Rielle hunter biography

August 12, 2008 — -- A prize-winning equestrian whose father was implicated in an ugly plot to electrocute horses for insurance money.

A party girl named Lisa Druck whose exploits in New York's cocaine-fueled nightlife during the 1980s inspired "Bright Lights, Big City" author Jay McInerny to model a character after her in his fiction.

An aspiring actress and screenwriter living in Beverly Hills who says she got off drugs with the help of a New Age healer and started a foundation to promote higher consciousness.

They may seem like wildly different people, but they represent the multiple lives of Rielle Hunter, the woman at the center of the John Edwards adultery scandal, which the former presidential candidate acknowledged last week to ABC News' Bob Woodruff.

"I couldn't believe it when I heard the story," Chip Hudson, a veteran horse trainer in Ocala, Fla., who worked with Hunter when she went by her