Joey Buttafuoco, who gained infamy when his 17-year-old lover,Amy Fisher, shot his wife, recently pleaded guilty to autoinsurance fraud and was sentenced to a year in jail, five years ofprobation, and more than $4,600 in restitution, according to theLos Angeles County District Attorney's Office. As a result of aplea agreement, two counts of insurance fraud and one count ofgrand theft involving his body shop were dropped.

Following Fisher's assault on his wife, Buttafuoco, a LongIsland, N.Y., auto body shop owner, emigrated to California's SanFernando Valley, where he became the co-owner of CaliforniaCollision of Chatsworth. A sting operation last December netted 11owners or employees of Southern California auto repair shops,including Buttafuoco. Prosecutors alleged that Buttafuoco toldundercover investigators how to file phony insurance claims forundamaged cars.

The California State Bureau of Automotive Repair also filed anaction to suspend or revoke California Collision's license. Thebureau alleged that the shop had charged customers more than$12,000 for repair work that was not done.

Buttafuoco's legal troubles were not confined to statutory rapeand fraud. In 1995, he pleaded no contest to a charge of solicitingsex from an undercover policewoman in Los Angeles, which earned himmore than two months in jail in New York for probationviolation.