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Amy Fisher ould have spent her entire live in prison. However, the buttet she shot did not kill. It nearly did. She was wrong and she later admitted it. Here’s the full story, the naked truth. For those who care, Amy Fisher was born on August 21st, 1974, at 9:30, at the South Nassau Community Hospital, Long Island, New York to to Roseann Vise, a 29-year old Italian Catholic "Long Island girl", and Mr. Elliot Fisher a divorced 39-year old Jewish Brooklyn native. Amy Fisher was raised in a healthy, affluent environment on Mandalay Beach Road, in the south shore of Long Island. "Stitch-n-Sew" the business the Fishers owned prospered, and soon both Rose and Elliot decided to open another store. They were a good team. Rose took care of the upholstery work and worked the cash register, Elliot took care of the finances and managed the familiy's stock portfolio. A month before her thirteenth birthday, as Amy was about to enter the eighth grade, the Fisher family moved from Mandalay to Merrick, a more affluent, upper-middle-class neighborhood, in which they had toured a $360,000 roomy home on Berkley Lane. It was also at this point Amy Fisher was raped by a man who had gone to the house to lay tile at her house. She told no one of this of course, but later wrote about it in her tell all, Amy Fisher: My Story When Amy Fisher was 15 years old, and capable of appling for a junior driver's license, she ripped open the envelope containing it after it was mailed by the Motor Vehicle Association. Her parents,saw the delight she displayed when practicing her driving on the family station wagon, gave her, for her sixteenth birthday, a beautiful but used white Dodge, Daytona. Eventually, Amy crashed the car after a heated argument with her father over the phone. The car was taken by Amy's father and herself, to Complete Autobody & Fender Inc., a car repair shop Joey Buttafuoco co-owned. After an initial meeting day, Joey began flirting with Amy, when she brought her car to the shop for pinstriping or other customizing. Eventually a sexual relationship began on July 2, 1991 when Amy was sixteen. According to "Amy Fisher: My Story", their first sexual, when she was nude, an encounter occured in Amy's room after Joey drove her to her house because she had to leave her car at a sound system shop, "Audiotronics" where they were installing a new stereo in her Daytona. Soon, into their intense relationship, Joey, according to Amy, coerced her into becoming an "escort" when she totaled her Daytona and wanted a black LeBaron. After she started payments on the LeBaron, payments which Joey had offered to give her, Joey told her he could no longer give her the money because the business was doing bad. So, Amy, who had a new car, and no way of paying for it, and who had no way of telling her father the car was being paid by Joey because he'd discover their affair, did become and escort, after Joey pulled some strings in ABBA escorts, a baldwin-based prostitution service managed by the now-deceased Lorraine Wurzbug. Amy Fisher charged an average of $150 dollars for forty-five minutes. She only worked in the service for 6 months, and Amy also claims Joey never told her it was a sex service. Sometime after , Amy had an ultimatum to give to Joey. It was either her or Mary Jo, and if it wasn't her, Joey would have to forget about her. When Joey refused to decide, Amy says she broke off the affair. She also slit her wrists. After they got back together, Joey told Amy to join "Future Physique" a gym Paul Makely, his personal trainer co-owned. Amy promptly became Paul Makely's lover and he, among other things, taped her stripping. Finally Amy got tired of hiding the affair between Joey and herself and decided to shoot Mary Jo Buttafuoco, Joey's wife and the woman Amy believed had it all. A "very good friend" of Amy's, who is reffered to as "Jane" in "Amy Fisher: My Story" found her a guy in Brooklyn, a drop-out college student called Peter Guagenti to drive her to the Buttafuoco home in his maroon thunderbird, and get her the gun Amy needed. On May 19, 1992, Amy left school early claiming she was having a heavy period. She went to her home, where she was met by Guagenti. She handed him $800 dollars, and he gave her the .25 caliber titan Amy would use. At around 12:00 o'clock in the day, Amy was in front of the Buttafuoco home. She asked Guagenti to wait for her, gathered a complete auto body t-shirt Joey had given her, jumped out of the car, and walked toward the house. Inside, in the backyard, Mary Jo painted lawn furniture. She heard the doorbell, and went to open the door. She and Amy had a discussion lasted for about 15 minutes. As soon