LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- More trouble for John Edwards surfaced this week when it was revealed that his estranged wife, Elizabeth Edwards, had written him out of her will. Elizabeth Edwards died on December 6 after losing her six-year battle with breast cancer. Just days before her demise, Elizabeth Edwards appointed her eldest daughter, Catherine, as executor of the will. In the document, Edwards bequeathed all her possessions to her children, making no mention of her former husband. Cate will also make the decisions on how to divide Edwards’ possessions for those who will become guardians to the couple’s two younger children.

John and Elizabeth Edwards legally separated in January 2010 after John admitted to fathering a child with his mistress, Rielle Hunter. But the scandal worsened when, at the time, a close family friend told various gossip publications that the disgraced Democratic presidential candidate had struck his cancer-stricken wife during a shocking marriage-ending brawl.