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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worst-info scenario, you got it wrong, my friend. Mz Sanford knew about it 5 months ago and he was not living at home for past several weeks.
I can imagine the news and paparazzi hysteria and feeding frenzy for a look at Maria Shapur, the “other woman”. Were I she, I would have found a safe haven from those ghouls. Governor Sanford is far from the first to be felled by his libido nor will he be the last. As Republicans are supposed to be above such earthy urges, he will be scorned rather than idolized for bad behavior like Bill Clinton or Barny Franks who ran a male prostitution out of his basement for gay men...they are Democrats and as such, they have manners and the base morals expected of them.
Would Argentinian Embassy help with the photo ?
Claro que si. Tambien, hay muchos sirios y libaneses en la Argentina. Por ejemplo, Carlos Menem, presidente anterior, es de ascendencia siria.
LOL! If he was so in love, he should have separated from his wife
last year.
Spitzers Hooker??
LOL. I wonder if that’s the embassy we should ask :)
Where are the facts to back this up?
I can imagine the real Maria, is not the one Sanford knew or she is long vanished into the dem/commy/soros underground waiting on another nice assignment.
LOL!
It is all very sad. It sounds like Gov. Sanford was really torn and in love. This was more than a Kennedy like bed hop. Not excusing it(so no flame posts please). It’s just very sad that he could not see where this would all end before he jumped. The damage to his family, his political career and himself will be hard to heal.
Whoever outed him is just as much a sleezebag imho. If it was the republican political machine, they could have handled it privately....telling him that they had this info and for him to forget running for Prez., etc. They did not have to send love soaked emails to a wolverine press that would humiliate his wife and harm his children.
So if it is discovered that someone in our party did this, they will not get my vote for dogcatcher.
Just my two cents.
I’d be willing to hike on that trail.
Hey, here is Obama’s squeeze...the now hidden in the Bahamas Miss Vera Baker”
Where is her baby?
She was knocked up the last pics we had of her during the campaign about Jan of 2008.
That’s a red head not a brunette.
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