Word: buttafuoco
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...have become a media celebrity," noted New York Supreme Court Justice Marvin Goodman as he passed sentence on Long Island teenager Amy Fisher. His honor understated the facts: since Fisher shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the head last May, the crime has drawn international attention. Prior to sentencing, Fisher again insisted that Mary Jo's husband Joey Buttafuoco was her lover and implied that he knew she intended to kill his wife. (The Buttafuocos deny all.) Result: five to 15 years imprisonment for the troubled teen for shooting Mary Jo, sentencing her to a life of pain...
TABLOID READERS WHO LOOKED FORWARD TO A LUrid trial of Amy Fisher, the New York teenager turned call girl, will have to settle for the Hollywood version of the saga. In a plea bargain, Fisher, 18, admitted her guilt in the May 19 shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco, a Long Island housewife. In exchange, Fisher will be sentenced in December to five to 15 years in prison for first-degree assault, a reduced charge with the possibility of work release in three years. Fisher has said that at 16, she became sexually involved with Mrs. Buttafuoco's husband Joseph...
Marvyn Kornberg, Joseph Buttafuoco's attorney, denounced the plea bargain as "a stone-cold sellout," a deal to allow Fisher to testify against his client on statutory rape charges. Mrs. Buttafuoco, who has supported her husband's claim that he was never involved with Fisher, was likewise furious over the deal. Said she: 'The bullet couldn't kill me, but the judicial system surely will...
...invasion of their middle-class retreat has horrified Fisher's neighbors and those of her alleged victim, Mary Jo Buttafuoco. The throng of reporters has turned life near both houses into a kind of theater. At the Fisher home on a quiet dead end and at the Stitch N Sew fabric store owned by Amy's parents a few minutes' drive away, doors are shut, blinds are drawn, the symbolic drawbridge is up, and the castle is meant to seem inviolable. At the Buttafuoco home, the style is defiance. A steady stream of traffic, automotive and human, proclaims this...
...Esker, the legal theater was just beginning for a Merrick, N.Y., teen indicted for attempting to murder -- you guessed it -- her lover's wife. Last week grand jury deliberations wrapped up in the case of the girl the press called Long Island's Lolita. Playing Humbert Humbert was Joseph Buttafuoco, a 38-year-old auto mechanic who had an affair with the young woman. Their relationship apparently soured, and the teenager became "obsessed with revenge," said Daniel Severin, a Nassau County police detective...