{"id":164256,"date":"2023-10-18T16:45:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/us\/?p=164256"},"modified":"2023-10-18T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T15:45:10","slug":"what-happened-to-john-edwards-and-where-is-he-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/us\/what-happened-to-john-edwards-and-where-is-he-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to John Edwards and Where is He Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"
John Edwards quit politics after a cheating scandal that saw him have a child out of wedlock with his mistress. Edwards now practices law in North Carolina, where he co-owns a law firm known as Edward Kirby.<\/strong><\/p>\n John Edwards is a 70-year-old American attorney who served as a United States senator from 1999 to 2005. He later unsuccessfully contested for the presidential ticket of the Democratic Party in 2004 and 2008. In 2004, he was picked as the VP candidate by John Kerry, but they lost the general election. Edwards was regarded as the golden boy of the Democrats, but his political career was torpedoed by an infidelity scandal. Where is he now, and what is he up to? All these and more are answered below.<\/p>\n John Edwards quit politics after it emerged that he had cheated on his wife, Elizabeth, and fathered a child out of wedlock. It was a major scandal that went down in the late 2000s. Prior to that time, Edwards was a very popular figure in the Democratic Party. After a high-flying career as a litigator pursuing successful cases against big corporations, he ran for office as a senator to represent the state of North Carolina in 1999 and was successful on his first attempt.<\/p>\n He spent six years making a name for himself and, by 2004, decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. He rather contested for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. He lost out, but the winner, John Kerry, picked him as VP. The pair ended up losing to Republican George H.W. Bush. John Edwards contested for the Democratic Party presidential nomination again in 2008 but ultimately lost out to Barack Obama. It was just as well because even if he had won, his infidelity scandal would have been a herculean hill to climb.<\/p>\n John Edwards was first rumored to be cheating on his wife and mother of his four children, Elizabeth, in 2007. He, however, dismissed the speculations as mere trashy tabloid stories, and many believed him. However, by 2008, other reputable media organizations started reporting the story and the fact that Edwards had welcomed a child with his mistress.<\/p>\n Edwards admitted cheating on his wife in 2008 but denied that he was the father of the child that his mistress had given birth to. He continued his denial for the next two years before eventually accepting paternity in 2010.<\/p>\n The whole thing was quite sordid because, during this period, his wife was battling breast cancer. The media had a field day with it, and by the time it was all over, there was no resurrecting his political career.<\/p>\nWhat Happened to John Edwards?<\/strong><\/h2>\n