Joey Buttafuoco and his wife, Mary Jo, who was shot in the face by "Long Island Lolita" Amy Fisher, are divorcing after 26 years of marriage.
"It's OK. To move on you've got to get a divorce," Buttafuoco said in a telephone interview Monday. "She's with another guy. . . . I've been with a girl for a while, too."
His attorney, Leon F. Bennett, said the two remain friends and are "trying to work out an amicable resolution."
Mary Jo Buttafuoco, who filed divorce papers Feb. 3 in Ventura (Calif.) County Superior Court, didn't list an attorney in her filing and couldn't be found for comment.
Fisher, dubbed the "Long Island Lolita" by the New York City tabloids, was 17 when she knocked on Mary Jo Buttafuoco's door and then shot her in the face. She served seven years in prison.
Buttafuoco initially denied having an affair with Fisher but pleaded guilty in 1993 to one count of statutory rape and served six months in jail. He said Monday he only pleaded guilty because he'd run out of money and wanted to put the case behind him.