Posted on 06/25/2009 8:58:56 AM PDT by traumer
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's mistress is a 43-year-old employee of an international agriculture company who speaks several languages and lives in an upscale apartment building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, local media there are reporting.
Though details are sparse, Terra Noticias reported Thursday that the woman's name is Maria Belen Shapur and she works for the international agribusiness firm Bunge y Born.
The newspaper, along with Buenos Aires Continental Radio, reported that she lives next to the Buenos Aires Zoo in a 14-story building. A witness described her as a beautiful brunette with big eyes who plays tennis on a nearby lawn and runs every morning in her neighborhood.
The witness told the radio station that Sanford arrived at the complex, alone, with a small sports bag last week and asked to go inside the building.
Sanford admitted Wednesday to having an affair over the last year and covering up a secret trip to visit his mistress last week. The admission rocked the South Carolina political scene and has also captured the attention of the Buenos Aires media, as the governor provided few details about his lover.
Terra Noticias reported that Belen speaks English, Portuguese and Chinese, and that the company she supposedly works for is massive, with 25,000 employees in more than 30 countries, including 1,000 in Argentina, according to a profile on the Bunge Limited Web site.
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LOL!
that is terrible!
My bad. I was basing that on the reports on his car at the Atlanta airport parking lot with a sleeping bag visible in the front seat.
My bad, thanks for keeping me up to date on the all the facts to be kept straight. Good thing that there is someone here paying more attention to this major story than I have been. Gosh do I have egg on my face.
It’s an “ancient Persian name, and occurs wherever there are or were large colonies of Persians ~ all over India and Pakistan for example, and Afghanistan.
Wow, she’s pretty.
Not ruin-you-sons’-lives and betray-your-oath-before-G-d-to-your-wife pretty, but pretty.
“So take a letter, Maria...address it to my wife....”
Yes - Shapur is a Persian name
Jenney and Mark look the same!
Yep. They really should have had some class and not published the emails.
He told his wife about the affair 5 months ago.
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And then proceeded to continue on in the affair. And after he, according to the wife’s statement, agreed to a trial separation for the purpose of fixing the marriage. Quite the guy.
I have to ask, as over the last few days you have been quite an ardent defender of Mr. Sanford, would you marry such a man?
...And make sure you pass those bodily fluids around, Governor.
Yuck!
“Yep. They really should have had some class and not published the emails.”
He blew it big time, I hope it is worth the cost!
I’m betting she blew it, and that was the source of the addiction.
She’s lovely. Are we sure this is the one? I read Sanford’s mistress is 46. This woman doesn’t appear to be 46..
I feel for him and his family. It is never worth the cost but some good things can come out of such things if he and his wife can work through this. When my wife and I were having problems I asked for a divorce before ever considering consummating a relationship with the other woman. I think that is only fair and right thing to do. It turned out for the better. We worked things out without the baggage of that added betrayal for which I am thankful.
Ma la lettera ‘p’ non esiste nella lingua araba. Esiste, pero, in Farsi. Quindi, e piu probabile ch’e o di origini persiani o indiani musulmani (pakistan, bangladesh, via dicendo).
What he did was wrong. It doesn’t change that his policies were right. God clearly isn’t done with him and his family. Mark is a good man who made a horrible mistake for which he will pay dearly.
I think that there are quite a few Spainish families who still maintain their Persian heritage. I knew one who still follows Zoroastrianism and said that his family has lived in the hills of Spain for centuries. Oddly, before he told us that, someone had claimed that he spoke Spanish with a kind of Middle Eastern accent.
“I’m betting she blew it, and that was the source of the addiction.”
Good point!
Tienes razon.
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