as Mary Jo got dismissive, and according to Amy told her to get the "fuck of (her) property", Amy hit her twice in the head. The second time, the gun went off. A bullet penetrated and severed Mary Jo's carotid artery. She fell to the floor as Amy ran away. Neighbors who heard a bullet explosion rushed to her house, and called an ambulance. She was rushed to the hospital where doctors battled to save her life. They did, but her face was partially paralyzed, and she was deaf in her right ear. She had a constant ringing in it, and was in pain all day. Police showed up in the hospital and questioned Mary Jo about her assailant. When Mary Jo talked about the Complete Auto Body t-shirt the teenager had shown her as proof of the alleged affair with Joey, there was an immediate reaction from Joe Buttafuoco who said the shooter was "Mr. Fisher's daughter, Amy" (according to Casualties of Love, the Buttafuoco's official story), and according to Seargent Severin who was interviewed recently on A&E's The Amy Fisher Story. Joey supplied the policemen with pictures he had of Amy, which apparently had been given to him by her. He also gives them her beeper number, her phone number, and even her home address. On May 22, after Amy Fisher left her house late at night for "a quick jog", after Joey called her on the phone at Severin's request (the phone conversation was never taped or recorded in any way), the police ran her down. She was removed from her black LeBaron and taken to a small questioning room in headquarters. They kept her there until the next morning. It took a full night of questioning to get Amy to to tell her story. Eventually she also signed a written confession. Angered by Mary Jo's dismissiveness, she'd struck her in the head twice. The second time, the gun went off. Amy was then officially arrested for attempted murder. The next step was the arraignment. The arraignment was not handled by Eric Naiburg, but by Christine Edwards Neumann, a Fisher family friend and attorney and eventually spokewswoman. It was she who reccommended media savvy Eric Naiburg to take Amy under his wing. Eric took over the case starting with the bail hearing [to learn more about this aspect of the story, please go to the judicial section]. Bail had been set at $2 million dollars, the highest in the history of Long Island for a non-homicide. The only way Amy was able to meet it was by selling her story rights to KLM, a little-known investment group in Long Island. KLM made out big, by selling Amy's story rights to Pocket Books (publishers of "Amy Fisher: My Story") for $250,000, her first interview to Inside Edition for $800,000 and movie rights to NBC (who released "Lethal Lolita-Amy Fisher: My Story" on video with Turner Home Entertainment). The Buttafuoco's sold their rights to CBS and Columbia Tristar for $300,000, and Amy Pagnozzi, a New York Post reporter, went with her media-version of the story to ABC (which later released the movie into ABC video). What followed was one of the biggest media circus' has ever befallen the United States. 3 made-for-tv movies rushed into production and all had aired by Janaury 1993 (two on the same night. Plus all were later released into video, and not only in the States, also in countries like Australia, England and Colombia), 2 books, an off-broadway play, comic books, countless hours of talk show segments, a stamp, and enough reams of tabloid, newspaper and magazine articles for the three main participants, once coined as an "unholy trinity" to spend a whole life filling scrap books. When the press learned she was a prostitute the frame of the story changed from "Fatal Attraction" to "Long Island Lolita", and Paul Makely, as well as one of her former clients, sold tapes where they had sex with Amy to "A Current Affair" and "Hard Copy". The media had a field day with the "Lolita Tapes", and so did all the scandal sheets. Amy was finally sentenced to reckless assault, with the judge claiming she had "stalked Mary Jo Buttafuoco like a wild animal stalks its prey", as one newspaper columnist wryly commented, "sounds like the judge is working up a movie poster". In an ironic twist of fate, it was in fact, Justice Marvin Goodman's words, which were used as a promotional tagline for "The Amy Fisher Story", and the words are on the cover of the video. Amy was wisked off to Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Connecticut to serve out her five-to-fifteen year prison sentence. However, officials there had been outraged by Amy's flip comments in the "Paul Makely tape", and she was then remanded to Albion Correctional Facility in upstate New York. Quickly, problems for Amy started there. A tv news crew went to the prison and filmed