Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau made headlines within the 90s when Mary Kay, Vili’s former trainer, was arrested and charged with second-degree rape, after she began sexually abusing Vili, who was 12 on the time. Their legal relationship was reported to authorities by one in every of Mary Kay’s first husband Steve’s family. She took a plea deal on the costs. Throughout their relationship, Mary Kay grew to become pregnant, and she or he gave start to their first daughter whereas awaiting sentencing. She acquired a suspended seven-and-a-half-year sentence, and she or he was launched from jail after three months. She was caught in a automobile with Vili after her launch, and ordered to serve the remainder of her sentence. She gave start to their second daughter whereas in jail.
After Mary Kay’s launch in 2004, she and Vili petitioned the courtroom to have their no-contact order lifted. They had been profitable, and so they received married the next 12 months. They had been married from 2005, till 2019, after they filed for divorce. Mary Kay died after a battle with stage 4 colon most cancers in 2020.
Now three years after Mary Kay’s demise, their story served because the free inspiration for the brand new film Might December, which stars Natalie Portman, Julianne Hough, and Charles Melton. Following the movie’s launch, get to know extra about Mary Kay and Vili’s youngsters.
Mary Kay’s 4 Youngsters Earlier than Vili
Earlier than starting her controversial relationship with Vili, Mary Kay was married to her first husband Steve Letourneau from 1984 till 1999. Throughout their marriage, the couple had 4 youngsters: Steven Jr., Mary Claire, Nicholas, and Jacqueline. After Mary Kay’s affair was revealed, Steve filed for divorce from her and custody of their youngsters, and he’s largely stayed out of the highlight ever since. A supply near the household revealed that their children who at the moment are all grown up have lead lives as well-adjusted adults, in accordance with In Contact Weekly.
A 12 months after Mary Kay and Vili received married, she revealed that her older 4 children frequently visited her and their new step-father in a 2006 interview with Individuals. Vili did admit that he felt like there have been some arduous emotions between Mary Kay’s 4 children from her first marriage in the direction of him. “I really feel like I don’t actually have a spot besides that I’m their mom’s husband,” he mentioned. “[They] had a mother and pa after which I got here into the image and so they suppose, ‘I hate that man; if he hadn’t come alongside this may by no means have occurred.”
Vili additional defined a number of the difficulties with the older youngsters. “Typically I really feel hatred towards me, like an vitality, a glance within the eye,” he instructed Individuals. “I really feel a little bit of competitors, like, ‘Who deserves Mother’s consideration extra?’ I again down as a result of she’s his mother and I don’t need him hating me. However I get so annoyed.”
Audrey Fualaau
Mary Kay and Vili’s first daughter Audrey was born whereas she was awaiting sentencing in Might 1997. Three months after their first daughter was born, Mary Kay took a deal and pleaded responsible to 2 counts of raping a toddler. As Mary Kay was in jail and Vili was nonetheless a minor, they revealed that Vili’s mother Soona cared for his or her youngsters within the above-mentioned Individuals profile. “We’re grateful for all she’s carried out, and all of us labored actually arduous to remain targeted on what’s finest for the women,” Mary Kay instructed the outlet.
When Audrey grew to become an grownup, she opened up about her relationship together with her mother and father, and defined that Mary Kay was a stricter father or mother in a 2018 interview with Australia’s Sunday Evening. She additionally defined that she felt like she “understood” her mother and father’ relationship as a result of it was all that she knew. “It was shocking to individuals. It’s not likely been dropped at our consideration, simply because we grew up with it, so we’re tailored to it,” she instructed the present, per Individuals.
In that very same interview, Audrey additionally defined that she felt like her father was a “buddy dad” now that she’s older. “He positively seems like a younger dad now that I’m at that grownup age to the place I can go to a bar,” she mentioned.
Georgia Fualaau
After returning to jail for violating parole, Mary Kay gave start to her and Vili’s second little one Georgia whereas in jail in October 1998. Like together with her older sister, Georgia was put in her grandmother’s custody. After Mary Kay was launched and she or he married Vili, she defined that she was trying ahead to doing extra household actions with the women. “It’ll be good to take the women to Disneyland and never must ask the state or notify Vili’s mother,” she instructed Individuals within the above-mentioned profile.
When Mary Kay and Vili first cut up in 2017, a supply near the household instructed Individuals that the women had been combating the cut up. “That they had two nice mother and father who beloved and supported them. So now they’re returning the love and assist to each their dad and their mother,” they instructed the outlet. The pair cut up in 2019, however when Mary Kay died from most cancers in 2020, her lawyer instructed The New York Instances that Vili and her youngsters had been all by her aspect.
Georgia can also be pregnant together with her first little one. She revealed she’s anticipating a child boy to Individuals in September 2023. She additionally instructed the outlet that she thinks her late mother can be excited to develop into a grandma. “I’m very excited to develop into a mom. I’ve an incredible mom to organize me for these years to come back,” she mentioned. “I believe perhaps at first it will be type of surprising, as a result of I’m her child, however after that, she’d be essentially the most excited grandmother-to-be.”
Sophia Fualaau
About two years after Mary Kay’s demise, Vili grew to become a dad for the third time. Georgia introduced the information in a non-public Instagram put up in November 2022, per Individuals. “Hello Sophia, I’m your huge sister! You’re so stunning, I can’t wait to look at you develop. I’ll be proper right here by your aspect it doesn’t matter what ! I like you,” she wrote. No different particulars about Sophia, together with her mom’s id have been revealed.