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Sanford’s Mistress

Identified as

Professional,

Passionate and

Beautiful

Brunette

June 25th, 2009

FOXNEWS.COM

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.

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 who works in the

building 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.

It reported Shapur works

for Bunge y Born,

but a representative for

the agribusiness firm told

FOXNews.com that is incorrect.

In personal e-mails published

Thursday by South Carolina’s

The State newspaper,

the mistress reveals little

about her professional life.

But the intimate tone of the

apparent exchanges between

her and Sanford suggests the

affair was far more just a

south-of-the-equator fling.

Like star-crossed lovers,

the two wrote of their

“impossible love,”

and while the mistress’s

English was at times imperfect,

the two expressed deep

feelings for each other using

language that was more

poetic than lurid.

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The e-mails were steamy,

as one might expect of

any forbidden love.

“My heart cries out for you,

your voice, your body,

the touch of your lips,

the touch of your finger tips

and an even deeper connection

to your soul,”

Sanford wrote in one

of the e-mails,

dated last summer,

even as Sanford discussed

taking a tour through Asia

with his family.

In the e-mail, dated July 10,

2008, at 12:24 a.m.,

he wrote,

“You have a particular grace

and calm that I adore.

You have a level of

sophistication that so

fitting with your beauty.

I could digress and say that

you have the ability to give

magnificent gentle kisses,

or that I love your tan lines

or that I love the curve

of your hips,

the erotic beauty of you

holding yourself

(or two magnificent

parts of yourself)

in the faded glow of

the night’s light –

but hey,

that would be going

into sexual details …”

Sanford’s e-mails,

which the newspaper said

it acquired in December 2008

but couldn’t authenticate

until Sanford’s confession,

became more intimate

as the month progressed,

while the mistress’s were

deep and personal from

the start.

“I would (have) stayed …

kissing you forever,”

the woman identified by

The State only as “Maria”

wrote in a July 4, 2008,

e-mail,

calling Sanford

“my beloved.”

In another, she explained

that she is not in love with

another man,

whose identity is not revealed.

“You are my love …

something hard to believe

even for myself as it’s also a

kind of impossible love,

not only because of

distance but situation,”

she wrote.

“I’ll dream with you.”

On July 10, 2008,

she wrote about how hard

it was to “figure all this out”

and concluded,

“I am not interested

in knowing.”

“I prefer to think we’ll see

each other again somewhere

sometime in this life and

in next.

Will be missing you till then,”

she wrote.

Her “P.S.” was the most

suggestive of the published

e-mails.

“P.S.:

I don’t want to put

the genius (sic) back in

the bottle because I truly

believe in freedom.

I never gave you sexual

details but now you don’t

need to imagine you can

close your eyes and

just remember.

I’ll do the same,”

she wrote.

Photos of mistress