Mary Kay LeTourneau

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Mary Kay LeTourneau , later Mary Fualaau , née Mary Katherine Schmitz (born January 30, 1962 in Tustin , California , † July 6, 2020 in Des Moines , Washington ), was an American teacher . She became known through an affair with a very young student.

Life

Mary Kay Schmitz was the daughter of former California Congressman John G. Schmitz ; she was born the fourth of seven children. Her older brother Joseph E. Schmitz was Inspector General at the Pentagon from 2002 to 2005 and is currently a foreign policy advisor on the staff of US President Donald Trump .

She attended Cornelia Connelly High School in Anaheim and then Arizona State University . Here she also met her first husband Steve LeTourneau, with whom she had her first two children. Due to her husband's job, they lived in both Alaska and Washington . In 1989 she graduated from Seattle University as a teacher .

Mary LeTourneau was 34 years old when she started a relationship with her then 12-year-old student Vili Fualaau in 1996. Her husband finally found the love letters and his cousin reported the teacher to the authorities. Steve LeTourneau divorced and moved to Alaska with their four children.

LeTourneau was sentenced to six months in prison and therapy in 1997. She was banned from contact with her former student. Shortly after her release, LeTourneau and Vili were discovered by a police patrol in their car and arrested for violating their release conditions. She was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for further sexual contact with Vili. Furthermore, a lifelong contact ban was imposed.

LeTourneau was released on August 4, 2004. Two days after her release, Vili Fualaau applied to the court to lift the ban on contact . The request was finally granted. Letourneau and Fualaau were married on May 20, 2005 in Woodinville, a suburb of Seattle. This relationship resulted in two daughters who were raised by Fualaau's mother. The couple divorced in August 2019.

In 2000 the event was filmed under the title All-American Girl: The Mary Kay LeTourneau Story (German title Mary Kay Letourneau - Eine Verbotene Liebe ) with Penelope Ann Miller and Omar Anguiano in the leading roles; Another film adaptation from 2006 under the title Diary of a Scandal followed the novel Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller from 2003, which in turn was inspired by the story of Mary Fualaau, but ultimately told a completely different story.

Mary Fualaau died in July 2020 at the age of 58 years of a cancer .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Daniel Victor: Mary Kay Letourneau, Teacher Who Raped Student and Then Married Him, Dies at 58. In: The New York Times , July 7, 2020 (English). Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  2. ↑ Spin Magazine, June 1998, p. 125.
  3. ↑ Mary Kay Letourneau's Separation from Vili Fualaau is Final, Says Source: 'Everything is Split Up' , yahoo.com, accessed July 8, 2020
  4. ↑ Description of the film at www.moviepilot.de
personal data
SURNAME LeTourneau, Mary Kay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fualaau, Mary; Schmitz, Mary Katherine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American (former) teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Tustin , California
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 2020
Place of death Des Moines , Washington