I fail to see the logic to this:
Elizabeth Edwards has been willing to talk about most anything in interviews about her new memoir that details her husband John’s affair, but only under one condition: Interviewers must agree not to mention the name of the other woman in their broadcasts or stories..
Drake said Edwards’s restriction isn’t motivated by “anger” toward Hunter, but by a desire not to see Hunter profit from the affair. Noting that other notorious figures — such as Ashley Dupré, the call girl who slept with then-New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer — have cashed in on their media attention, Drake said Edwards “doesn’t want to contribute to putting this woman in the spotlight. She feels that, to the extent the media shines attention on people like this, that we encourage this kind of behavior. She doesn’t want to reward bad behavior.”
If Elizabeth Edwards wanted to make sure that Rielle Hunter didn’t receive any publicity perhaps she shouldn’t have written her own book on the affair, and perhaps she shouldn’t be going on all the talk shows to discuss this. Rielle Hunter is receiving publicity over this regardless of whether her name is used in the interviews.There’s no way around this. If Elizabeth Edwards is going to cash in on the affair she is increasing the chances that Hunter can also do so.
Oh, and for whatever it is worth, at least so far I haven’t seen any signs that Hunter is trying to profit from this. The hush money from John might be all the money she needs.
