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Kristine Anzalone sat with a pinched expression on her face yesterday as a judge told her that she would have to pay $10,000 in hospital bills for the roommate she poisoned with Visine.
Anzalone, 25, now of East Rockaway, pleaded guilty to spiking her roommate's iced tea, leaving him vomiting and bleeding from his rectum, prosecutors said. In addition to paying his medical bills, she will serve 3 years' probation and must obey an order of protection, acting State Supreme Court Justice William Donnino ruled in Mineola.
Anzalone had also been charged with taunting her roommate's pit bull into killing his Chihuahua, but those charges were later dropped.
The roommate, Joseph Gentissi Jr., was not in court yesterday, and a working number could not be found for him.
Wait a minute? Fair to both parties?? I think not:
from imdb:
Owen Wilson's film Wedding Crashers has been blamed for inspiring a New York woman to poison her housemate by putting eye drops in his iced tea.
The prank is depicted in the 2005 comedy, where Wilson's character squirts the solution into a love rival's drink - causing a potentially fatal concoction that constricts blood vessels when ingested.
Kristine Anzalone, 25, was sentenced to three years' probation and ordered to pay her victim's medical expenses after pleading guilty to misdemeanour assault.
But Joseph Gentissi, the victim of the 2006 incident, is dissatisfied with the ruling.
He tells the New York Post: "It's not fair. This is a woman who tried to poison me. She should have been charged with attempted murder. We were hoping she was going to get a strong sentence. She took it as a big joke. She set out to hurt me and she sure did."
A spokesperson for Wilson could not be reached as WENN went to press.
The victim just waid it wasn't fair.
First, I now no longer trust any media statement statements that a "fair" settlement has been reached.
Secondly, I agree with the victim. Honestly, I think she got off easy because ...I'd hate to say it ... she is a young, pretty woman... if it was a man, the person would get a tougher sentence. Pardon me, women, for saying so. I just believe it.
Anzalone, a hairdresser with the ends of her blond hair dyed hot pink, declined to comment as she stormed out of court.
Prosecutors said Anzalone and her then-husband, Christopher Anzalone, lived with Gentissi from March to early July 2006 in North Bellmore. Anzalone, who was pregnant at the time, felt that Gentissi was creating an unsafe environment for her unborn child by smoking in the house, among other things, said her lawyer, Nancy Bartling of Mineola.
One day in June 2006, Gentissi was cleaning the garage when Anzalone served him iced tea that was spiked with an unknown amount of Visine, an over-the-counter eyedrop medicine for dry or bloodshot eyes, prosecutors said. Visine contains tetrahydrozoline, a chemical that constricts blood vessels.
"It's a disposition that was fair to both parties," Bartling said of the plea deal.
Kristine Anzalone sat with a pinched expression on her face yesterday as a judge told her that she would have to pay $10,000 in hospital bills for the roommate she poisoned with Visine.
Anzalone, 25, now of East Rockaway, pleaded guilty to spiking her roommate's iced tea, leaving him vomiting and bleeding from his rectum, prosecutors said. In addition to paying his medical bills, she will serve 3 years' probation and must obey an order of protection, acting State Supreme Court Justice William Donnino ruled in Mineola.
Anzalone had also been charged with taunting her roommate's pit bull into killing his Chihuahua, but those charges were later dropped.
The roommate, Joseph Gentissi Jr., was not in court yesterday, and a working number could not be found for him.
Wait a minute? Fair to both parties?? I think not:
from imdb:
Owen Wilson's film Wedding Crashers has been blamed for inspiring a New York woman to poison her housemate by putting eye drops in his iced tea.
The prank is depicted in the 2005 comedy, where Wilson's character squirts the solution into a love rival's drink - causing a potentially fatal concoction that constricts blood vessels when ingested.
Kristine Anzalone, 25, was sentenced to three years' probation and ordered to pay her victim's medical expenses after pleading guilty to misdemeanour assault.
But Joseph Gentissi, the victim of the 2006 incident, is dissatisfied with the ruling.
He tells the New York Post: "It's not fair. This is a woman who tried to poison me. She should have been charged with attempted murder. We were hoping she was going to get a strong sentence. She took it as a big joke. She set out to hurt me and she sure did."
A spokesperson for Wilson could not be reached as WENN went to press.
The victim just waid it wasn't fair.
First, I now no longer trust any media statement statements that a "fair" settlement has been reached.
Secondly, I agree with the victim. Honestly, I think she got off easy because ...I'd hate to say it ... she is a young, pretty woman... if it was a man, the person would get a tougher sentence. Pardon me, women, for saying so. I just believe it.
Anzalone, a hairdresser with the ends of her blond hair dyed hot pink, declined to comment as she stormed out of court.
Prosecutors said Anzalone and her then-husband, Christopher Anzalone, lived with Gentissi from March to early July 2006 in North Bellmore. Anzalone, who was pregnant at the time, felt that Gentissi was creating an unsafe environment for her unborn child by smoking in the house, among other things, said her lawyer, Nancy Bartling of Mineola.
One day in June 2006, Gentissi was cleaning the garage when Anzalone served him iced tea that was spiked with an unknown amount of Visine, an over-the-counter eyedrop medicine for dry or bloodshot eyes, prosecutors said. Visine contains tetrahydrozoline, a chemical that constricts blood vessels.
"It's a disposition that was fair to both parties," Bartling said of the plea deal.
