A nervous Amy Fisher goes before the parole board today, hoping to be released soon and looking forward to a new job and – someday – marriage and a family.
And the now-grownup Long Island Lolita has a new boss lined up to help her get started.
The woman, “Sue,” told The Post yesterday she volunteered to help Fisher because she “felt badly for her. I think she got the raw end of the deal.”
“I felt she had been misled by so many men in the past and her life had, basically, been destroyed by it. I felt she needed a friend,” said Sue, who has met with Fisher at the Albion Correctional Facility, near Rochester.
“I walked out of there thinking she deserved a second chance. She wants everyone to leave her alone. She wants to lead a normal life, she wants to have kids.”
Fisher’s lawyer, Bruce Barket, said if all goes well at the parole hearing, she could be out within a week.
Fisher, 24, is nervous about today’s interview, he said, but also hopeful about her new life. It includes moving in with her mom, Rose, the new job, counseling – and hopes to someday marry and have children.
After an emotional court hearing two weeks ago on Long Island, Fisher – tears streaming down her face – told Barket in a holding cell that she was “so, so sorry” for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the head in 1992.
The hearing was the first time Fisher had apologized to her victim face-to-face and the first time she took full responsibility for her actions, without blaming her behavior on Mary Jo’s husband, Joey, who had an affair with the underage Fisher.
Fisher, Barket said, rejected praise for shouldering full blame for shooting Mary Jo in the head.
“All I did was apologize seven years too late for something I should never have done in the first place,” Barket quoted Fisher as saying.
Barket said Fisher will work for Sue in a job “that touches on fashion” – somewhere off Long Island.
“In a way, she’s a big sister,” to Fisher, Barket said of Amy’s new boss.
Fisher has spent 6 years behind bars for the May 1992 shooting.