Mary Jo Buttafuoco

Who knew that getting attacked by a hooker could be so great for your career? Mary Jo Buttafuoco-- everyone's favorite Long Island housewife/victim-- is proving that a little gunshot to the face can be a silver bullet for success! Already a New York Times bestselling author with her classic memoir GETTING IT THROUGH MY THICK SKULL , Mary Jo is now poised to add reality TV star to her lengthy resume. All she needs to do next is marry into royalty and she'll be as accomplished at the Real Housewives' Mrs. The Countess LuAnn DeLesseps! Publisher's Marketplace reports: Mary Jo Buttafuoco's NYT bestseller, GETTING ... Read Full Story

Though she’s not a psychologist, being Joey Buttafuoco ’s ex-wife may make Mary Jo Buttafuoco uniquely qualified to identify sociopaths and according to the woman made famous by being shot in the head by Amy Fisher , disgraced financier Bernard Madoff is a card carrier. “He’s like a white-collar sociopath,” Mary Jo told the Radio Happy Hour , “People trusted their life savings to this man. Obviously, he was a very well-liked, well-beloved man that he could get thousands of people involved with him, without anyone realizing what he was doing.” “They look OK, they fit right in, they don’t have this wild look ... Read Full Story

This week on Dr. Blogstein’s Radio Happy Hour : Mary Jo Buttafuoco had it all until a fateful day in 1992 when she was shot in the head by Amy Fisher on her own front porch in Massapequa, N.Y. In her new book, “ Getting It Through My Thick Skull: Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need to Know ,” she answers the question everyone has been asking: Why did she stand by her husband, Joey Buttafuoco, as he and Fisher continued to make news? She reveals new private details about her struggles and helps people ... Read Full Story

Mary Jo Buttafuoco's New Book Aims to Help Others Living With 'Sociopaths' By LEE FERRAN Seventeen years after she was shot in the face by her then husband's teenage lover, Mary Jo Buttafuoco called her ex-husband Joey Buttafuoco a "sociopath and a liar." "I believed him when he said he had nothing to do with her [shooter Amy Fisher]," Mary Jo told "Good Morning America" today in an exclusive interview. "He was a very good sociopath and a liar. ...When I thought about it and looked it up on the Internet, and looked at sociopathic tendencies ... I said 'Oh my God.'" Joey filled ... Read Full Story

Joey Buttafuoco On Monday July 27, 2009 the ex-wife of Joey Buttafuoco, Mary Jo, went on Good Morning America and called him a sociopath. The ex-lover of the so called “Long Island Lolita” wasted no time in putting his response on the record: In a statement , Joey Buttafuoco told ABC he would prefer to be diagnosed as a sociopath by a doctor, rather than his ex-wife. He said he felt “victimized” by her characterization. He also said he was nothing but the best for Mary Jo. Of course, Mr. Buttafuoco has said a lot of things. He insisted during Amy’s prosecution that he ... Read Full Story