Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Amy Fisher to reunite with victim, lover
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Richard Drew
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Amy Fisher will appear on TV with Mary Jo and Joey Buttafuoco to discuss why Fisher shot Mary Jo in the face in 1992. Fisher was 16 at the time.
More than a decade after 16-year-old Amy Fisher had a sexual relationship with a much older car mechanic and shot his wife in the face, the one-time "Long Island Lolita," Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco have agreed to appear together in a televised reunion.
All three have signed on for the appearance, which has yet to be sold to a network, TV producer David Krieff told the New York Post.
"It's time to just put it behind us," Fisher, 31, told the newspaper. "We played this all out in a public eye. It'd be interesting to let the public see the healing process at the end. They saw everything else; why not let them see the final product?"
Fisher spent seven years in prison.
Joey Buttafuoco, who was jailed for statutory rape after the 1992 shooting, said he planned to ask Fisher to explain her actions.
"I've been asked about a million times by Mary Jo, 'Why did Amy shoot me?' I was never able to get that answer," said Buttafuoco, 49.
"There's going to be a lot of shocking revelations, and that's why I'm excited to sit down to do this," he said.
The Buttafuocos divorced in 2003. Mary Jo remains partially paralyzed.
""I've been asked about a million times by Mary Jo, 'Why did Amy shoot me?' I was never able to get that answer," said Buttafuoco, 49. "
Never able to get an answer? I've got the answer...if that lowlife POS would have left the teeny bopper alone and honored the vows he took with his wife then Amy would have never been in their lives. It was all a tragic situation, but no one brought that on but Buttafuoco!