Amy Fisher may have inspired NYPD cop’s murder-for-hire plot
Looks like the “Long Island Lolita” may be inspiring a new generation of violent vixens.
Valerie Cincinelli, 35, the NYPD officer accused of trying to arrange a hit on her estranged husband and a teenage girl, spent time Googling the infamous 1992 Amy Fisher case as she was plotting her ultimately failed assassination attempt, new court papers allege.
Fisher, now 44, was just 17 when she blasted the wife of her boyfriend, Joey Buttafuoco’s, in the face as part of a lover’s triangle that became a major tabloid sensation.
Cincinelli apparently searched online for the terms “amy buttafuoco” and “dominic barbara” — who was Joey Buttafuoco’s lawyer — between April 12 and 16, weeks before her May arrest, according to new court papers.
“As the Court may recall, in 1992, Amy Fisher, a Long Island teenager, was carrying on a love affair with a married man named Joey Buttafuoco,” prosecutors wrote. “Fisher shot Buttafuoco’s wife [Mary Jo] in the head, severely wounding her; conduct for which Fisher pled guilty to assault and served seven years in prison.”
Fisher, who last year was found to be earning cash performing online peep shows, didn’t return a call on Monday.
While looking up the scandalous case, Cincinelli, 35, was allegedly also searching for information on her lover’s teenage daughter.
The cop was accused last month of giving her older boyfriend John DiRubba, 54, $7,000 to arrange hits one both her estranged husband, Isaiah Carvalho, 32, and on DiRubba’s own daughter, who was just 15.
The papers, filed Friday in Central Islip federal court, allege that Cincinelli was jealous of the money her beau was spending on designer handbags, “fake nails every week,” private school and other luxuries for the girl.
Text messages that Cincinelli sent to DiRubba allegedly show her repeatedly complaining about the girl’s lifestyle and “sarcastically mocking” DiRubba, writing: “You can’t pay your mortgage,” “She’s got Louis Vuitton bags.”
The feds also say that Cincinelli “did not wish to share her pension” with her estranged husband.
“I’m really pissed off w this pension s–t,” she allegedly texted on April 16, the same day she conducted “multiple” searches on her cellphone for the phrase “if your ex dies do you get your whole pension,” the feds say.
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Prosecutors presented the messages to oppose bail for Cincinelli, arguing that they show her “dangerousness” and motive to harm the alleged targets.
Cincinelli was busted for the heinous scheme May 17 after her estranged husband worked with the feds to stage his own death and her boyfriend showed her a cellphone photo of the purported assassination. DiRubba also recorded conversations relating to the alleged murder plot.
Her defense lawyer, James Kousouros, argued in a filing Monday that the text messages cited by prosecutors actually show that his client was angry with her lover — and not his daughter.
“All these texts reflect Ms. Cincinelli’s frustration with her belief that her boyfriend, who admits in texts, taking money from her,” Kousouros said.
Kousouros denied that Cincinelli gave DiRubba $7,000 to arrange the hits, but said she allowed him to borrow the cash in February to buy gold coins.
Additional reporting by Bruce Golding and Tamar Lapin