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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He has a wife that loved him enough to bear him four healthy and handsome sons and he goes and screws another woman, on fathers day no less.
Just once I would like to see one of these wives walk out from behind the podium and kick the guys gonads up to his throat, THEN say they will enter counseling.
HE is the homebreaker, not her.
News this morning said she had asked him to leave 2 weeks ago and that she’d known about it for about 5mo.
You said — Its my guess this was a hit job to pull him out of the next election. He is a maverick and the GOP does not like mavericks.
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LOL... that’s kinda like a neighbor turning in the bank robber that lives next door to him. And someone else says, “He’s just doing it for the reward!”
My answer to that would be “Don’t rob banks and then your neighbor won’t be turning you in!”... :-)
Didn’t know that about India. It’s also however to this day a name common among Persians.
Well, I agree that he is to blame. But if two people have an adulterous affair, they share the blame.
Shapur is an Iranian name. Also, I think, Pakistani.
Is Maria Shapur married, anyone know?
I think based on the very poor economy and our ever increasing number of unemployed workers that Sanford’s escapades will be quickly forgotten, and he will be forced to resign.
Voting democrat left a bad taste in her mouth?
Nice picture, but the truth is, she kicked him out of the house 2 weeks ago, and this split wasn’t one-sided nor did it happen overnight. That marriage was on the rocks for a long time. He was the irresponsible one and left, but let’s not paint her as the long-suffering saint.
He told his wife about the affair 5 months ago.
And Belen is Spanish for Bethlehem.
.............and STILL no pics................weird.
Here are a couple of pics.
http://www.zalukhu.com/jenny-sandford-speaks-about-marc-sandford-affair.php
That’s his wife Jenny.
The link to the pics I sent if Sanford and his wife.
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