Who is Edwin Edwards wife Trina Grimes?
THE former governor of Louisiana, Edwin Edwards, passed away on Monday, July 12. Edwards was 93 at the time of his death. At the time of his death, Edwards was married to his third wife, Trina Grimes Scott. Scott, 42, was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Scott is 51-years younger than Edwards and was born midway through his second term as governor. The couple was the subject of the reality show The Governor's Wife, which aired on the Arts & Entertainment Network in 2013. The program focuses on Grimes' rearing of teenaged sons and acting as stepmother to Edwards' daughters, who are almost twice her age. In August 2013, Grimes gave birth to Edwards' first child, Eli Wallace Edwards. In 1949, Edwards married Elaine Schwartzenburg and got divorced after 40 years of marriage. The couple had four children: Anna, Victoria, Stephen, and David. In 1994, Edwards married Candy Picou and entered the headlines when they attempted to have a child. Edwards had a vasectomy reversal and froze sperm to attempt to have a baby but was not successful. While in prison, Edwards filed for divorce, which was finalized in 2004. In 2011, Edwards married Trina Grimes, his prison pen pal. The two began corresponding while he was serving his sentence for corruption. He was 83-years-old at the time of their wedding and she was 32. In 2013, they gave birth to their child Eli Wallace Edwards. Less than a month short of his 94th birthday, Edwards died of respiratory problems the morning of July 12, 2021. His family and friends were by his bedside, family spokesman Leo Honeycutt said. In recent years, he had suffered bouts of ill health and entered hospice care this month at his home in Gonzales, near the Louisiana capital. I have lived a good life, had better breaks than most, had some bad breaks, too, but thats all part of it. I tried to help as many people as I could and I hope I did that, and I hope, if I did, that they will help others, too. I love Louisiana and I always will, Edwards said in some of his last words, according to Honeycutt's statement.  Earlier in the week, Edwards added, Ive made no bones that I have considered myself on borrowed time for 20 years and we each know that all this fun has to end at some point.