New York sex worker Angelina Barini sentenced to 30 years for fatally drugging 4 men

The pattern was almost equivalent.

Between July and August 2019, intercourse worker Angelina Barini met with her purchasers at motels in New York City before giving them harmful doses of medication that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the men and go away with their private belongings.

4 of them, including a prominent Italian chef, died of overdoses from the medication, court docket records state.

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing medicine that killed her purchasers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, recognized for inflicting irrational behavior, extreme illness, coma and dying.

Final week, a judge sentenced the 43-year-old Barini to 30 years in prison.

“The defendant drugged and killed a number of individuals for a number of fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. lawyer for the Jap District of New York, stated in a news launch. “She stole their private belongings whereas they lay unconscious dying from the deadly drugs she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini didn't reply to a message from The Washington Put up.

Barini met her first sufferer at a motel in Astoria, Queens, on July 4, 2019. There, she gave the man fentanyl-laced medication and left the room. Police found him dead hours later, court information state.

A week later, on July 11, Barini had an encounter with another man at a motel in Woodside, Queens, where she gave him fentanyl-laced medication. The man additionally died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

The following month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third sufferer in College Level, Queens, and once more gave him fentanyl-laced medicine that led to a fatal overdose, prosecutors said.

Later that month, on Aug. 18, Barini met her final known sufferer, Andrea Zamperoni — a chef for the high-end restaurant chain Cipriani — inside an Elmhurst, Queens, motel room, the place she drugged him with gamma-butyrolactone, commonly often known as a “date rape” drug. The person died shortly afterward.

That day, court information state, Barini repeatedly tried to dispose of the sufferer’s body. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and placed it inside a trash bin, in accordance with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors said. That same day, the New York Metropolis Police Division discovered the man’s body in the motel room.

Based on courtroom records, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. Once investigators made it into the room, they noticed a powerful odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the complaint states.

Barini told investigators that “she did not do it,” but also that her “pimp” made her do it. Contained in the motel room, authorities discovered several objects, including a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke drugs, courtroom data state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini said Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for sex. When she woke up, Barini said, he was unresponsive and bleeding from the nostril and mouth. Her pimp, she added, would not let her call the police.

Fernando Dallorso, the overall manager of Cipriani in New York, advised the New York Occasions that Zamperoni was a “dedicated exhausting worker” who cooked six days a week and “never missed a day of work.”

The kitchen staff mourned the loss, Dallorso instructed the Occasions.

“Everybody within the kitchen proper now could be heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso stated.