Charleston, South Carolina: Mark Sanford, ex-governor of South Carolina, said on Sunday he is going to marry his Argentine girlfriend, Maria Belen Chapur.
“Yes, we are engaged, and I’m both happy and excited for what that means. I have long expressed my feelings for her, she’s a wonderful person. My closest friends have met and love her, and I look forward to introducing her to still many more that have yet to do so,” Sanford had said to CNN.
Sanford said he still stood by the statement: “Yes, it’s true and I stand by my statement,” Reuters quoted him as saying.
In the summer of 2009, then-Governor Sanford disappeared from his office for a week on a trip to Argentina to visit Chapur.
Aides said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. When Sanford returned, he gave a tearful, State House press conference admitting he had been unfaithful to his wife and calling Chapur his “soul mate”.
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