Mary Kay Letourneau, Teacher Who Abused and Then Married Student, Dies of Cancer
Mary Kay Letourneau—who gained tabloid infamy for raping her 12-year-old former student, having children with him, and later marrying him—has died of cancer, her attorneys said. The 58-year-old split from husband Vili Fualaau, now 36, more than a year ago. It was not publicly known that she was ill. “Expected but sad anyway,” her attorney David Gehrke, Letourneau was a married mom of four working as a sixth-grade teacher in Washington state in 1997 when she was arrested for sexual contact with Fualaau. The case made headlines around the ...
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