Edwin Edwards marries 32-year-old prison pen pal

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Posted: Friday, 29 July 2011 3:20PM


You have GOT to be kidding me!!!

Colorful former Gov. Edwin Edwards, who turns 84 next month, on Friday married a 32-year-old woman who befriended him during his federal prison sentence for bribery and extortion.

Edwards, a Democrat who served four terms as governor in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, did most of the talking after he and bride Trina Grimes Scott emerged from an elevator at the Monteleone Hotel in the French Quarter.

"People who don't know me don't know what a wonderful, pleasant, modest fellow I am,"Edwards said when asked how a man his age managed to land a much-younger wife."

He also told reporters how Grimes, who started writing him letters while he was in prison, visited him there regularly on weekends and holidays in recent years.

"The prison was in love with her, they used to watch her walk across the parking lot,"Edwards said, laughing. "They made me the camp hero.''

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