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- <text id=92TT2193>
- <title>
- Oct. 05, 1992: Lolita Pleads Guilty
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Oct. 05, 1992 LYING:Everybody's Doin' It (Honest)
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 22
- SOCIETY
- Lolita Pleads Guilty
- </hdr><body>
- <p>A Long Island teen faces prison for shooting her alleged lover's
- wife
- </p>
- <p> Tabloid readers who looked forward to a lurid trial of Amy
- Fisher, the New York teenager turned call girl, will have to
- settle for the Hollywood version of the saga. In a plea bargain,
- Fisher, 18, admitted her guilt in the May 19 shooting of Mary
- Jo Buttafuoco, a Long Island housewife. In exchange, Fisher will
- be sentenced in December to five to 15 years in prison for
- first-degree assault, a reduced charge with the possibility of
- work release in three years. Fisher has said that at 16, she
- became sexually involved with Mrs. Buttafuoco's husband Joseph,
- who is 36.
- </p>
- <p> Marvyn Kornberg, Joseph Buttafuoco's attorney, denounced
- the plea bargain as "a stone-cold sellout," a deal to allow
- Fisher to testify against his client on statutory rape charges.
- Mrs. Buttafuoco, who has supported her husband's claim that he
- was never involved with Fisher, was likewise furious over the
- deal. Said she: `The bullet couldn't kill me, but the judicial
- system surely will."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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