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WAITER DISRUPTS JEWISH WEDDING WITH ARABIC CHANT By LORENA MONGELLI and ERIN CALABRESE January 10, 2009 -- Long Island waiter rebelling against his pastor father terrorized guests at a Jewish wedding reception, blasting a recording of a pro-Palestinian rally that included Arabic chants through the DJ's microphone, authorities said today. Stephen Buttafuoco, 23, was charged with a aggravated harassment as a hate crime for allegedly blaring "Allahu akbar," Arabic for "God is great" - scaring the over 700 wedding guests who were wrapping up the party at the Woodbury Jewish Center around 1 a.m. Jan. 4., Nassau cops said. Buttafuoco,...

Fifteen years ago, Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot in the face outside her Long Island home by Amy Fisher, the 17-year-old lover of her husband, Joey. Now going by her birth name, Mary Jo Connery has moved on. She lives in California, where she runs a small business with her fiance, Stu Tendler, called OriginalPartyPosters.com, which designs party posters. Joey Buttafuoco and Amy Fisher, however, seem ready to stroll down memory lane and take another shot at love. The duo had dinner together Wednesday night in Port Jefferson, N.Y., where the date was taped and will be shown tonight on...

Amy says Ecstasymade her do it Amy Fisher says she was strung out on the drug Ecstasy when she shot her boyfriend's wife in the face in 1992. "I was using Ecstasy, a lot of Ecstasy," Fisher, nicknamed the "Long Island Lolita," tells "Entertainment Tonight." "I had no control."

NEW YORK - 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" and Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco have agreed to appear together in a televised reunion. ADVERTISEMENT All three have signed on for the appearance, which has yet to be sold to a network, television producer David Krieff told the New York Post for Monday editions. "It's time to just put it behind us," Fisher, now 31, told the newspaper. "We played this all out in a public eye....

NEW YORK (AP) - Joey Buttafuoco is working on Desperate Housewives - at the show's concession stand, anyway. Buttafuoco, who made national headlines in the early 1990s when his teenage girlfriend shot his wife in the face, is working in craft services on the Hollywood sets of TV shows, according to a story in the latest issue of Inside TV. The 49-year-old Buttafuoco runs a concession that doles out protein shakes and ice cream to the stars of Desperate Housewives and Crossing Jordan, the magazine reports. He was a New York auto body shop owner in 1992 when his 17-year-old...

(KRT) - Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, the nation's top-rated cable news host and a brash advocate of personal responsibility and self-control, was sued for sexual harassment Wednesday, reports The Los Angeles Times, by a producer on his show who says he repeatedly pressured her to engage in phone sex and frightened her with lewd "monologues." The suit, filed by Andrea Mackris, a 33-year-old associate producer on ``The O'Reilly Factor,'' quotes O'Reilly as speaking to her in highly explicit terms about vibrators, oral sex, masturbation and a fantasy in a Caribbean hotel room shower. The suit also quotes O'Reilly as...

<p>March 23, 2004 -- LOS ANGELES - Former Long Island Lothario Joey Buttafuoco pleaded guilty to auto-insurance fraud yesterday and immediately began serving a one-year jail term.</p> <p>With good behavior and Los Angeles County's policy of early release for nonviolent offenders, Buttafuoco will probably serve only six months in jail, prosecutors said.</p>

Buttafuoco sentenced to year in county jail (Los Angeles-AP) -- Joey Buttafuoco, who made national headlines more than a decade ago when his 17-year-old girlfriend shot his wife in the face, was sentenced to a year in jail today for his role in an auto insurance scam. Buttafuoco pleaded guilty to a felony insurance fraud charge and was immediately booked in Los Angeles County Jail. Judge David Horowitz also sentenced Buttafuoco to five years probation and ordered him to pay more than 46-hundred dollars in restitution. Buttafuoco was arrested last December during a sting that led to charges against...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Joey Buttafuoco, whose affair with a teenager led to his wife's shooting in New York, was arrested Wednesday and charged with insurance fraud for allegedly making phony repair estimates at his auto body shop. Buttafuoco, 47, co-owns California Collision of Chatsworth. He allegedly told undercover investigators how to file phony insurance claims for undamaged cars, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. Prosecutors charged Buttafuoco with three counts of insurance fraud and one count of grand theft. He was being held on $50,000 bail. The state also has filed a separate action to suspend or...