LOS ANGELES The woman former presidential candidate John Edwards admitted having an affair with Friday is a sometimes Hollywood producer-director who has all but dropped from sight inasmuch as dismissing vocable of their liaison as nothing but lies last month.

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Rielle Hunter, a 42-year-old who recently gave birth to a girl who Edwards says is not his, has long been said to be the inspiration for Alison Poole, the “cocaine-addled, sexually voracious” 20-year-old tend character in “My Life Story,” Jay McInerney’s novel of 1980s excess and degradation.

“She’s a cautious girl,” the New York Post’s Page Six gossip file quoted McInerney as saying earlier this week. The author’s actor did not return a call Friday from The Associated Press.

Hunter, whose first name is pronounced Riley, used to be “a substantive party girl” but has calmed prostrate in fresh years, McInerney told the Post.

She and her business partner, Mimi Hockman, created the troop Midline Groove Productions in 2006 and produced four Web videos showing Edwards as a down-to-earth, regular guy visiting everyday the bulk of mankind across the country. One of them shows him visiting Uganda.

Between giving speeches, Edwards relaxes and jokes with several people traveling with him, including a woman who is never seen on camera.

“That is a great speech,” he tells her at one stage as he reviews the words he will later deliver to an hearing: “If we want to live in a moral, honest and just America … we can’t wait for somebody else to transact it. We have to do it.”

The woman giggles in response.

Midline Groove Productions is described on its Web site as “committed to projects that reveal truth.”

Neither Hunter nor Hockman responded to an e-mail Friday seeking make comments. A phone number for the company could not be obtained.

Hunter also has one credit onward the Internet Movie Database Web place for the 2000 film “Billy Bob and Them,” with a view to which she is listed as writer, producer and actress. However, the Screen Actors Guild reported Friday that it has no contact information for her.

In each parley by the TV show “Extra” highest year, Hunter talked about working with Edwards on the videos, that were praised at the time for the reason that an innovative national application of the Web.


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