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Chapur spent her elementary and high school years at St. Catherine's, an expensive private school in Buenos Aires' posh Belgrano district. She then earned a degree in social politics at the Catholic University of Argentina, according to the university's Web site. Besides working as a TV reporter, she is known to have worked as an English interpreter for a time. She also was employed as a market researcher, she told an Associated Press reporter who interviewed her for a 2005 story on Argentines taking a Chinese language course. She said she took the course in preparation for accompanying her husband on a business trip to Beijing and Shanghai. It isn't clear what level of Chinese she reached, but she said that having traveled to many parts of the world, China was the most difficult place for her to communicate. She said at the time she was fluent in English and French in addition to Spanish, and had a good command of Portuguese. Rodrigo Franca, a Brazilian who lives in her apartment building, described her Portuguese now as good. Chapur's 400-word statement Sunday added no details about her as a person. Its purpose was to address news reports on some of the e-mails showing her relationship with Sanford that were leaked late last year to the South Carolina newspaper The State.
"I have decided to send this statement to clear up certain incorrect things that are being reported and put an end to a matter that, as you imagine, is very painful to me, my two children, my entire family and close friends," she said. She said someone accessed her Hotmail account without permission and sent the e-mail correspondence to the newspaper. Chapur denied that the person was a friend -- as reported by some news outlets
-- saying he was as much a victim of the media frenzy as she. "I have a strong suspicion of who is responsible for this evil act that was directed at me, but also destroyed the lives of so many others," she said. "But without sufficient proof, and for legal reasons, I am obligated to not reveal the name." "It is not for me to judge anyone. I leave it all in the hands of God," she said.
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