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.
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. 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 following 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, now 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 moved to California and divorced in 2003. Mary Jo, who remains partially paralyzed from the shooting, is engaged.
Joey Buttafuoco, who has remarried, was sentenced in March 2004 to a year in jail and five years' probation after pleading guilty to felony insurance fraud. In August, he pleaded not guilty to charges that he violated probation by possessing ammunition.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
"It's time to just put it behind us," Fisher, now 31, told the newspaper.
Fortunately, the rest of us have already put it behind us. In the sense that we don't give a crap. And I don't think you can say you're putting it behind you by dragging the whole thing up again. But if they must, I'm sure Springer would love to have them as guests.
"There's going to be a lot of shocking revelations"
If he's never been able to get answers, how does he know there will be shocking revelations?
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
This is a tsunami of hyperrealism to my poor little brain. Wonder if Miss Buttafuoco is related to Umberto Eco.
Posted by Not Invented Here (Member # 1606) on :
Am I allowed to be horribly immature for a second?
Buttafuoco
Are you sure the date on this isn't April 1st?
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
If only it were.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Other televised reunions we'd like to see:
Catching Just Desserts: OJ Simpson Has Dinner with the Families of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman
Cutting Ties: The Bobbitt Family Reunion Three's a Crowd: The Clintons Vacation with Monica Lewinsky
When Fans Attack: Jodie Foster and Ron Hinkley Jr. Together at Last
Unimpeachable: The Reunion of Mark Felt and the Ghost of Richard Nixon
Posted by Toadkiller (Member # 425) on :
You know - that little synopsis up there is the first I knew why any of those people were in the news.
I'm pretty sure I was in college during that time. Maybe I was drunk, what am I saying - of course I was drunk.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
I never heard of them either. But then again I was only 9 years old at the time.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I've got a Soul Coughing song that is so on-topic here.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
To Siggy's list I'd probably add having the Menendez brothers going round their old house with a spiritualist or medium or whatever. If I've actally got the name right. And if they're still alive.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Alive, but serving paroleless life sentences.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
quote: "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, now 49.
Maybe it's because your an ass who ruined the life of a young girl.
to Not Invented Here:
Buttafuoco is the guy's real name, just like a fella on TV I saw called Guy Penis. There's nothing funny about Mr. Penis.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
- William Shatner and his first hairpiece. - Tonya Harding and what she uses that billy club for NOW. - Mike Tyson and Alfred P. Newman in "Lend me your ears"
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Didn't Shatner just sell his kidney stone for charity?
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
He sure did.
I think the lucky fan plans to put it in his collection next to DeForest Kelley's tape worm.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I am almost certain it was purchased by online gambling concern (and frequent eBay oddity purchaser) GoldenPalace.com.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: I've got a Soul Coughing song that is so on-topic here.
Their music goes well wiith just about anything, I find.
er....not funerals though. I'll be hearing complaints on that for a while
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