Edwards again a married man

Colorful former Gov. Edwin Edwards, who turns 84 next month, today 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 of Louisiana 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 Scott, 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.” Edwards spent eight years in federal prison for his role in a bribery and extortion scheme to rig riverboat casino licenses during his fourth term in the early 1990s. Earlier this month, he completed six months of home detention and regular reporting to a Baton Rouge halfway house. Scott became Edwards’ third wife in what the governor said was a small, private ceremony earlier today at the hotel, with a few friends and family in attendance. Edwards will hold a press conference Saturday at the Monteleone Hotel, in what will be his first extended address to the media after his release.