Mary Kay Letourneau, a onetime teacher who became a tabloid fixture in the late 1990s after she raped a 13-year-old student and later married him after serving a prison sentence, died on Monday at her home in Des Moines, Wash., a suburb of Seattle. She was 58.
Her lawyer, David Gehrke, said the cause was cancer. At her death, he said, she was surrounded by her children and Vili Fualaau, the former student she later married.
Ms. Letourneau and Mr. Fualaau had two children together before he turned 15. They both defended the relationship as consensual, and the couple married in 2005 after she had served a seven-year prison term.
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