NYC event planner Lauren Pazienza indicted for attack on Broadway singing coach

New York Metropolis occasion planner Lauren Pazienza was indicted Friday in connection to the demise of a beloved 87-year-old Broadway singing coach, as her lawyer griped about her portrayal within the press.

NYC EVENTS COORDINATOR LAUREN PAZIENZA ‘STILL TOGETHER’ WITH FIANCE AFTER ELDERLY SHOVING DEATH: SOURCES

The precise costs towards Pazienza, 26, stay sealed, however she was arrested on first-degree manslaughter and assault raps for allegedly shoving Barbara Gustern so onerous, she fell and struck her head on the pavement. 

She didn’t seem in Manhattan Prison Court docket for the temporary listening to, however her lawyer, Arthur Aidala, mentioned that her mother and father had posted her bond, and she or he was anticipated to be launched from Rikers Island later Friday. 

Pazienza has been locked up on the notorious jail on $500,000 money bail over $1 million bond since surrendering Tuesday. 

Aidala informed a gaggle of reporters gathered outdoors the courtroom Friday that his shopper wasn’t from a rich household. 

“I really like how her father is being portrayed as some massive shot wealthy man,” Aidala mentioned of Dan Pazienza, who owns Suffolk County Cesspool Service, a sewer firm ran out of a modest workplace in Holtsville, Lengthy Island.  “He actually, actually digs holes the place our human waste goes in, and he works by himself with two helpers with a shovel digging ditches.” 

Lauren Pazienza’s mugshot beside a photograph Barbara Gustern
( Tumblr/ Barbara Gustern/Fb)

 Lauren Pazienza, who had labored as an occasion coordinator for luxurious furnishings model Roche and Bobois, has been dubbed a “cesspool scion” and a “socialite.” 

The Vogue Institute of Expertise graduate’s mother and father purchased their residence in an upscale suburb in Port Jefferson, New York, for about $570,000 in 2017, public information present.

“She is much from a younger lady who grew up in a really spoiled, privileged setting,” mentioned Aidala, who added that her fiancé, Microsoft worker Naveen Pereira, is standing by her. 

The couple’s marriage ceremony was scheduled for June – but it surely’s unclear if they’ll go ahead with the ceremony.

That can be a private matter for them to debate,” Aidala mentioned of the nuptials. “The entire household is traumatized however everybody may be very supportive of her.”

The mother and father of Lauren Pazienza go away legal courtroom trailed by members of the media after their daughter’s arraignment Tuesday, March 22, 2022. (AP Picture/John Minchillo)

Prosecutors say that Pazienza, who didn’t know Gustern, known as her a “bi—” earlier than pushing her March 10 in what they described as an unprovoked assault. Gustern bled profusely earlier than dropping consciousness and later died of her accidents. 

No motive has been supplied for the violent outburst towards the famed voice sofa whose college students have included Debbie Harry.

Former classmates informed Fox Information Digital that Pazienza, who has no prior legal document, was a bully in class. 

She’s due again in courtroom April 25. If convicted of the highest cost, she faces as much as 25 years in jail.