Elizabeth Edwards leaves John Edwards out of her will - Jennifer Epstein

Elizabeth Edwards left everything to her children and made not a single mention of her philandering husband John in the will she signed just days before her death.

Edwards lost her six-year battle with breast cancer on Dec. 7 and, in a last will and testament dated Dec. 1, made clear that her three children - and, by omission, not John Edwards - were to be the beneficiaries of her estate.

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The former vice presidential candidate and North Carolina senator’s name appears nowhere in the will.

“All of my furniture, furnishings, household goods, jewelry, china, silverware and personal effects and any automobiles owned by me at the time of my death I give and bequeath to my children,” Edwards said in a copy of the document.

Edwards also stipulated that if she was the only surviving parent of her minor children Emma Claire and Jack at her time of death, she wanted 28-year-old Cate to be their guardian.

Elizabeth and John Edwards separated in early 2010 after he admitted to fathering a child in an extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter.

Though some reports suggested that the two became closer during Elizabeth Edwards’ final days, John was noticeably silent at Edwards’ funeral.

See a slideshow of Elizabeth Edwards photos here.

via politico.com