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

The pattern was nearly identical.

Between July and August 2019, intercourse employee Angelina Barini met along with her shoppers at motels in New York Metropolis earlier than giving them dangerous doses of drugs that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the men and go away with their private belongings.

4 of them, together with a prominent Italian chef, died of overdoses from the drugs, courtroom records state.

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing medication that killed her clients, together with fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, recognized for causing irrational conduct, severe illness, coma and demise.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed multiple people for a few quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. lawyer for the Japanese District of New York, said in a news launch. “She stole their private belongings whereas they lay unconscious dying from the lethal medication she gave them.”

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

Barini met her first victim at a motel in Astoria, Queens, on July 4, 2019. There, she gave the person fentanyl-laced drugs and left the room. Police found him lifeless hours later, courtroom records 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 medicine. The person additionally died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

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

Later that month, on Aug. 18, Barini met her final identified victim, 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 known as a “date rape” drug. The person died shortly afterward.

That day, court docket information state, Barini repeatedly tried to get rid of the victim’s physique. 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 stated. That same day, the New York Metropolis Police Department found the person’s body within the motel room.

In accordance with courtroom data, 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 body and burning incense, the complaint states.

Barini advised investigators that “she didn't do it,” but additionally that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities found several items, together with a credit card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medicine, courtroom information state.

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

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

The kitchen employees mourned the loss, Dallorso informed the Times.

“Everybody in the kitchen right now's heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso said.