Mother says paternity test won't happen
Published: Sat, Aug. 09, 2008 10:52PM
Modified Sat, Aug. 09, 2008 10:51PM
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closeEdwards told ABC News last week that his affair with Hunter had ended in 2006 and that he didn’t know when Young might have become involved with the woman. Young continued working for the campaign, primarily organizing fundraising events in North Carolina, until about a year ago. Campaign finance records show he was making about $3,500 a month.
By then, the Youngs had sold their home in Raleigh for $1.2 million. Carolyn Grissom, who bought the house, told The N&O in December that the Youngs seemed like a happy couple.
“They looked to me like two teenagers at a prom,” Grissom said. “It was like she worshiped the ground he walked on and she could do no wrong in his eyes.”
In August 2007, the Youngs rented a house in the gated community of Governors Club in Chapel Hill. The serenity of the stately setting might have been upset in October, when the Enquirer published a story alleging Edwards had had an affair. But the stress had surely intensified by Dec. 19, when the tabloid reported the “other woman” was pregnant and was living in Governors Club near the Youngs.
A week before that story appeared, two Enquirer reporters showed up at the Youngs’ house, peering into a side window and startling Cheri Young. Andrew Young drove up as the reporters scurried to the front door and began knocking, according to a tape of Cheri Young’s call to 911.
“My husband is talking with them. ... He’s trying to tell them to leave and they’re not leaving,” she says, and then speaks to the reporters: “There’s no explaining, sir, you need to go.”
In January, the Youngs moved out of Governors Club. It appears that Hunter left about the same time. All of them resurfaced in Santa Barbara, Calif., in July, when the Enquirer reported on Edwards’ meeting with Hunter in Beverly Hills.
The N&O has attempted to contact the Youngs and their relatives in person, by mail and by phone at various times between October and this month without success. News reports on Saturday suggested the Youngs and Hunter are moving out of Santa Barbara now.
Staff writer Lorenzo Perez contributed to this report.
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