other inmated claiming it was only a matter of time before Amy got hurt because she was snotty and received thousands of letters and notoriety every day. Prison life, however, was anything but peaceful for Amy. A short time after she was put behind bars in 1994, guards began raping Amy Fisher. In the prison's library, in the stairwells, and in deserted areas of her dormitory. This doesn't mean problems didn't begin earlier. Less than a year into her sentence, in 1993, Amy was threatened by an inmate. A large individual who, according to the Fisher family spokeswoman (Christine Neumann) Amy believed was "equipped to carry out the threat". As always, the jail spokesman tried to portray Amy as a whining baby. After stating she had requested protective custody, he said "she ought to learn to get along with the general prison population. She'll be with us for a loong time". He tried, and maybe succeeded in turning Amy "the whistle-blower" into Amy "the trouble maker". Guards gave Amy disciplinary tickets for things she hadn't done. Eventually the threats and the rapes were unbearable for Amy Fisher, and as she reported to Geraldo Rivera on the Geraldo Rivera Show they put a guard who had raped her back on her unit, and he smirked at her like saying "yeah, I know you know and they don't care" so she had it. She reported it to the prison authorities, they did nothing. Heartbroken, at the closing months of 1996, Amy took her claims to court. She had a very damaging piece of evidence: A panty with semen, which matched of a guard, who had, coincidentally, resigned within the days the lawsuit was filed. Amy and her mom also presented to the judge, 22 phone calls Sgt. Robert Schwartz had made to her mother while Amy was briefly transferred to another prison. An inmate, convicted drug dealer Lillian "Lucky" Nieves, testified Amy obtained the semen after having consensual sex with a guard, and the whole thing was a scheme Amy had cooked up to get a transfer out of Albion. She also said Amy had discussed the plan with her and told her Albion was driving her crazy and she feared she wouldn't be paroled if she stayed there. Lillian was transferred a few hours after testifying against Amy, to a detox center she had wanted to be in. However, Judge Arcara was weak, and said he didn't believe Amy. He denied and dismissd her request for a transfer and claimed the complaint read more like a "cheap dime store novel" than a pleading in federal court. He also said her testimony was "highly suspect and unsupported by the record", and her complaint had "severe credibility problems". He seemed to ignore the panties, as well as the tapes. The corrections officials once again turned Amy "the whistle-blower" into Amy "the trouble-maker", by claiming she had brought the lawsuit, simply to be moved to another prison, closer to her Long Island home. However, contrary to many people's opinions, this denial of a transfer didn't mean a dismissal of the entire lawsuit. All it did was deny Amy a transfer while the lawsuit was pending. Amy's parole hearing was held in the midst of these rulings and scandals, and Amy was denied parole, probably as retaliation for courageously exposing what goes on when the lights go off at jail. The parole board was unfair in denying parole because all they did was describe Amy's crime, committed 5 years ago, and said her release at this time was "incompatible with the welfare of the community". They also said she had had the opportunity to stop the crime or halt at any time but had chosen to go on. However, mostly, I believe it was Mary Jo Buttafuoco's testimony to the parole board swayed them into denial. When she left the parole building after testifying, Mary Jo, questioned by reporters, said she couldn't really comment but had done what she felt she had to do and was glad. It's important to note, when parole came, Fred Klein, the district attorney who had helped put Amy in jail (and had allegedly promised her he'd reccoment parole after 5 years) actually said parole was not reccomended at the time. Amy dropped a bombshell in April 1998, by filing a lawsuit which seeked to have her 1992 plea bargain thrown out, so she could stand trial for the shooting. Then, another bombshell followed, when she claimed Eric Naiburg had been inneffective as counsel, because he'd played out sexual fantasies with her and had clouded his judgement. Naiburg, steadfastly denied the allegations, claiming he had treated Amy like one of his daughters and nothing else. However, he did admit to writing her "embarassing" poems and letters which Amy submitted as evidence. In one, according to Hard Copy, he wrote "I stopped being your lawyer a long while ago, I will forever be your