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SEATTLE — Mary Kay Letourneau, the former Seattle-area schoolteacher who was at the center of a national scandal in the 1990s when she was convicted of raping her sixth-grade student whom she later married, has died, her attorney confirmed to KOMO News Tuesday night. Letourneau lost a battle with cancer, her attorney, David Gehrke, said. Letourneau was a former Highline teacher who passed away after being ill for some time. She was 58. "It was expected but sad anyway," Gehrke said. "She was a good person.“ Letourneau generated international headlines when she admitted to a relationship with Vili Fualaau, who...

Vili Fualaau says he still loves former-school-teacher-turned-wife Mary Kay Letourneau – but being married to a registered sex offender is simply bad for business, according to Radar Online. SEE ALSO Mary Kay Letourneau splits with student-turned-husband Mary Kay Letourneau splits with student-turned-husband Fualaau said he and Letourneau are still happily together and he merely filed for a legal separation from her May 9 because he believes it will make it easier for him to get a license to distribute “Cigaweed” marijuana cigarettes.

Mary Kay Letourneau’s husband has filed for a separation from his former teacher, nearly 20 years after she went to jail for having a sexual relationship with him while he was in the sixth grade, the Seattle Times and TMZ reported Tuesday. Letourneau was married with four children when she pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree child rape against 12-year-old Vili Fualaau in a case that was widely reported in 1997. She became pregnant and gave birth that year.

Their initial affair - while Letourneau was a 34-year-old mother of four and Fualaau was 13 - ignited national controversy. After the relationship was revealed, Letourneau pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree child rape and served seven-and-a-half years in prison. She and Fualaau married in May 2005 after she was released, and they have two children.

When Mary Kay Letourneau Fualaau was forced to go public in 1997 with an affair she was having with her former sixth grade student, Vili Fualaau, after she became pregnant with his child, it was the teacher-student sex scandal heard around the world. At the time, Mary was a 34-year-old, married teacher in Seattle, who already had four children of her own. Vili was just 13 years old. Mary was arrested and served seven and a half years in prison. Today, Mary is 53 and Vili is 31. The couple is still together and are about to celebrate their 10th...

Mary Kay Letourneau, the former teacher convicted of having sex with a 12-year-old student whom she later married, has been jailed again in Seattle in a suspended license case, reports CBS affiliate KIRO TV. Letourneau was booked into King County Jail early Monday for allegedly failing to appear in court after being accused of driving on a suspended license. She was expected to post a $5,000 bond, reports the station. She was reportedly arrested around 8 p.m. Sunday. Letourneau became infamous after she was arrested in 1997 and accused of having sex with her former sixth-grade student, Vili Fualaau. Letourneau...

Longview, TX — LeTourneau University’s Socratic Club will present a free showing of a film on the life of Martin Luther at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31, in the Berry Auditorium of Glaske Building. The public is invited to celebrate with students the beginning of the Protestant Reformation when Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on a church door in Wittenberg, Germany on Oct. 31, 1517, which is Reformation Day. The film runs 90 minutes. “Martin Luther is a man who changed the world,” said Martin Batts, professor of English and Socratic Club faculty adviser. “We will celebrate Reformation Day...

Longview-based LeTourneau Technologies has announced the signing of contracts valued at about $185 million with a Brazilian construction consortium for drilling rigs and equipment. LeTourneau, the manufacturing subsidiary of Houston-based Rowan Cos., said the deal is to provide the rig kit, rig design and drilling equipment for two LeTourneau Super 116E jack-up rigs, according to Dan Eckermann, president and CEO of LeTourneau. “In this difficult market environment we are pleased to have been selected by the Brazilian consortium to provide the primary components for these new jack-up rigs,” Eckermann said. “This success also confirms the strength of our product slate...

She was 21 when he was born — and their romance survived her 71/2-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting him, his puberty, the birth of their two kids, her divorce and years and years of racy tabloid headlines ripping their relationship to shreds. Now Mary Kay Letourneau, 43, and Vili Fualaau, 21, are husband and wife.

SEATTLE - Mary Kay Letourneau and her former sixth-grade pupil — the father of her two youngest children — will be married Friday night, "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider" reported Thursday. Tents were being set up Thursday afternoon for the ceremony in a secluded spot in King County, according to the television programs, which obtained exclusive rights to cover the event. A rehearsal dinner for bridesmaids, groomsmen and relatives was planned Thursday. Letourneau, now 43, served 7 1/2 years in prison after she was convicted of raping Vili Fualaau, now 22. She was released last August. The couple first met...

