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Kevin McGill
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS That Edwin Edwards fame might have diminished a bit while he was imprisoned became clear on the day of his third wedding in July 2011 months after his release and just days shy of his 84th birthday to a 32-year-old woman.
After a private ceremony at a French Quarter hotel, the wedding party walked around the block for lunch at Galatoire s on Bourbon Street.
“Who is she?” an onlooker asked, thinking reporters and photographers were swarming because of the young woman with the cascading blonde hair and shimmery dress bride Trina Grimes Scott not the man who, 15 years earlier, had finished his fourth term as Louisiana s governor.
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ANALYSIS: Edwin Edwards legacy? It s complicated
KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press
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FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2014, file photo, former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards addresses the crowd during an election watch party in Baton Rouge, La. Edwards, the high-living four-term governor whose three-decade dominance of Louisiana politics was all but overshadowed by scandal and an eight-year federal prison stretch, died Monday, July 12, 2021, of respiratory problems. He was 93.Bill Feig/AP
NEW ORLEANS (AP) That Edwin Edwards fame might have diminished a bit while he was imprisoned became clear on the day of his third wedding in July 2011 months after his release and just days shy of his 84th birthday to a 32-year-old woman.
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