Quick Biography Of Amy Fisher - Amy Fisher Biography
Amy Elizabeth Fisher was born August 21st, 1974, at 9:30, in South Nassau Community Hospital, Long Island, New York. She was born to Roseann Vise, a 29-year old Italian Catholic "Long Island girl", and Elliot Fisher a twice-divorced 39-year old Jewish Brooklyn native.
Amy grew up in a good environment on Mandalay Beach Road, in south shore of Long Island. "Stitch-n-Sew" business Fishers owned prospered, and soon both Rose and Elliot decided to open another store. They were a great team. Rose took care of upholstery work and worked cash register, Elliot took care of finances and managed familiy's stock portfolio. A month before her thirteenth birthday, as Amy was about to enter eighth grade, Fisher family moved from Mandalay to Merrick, upper-middle-class neighborhood, in which they had toured a $360,000 roomy home on Berkley Lane. It was also at this point that Amy Fisher was raped by a man who had gone to house to lay tile at her house.
When Amy was fifteen and able to apply for a junior driver's license, she did and excitedly ripped open the envelope containing it after it was mailed by Motor Vehicle Association. Her parents, noticing delight she displayed when practicing her driving on the family station wagon, gave her, for her sixteenth birthday, a beautiful but used white Dodge, Daytona. Eventually, Amy crashed car after a heated argument with her father over phone. Car was taken by Amy's father and herself, to Complete Autobody & Fender Inc., a car repair shop Joey Buttafuoco co-owned.
After an initial meeting that day, Joey began flirting with Amy, when she brought her car to shop for pinstriping or other customizing. Eventually a sexual relationship began on July 2, 1991 when Amy was sixteen. According to "Amy Fisher: My Story", their first sexual encounter occured in Amy's room after Joey drove her to her house because she had to leave her car at a sound system shop, "Audiotronics" where they were installing a new stereo in her Daytona. Soon, into their intense relationship, Joey, according to Amy, coerced her into becoming an "escort" when she totaled her Daytona and wanted a black LeBaron. After she started payments on LeBaron, payments which Joey had offered to give her, Joey told her he could no longer give her money because the business was doing bad. So, Amy, who had a new car, and no way of paying for it, and who had no way of telling her father that car was being paid by Joey because he'd discover their affair, did become and escort.
Amy charged an average of $150 dollars for forty-five minutes. She only worked in service for 6 months, and Amy also claims Joey never told her it was a sex service. Sometime after that, Amy had an ultimatum to give to Joey. It was either her or Mary Jo, and if it wasn't her, Joey would have to forget about her. When Joey refused to decide, Amy says she broke off affair. She also slit her wrists. After they got back together, Joey told Amy to join "Future Physique" a gym Paul Makely, his personal trainer co-owned. Amy promptly became Paul Makely's lover and he, among other things, taped her stripping.
Finally Amy got tired of hiding affair between Joey and herself and decided to shoot Mary Jo Buttafuoco, Joey's wife and the woman Amy believed had it all. A "very good friend" of Amy's, who is refered to as "Jane" found her a guy in Brooklyn, a drop-out college student called Peter Guagenti to drive her to Buttafuoco home in his maroon thunderbird, and get her the gun Amy needed. On May 19, 1992, Amy left school early claiming she was having a heavy period. She went to her home, where she was met by Guagenti. She handed him $800 dollars, and he gave her .25 caliber titan Amy would use. At around 12:00 o'clock in day, Amy was in front of Buttafuoco home. She asked Guagenti to wait for her, gathered a complete auto body t-shirt Joey had given her, jumped out of car, and walked toward house. Inside, in backyard, Mary Jo painted lawn furniture. She heard doorbell, and went to open door. She and Amy had a discussion that lasted for about 15 minutes.
As soon as Mary Jo got dismissive, and according to Amy told her to get the "fuck of (her) property", Amy hit her twice in the head. The second time, the gun went off.
