Vili Fualaau

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Vili Fualaau (born June 26, 1983), is a Samoan-American who became famous when at the age of 13 he was seduced by his then-33-year-old teacher Mary Kay Letourneau. The two were arrested, and Letourneau was charged with statutory rape. The sexual encounters resulted in two daughters, prison for Letourneau, and a long-standing court order forbidding them from seeing each other.

In 2002, Fualaau's mother filed a civil suit against the Highline School District and the city of Des Moines, Washington for not protecting him from Letourneau. The suit was dismissed.

On August 6, 2004, Fualaau, who was 21 years old at the time, applied to the court to lift the no-contact order, which was granted. Vili Fualaau and Mary Kay Letourneau were married on May 20, 2005.

Vili co-authored the book Un seul crime, l'amour with Mary Kay.

Vili Fualaau was sentenced in SeaTac, WA on June 16, 2006 to a year in jail for drunk driving, with the time suspended except for one day. He was pulled over for speeding Dec 22, 2005; a breath test found a blood-alcohol level of 0.136, above the 0.08 state limit. ^[1]