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DATE: THURSDAY, March 24, 1994                   TAG: 9403240173
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: New York Daily News
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

BUTTAFUOCO EXITS PRISON IN CELEBRITY STYLE

After serving 129 days for statutory rape, Joey Buttafuoco left jail Wednesday morning in a Rolls Royce.

Before driving off with his lawyer and the camera crew from "A Current Affair," the TV show that paid a reported $500,000 for the exclusive rights to his story, Buttafuoco spoke briefly to the horde of media that had gathered.

The spectacle drew harsh criticism from the mother of Amy Fisher, the girl Buttafuoco went to jail for having sex with while she was a minor. Roseann Fisher said: "The media attention attendant to the release of this convicted rapist is most disturbing. . . . He is a man who flaunts his indecency and disgraces his family."

by CNB