John Edwards Kicks Rielle To The Curb, Along With His Daughter
John Edwards has allegedly kicked his baby mama (and his baby!) out on the street, after he felt like Rielle was taking advantage of his deep pockets. According to the National Enquirer, Rielle wasn’t impressed by the sum John was offering in child support and was gold digging asking for more — $18,000 a month.
The whole thing came to a head only days before Rielle and Frances were schedule to move into the million dollar home, in the Edwards’ neighborhood, that John recently bought for them.
Apparently, John thought the house was a pretty righteous gift and was hoping to use it to keep his child support expenses low. Rielle had different plans. Hold on, this could get mighty ugly. From the Enquirer:
“John thought he had sweetened the deal by getting Rielle a house, but she didn’t think what he’d offered to pay in regular support for their daughter was fair,” an insider disclosed.
John was so angry that he wouldn’t let Rielle move into the house, even with a moving van full of her belongings en route.
So a week after Thanksgiving, Rielle found herself without a place to live – and no agreement with John for their daughter’s long-term support. She’s absolutely furious, and may take the whole thing public!”
Wow, that’s harsh. I really didn’t think John had it in him, but it seems he’s ready to play hardball.
Here’s a question: Is $18,000 a month a reasonable sum of money for John to pay in child support? Do you think John spends $18K a month on his own kids?
Ever since the Enquirer broke the John Edwards affair story, we’ve felt somewhat obligated to tune into their John Edwards coverage … if nothing else.
Still, this seems like a pretty huge honkin’ deal, one that will have aftershocks and follow-ups. So, we’ll stay tuned to see if any other sources pick this up.
“On his own kids”? Isn’t this baby his “own” kid?
She obviously had an ambush baby with him. What, she manages to avoid pregnancy for 42 years, all but the first 16 of which were sexually active, and then when she’s having an affair with a centimillionaire candidate for President who’s older than him wife is dying of cancer, she has her first oops?? As she’s on the very edge of loss of fertility? Give us a break. Ambush baby. The golddigger should have a right to nothing, as should her bastard baby. Did he want this baby? Of course not. Did she? Damn right she did. Did he have the option of Plan B, aborting it, or giving it up for adoption, as she did?n Hell no. She no doubt lied to him that she was on the pill, the coil, or another of the more than 10 methods of female birth control.
It should be totally up to him whether he provides anything for that baby and her. It’s her desired baby not his.
He shouldn’t legally have to give her anything, unless she’d qualify for welfare. Then he instead of the state,but only to that extent.
This feminist regime of very high percentage of after tax income for single mother sluts who have all kinds of options to not have the child has got to end. Let her get married if she wants a kid paid for by a man. Not ambush one by fraud.
Wow. Bitter much, Doug1? I won’t bother to address your misogynistic venom and all the ways you are wrong except to say that if he didn’t want a baby, he should have made sure HE used protection and not relied on his mistress to take care of it. Or, better yet, not cheated on his wife. While I think $18,000/month is insane, the baby, his baby, deserves to be supported and if they can’t agree on a sum, a judge will decide how much is fair based on his income. That said, I don’t feel sorry for either of those two. He’s an arrogant, selfish, lying cheater and she’s an arrogant, selfish, lying gold digger. I’ll save my sympathy for Elizabeth Edwards and the children.
Pam — It’s highly unlikely to be a kid he wanted to have, before it was a done deal. Was he given any choice? I don’t think so.
Sex these days doesn’t mean kids eventually, what with all the forms of female (all but one of the reversible kinds) contraception. Unless that is she wants to commit fraud, as Rielle golddigger Hunter obviously did here.
I saw the Oprah special where they toured his gargantuan home. I’m guessing 18k would hardly be noticed.
. . .although, i don’t know if that means she deserves/needs that much.
Minvo–
Wow. Bitter much, Doug1?
Classic feminist stock reply to any biting anti feminist critique.
What I am is anti rad feminist and their pushed through changes in the law mostly in the 90s, especially the vastly hiked up and uncapped for the first time child support=stealth alimony.
In response to feminism single motherhood has gone from the mid single digits in America in 1960 to 12% in 1972, to 40% today.
Reille Hunter is jumping in and cashing in!!!
“Classic feminist stock reply to any biting anti feminist critique”? No, just a simple observation based on the vitriol you unleashed. Seriously, reread it, and try to be objective. Your first comment in no way qualifies as a “critique” (although some of the info you presented in your last post comes closer) and it most definitely comes across as bitter. Did you even read the rest of my comment? If you had, you would have seen that I agree with you on some points (insane amount of money, Hunter being a gold digger), but I guess it was just too much to resist pulling out your classic anti-feminist stock reply to anyone who dares to disagree with you.
You know, I certainly would agree with you that men often get short changed when it comes to child support and custody battles, but the tone of your rant doesn’t really leave room for a discussion on the topic, does it? And your insistence that Edwards didn’t get a choice in the matter is laughable. He chose to cheat and he chose not to take care of the birth control himself. Like it or not, now he gets to deal with the consequences of his poor choices and her devious ones. Moreover, as a wealthy lawyer and politician, he was well aware of the social, professional, and financial ramifications of his choices. Neither of them deserve sympathy and defending this guy only hurts your cause.
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