Charges filed yesterday against a math teacher in Brooklyn were the latest in a string of five cases said to have involved criminal or inappropriate behavior by school employees that have stunned parents and school officials. The teacher, Joanna Hernandez, 27, surrendered to face misdemeanor charges of kissing one of her students, a 15-year-old boy, in an empty classroom at Intermediate School 55 in Brownsville during school hours, the police said. Ms. Hernandez's arrest came a day after Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein issued an extraordinary warning to principals throughout the city. "I will use all means at my disposal...

SEATTLE -- Mary Kay Letourneau and her former sixth-grade pupil, the father of her two youngest children, apparently are not marrying this weekend as their bridal registry had indicated. Letourneau, 43, served 7 1/2 years in prison after she was convicted of raping Vili Fualaau, now 22. The couple's bridal registry at Macy's listed the wedding date as April 16, but attorney David Gherke, who represented Letourneau at her child-rape trial, said no wedding was planned this weekend. "I don't think they've set a date," he said Friday. King County had no record of a marriage license for them or...

Mary Kay Letourneau, Vili Fualaau Plan April Wedding Online Bridal Registry Discovered SEATTLE -- An online bridal registry says Mary Kay Letourneau and her former sixth-grade pupil, Vili Fualaau, have set the date for their wedding. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports in Monday's paper that 43-year-old Letourneau and 22-year-old Fualaau plan to wed April 16. Letourneau served 7.5 years on a 1997 conviction for raping Fualaau. Letourneau was a married mother of four when she began a sexual relationship with the then-12-year-old Fualaau after meeting at Burien's Shorewood Elementary School in 1996, when she was 34. She was pregnant with Fualaau's...

SEATTLE — Mary Kay Letourneau plans to marry the former sixth-grade pupil with whom she had two children, months after her release from prison for raping him, according to an online bridal registry. Letourneau, 43, and Vili Fualaau, 22, set a wedding date of April 16, according to their registry at a department store. Letourneau served 7 1/2 years on a 1997 conviction for raping Fualaau, who has said in the past that he hoped to wed his former teacher. Fualaau "It's been long overdue," Noel Soriano, a friend of the couple, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in a story published...

November 8, 2004 -- A 29-year-old Connecticut woman — accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy for months — says she considers the little neighbor her "boyfriend" and hopes to marry him someday, authorities said yesterday. "I don't want anyone but you!" Tammy Imre allegedly wrote in a letter to the boy, who was a playmate of Imre's 7-year-old daughter.

King County Superior Court Judge Linda Lau, who in 1997 sentenced Mary K. Letourneau to 7-½ years in prison, yesterday lifted the lifetime no-contact order between Letourneau and the former student she was convicted of raping, Vili Fualaau. "He's thrilled, he's excited, he's as happy as can be," said Scott Stewart, Fualaau's lawyer, explaining his client's reaction to Lau's ruling. "I can comfortably tell you he's ecstatic to have the order lifted. ... "The human being in me is hoping they can find some quiet time to say hello." Lau's two-paragraph order allows Letourneau, 42, to have "unrestricted contact" with...

GIG HARBOR, Washington (CNN) -- A former elementary school teacher convicted of raping a sixth-grade pupil was released from prison Wednesday, and within hours her victim petitioned the court to lift the no-contact order between them, saying he still loves her. Mary K. Letourneau, who was a 35-year-old married mother of four, pleaded guilty in 1997 to having sexual relations with 13-year-old Vili Fualaau, now 21. She served a seven-year sentence at the Washington Corrections Center for Women after failing to stay away from the teen. Letourneau has two daughters by Fualaau. Fualaau's attorney filed a motion Wednesday to lift...

As Mary K. Letourneau leaves prison tomorrow, she faces registering as a Level 2 sex offender, a court order to stay away from the student she was convicted of raping and the renewed glare of media attention from all over the world. .... Letourneau's friends, lawyers involved in the case and officials at the State Department of Corrections say they've been fielding daily telephone calls from the "Today" show, "Oprah," "Primetime," "Inside Edition" -- even a British magazine and television stations in France and Germany. .... And Vili Fualaau -- the former student who fathered two children with Letourneau before...

  Polanski 'will face sex charge'by Standard ReporterRoman Polanski appears set to return to America to stand trial on charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl. Facing a rape charge: Roman Polanski The Oscar-nominated film director, now 68, was arrested in 1977 for allegedly having sex with the girl at Jack Nicholson's home. He was charged with six offences, including rape. Polanski, whose films include Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown, pleaded guilty to sex with a minor, but fled to France before his sentencing. According to a Los Angeles TV station today, he is planning to return after agreeing...