Joey Buttafuoco Biography

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Joseph "Joey" Buttafuoco (born March 11, 1956) made headlines in 1992 for his affair with Amy Fisher, who subsequently shot Joey's wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, in the face. Mary Jo was not killed.

Buttafuoco was a Massapequa, New York, auto body shop owner in 1992 when Fisher shot his wife, who survived the shooting. Amy Fisher, at the age of 17, served seven years in prison for the shooting. Buttafuoco pleaded guilty to one count of statutory rape, for his affair with Amy Fisher, and served four months in jail. He and his wife later moved to California and divorced in 2003.

Buttafuoco has been charged with crimes on numerous occasions since the Amy Fisher incident.

• In 1995, he pleaded no contest on a solicitation of prostitution charge and was fined and placed on probation for two years.
  
• In 2004, he was sentenced to a year in jail and five years of probation after pleading guilty to auto insurance fraud.
  
• In August 2005, he was charged with illegal possession of ammunition due to his convicted felon status. Probation officers found the ammunition during a search of his home. He plead no contest in July 2006 and was ordered to report to jail on November 1, 2006.. He was granted a postponement of this sentence to Jan. 8, 2007.
  

Media appearances

• During Madonna's appearance on Saturday Night Live, at the end of a song, she held up a photo of Joey Buttafuoco and, saying "fight the real enemy", tore it up. This was a spoof of Sinéad O'Connor's controversial SNL appearance where she did the same to a picture of Pope John Paul II.
  
• Buttafuoco took part in the Fox network's Celebrity Boxing, originally slated to take on John Wayne Bobbitt. Bobbitt dropped out and was replaced by female pro wrestler Joanie "Chyna" Laurer. Buttafuoco, being heavily booed, won the fight in a split decision.
  
• Joey Buttafuoco and Amy Fisher reunited at the 2006 Lingerie Bowl for the coin toss.
  

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