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

The pattern was virtually identical.

Between July and August 2019, intercourse worker Angelina Barini met together with her clients at motels in New York City earlier than giving them dangerous doses of medication that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the men and leave with their personal belongings.

Four of them, including a prominent Italian chef, died of overdoses from the medicine, courtroom records state.

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing medication that killed her purchasers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, recognized for causing irrational conduct, severe illness, coma and loss of life.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed multiple folks for just a few quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. legal professional for the Jap District of New York, stated in a news launch. “She stole their private belongings while they lay unconscious dying from the lethal medicine she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini did not reply to a message from The Washington Put up.

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

Every week later, on July 11, Barini had an encounter with one other man at a motel in Woodside, Queens, the place she gave him fentanyl-laced drugs. The person also died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

The next month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third sufferer in Faculty Point, Queens, and again gave him fentanyl-laced medication that led to a fatal overdose, prosecutors mentioned.

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

That day, court records state, Barini repeatedly tried to eliminate the sufferer’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s body in bleach-stained sheets and placed it inside a trash bin, in line with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors said. That very same day, the New York City Police Division found the person’s physique within the motel room.

According to court docket records, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. Once investigators made it into the room, they seen a powerful odor — that of a decomposing body and burning incense, the criticism states.

Barini advised investigators that “she didn't do it,” but in addition 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 medicine, court records state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini stated Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she awoke, Barini mentioned, he was unresponsive and bleeding from the nose and mouth. Her pimp, she added, would not let her name the police.

Fernando Dallorso, the general supervisor of Cipriani in New York, informed the New York Instances that Zamperoni was a “devoted hard employee” who cooked six days per week and “never missed a day of work.”

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

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