In 1992, Amy Fisher, a teen girl from Long Island became a tabloid sensation almost overnight – when she shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her much older “boyfriend” Joey Buttafuoco. Within days, the New York Daily News would splash a picture of Amy across its front page with a headline that would follow her forever: The Long Island Lolita. In this episode, Susie and Jess interrogate the way Amy Fisher was covered and examine why her story gripped the nation.

Guests:
Amy Pagnozzi, former and longtime New York Post columnist who covered the Amy Fisher trial

FOR MORE:
Long Island Lolita (Daily News, 1992)
Treachery in the Suburbs (People, 1992)
Inside Edition Flashback: Amy Fisher Sentencing (YouTube)

In 1992, Amy Fisher, a teen girl from Long Island became a tabloid sensation almost overnight – when she shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her much older “boyfriend” Joey Buttafuoco. Within days, the New York Daily News would splash a picture of Amy across its front page with a headline that would follow her forever: The Long Island Lolita. In this episode, Susie and Jess interrogate the way Amy Fisher was covered and examine why her story gripped the nation.
Guests:
<ul>
<li>Amy Pagnozzi, former and longtime New York Post columnist who covered the Amy Fisher trial</li>
</ul>
FOR MORE:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2015/05/20/amy-fisher-the-long-island-lolita-was-arrested-in-1992/">Long Island Lolita</a> (Daily News, 1992)</li>
<li><a href="https://people.com/archive/treachery-in-the-suburbs-vol-37-no-25/">Treachery in the Suburbs</a> (People, 1992)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg-vWUbYAbU">Inside Edition Flashback: Amy Fisher Sentencing</a> (YouTube)</li>
</ul>

Is there a cultural moment from your past that looks different in retrospect? Maybe it’s a scandalous tabloid story seared into your teenage brain or a political punchline that just feels wrong now. It might be a very specific red swimsuit that inspired a decade of plastic surgery (see: “Baywatch”) or the inescapable smell of an entire generation of prepubescent boys (Axe body spray, anyone?). Each week on IN RETROSPECT, Emmy-winning journalist Susie Banikarim and New York Times editor Jessica Bennett revisit a pop culture moment from the 80s and 90s that shaped them — to try to understand what it taught us about the world, and a woman’s place in it.

Talk to us at @inretropod, @susiebnyc and @jessicabennett on Instagram. New episodes each Friday.

Is there a cultural moment from your past that looks different in retrospect? Maybe it’s a scandalous tabloid story seared into your teenage brain or a political punchline that just feels wrong now. It might be a very specific red swimsuit that inspired a decade of plastic surgery (see: “Baywatch”) or the inescapable smell of an entire generation of prepubescent boys (Axe body spray, anyone?). Each week on IN RETROSPECT, Emmy-winning journalist Susie Banikarim and New York Times editor Jessica Bennett revisit a pop culture moment from the 80s and 90s that shaped them — to try to understand what it taught us about the world, and a woman’s place in it.
Talk to us at @inretropod, @susiebnyc and @jessicabennett on Instagram. New episodes each Friday.

In Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett

‘Long Island Lolita’ (Pt 1): Amy Fisher Becomes a Trope

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/0cca14b6-48fe-41b9-b951-b0ae01479141/transcript

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