Just days after the National Enquirer reported that John Edwards proposed to his mistress, Rielle Hunter, People magazine, the Daily Beast, and ABC News are reporting that their sources say the engagement is merely a rumor.
“I do not believe it to be true,” Hunter’s attorney, Alan Duncan, told ABC News.
“It’s not true,” an Edwards family friend told People. “The nature of the relationship, as far as I know, is one of a father calling the mother and talking about Quinn, figuring out the holiday schedule.”
In an article published by the Daily Beast, a family spokeswoman said of the Edwards/Hunter engagement, “I can tell you that it’s not true.”
The National Enquirer was the first publication to break the news of Edwards’ affair with Hunter back in October 2007.
The National Enquirer reported last week that the rumored engagement took place over Christmas, less than three weeks after the death of John’s ex-wife Elizabeth Edwards, who lost her battle to cancer on December 7, 2010.
John and Elizabeth Edwards had four children together, the eldest of whom died in a car accident. They met while studying at the University of North Carolina law school and were married for 33 years. It was revealed last week that Elizabeth left all of her possessions to her three children, excluding John from the will.