 Yet despite Mary Kay going to jail for second-degree child rape – and giving birth behind bars – the couple steadfastly refused to give up on their relationship. Now the family – and their story – are back in the news again, after the couple's youngest daughter, Georgia, has posted on Instagram about expecting a baby boy in January. Vili, 40, who had a third daughter, Sophia, in 2022, is set to become a grandparent for the first time – but without Mary Kay by his side. The couple's eldest daughter Audrey has just annouced she is going to have a baby (Picture: DailyMail.com) Rewind to September 1996. A 12-year-old Vili entered his sixth-grade classroom at Shorewood Elementary School in Washington, settling in for a year of learning. He recongised Mary Kay, as she had also taught him in second grade, when he was just eight. 'There was a respect, an insight, a spirit, and understanding between us that grew over time,' she told The Seattle Times in July 19){kind=link}
By Lauren Crosby Medlicott, Journalist
They looked the perfect family.
Married for 10 years and sat with their grown daughters, Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau smiled as they recounted their ‘extraordinary’ relationship, in a 2015 widely-watched exclusive with American TV titan Barbara Walters.
However, the couple’s relationship was extraordinary for all the wrong reasons.
They had become close when Vili was just 12, and Mary Kay, then in her thirties, was his teacher. Within months they had embarked on a sexual relationship.