Edwards Rumors Turn Out To Be True!

John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extramarital affair with a novice filmmaker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today.

In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 44-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love her.

ABC News: Edwards Admits Sexual Affair; Lied as Presidential Candidate

So the story that tabloids and blogs have been covering for weeks has finally broken into the mainstream media. It'll be exciting to see what havoc this ends up wreaking on the Democratic party between now and November. We'll probably need a few prominent Republicans to get caught doing meth with male escorts to balance it out.

While the media hasn't said very much about Rielle Hunter, it's much more interesting to follow the literary character she inspired. In the late 80s, she dated author Jay McInerney, and he based a character off of her following their relationship in his book Story of my Life.

"When she wasn't out at nightclubs, she was taking acting classes," McInerney described. "We dated for only a few months, but in that period, I spent a lot of time with her and her friends, whose behavior intrigued and appalled me to such an extent that I ended up basing a novel on the experience."

In revenge for something he says he can't recall, author Bret Easton Ellis wrote Alison Poole into his novel American Psycho. Of the character (Hunter), the narrator, Patrick Bateman, says:

I suddenly remember, painfully, that I would have liked to see Alison [Rielle Hunter] bleed to death that afternoon last spring but something stopped me. She was so high — "oh my god," she kept moaning during those hours, blood bubbling out of her nose — she never wept. Maybe that was the problem; maybe that was what saved her. I won a lot of money that weekend on a horse named Indecent Exposure.

The character appears again in Ellis' novel Glamorama, where the protagonist, Victor Ward, is having an affair with her.

Alison [Rielle Hunter] walks out of the closet holding a Todd Oldham wraparound dress in front of her and waits for my reaction, showing it off: not-so-basic black-slash-beige, strapless, Navajo-inspired and neon quilted.
"That's a Todd Oldham, baby," I finally say.
"I'm wearing it tomorrow night." Pause. "It's an original," she whispers seductively, eyes glittering. "I'm gonna make your little girlfriend look like shit!"
Alison [Rielle Hunter] reaches over and slaps the controls out of my hand and turns on a Green Day video and dances over to the Vivienne Tam-designed mirror, studying herself holding the dress in it, and then completes a halfhearted swirl, looking very happy but also very stressed.

That's about all that seems to matter about Rielle Hunter. The connection between John Edward and Bret Easton Ellis has been confirmed. Maybe we'll be seeing these descriptions in right-wing propaganda soon.

New York Magazine: Allow Bret Easton Ellis to Introduce You to Alison Poole, A.K.A. Rielle Hunter