Abstract The Amy Fisher Story is a television film dramatizing the events surrounding teenager Amy Fisher’s affair with Joey Buttafuoco and her conviction for aggravated assault for shooting Buttafuoco’s wife. The movie was produced by ABC Production. The film starred 18 year old Drew Barrymore as Amy Fisher. Anthony John Denison played Joey Buttafuoco. The Story of Amy Fisher is of pure infatuation, lust and jealousy rage. Furthermore is a story of obsessive love, illegal sex, assault and attempted suicide. It is about a sixteen year girl who fell in love with Joey who was a married man with two children. Some could argue that Amy fell for the charm or the idea of being with a more mature and older man. The story take a large twisted from infidelity to a murder rage, which almost cost Mary Jo Buttafucco her life. Amy was obsessed with their relationship to the point that she gave Buttaffuoco an ultimatum to choose between her and his wife, Joey decided to continue with his wife, therefore Amy came up with the idea to get rid of her boyfriend’s wife. Amy became very angry, and disappointed to the point that she didn’t want to be alive any more, so, she tried to kill herself by cutting her writs.
After Amy tried to commit suicide without success, she tried to continue with her normal life, and she stated going out with Paul Makely, But Amy couldn’t continue without her lover. Then Amy came up with the idea to get rid of Mary Jo, Amy asked her boyfriend Paul to help her to get a gun, after that Paul didn’t want to help, later on Amy learned from a friend of her, that maybe Peter Guagenti, can help her to get a gun, so Amy and her friend when to visit Peter, and two days later, Amy and Peter went to executed Amy’s plan to kill Mary Jo. After Amy committed the crime she tried to implicate Joey but in October 1992, prosecutors decided not to charge Joey with connection to this crime. Joey was charge, with statutory rape. And he was convicted on October 1993, and served six months in jail. Amy served seven years in jail.
AMY FISHER THE” LONG ISLAND LOLITA”
Background:
Amy Elizabeth Fisher was born on August 21, 1974.In Wantagh, New York, to Elliot and Roseann Fisher, an Italian-American mother and a Jewish-American father. She assisted to Kennedy High School in Bellmore, New York, Amy wrote a book titled “Amy Fisher” Amy stated in this book that she suffered early childhood disturbance after some one from her family, sexually abused her. Then, at age 13, she was sexually active, eventually resulting in an unwanted pregnancy and abortion. The abuse she suffered as a child seemed to influence her immoral actions, later in life.
Amy met Joey In May 1991 at his mechanic shop for repair to her car after she was involved in a car accident. She stated frequenting him more often than usual. On July of the same year Amy took her car for repair, and when the car was fixed Joey offered to drive her home, while at Amy’s home, the two had the first encounter.
Amy stated that Joey often expressed her, how miserable he was in his marriage. Amy believes him, in exchange Amy shared all about her life with Joey, while their relationship was becoming stronger, in the mean time her life was falling apart, she was not doing well in school, and she only cared about Joey.
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Motive:
By November, 1992 Amy thoughts about Joey and his wife had become very obsessive. She was jealous of Mary Jo, and wanted her out of the picture. In frustration, she decided to give Joey an ultimatum - her or his wife. Joey picked his wife. Amy was very upset and she ended the relationship. Amy couldn’t handle to live without Joey, she decided to cut her wrists, but the cuts were not too deep.
After the suicide attempt, Amy decided to try to get back to her normal life; she started going out with Paul Makely, who was the owner of a gym called Future Physique but this relationship didn’t last because Amy was thinking about Joey more and more every day, After contemplating what to do about their relationship Amy decided that the only way to get back together with Joey was to by getting rid of Mary Jo, her main motive to kill Mary Jo, was the love of Joey. And she started thinking about getting rid of Mary Jo.
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The Plan:
In January, 1992 Joey and Amy resumed their affair. Allegedly, Joey he did get upset when he found out she was having a relationship with Paul. Not wanting to risk the relationship, Amy led Joey to believe that Paul was insignificant to her. She also began to plan on how to get rid of Mary Jo, who she viewed as the biggest danger to her relationship with Joey.
On May 13, 1992, Amy was ready to kill Mary Jo. So, she asked A friend of her by the name Jane if she knew how she could get a gun to get a gun, her friend introduced her to Peter Guagenti, She heard that Peter Guagenti could help her get a gun, Amy said that on that same evening, she shared her plan with Joey, and that he supplied her with tips on how to shoot his wife. On May 15, Amy has stated that Joey contacted her to find out if she had a gun, which at that point she did not. Joey has always denied knowing anything about Amy’s plans to kill Mary Jo.
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The solicitation, Plan and Crime:
Amy contacted Guagenti, and the arrangement to kill Mary Jo was organized. This is a Solicitation crime as she asked Peter for help to commit the crime. Also they committed an Inchoate Crime as it was planned. The two went to the Buttafuoco home. Armed with a semi-automatic gun, Amy confronted Mary Jo on her front porch. After a short conversation, Amy hit Mary Jo with the gun, causing her to fall to the ground. While still on the ground, Amy shot her in the head. (Thomas J. Garner /Terry M. Anderson tenth Edition page 61)
Neighbors helped Mary Jo. Her chances for survival were bad. After some hours in surgery, Mary Jo's condition stabilized, but the bullet remained lodged in her head. Joey told the police that Paul Makely and Paul's girlfriend may have been involved in the shooting.
On May 20, Mary Jo was conscious and giving police the details of the shooting. Joey, knowing the police were getting close to the truth about his love affair, told the police the shooter might have been Amy Fisher. Mary Jo identified Amy as the shooter from a picture she was shown. The police, not capable to situate Amy, asked Joey to contact her and find out where she was. He unwillingly obliged. On May 21, the police arrested Amy Fisher, at her home, for the shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco.
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Prison:
During the interview Amy declared to the police that the shooting was an accident, that the gun discharged when she strike Mary Jo on the head. Knowing Joey had turned against her, she also accused him she told the police that Joey had given her the firearm and that the two were lovers - a charge Joey denied. On May 29, Amy pled "not guilty" to the charges of attempted murder in the second degree, armed felony, assault, and criminal use of a weapon.
The national journalists dubbed Amy the "Long Island Lolita." Friends and former clients destroyed what was left of her credibility by selling to the press videos that had been secretly filmed of her; Amy's bail was set at $2 million, the highest in the history of Nassau County, Long Island. After two months in jail, Amy's bail was secured, but only after she agreed to give up the rights of her story to KLM Productions. (Morey, 2009)
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Amy’s lawyer then arranged a plea agreement in which she would spend up to fifteen years in prison in exchange for testimony against Joey. Amy Fisher accepted the plea agreement and was sentenced accordingly. But Amy after seven was release under parole. Peter spent six months in prison as the burden of proof was enough to charge him with a criminal liability of an accomplice. (Thomas J. Garner /Terry M. Anderson tenth Edition page 73)
In 1993, the District Attorneys charged Joey with statutory rape. Amy testified about their sexual affair. Joey pled guilty to one count of statutory rape. He served six months in prison.
Amy was released from prison after seven years. In 2003, she married a man she met online, who is 24-years older than her, and the father of her son. Now she is a columnist for the Long Island Press, and won a Media Award for Column-News from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2004.
Work Cited
(http://www.biography.com/people/amy-fisher-235415) (http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/young/amy_fisher/index.html)
(Thomas J. Garner /Terry M. Anderson tenth Edition pages 61, 62, 73)
(http://www.amyelizabethfisher.com/) print
(Morey, Jed. "Changing Amy", Long Island Press, August 19, 2009)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=219IX23QE_)
