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Levi Johnston, the newest "Joey Buttafuoco" Minor Type Celebrity on the Block? The Truth Behind the "Sarah Palin called Our Family White Trash" Celebrity Media Darling Levi Johnston and friend There's no doubt that the MSM/National Enquirer type fascination with Sarah Palin will continue as long as she's perceived as a political threat and while Levi Johnston continues along the path of the Minor Celebrity Bell Curve in the footsteps of such notables of Joey Buttafuoco and John Wayne Bobbitt. Yesterday we published Sarah Palin Fires Back at Levi Johnston: Johnston Useful Tool for Sarah Foes, where we noted that,...

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - Sitting in her editor's office at the Long Island newspaper where she writes a weekly column, Amy Fisher is not the cartoon character portrayed in tabloid headlines and made-for-TV movies more than a decade ago. While her 3-year-old plays in a nearby room, this 30-year-old married woman - five months pregnant - speaks openly and contritely about her notorious past, which includes a seven-year prison term for shooting the wife of a man with whom she had a sexual relationship as a 16-year-old. The one-time "Long Island Lolita," who left prison in 1999 hoping never again...

<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...

COVER STORY Old Dog, Same Tricks By Amy Fisher Amy Fisher in 1997 Several weeks ago, I was getting ready to attend my mother's birthday party when I received a call from one of my best friends. She was in the hospital, having just given birth. "How wonderful," I told her, knowing the joy she was experiencing. I thought she had called to tell me about the baby. Nope, she just had to call to tell me Joey Buttafuoco was arrested...again! I quickly laughed, not really surprised that he would be in trouble with the law. I would have rather...