Take out for one! Vili Fualaau settles into single life
Vili Fualaau put his marriage split behind him Wednesday and was seen collecting take out for one near his home in Des Moines, Washington.
In exclusive photos obtained by DailyMail.com Fualaau was spotted picking up the food from a nearby Japanese restaurant in his home town.
It’s the first time the father-of-two has been seen after it emerged this week he has filed for legal separation from Mary Kay Letourneau, 20 years after he first fell for his then-grade school teacher in a forbidden love story that made headlines around the world.
Vili Fualaau put his marriage split behind him Wednesday and was seen collecting take out for one near his home in Des Moines, Washington
Fualaau (left and right) was spotted picking up the food from a nearby Japanese restaurant in his home town
Fualaau submitted paperwork on May 9 in Issaquah, Washington seeking to end the controversial relationship. It’s not clear where Letourneau, who was convicted of felony second-degree rape of a child in 1997 after engaging in a sexual affair with her then-sixth grade student, is currently staying since the split.
On Wednesday no one answered the door at the family’s run down ground floor apartment in Des Moines. And requests for comment were not responded to.
Dressed in jeans and a light grey hooded t-shirt and black baseball cap, Fualaau appeared unshaven but relaxed as he left his apartment to drive to the New Tokyo Teriyaki Japanese restaurant in Des Moines.
He was seen carrying the takeaway in a bag back to his car at around 5pm before returning home where it’s believed he lives with his two daughters Audrey and Georgia.
Mary Kay Letourneau filed a petition with the court to have the legal separation filed by her husband Vili Fualaau dismissed. Fualaau filed for legal separation from Mary Kay Letourneau earlier this month
In the beginning: Letourneau was 34-years-old and a married mother of four young children when she began having a relationship with Fualaau, who was 12 and her student (couple, above)
Happy days: Fualaau was banned from seeing Letourneau in prison, but the pair were married in 2005 after her release (above with daughters Audrey and Georgia in 2015)
Fualaau’s attorney, Whitney Gardner, told DailyMail.com that her client has asked for ‘privacy’ for the family until the legal case has finished.
‘At this point Mr Fualaau just wants to get through the initial filings of the issue,’ she said, adding that he didn’t plan to speak until the case has reached a conclusion.
Earlier this week Fualaau, now 33, filed court documents to state that he and his wife of 12 own no property and have no debts, with neither party asking for spousal support.
Fualaau was just a sixth-grade student when he began having an affair with Letourneau back in 1996, despite the fact that the 34-year-old was married and had four young children.
The couple first met when Fualaau was in Letourneau’s second grade class in Seattle, but did not begin to have a sexual relationship until four years later, when he was 12.
Letourneau, now 55, ultimately got a divorce from her first husband and served seven years in prison to be with Fualaau, who she married shortly after her release.
She gave birth to the couple’s first child while out on bail in 1997, and their second while in prison.
The father-of-two (left and right) was seen for the first time after it emerged this week he has filed for legal separation from Mary Kay Letourneau, 20
Fualaau returned to his car, carrying a bag of take out, wearing a grey sweatshirt and jeans
Fualaau had paid a visit to the New Tokyo Teriyaki in Seattle, Washington
Fualaau also stated in his filing that the couple’s two children are no longer dependent while asking for a fair division of the couple’s joint assets.
The couple could have celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary just last week.
These days, Fualaau works at a Lowes Home Improvement in Seattle while Letourneau is employed as a legal assistant, unable to teach due to her status as a sex offender.
Her status has been downgraded from Level 2 to Level 1 meaning her name no longer appears on a national online sex offenders register.
Fualaau has also been working to get his DJ career up and running, spinning at a local bar on weeknights under the name DJ Headline.
He and his estranged wife also hosted Hot for Teacher nights at a local bar a few years after their marriage.
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