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23.03.2022 - 21:33 / deadline.com
Lauren Pazienza, the woman accused of fatally shoving Broadway vocal coach Barbara Maier Gustern, remained in custody as of this morning after a $500,000 cash bail was set at an arraignment hearing in Manhattan yesterday.
Pazienza, a 26-year-old former events coordinator from Long Island most recently living in Queens, turned herself in to police yesterday after nearly two weeks of attempting to elude capture, according to an account detailed in court yesterday by an assistant district attorney. Pazienza has been charged with manslaughter and assault.
Arthur Aidala, the suspect’s attorney who arranged for her surrender to police, said during the court hearing that the D.A. had overcharged his client, telling the judge that “pushing someone who’s on the sidewalk” is not the same as “pushing someone in front of a moving train.”
Addressing reporters, Aidala, whose clients have included Harvey Weinstein, Rudolph Giuliani and Roger Ailes said, “Whether it was a push or whether it was a shove or whether it was a kick or whether someone tripped…the evidence is not very solid on that at all,” he said.
In an interview today with local NBC affiliate WNBC, Aidala said Pazienza’s legal team is awaiting evidence discovery from the D.A.’s office, and that he expects Pazienza to be released on bail in the coming days. The bail was set at $500,000 cash or a $1 million bond.
Details about the March 10 incident and the aftermath emerged at the hearing yesterday, with the D.A.’s office presenting a general timeline of what it believes transpired. According to the prosecutors, the 87-year-old Gustern had just left her apartment building in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan at around 8:30 p.m. when the women they identify as Pazienza crossed
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Kathleen Hanna‘s vocal coach.Broadway singing coach Barbara Maier Gustern, aged 87, died last week (March 15) from brain injuries sustained in an attack five days earlier, where – according to the NYPD – she was pushed from behind by a woman who “crossed the street [and] pushed [her] in an unproved senseless attack.”A search for the attacker was then begun, with New York police chief of detectives James Essig saying: “We’re asking the public’s help in solving this disgusting and disgraceful offense committed against a vulnerable, elderly female who was doing nothing but walking down the streets of New York City.”After Gustern’s death was ruled as a homicide this week (March 22), 26-year-old Lauren Pazienza – who the police had been chasing for a week after releasing CCTV footage of her on the night of the attack – turned herself in to the NYPD alongside her lawyer, as NBC New York reports.Following the attack, Bikini Kill singer Hanna took to social media to appeal for help identifying the attacker, writing in a now-deleted Instagram post (via Rolling Stone): “I can’t even fucking believe I am posting this.“I really don’t want anyone else to ever have to go thru what the lovely, energetic, funny as hell Barbara Maier Gustern had to go through,” she added.“I struggle to understand and cope with this world on a daily basis, and frankly this is beyond my ability to bear,” Gustern’s grandson wrote on Facebook upon her death being classed as a homicide. “Do what you can for your fellow human being, no matter how small.
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New York attorney Arthur Aidala, who has represented Rudolph Giuliani, Harvey Weinstein, Roger Ailes and Alan Dershowitz, apparently has a new high-profile client: Lauren Pazienza, the Long Island woman charged with manslaughter in the shoving death of Broadway vocal coach Barbara Maier Gustern.
A suspect in the death of Broadway singing coach Barbara Maier Gustern is in police custody and will be charged with manslaughter and assault. Lauren Pazienza, 26, of Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York, turned herself in to New York police today.
The death last week of Broadway singing coach Barbara Maier Gustern has been classified by New York police as a homicide. Her attacker, who shoved the elderly Manhattan resident from behind, remains at large.
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We’re so sorry to report this tragedy: beloved Broadway vocal coach Barbara Maier Gustern has passed away at the age of 87.