Joey Buttafuoco Biography
Joey Buttafuoco is an auto body shop owner from Long Island who had a sexual relationship with a minor, Amy Fisher, who subsequently shot his wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, in the face. Tabloid news coverage labeled Fisher the “Long Island Lolita”.Buttafuoco later pleaded guilty to one count of statutory rape and served four months in jail.
Buttafuoco graduated from Massapequa High School.
10 Quick Facts About Joey Buttafuoco
- Name: Joey Buttafuoco
- Age: 66 years
- Birthday: March 11
- Zodiac Sign: Pisces
- Height: Average
- Nationality: American
- Occupation: Business Person
- Marital Status: Married
- Salary: Under review
- Net worth: Under review
Joey Buttafuoco Age
Joey Buttafuoco was born on March 11, 1956, in Massapequa, New York, the U.S. he was born under the zodiac sign Pisces. he celebrates his birthday in the month of March 11th every year.
Joey Buttafuoco Now
Today Joey Buttafuoco is divorced from his wife and he has come out in interviews to admit that his relationship with Amy was inappropriate. Joey acknowledged to ABC News that his relationship with Fisher had been “inappropriate,” but added, “That’s as far as I’m gonna go with that.” He’s working on a movie about his life, ABC reports, quoting him as saying,
“I’m not that kinda guy that’s gonna sit here and blame anything on anything and how I got here. I made my own choices. I made my own life by my choices, whether they were good or they were bad. I made some good choices and I made some bad choices.”
His daughter with Mary Jo, Jessie, told ABC that her dad is “in a growth phase where he’s in therapy and he’s healing.” The couple also had a son but he goes by a different name and has led the most private life of the family members.
Joey Buttafuoco Current Wife
In 2005, Joey Buttafuoco married a Croatian-born woman named Evanka Franjko. They met at his auto body shop, the New York Post reported. Joey’s wife Evanka Buttafuoco once filed for divorce but withdrew the petition.
Joey Buttafuoco Amy Fisher
On May 19, 1992, Amy Fisher went to Joey Buttafuoco’s house and informed his wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco about his infidelity. Amy Fisher shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the right side of the face.[ Fisher had come to the Buttafuoco’s’ house and confronted Mary Jo Buttafuoco about Joey Buttafuoco, with whom she had been having a sexual relationship since July 1991 after Fisher brought her vehicle to Buttafuoco’s auto body shop in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York.
When Mary Jo answered the door, Fisher posing as her own (fictitious) sister Ann Marie—offered, as proof of the affair, a T-shirt that Joey had given her with the logo of his auto body shop on it. The front porch confrontation escalated, and when Mary Jo demanded that Fisher leave and turned to go into the house and call Joey, Fisher shot her in the face with a .25 caliber semiautomatic pistol. Once Mary Jo regained consciousness, she identified Fisher as her assailant.
The investigation of the shooting and the subsequent court cases involved a series of conflicting claims and received significant news coverage in both mainstream news outlets and tabloids. Buttafuoco’s lawyer maintained that Buttafuoco was never involved with Fisher and Fisher had invented the affair, while Fisher’s lawyer portrayed Fisher as a victim whom Buttafuoco manipulated into the shooting.
Joey Buttafuoco Indiction
After Joey Buttafuoco’s assault conviction, Buttafuoco was indicted on 19 counts of statutory rape, sodomy, and endangering the welfare of a child. He initially pleaded not guilty. He later changed his plea to guilty, admitting he had sex with Fisher when she was 16 and that he had known her age at the time.
He was sentenced to six months’ jail time and was released after serving four months and nine days of the sentence. After his release from prison, Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco moved to California, where Mary Jo filed divorce papers in Ventura County Superior Court on February 3, 2003
Joey Buttafuoco Mary Jo Buttafuoco
Joey Buttafuoco is the former spouse of Mary Buttafuoco. They have two children; Paul Buttafuoco and Jessica Buttafuoco. In 2012, Buttafuoco married Stu Tendler in Las Vegas. Tendler died in 2018 from cancerButtafuoco and her husband later moved to Southern California. She stayed defensively loyal to her husband for several years.
She even defended him when he was arrested in 1995 for sexual solicitation in Los Angeles. During this time, Buttafuoco consistently blamed others, such as Fisher, instead of her husband. She eventually filed divorce papers in Ventura County Superior Court on February 3, 2003.
n 2006, Buttafuoco underwent a facial reanimation procedure with facial plastic surgeon Babak Azizzadeh, involving static facial suspension, facelift, and eye lift procedures. These surgeries restored balance and gave her back her ability to smile.
Joey Buttafuoco Boxing
Joey Buttafuoco appeared on Celebrity Boxing, Judge Janine Pirro, Judge Alex, and in various movies. In 2006, according to ABC, Mary Jo and Joey appeared on Entertainment Tonight and Insider, even sitting “across from Fisher as part of a reunion special.” IMDB reports that he appeared in The Underground Comedy Movie (1999), Finding Forrester (2000) and Better Than Ever (1997).
According to Nicki Swift.com, Joey also appeared on Celebrity Boxing, defeating former WWE wrestler Chyna, and even boxed Fisher’s husband, Lou Bellera, on Celebrity Fight Night. In 2012, according to TMZ, Joey was talking about writing a tell-all book.
Joey Buttafuoco Daughter
Joey Buttafuoco and Mary Jo’s daughter Jessie Buttafuoco was only 9 at the time of the shooting, and she’s struggled with the family’s infamy. “Growing up for me, the performing arts was my outlet. When I was on stage, I was a character.
I wasn’t Jessie Buttafuoco, and it was so nice to get out of that reality,” Jessie told “20/20.” “My friends call me ‘Showtime’ because I can be on. I can make you laugh and I can make you happy and smile. But the real me inside is hurting, is in pain and is trying to figure out life.”
Joey Buttafuoco Movie
Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (1993) Joey Buttafuoco’s story, of how a sexy, possessive young girl destroyed his life by telling her friends the two are lovers and then shooting his wife.
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