Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford engaged to the Argentinian mistress who cost him his political career
Mark Sanford, the disgraced former South Carolina governor, is engaged to the Argentinian mistress who cost him his political career.
Sanford, 52, surprised journalist María Belén Chapur last week with a wedding proposal in Buenos Aires that left them both crying and promising to stay together forever.
The Republican politician was considered a rising star and a possible presidential contender until he disappeared for six days in 2009 and returned to reveal he had been meeting Miss Chapur in secret in Argentine.
His wife Jenny moved their four sons out of the governor's mansion after his admission. She divorced him less than a year later.