Amy Elizabeth Fisher (born August 21, 1974) is an American woman who became known as «the Long Island Lolita» by the media in 1992, when, at the age of 17, she shot and severely wounded Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her illicit lover, Joey Buttafuoco. Initially charged with first-degree attempted murder, she eventually pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated assault and served seven years in prison. Paroled in 1999, Fisher became a writer and a pornographic actress.
Fisher was born in Merrick, on Long Island, New York, to Elliot and Roseann Fisher; her father was Jewish while her mother’s family, Fisher said, was «was a mixture of a lot of different things, including English.» As a 16-year-old student at Kennedy High School in Bellmore, New York, Fisher began a sexual relationship with 35-year-old Joey Buttafuoco after damaging the car her parents had given her for her 16th birthday and appealing to Buttafuoco, owner of the body shop to which she took it, to make the repairs without her family knowing of the damage.