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, sex worker Angelina Barini met along with her clients at motels in New York Metropolis before giving them harmful doses of medicine that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the men and leave with their personal belongings.

4 of them, together with a distinguished Italian chef, died of overdoses from the drugs, court data state.

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing medication that killed her purchasers, together with fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, identified for inflicting irrational habits, extreme illness, coma and dying.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed a number of folks for a couple of quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Japanese District of New York, mentioned in a information release. “She stole their private belongings while they lay unconscious dying from the deadly medicine she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini didn't respond 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 man fentanyl-laced medicine and left the room. Police discovered him lifeless hours later, court docket records state.

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

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

Later that month, on Aug. 18, Barini met her last identified victim, 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 often called a “date rape” drug. The man died shortly afterward.

That day, court docket data state, Barini repeatedly tried to get rid of the sufferer’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, according to prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors stated. That same day, the New York Metropolis Police Department found the person’s body in the motel room.

In accordance with court information, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. Once investigators made it into the room, they observed a strong odor — that of a decomposing body and burning incense, the grievance states.

Barini advised investigators that “she did not do it,” but also that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities found several gadgets, together with a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medication, court docket information state.

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

Fernando Dallorso, the general manager of Cipriani in New York, told the New York Occasions that Zamperoni was a “dedicated hard worker” who cooked six days per week and “by no means missed a day of work.”

The kitchen staff mourned the loss, Dallorso informed the Instances.

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