A bullet penetrated and severed Mary Jo's carotid artery. She fell to the floor as Amy ran away. Neighbors who heard a bullet explosion rushed to her house, and called an ambulance. She was rushed to the hospital where doctors battled to save her life. They did, but her face was partially paralyzed, and she was deaf in her right ear. She had a constant ringing in it, and was in pain all day. Police showed up in the hospital and questioned Mary Jo about her assailant. When Mary Jo talked about the Complete Auto Body t-shirt the teenager had shown her as proof of the alleged affair with Joey, there was an immediate reaction from Joe Buttafuoco who said the shooter was "Mr. Fisher's daughter, Amy" (according to Casualties of Love), the Buttafuoco's official story. Joey supplied the policemen with pictures he had of Amy, which apparently had been given to him by her. He also gives them her beeper number, her phone number, and even her home address.
On May 22, after Amy Fisher left her house late at night for "a quick jog", after Joey called her on the phone at Severin's request (the phone conversation was never taped or recorded in any way), the police ran her down. She was removed from her black LeBaron and taken to a small questioning room in headquarters. They kept her there until the next morning. It took a full night of questioning to get Amy to tell her story. Eventually she also signed a written confession. Angered by Mary Jo's dismissiveness, she'd struck her in the head twice. The second time, the gun went off. Amy was then officially arrested for attempted murder.
Bail had been set at $2 million dollars, the highest in the history of Long Island for a non-homicide.
Amy was finally sentenced to reckless assault, with judge claiming she had "stalked Mary Jo Buttafuoco like a wild animal stalks its prey". Amy was wisked off to Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Connecticut to serve out her five-to-fifteen year prison sentence. Officials there had been outraged by Amy's flip comments in the "Paul Makely tape", and she was then remanded to Albion Correctional Facility in upstate New York. Quickly, problems for Amy started there. A tv news crew went to the prison and filmed other inmated claiming it was only a matter of time before Amy got hurt because she was snotty and received thousands of letters and notoriety every day.
Prison life was anything but peaceful for Amy. A short time after she was put behind bars in 1994, guards began raping Amy Fisher. In the prison's library, in the stairwells, and in deserted areas of her dormitory. Less than a year into her sentence, in 1993, Amy was threatened by an inmate. Jail spokesman tried to portray Amy as a whining baby. After stating she had requested protective custody, he said "she ought to learn to get along with the general prison population. She'll be with us for a long time". He tried, and maybe succeeded in turning Amy "the whistle-blower" into Amy "the trouble maker". Guards gave Amy disciplinary tickets for things she hadn't done.
Threats and rapes were unbearable for Amy Fisher, and as she reported to Geraldo Rivera on Geraldo Rivera Show they put a guard who had raped her back on her unit, and he smirked at her like saying "yeah, I know you know and they don't care" so she had it. She reported it to prison authorities, they did nothing. Heartbroken, at the closing months of 1996, Amy took her claims to court. She had a very damaging piece of evidence: A panty with semen, which matched that of a guard, who had, coincidentally, resigned within days lawsuit was filed. Amy and her mom also presented to judge, 22 phone calls that Sgt. Robert Schwartz had made to her mother while Amy was briefly transferred to another prison. An inmate, convicted drug dealer Lillian "Lucky" Nieves, testified that Amy obtained the semen after having consensual sex with a guard, and that the whole thing was a scheme Amy had cooked up to get a transfer out of Albion. She also said Amy had discussed plan with her and told her Albion was driving her crazy and she feared she wouldn't be paroled if she stayed there. Lillian was transferred a few hours after testifying against Amy, to a detox center she had wanted to be in.
Judge Arcara was weak, and said he didn't believe Amy. He denied and dismissd her request for a transfer and claimed the complaint read more like a "cheap dime store novel" than a pleading in federal court. He also said her testimony was "highly suspect and unsupported by the record", and that her complaint had "severe credibility problems". He seemed to ignore the panties, as well as the tapes. The corrections officials once again turned Amy "the whistle-blower" into Amy "the trouble-maker", by claiming she had brought the lawsuit, simply to be moved to another prison, closer to her Long Island home. Parole board was unfair in denying parole because all they did was describe Amy's crime, committed 5 years ago, and said that her release at this time was "incompatible with the welfare of the community". They also said she had had the opportunity to stop the crime or halt at any time but had chosen to go on.
