Amy Fisher, Jailed in N.Y. Love Triangle Shooting, Leaves Prison

Amy Fisher, dubbed the “Long Island Lolita” after her affair with an older man exploded into the headlines when she shot his wife in the head, walked out of prison Monday after nearly seven years behind bars.

Now 24, Fisher, who as a teenager was the star of the bizarre real-life soap opera that spawned television dramas, books and countless headlines, said nothing as she left the Albion Correctional Facility in western New York, accompanied by her mother.

Fisher had been in prison since 1992, when she pleaded guilty to shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the head while standing on the porch of the woman’s home in the suburban Long Island town of Massapequa.

Fisher, then 16, was having an affair with Buttafuoco’s 38-year-old husband, Joey, the owner of an automobile body shop. He later served six months in jail for statutory rape.

Fisher was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree assault in 1992. Last month, a judge resentenced her to a shorter prison term, making her eligible for parole. Last week, the New York Parole Board granted her release after she apologized and Mary Jo Buttafuoco publicly forgave her.