Crime & Justice

Crying Killer of Elderly Singing Coach Pisses Off Judge

‘REALLY CONCERNED’

Lauren Pazienza got an extra six months tacked onto her plea-deal sentence for her “apparent inability to take responsibility.”

Lauren Pazienza
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A 28-year-old event planner who fatally shoved an elderly Broadway singing coach for no apparent reason last year got an extra six months tacked onto the eight-year sentence under her plea deal by a fed-up judge. “I am really concerned by your apparent inability to take responsibility for your actions,” Justice Felicia Mennin told a weeping Lauren Pazienza on Friday. Pazienza downplayed her culpability to a probation officer and denied in court that she had called 87-year-old grandma Barbara Gustern a “bitch” before drunkenly pushing her down and stalking off.

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