Have you heard that the woman who allegedly had the love child of Democratic politician John Edwards was something of a literary in-joke among a certain class of decadent writers? The woman whose real name is Rielle Hunter was fictionalized as the over-sexed Alison Poole in a novel by Jay McInerney. Later she showed up in two of Bret Eason Ellis’s novels, Glamorama and American Psycho. Gawker has the clip from American Psycho discussing Poole/Hunter. And, after the jump, you can check out the latest reworking of American Psycho, this one staring a toddler.


Comments (21)

  1. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 10:00 AM

    Wasn’t she the role model for Rush Limbaugh’s dominatrix in the wildly successful, “Getting Even With The Tiger” by Claude Balls?

  2. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 10:06 AM

    And how does this relate to finance?

  3. Posted by AJ | August 7, 2008 at 10:07 AM

    @2 Because John Edwards is a dick and we want to make sure he doesn’t become AG

  4. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 10:10 AM

    @2, Duh. American Psycho.

  5. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 10:16 AM

    My asperger prevents me from readign between the lines.
    Does this mean she’s a nut who shouldn’t be believed, or that John has poor taste in women?

  6. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 10:16 AM

    2- Because Alison Poole will blow you if you have a platinum amex. And only guys in finance carry those.

  7. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 10:29 AM

    what does this have to do with the price of tea in china? JC, you’re getting as bad as ARS. what’s next for you, a cameo on CNBC to explain this sorry tale in rumour-mongering?

  8. Posted by HAM05 | August 7, 2008 at 10:34 AM

    you guys need to do something about these ads. right now theres a blond in a ‘singles search’ ad. looks like im cruzing for naughty bits. not necessarily a bad thing, but i nearly had a heart attack when i heard a creepster in horse bit loafers creeping behind me

  9. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 10:39 AM

    Ham,
    Use firefox, install the ad blocker and then reprogram it (just clicks, no code) to auto block any of the ad structure used here.
    You can get your dealbreaker to load with out any of the flash visible or ads.
    In fact, after about 5 minutes of using it, you can rip out the banner area also, and get the site down to a very clean and lean look, with out any visible ads or flash distractions…
    Why view ads? Its your browser… you can control what you want to view. It takes 5 minutes and some “right” clicking once its installed.

  10. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 10:46 AM

    @9– free content on the internet will cease to exist if everyone does that, you freeloader.

  11. Posted by HAM05 | August 7, 2008 at 11:06 AM

    thanks for the thought 9 – theyve got our machines on lockdown though.
    @10, havent you heard that when obama gets elected he will personally enact change that will remove unwanted ads from the internet? i heard that.

  12. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 11:07 AM

    @10 – But everyone isn’t doing that. So who cares.

  13. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 11:07 AM

    creepster in horse bit loafers or a toddler in horse bit booties? I dont know which is mre terrifying…

  14. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 11:12 AM

    @6, doesn’t matter if it’s platinum, she doesn’t discriminate

  15. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 11:14 AM

    @ 10, Its not free if you have to view multi paid placed ads… The Internet has not been free since the late 90′s at best.
    Its your browser, you can decide what is and is not loaded on the screen…
    If you never click on the ad, and never purchase the product, why should you have to stare at the distracting crap.
    The ads are still served, the DB staff still gets “paid”, and the page has more landscape for things like Bess or Juan’s words verses compressed down into some words in between a crap load of eye spam…
    @ 11, wondered if you could or not… my last tour in a cube city, it was like that. There are ways, but its not worth the effort…

  16. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 11:37 AM

    Who’s Juan?

  17. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 11:48 AM

    did john edwards purchase carbon offsets for his 3000 mile private jet booty calls?
    democrats are fucking insane.
    for real.

  18. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 11:53 AM

    fucking obama tells me i have to keep my heat at like 65 degrees and his boy john edwards is going on 3000 mile booty calls while his cancer stricken wife is dying at his 30,000 sq ft. compound.
    i’m serious, these people are nuts.

  19. Posted by BlackSwan06 | August 7, 2008 at 12:52 PM

    dude, Newt Gingrich tried to get one of his wives to sign divorce papers while she was recovering from cancer surgery in the hospital. “Sorry about the chemo and the nausea, but can you sign here so I can be done with you?”
    And then he divorces that one to marry the aide he was banging?
    $hitbirds are in every party.

  20. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 1:52 PM

    BlackSwan06 failed to mention that Mr. Newt, as the drug abuser Limbaugh called him, was one of the originators of the “Contract With America” and “Family Values”.
    Repubs and Neo-Cons are nuts!

  21. Posted by guest | August 7, 2008 at 3:49 PM

    We should have a new litmus test for potential presidential candidates – how to, and when to, use a condom.
    What the hell is the matter with these men that they cannot learn simple lessons from men like FDR and JFK.

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