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Joey Buttafuoco

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  • Mary Jo Buttafuoco marries in Vegas

    shot by Wantagh native Fisher, a 17-year-old senior at John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore, who was having an affair with Joey Buttafuoco, then 36. Though Mary Jo was shot in the face, the bullet -- still lodged near her spine -- did not enter her brain.   Read more »

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About Joey Buttafuoco

Joseph "Joey" Buttafuoco (born March 11, 1956) made headlines in 1992 for his affair with then underage Amy Fisher, who subsequently shot Joey's wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco (born May 15, 1955), in the face. Although deafened in one ear and her face partially paralyzed, Mary Jo survived the shooting and was able to give a description of a t-shirt her assailant had been wearing. The t-shirt, emblazoned with the logo of Buttafuoco's auto body shop in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York, had been a gift from Joey to Fisher. Joey Buttafuoco realized the implications of the description and accused Fisher as the shooter.

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