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Growing Up Buttafuoco

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

The "Long Island Lolita" story through the eyes of Mary Jo and Joey Buttafuoco and their daughter, Jessie, just nine-years-old at the time of the shooting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Jesse but a few go you may recognize the name but a few go our name

0:11.0

means fire thrower but the fool go grown fire you know and now it means a joke

0:17.1

like top 10 list on David Letterman number three get one more cheap laugh by

0:22.0

saying the word but a fool call it all started in May of 1992 with a gun shot

0:30.0

and from then on life as I knew it was insane you may even recognize the

0:36.0

story but I'm here to tell you you don't know the real story there were only

0:40.8

two people on that step that they me and her she was there to kill me a teenager

0:45.0

shows up at a door and she shoots her face what she is accused of an affair

0:52.0

with a married man more than twice her age she is in jail and charges of trying

0:55.8

to kill his wife but who is Amy Fisher Amy Fisher the villain dun dun dun

1:01.7

well I guess there's a few villains in this story Joey Buddha Fuku Joey knew

1:06.1

of my intentions towards his wife this phenomenon starts to happen it's not

1:11.7

about me anymore it's not about the person who got shot and

1:14.9

assassinated on the front of her own home it becomes about Joey and Amy it

1:20.0

took on a life on its own they wanted to get big bad Joey lights camera action

1:24.4

Joey loves that tell us your side Joey right this story has never gone away

1:29.3

it's been told a million times I got shot in the head she did it and he had

1:34.4

something to do with it too now is the time to talk about it and not drown

1:39.6

myself in booze and drugs when I kind of made it my mission is I'm gonna make

1:46.2

this name something again because it turned to if one man can change the

1:51.1

meaning of a name one woman can change it back and I'm that woman let's start

2:04.2

at the very beginning this is Buddha Fuku 101 here are the players we have my

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