{"id":653489,"date":"2010-02-03T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=91721"},"modified":"2010-02-03T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:29:08","slug":"john-edwards-abuse-allegations-did-edwards-beat-wife-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/653489","title":{"rendered":"John Edwards Abuse Allegations: Did Edwards Beat Wife Elizabeth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The John Edwards Scandal has somehow managed to get even worse.<\/p>\n

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A new report featured in the Feb. 15 edition of The National Enquirer<\/a><\/em> claims the former North Carolina senator and presidential candidate John Edwards violently punched his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth in the ribs during an argument over his philandering last December.<\/p>\n

A source close to Elizabeth claims John socked his wife of more than 30 year after the couple argued over his alleged continued involvement with videographer-turned-baby mama Rielle Hunter.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth suspected John slept with Hunter — the mother of his two-year-old daughter Frances Quinn — over the holidays. The long-suffering wife unleashed the gates of Hell on her sleazy hubby, branding him “disgusting,”<\/em> a “disgrace,”<\/em> and “dead in her eyes.” <\/em><\/p>\n

That’s when John assaulted her, The Enquirer<\/em> claims.<\/p>\n

The Edwards announced their separation last week. Insiders say Elizabeth plans to file domestic violence charges if John refuses to give her what she wants in the divorce settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The John Edwards Scandal has somehow managed to get even worse. A new report featured in the Feb. 15 edition of The National Enquirer claims the former North Carolina senator and presidential candidate John Edwards violently punched his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth in the ribs during an argument over his philandering last December. A source close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2K09","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}