Mary Kay Letourneau

About Mary Kay Letourneau

Mary Fualaau (born January 30, 1962 in Orange County, California (formerly Mary Kay Letourneau, née Mary Katherine Schmitz) is a former schoolteacher infamous for having an affair with a very young student, giving birth to two children by him, and later marrying him after being convicted of statutory rape and serving several years in prison.

Mary Kay Letourneau's father was John G. Schmitz, a Roman Catholic U.S. Congressman from Orange County, California and a professor at Santa Ana College. Schmitz was generally considered one of the more conservative members of the House, and he ran for President of the United States in 1972 on the conservative American Independent Party ticket.

Her mother, Mary Schmitz, was a homemaker and anti-feminist activist. Mary Kay was one of seven children born to the couple, but she also has two half-siblings who were the result of a longtime affair between her father and his mistress. One of Mary Kay's brothers, Joseph E. Schmitz, was appointed Inspector General of the Department of Defense by George W. Bush.