vowed to marry the mistress who bore his love child on a Manhattan rooftop and raise a new family with her, a sordid tell-all book claims.
"The Politician," written by Andrew Young, the former aide to the disgraced ex-senator from North Carolina who originally claimed to be the father of Edwards' illegitimate daughter, dishes trashy details on his boss's affair with former campaign videographer, Rielle Hunter.
Hunter and Edwards slept together on the bed he shared with his wife, Elizabeth, who's dying of cancer, the book claims, various news outlets have reported. There's also a sex tape that shows a naked Edwards in a sexual act with a very pregnant woman who appears to be Hunter, Young wrote.
When word of the love child surfaced through stories in the National Enquirer during the 2008 campaign, Young claimed paternity to cover for his boss. He also wrote that Hunter would give frequent accounts of sexual escapades with Edwards, whom she called "Love Lips."
Edwards revealed last week that he was the father of Hunter's 2-year-old daughter, Frances Quinn Hunter.
Young's book follows another hard cover account of Edwards' downfall.
"Game Change," by New York magazine writer John Heilemann and Time magazine writer Mark Halperin, delves into the myriad problems in the Edwards household and presidential campaign. Part of the book was excepted in New York.
“It was like watching a traffic pileup occur in slow motion," Young wrote, according to the Wall Street Journal, it was repelling but also transfixing.”