best friend." Another surprise followed, when Amy's lawyer, Tom McVann announced in early 1999, she was dropping her lawsuit against prison authorities, not because her allegations weren't true, but because she became discouraged with the federal judge's repeated rulings against her. By this time Amy had already signed on Bruce Barket as her new attorney. It was in fact Barket who orchestrated the filing to have the plea bargain thrown out. In March 1999, the New York Post's cover left Amy Fisher followers around the world completely dumbfounded, "MARY JO: I FORGIVE AMY". Not only did Mary Jo Buttafuoco forgive Amy Fisher, but she backed a plea deal could spring her from jail this June, by changing her sentence from 5-15 years to 3-10 years. Bruce Barket had phoned Mary Jo's own attorney, Dominic Barbara, asking or requesting a meeting with Mary Jo with Amy's mother. Mary Jo agreed to meet with her. The two meeting was later described as "very emotional", however, it only came through after Amy had written Mary Jo many occassions asking for her forgiveness. Mary Jo came to conclusion Amy had served enough jail in time as punishment for what she did, and found Amy was a young woman "heartbroken" over the events had changed all their lives. On March 30 prosecutors filed papers supporting the motion made by Amy to have her plea-bargain thrown out (even though they had previously been at odds, because Amy claimed prosecutors had promised her early release, it was apparently a fabrication by Naiburg to get Amy out of a trial would have revealed their alleged "romance") because Amy had provided "compelling evidence" she was denied effective counsel during the highly publicized proceedings in 1992. They also said they were persuaded by the victim, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, "not to oppose the defendant's motion," and her recent pardon of Amy Fisher. During an emotionally charged meeting on April 22nd 1999, where Amy was resentenced by Judge Ira Wexner, Mary Jo met Amy Fisher for the first time since she had last seen her- at Amy's sentencing December 1st 1992. Amy Fisher cried as Mary Jo told Amy she had been given "a second chance" to live and Amy was being given one as well. She also said: "I almost died on May 19, 1992. I know how precious life is because I almost lost it...I have been given a second chance at life, you are being given a second chance too. I pray you will take it and make something out of this awful tragedy...I pray for you and your continued recovery. Good luck. " When it was Amy's turn at the podium, she started crying and tried to touch Mary Jo's hands, with the same hand had held the gun almost ended Mary Jo's life 7 years before. However, they were prevented from touching by a court officer. In her own statement, Amy said: "What happened to you wasn't your husband's fault, it wasn't even Eric Naiburg's fault, it wasn't my father's fault, it was my fault and I'm sorry...Something's wrong with me and I've been trying to understand for the last seven years." However, the proceeding didn't go without the typical Amy Fisher spin on it. When Fred Klein reminded the court of Joey Buttafuoco's "raping [of] Miss Fisher when she was 16...", Mary Jo flew into a rage. She hit her hand against the table in front of her and screamed "Stop it, Eric", apparently confusing Klein with Amy's former lawyer, Eric Naiburg who she had earlier in the evening called a "disgrace to the legal profession". Then she shouted out "Stop it, Fred". When he didn't she said "You look at me when you say ...you can't even look at me...You son of a bitch!". At the end of the hearing, Judge Wexner threw out Amy's plea-bargain on the ground her lawyer at the time provided ineffective counsel. Amy then re-entered the plea, but was sentenced to 3 to 10 years, rather than the 5 to 15 years. Wexner also said: "You are still a young woman and could be a productive memeber of society if you channel your energies. Based on the information I have received, I believe you can do ." On May 3, 1999, the parole board was to meet with Amy and they were expected to decide whether they would release her by the week of May 10. Even if the board denied release Amy could not have been kept in jail beyond August. In a 23-page transcript of the hearing which was later released Amy talked about many, many things. Among the things she talked about, Amy said "I don't think there's a reason I can say I shot someone. There was just something inside of me made me do , you know, and I'm just glad something isn't still there." About her father, Amy said "He's very violent, and I grew up with violence, and to me it was normal until I came to a prison setting and got away from