Jenny Sanford Biography

Jennifer Sullivan Sanford (born September 11, 1962) is the former First Lady of South Carolina, heiress, and former investment banker. She was married to Governor Mark Sanford, whose initial campaigns she substantially funded. On December 11, 2009, she announced that she was filing for divorce, after it became known that Governor Sanford had flown to Argentina to have an affair with Maria Belen Chapur, a 43-year-old divorced mother from Buenos Aires, six months earlier. The divorce decree was granted on February 26, 2010. The couple's divorce was finalized on March 19, 2010. In January, 2018, Sanford announced her engagement to be married to Andy McKay, an investment banker from Louisville.