Joey Buttafuoco

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 at a New York auto body shop owner in 1992 when Fisher shot his wife, Mary Jo. Fisher, at the age of 17, served seven years in prison.

Buttafuoco pleaded guilty to one count of statutory rape and served four months in jail. He and his wife later moved to California and divorced.

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 and pleaded not guilty.

In 2005, he was in the process of producing an autobiographical motion picture.

On 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 Sinead O'Connor's controversial SNL appearance where did the same to a picture of Pope John Paul II.

On November 4, 2005 on The Tonight Show, Jennifer Love Hewitt confirmed reports that he was working in catering for movies and television. Hewitt said Buttafuoco served ice cream on the set of her show Ghost Whisperer during a Halloween party.

Creator and Executive Producer of Ghost Whisperer James Van Praagh, who claims to be a psychic medium, admits to having once performed a private reading for Buttafuoco, in early 2003. Buttafuoco was said to have desired psychic contact with his deceased father Paul Buttafuoco, a convicted child molester who served 13 years, and died, in New York State's Clinton Correctional Facility, Dannemora.

On March 31, 2006 San Fernando Superior Court Judge Sanjay Kumar ruled there was enough evidence to order the 50-year-old to face trial on a felony charge of possession of ammunition, which stems from a search last August of Buttafuoco's Chatsworth home.