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UPDATE: John Edwards' Mistress Had Minor Film Roles
Tuesday August 12, 2008


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John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter appeared in movies starring Denzel Washington, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, according to Inside Edition.

Hunter – whose original name is Lisa Druck – is credited as Lisa Hunter in 1987's Overboard, starring Russell and Hawn, and 1991's Ricochet, in which she played a reporter opposite Washington.

She also appeared in an indie flick titled Chicago Poems.

In an interview on Friday, Edwards claimed the affair occurred in 2006 and denied fathering Hunter's baby girl. Hunter, who did not list a father on the infant's birth certificate, has refused a paternity test.

Hunter's sisters, Roxanne Druck in North Carolina and Melissa Druck in Nevada, spoke out about her to Entertainment Tonight and The Insider in interviews airing Wednesday.

"I've seen the pictures of the baby she looks like John Edwards," says Roxanne. "She's got his eyes and jaw line and lips, but she does have Rielle's nose... My niece is not a bastard, I just don't think it's right."

Roxanne said at first she didn't believe reports of her sister's affair with the former presidential hopeful.

"The most shocking thing was watching him on TV giving these half truths, these half baked answers," she said. "I wish for everyone involved that he'd have come clean."

Roxanne said she would give Edwards' cancer-sticken wife Elizabeth "a big hug" and apologize. "I'm very ashamed my sister had an affair with such a public man," she said.

Said Melissa: "She's not the first person to make this mistake and she won't be the last."

Watch an interview with Rielle Hunter.

Hunter's ex-boyfriend, novelist Jay McInerney, confirmed yesterday that the 44-year-old amateur filmmaker inspired his book A Story of My Life.

"[I was] kind of fascinated by her and her friends," he told Extra. "I saw them as a tribe that I wanted to study."

The book, he explained to Extra, "is about a group of girls, five or six friends, coming to New York and conquering or failing to conquer the city."

McInerney described Hunter as "a wonderful girl.

"She has a good heart and she's a good person," he said. "I still wish her well."

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