The fall after they graduated, they got married and had two kids.
Joey worked at his dad's auto body shop.
He was an avid cocaine user and would go on binges.
They had a turbulent marriage and Mary threatened several times to leave, but didn't follow through.
Joey eventually went to rehab and got sober.
It was a bright and sunny day in Massapequa, Nassau County, New York, on May 19th, 1992.
37 year old Mary Jo Buttafuoco was on her back deck painting furniture, while her kids were at school and her husband was at work.
Her and her husband, Joey Buttafuoco, had been married for 15 years.
Mary had left the front door open as she painted.
All of the sudden the door bell rang.
When she got to the front door, on her porch, Mary saw a teenage girl with long dark hair.
As they talked, the girl looked nervous as she glanced over her shoulder at a teenaged boy sitting in the driver's seat of a car, parked across the street.
The girl said her name was Ann and that Joey was having an affair with her little sister.
The girl seemed to become more nervous and impatient as the conversation went on.
The girl said she she had proof of the affair and thrust a t shirt, with a logo from her father in law's auto body shop, in Mary's face.
Mary said that she was going to go call Joey and turned to go back inside.
As she reached for the doorknob, the girl pulled out a 25 caliber, semi automatic pistol smacked Mary on the head with it.
The girl then pulled the trigger, hitting Mary in the right side of the head.
Mary fell to the ground, severely wounded.
A family member repeatedly sexually abused her.
Then, at age 13, a man hired to work at her home raped her.
She was sexually active and had an unwanted pregnancy and abortion.
It was 1991 and she was a 16-year-old student at Kennedy High School.
Amy gets into an accident, crashing her car and her father takes her to Joey Buttafuoco dad's auto shop to get it fixed.They flirt with each other.
She crashed her car a few more times, getting minor cosmetic repairs, so she could see Joey.
One day, with her car in repair, Joey offered to drive her home. Amy invites him in for something to drink.
Joey asks to see her room.
They have their first sexual encounter.
After that, they meet in hotel rooms for the next few months.
Amy begins falling in love with Joey.
The rest of Amy's life begins to unravel.
She mentions to Joey that she is in need of money.
He suggests that she be a prostitute.
She took his suggestions and became a successful prostitute.
Amy started obsessing over Joey.
One day she gave him an ultimatum, her or Mary.
When Joey chose Mary, Amy flipped and ended the relationship.
Amy began dating Paul Makely, a co-owner of a local gym.
Shortly after, Joey and Amy resumed their affair.
She heard that Peter Guagenti could help her get a gun.
Amy, on that same evening, shared her plan with Joey, and he supplied her with tips on how to shoot his wife.
May 15: Joey contacted her to find out if she had a gun, which at that point she did not.
Amy contacted Guagenti, and the plan to kill Mary Jo was arranged.
May 17: She and Guagenti replaced his license plates with two that Amy had stolen.
11:30 a.m.- with Guagenti driving, the two went to the Buttafuoco home.
Armed with a semi-automatic gun, Amy confronted Mary Jo on her front porch. After a short conversation, shot her in the head.
She ran back to retrieve both items and then they both fled the scene.
Mary was left deafened in one ear and her face partially paralyzed.
Amy was arrested and charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a gun.
Neighbors came to Mary Jo's aid.
Emergency crews arrive and she is taken to the hospital.
After several hours in surgery, Mary Jo's condition stabilized.
The bullet remained lodged in her head, and she was in a coma.
Joey told the police that he had given advice to Amy about not paying her boyfriend's drug debt, and Makely, when finding out, sought vengeance.
Mary emerged from her coma three days later, on May 20, and began giving the police details of the shooting.
Mary Jo identified Amy as the shooter from a picture she was shown. Mary was left deafened in one ear and her face partially paralyzed.
The police, unable to locate Amy, asked Joey to contact her and find out where she was.
Amy was pulled over in her car at 6 p.m. on Merrick Road, a short distance from her home.
Amy told the police that the shooting was a mistake.
She said that the gun accidentally went off when she hit Mary on the head.
She also told them that Joey had given her the gun and that the two were lovers.
Amy's bail was set at $2 million.
Friends and former clients sold the press videos that had been secretly filmed of her, and agreed to interviews in which they would bash her character.
Mary filed a civil lawsuit against Amy for over one hundred million dollars, which was later settled for an undisclosed sum.
After two months in jail, bail was secured, but only after she agreed to give up the right's of her story to KLM Productions, which she did.
Mary filed a civil lawsuit against Amy for over one hundred million dollars, which was later settled for an undisclosed sum.
The tabloid television broadcast a snapped videotaped conversation between Fisher and Paul Makely.
The tape was recorded hours before she agreed to the plea in court. Amy could be seen talking about her future, saying that she wanted to get married to Makely so he could visit her in prison.
Amy could be seen on the tape saying:
Amy could be seen on the tape saying:
"That will keep my name in the press.
I want my name in the press.
Why? Because I can make a lot of money.
I figure if I'm going through all this pain and suffering, I'm getting a Ferrari." .
This made Amy suicidal.
This made Amy suicidal.
Her lawyer then arranged a plea agreement in which Amy would spend up to fifteen years in prison in exchange for testimony against Joey.
She would also have to plead guilty to reckless assault.
December 2, 1992: Amy accepted the plea agreement and was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison.
Part 1 Interview with Amy as she starts her prison sentence.
Part 2
February 1993: The DA charged Joey with statutory rape.
With Amy testifying about their sexual affair, Joey was indicted on felony charges of rape, sodomy, and endangering the welfare of a minor.
As evidence against him mounting, Joey pled guilty to one count of statutory rape.
He served six months in prison.
She became a columnist for the Long Island Press.
In 2003, she married a man she met online, Louis Bellera.,who is 24-years older than her.The couple had three children before divorcing in 2015.
Mary eventually filed divorce papers in Ventura County Superior Court on February 3, 2003.
In 2006, Mary underwent a facial reanimation procedure.
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