Todd Haynes’ new film May December presents a fictitious interpretation of an infamous scandal, with Julianne Moore and Charles Melton enjoying a pair impressed by real-life intercourse offender Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau, whom Letourneau started a relationship with when he was simply 12 years outdated and ultimately married after serving time in jail.
Within the film, Moore and Melton’s characters Gracie and Joe are nonetheless married and about to have a good time their twin youngsters’s highschool commencement, when actress Elizabeth (Natalie Portman) enters their lives, wanting to do analysis earlier than portraying Gracie in a movie. Gracie and Joe begin out wanting to reply Elizabeth’s questions, hoping it is going to change public notion of their controversial relationship, however her presence truly finally ends up making Joe much less sure of the position he performed as little one, regardless of Gracie’s insistence that he was the one who pursued her.
In actual life, Letourneau did serve time in jail, had two youngsters with Fualaau, married him, and needed to dwell as a registered intercourse offender upon her launch. Nevertheless, not like Could December, Fualaau divorced Letourneau in 2019. Letourneau died from most cancers the next 12 months.
The place is Vili Fualaau now?
Following his divorce from Letourneau, Fualaau has stored his life very non-public. He pursued a profession as a DJ in Seattle at one level, utilizing the moniker “DJ Headline,” however he has no private social media presence and has prevented additional interplay with the media.
In 2021, Fualaau was arrested for driving underneath the affect after failing a sobriety take a look at—this was not his first DUI, having beforehand appeared in courtroom on comparable fees in 2006. Nevertheless, he was launched from police custody the subsequent day, and the DUI case was ultimately dropped.
In 2022, two years after Letourneau’s loss of life, he had a 3rd little one, a daughter, with a girl whose identification will not be identified.
Philip Ellis is Information Editor at Males’s Well being, overlaying health, popular culture, intercourse and relationships, and LGBTQ+ points. His work has appeared in GQ, Teen Vogue, Man Repeller and MTV, and he’s the creator of Love & Different Scams.
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