all . People aren't hitting me here and I'm able to grow." About Joey she said it hadn't been his fault, he was a violent person and she could say he "influenced" her, "but nobody made me do what I did. I did ...He used to use violence with me. Not beat me or anything, but he would slap me around...". Of prison life Amy claimed she'd "never had to make a bed in my life. I came here and it's militarylike, and I gained a lot of structure." She also talked of her relationship with Mary Jo: "I've been corresponding with her for about a year...she wanted to get to know me, so I let her, basically, get to know me, how I am now, and you know, let her see I'm an okay person and I changed." As far as publicity and the media's pursual of her story, Amy was very clear: "They hound me. they say things like don't I want to tell society my story, and I really don't. I want to be left alone. I just want to live my life. I don't care what society thinks about me. It would'nt make a difference if everybody in America loved me. I think what I did was a horrible, tragic thing, and it got dramatized. This is a big story...It's not something I really want to share, it's embarassing to me." Amy also talked of her future plans in the fashion industry, as her attorney put it. She said eventually she "might want to go to college. Right now there is a woman who said I cna have a job with her...basically, it's fashion liquidation. They liquidate merchandise and sell it." On May 5, a source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the parole board had voted 1-2 to release Amy Fisher from Albion Correctional Facility. May 6, the announcement was official, Thomas Grant, the state parole board spokesman said Amy had been "served with the decision this morning [of May 6] and granted release". On May 7, Amy's attorney Bruce Barket, who orchestrated the entire chain of events, starting with Amy's letter-writing to Mary Jo, and culminating with Mary Jo's forgiveness and Amy's release, announced Amy would work in the fashion industry. He also said Amy would "really like some privacy" now she was to be released. Rose said she had "prayed and waited for this moment to arrive.", she added "Knowing my daughter is coming home is the best Mother's day gift I could wish for." About a dozen photographers were camping out of Albion prison since May 3rd because Amy could be released anytime week. On May 10, at about 9:20 A.M. with more than two dozen photographers and reporters waiting for her, some of which had been waiting since sunrise to catch a glimpse of the celebrity ex-convict, Amy Fisher emerged from Albion Correctional Facility without any handcuffs for the first time in 7 years. Wearing a totally fashionable white pullover, calf-length black skirt with a thigh-high slit on the side, and big, dramatic sunglasses, Amy seemed apprehensive towards the 15 photographers who immediately started snapping her picture. Every news outlet, broadcast from CNN to HARD COPY, and print The New York Times, to the New York Post had some sort of representation, or someone waiting for Amy. She looked gorgeous- and glamorous. With the poise of a superstar. She left the prison without a word to any reporter, flanked by her mom Rose, and her lawyer Bruce Barket. In front of curious inmates staring from prison windows, some of which shouted "Good luck, Amy", Amy walked to a waiting gray, Ford Expedition, which was carrying her to freedom, drove out of Albion, with a 10-car motorcade in tow as it made it's way 45 miles east to nearby Rochester International airport. There, Amy boarded a private Pape Air charte plane to Republic Airport in Farmingdale, Long Island. She issued a prepared statement to the press: "This is the start of a new life for me and my family. Over the last seven years I have had a lot of time to think about what I did. I am sorry. I have learned from my mistakes and I'm excited I have the opportunity to do something positive with my life. Right now, I am looking forward to spending time with my family, having dinner with my mom and taking the dog for a walk." On the plan ride home, she excitedly pointed out landmarks from the air which she hadn't seen in 7 years. She enjoyed strawberries and fruit punch and asked about other members of her family- as well as what was for dinner. Rose had moved to a Long Beach, ocean-front apartment, but it's not where Amy would spend her first days. She was, according to spokeswoman Patricia O'Connel resigned to living out of her suitcase until the media stopped staking her out. Later in the day, after she had settled into the apartment, Amy met for two hours with her parole official. She arrived at the state Parole Division offices in a white