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Sanford Mistress: Divorced, Mom of 2, 'Beautiful Brunette'

Local media dishes details on Argentinian divorcee

By Ambreen Ali| Posted Jun 25, 09 4:15 PM CDT|

(Newser) – Mark Sanford’s mistress is a 43-year-old businesswoman who works in agriculture, Argentine media is reporting. A divorcée with two kids, Maria Belen Shapur speaks English, Portuguese, and Chinese and lives in an upscale Buenos Aires apartment, Fox News reports. Witnesses described the beautiful brunette with big eyes canoodling with the South Carolina governor at a bar last week, the New York Daily News adds.

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This 2006 file photo shows Mark Sanford with his wife, Jenny. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

Members of the media wait outside the building where the woman South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford allegedly had an affair with was reported to live in Buenos Aires. (AP Photo/Rolando Andrade)

This photo taken from a security camera video last week shows Sanford walking through the Columbia, SC, airport wheeling a small suitcase the day he left for Argentina. (AP Photo/via Columbia Metropolitan Airport Police)

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quincy.mackenzie
Jun 25, 09 4:31 PM CDT

How unnecessary this is... they have destroyed a family's trust in each other... all for the sake of "gentle kisses". Ick. Reply

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Fondue
Jun 25, 09 4:33 PM CDT

...and tan lines. What do you mean "they"? Mr. Sanford did a bang up job all on his own.

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prowlerzee
Jun 25, 09 8:02 PM CDT

It is bullshit that it's the cheating spouse's fault alone. Marriage is a public covenant, and anyone who knows they are intruding on a family and hurting innocent children deserve an EQUAL amount of the blame.

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Newser001
Jun 26, 09 12:02 AM CDT

Beauty is from within. There's nothing beautiful about anyone who robs from a family.

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2-bits
Jun 26, 09 1:04 AM CDT

Oh god. I agree with prowler. The end is nigh.

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radnip
Jun 29, 09 4:29 AM CDT

What's bullshit is that his kids are the most important element in his life. That is patently untrue since he thought there was someone much more important, important enough to hurt his children.

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Observer
Jun 25, 09 5:28 PM CDT

Any effort to paint this ego-prick as a romantic disgusts me. He is a cheat and and liar. And a Family Values Republican. Ha! Reply

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ClearSight
Jun 25, 09 7:20 PM CDT

There are hypocrites on both sides but the apology he gave was rare for any politician in its frankness. He can be forgiven, but as with all things in life there is a price to be paid........

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BeatBlaster
Jun 26, 09 1:07 PM CDT

Well said Observer. Like I posted in another article, this guy should know better.

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nick
Jun 25, 09 6:56 PM CDT

Mark Sanford’s mistress is a 43-year-old businesswoman who works in agriculture, "Argentine media is reporting. A divorcée with two kids, Maria Belen Shapur speaks English, Portuguese, and Chinese and lives in an upscale Buenos Aires apartment, Fox News reports.: WTF? FOX NEWS REPORTS. I guess they feel their viewers should know that Mark Sanford picked a good looking, accomplished woman --not some slut-- to cheat on his wife and kids with. Well, thank goodness for that. Oh, well,: Fox continues to choose what they report, you decide. Reply

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kokuaguy
Jun 25, 09 6:58 PM CDT

Sadly you are entirely correct, Observer. I feel very sorry for his sons. Reply

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jwilsonte
Jun 25, 09 8:28 PM CDT

he has lost trust, lost job, lost respect , well he is a republician and does not need that to be one. he more and likely lose his wife and his g.f. is gone guarantee it , she was more likely like using the fool. what a loser NO women is worth losing your family or man .. women come and go but kids are hard to replace... LOl webs we weave !! Reply

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Snarfeh
Jun 25, 09 8:44 PM CDT

Let's see...hmmm...I'm checking, but I STILL don't see "Thou shalt not be homosexual" or "Homosexuals shalt not marry" on the Ten Commandments. Whoa, wait...I DO see "Thou shalt not commit adultery" on it...wait...it's illegal for gays to marry, which is NOT on the Ten Commandments, but not illegal to commit adultery which IS on the Ten Commandments? I think it's time we criminalize adultery if gay marriage has to be illegal. Put the bastid in jail, dammit. Reply

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BeatBlaster
Jun 26, 09 4:31 PM CDT

In some states you can sue for being cheated on can't you?

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SPH
Jun 26, 09 5:06 PM CDT

It is my understand that adultery is, in fact, illegal in South Carolina......

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Adapt-Overcome
Jun 25, 09 10:50 PM CDT

Well of course she lives upscale...he married a Wall Street executive and the "stepford wife" comments she made yesterday and all the photos of the "stepford family"...do you really think he'd go slumming. The mistress is as guilty as he is an his wife shares in the blame also because she was covering his ass as much as the people he worked with because if he loses his job...she can no longer live as well as she's acustomed too. Reply

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gropius
Jun 26, 09 2:14 AM CDT

"The mistress is as guilty as he is"? Are you kidding me? _He's_ the one who "let down his family" and broke whatever sacred/social/legal bond the marriage contract affords. _He_ went looking. _He_ allowed himself to take to greener pastures. Her involvement is ethically wanting at worst -- she probably wouldn't want to be in Stanford's wife's shoes but in no way does she share the blame for the harm done. I simply don't understand how rational people can have this view and I've heard it a lot. Here in the developed world, marriage used to be advantageous for both sexes' survival in a male-breadwinners-only environment but has become a fairy-tale fantasy as society has changed. Until we drop the fiction that a legal contract based on lifelong fidelity and enduring love can work happily for most of the population, we're fooling ourselves. We are all going to continue to be disappointed -- over and over and over again. Reply

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Netstorm2k9
Jun 26, 09 11:49 AM CDT

This is why guys cheat, and men keep it in their pants. Fidelity is extremely important, even if an awful lot of people today think it an outdated concept. Reply

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CynthiaY29
Jun 26, 09 3:56 PM CDT

Men cheat, women cheat, what's new? If you are in a position of power of course you will cheat, as you meet people that click with you more than your spouse every day. It's life get over it. I don't think that an affair should remove someone from office just because they fall for or screw someone else. Reply

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gropius
Jun 27, 09 6:38 AM CDT

Agreed, but he problem with Sanford is that he went after Clinton during the Lewinsky affair. It's the height of hypocrisy to attack someone for their indiscretions but then excuse yourself when you face the same music. I personally relish watching these bible-thumping holier-than-thou bigots getting hoisted by their own petards. OK, sleep with whomever you see fit, but if you try to dictate to me who I can or cannot sleep with and get caught doing otherwise, YOU DESERVE TO GET TAKEN DOWN!

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