Toyota camry, reportedly owned by her family doctor William Lannik. The day after her release, Bruce Barket said "the dog [had] remembered her...She was pleased at ", by "the dog" they obviously meant Muffin, the yorkshire terrier Amy got for her 16th birthday, who, must be about 9 years old or so by now, and who was portrayed in the three Amy Fisher tv-movies. He also said Amy "fully intends and will comply with every condition set by parole." He also said "when Amy got out she was happy and laughing. I think we are about to see a new Amy Fisher." Dominic Barbara, Mary Jo's attorney said "Everybody is waiting for Amy to disappoint us. And they don't believe she will rewardss us in her actions for our charity. I believe she will."On May 13, Patricia O'Connor said of Amy: "she is obviously enjoying it so much, being free. She has something like 100 kinds of Snapple. So many things are new to her after being away so long. There's a lot of catching up to do with her family, but obviously she is really enjoying spending time by herself. It's strange, but in prison you are never really alone." Some of the rules Amy must abide by, until her parole expires in 2003, are: No moving or traveling out of the area without permission, No switching jobs without telling officials, No driving without permission and a valid license, No leaving home between 8 p.m. and 7 p.m., No drinking or going to bars and No carrying beepers or cell phone. Amy, however, has not faded quietly into the night. Rumors have persisted she is trying to line up a book deal, and industry insiders questioned by the New York Post claim Amy could get upwards of $2.5 million for her story, despite an already best-selling My Story tell-all. "I could go for $2.5 million. It's got everything: violence, sex- of the traditional and lesbian variety- and most importantly-redemption", said one publisher. Then, May 14, rumors, apparently fed by Joey Buttafuoco, started claiming Amy was planning a TV Reunion with her victim and lover, and Joey promised it would be "explosive". His agent said the idea was being pitched to the networks to a warm receptiveness. Sherri Spillane, Joey's agent, said he was genuinely upset at Fisher's release, and Joey said he was, for the first time in a while, at odds with Mary Jo. "I'm always with Mary Jo. But this time, well I'm angry. I don't want to be rude, but I am not ready to talk about it anymore." Mary Jo said of the bickering "It is just at this time, Joey doesn't agree with me. I understand . But he is supportive of me personally." Eric Naiburg, said of Mary Jo and Amy's "strange" alliance: "Oh show me the money. I am waiting for the next chapter of this saga of Amy Fisher an this strange alliance beween Amy and Mary Jo." However, these allegations of profiteering by Amy were put to a stop when the Daily News interviewed Bruce Barket and he said Amy was not negotiating any moneymaking deals to tell her story: "We're not interested in profiting off of this" he said. However, a KLM (the company put up $60,000 towards amy's bail in return for her life story rights) partner claimed his company owned Amy's story rights, but also said they hadn't approached Amy since her May 10 release and all plans were "entirely theoretical". However, Barket said any earlier deal KLM or others may have had through Naiburg are not valid because the Nassau County court had recently ruled Naiburg had not appropriately represented Amy (which means they must have found her evidence against him quite credible, just as the prosecutors did). "We'd be able to resolve any problem...if was our intent" said Barket. "Any problem" may probably also allude to the fact the New York "Son of Sam" law prevents convicted felons of profiting by selling the rights to their life story. Amy got around it when she signed with KLM because she had not yet been proven guilty or pleaded guilty. She was, in the eyes of the law, innocent, and it was the deal with KLM resulted in the tv-movie "Lethal Lolita-Amy Fisher: My Story", the book Amy Fisher: My Story, and Amy's first interview, on Inside Edition. When rumors persisted Geraldo was closing in on a deal for Amy's first interview, Barket again denied it, but a source close to the Fisher family, said Amy was interested in a book deal, and The New York Post reported two well-known authors were jockeying for a deal to write her compelling story. Amy's story has had so many twists and turns and now this new chapter which I've written into the biography and which has been written into the soap opera is her life has totally turned the tables on a lot of people. (End of celebrityfocus Hot amy fisher pic Biography) - 5007
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