New York Post, Tuesday, August 27, 2019nypost.com7FacebookCharged in chef’s OD, eyed in 2 others
By CRAIG McCARTHY,
ANDREW DENNEY
and CHRIS PEREZCops have charged a Queens
prostitute with the overdose
death of Cipriani Dolci’s head
chef Andrea Zamperoni — and
she’s been linked to the deaths
of at least two other clients
who also were given fentanyl-
laced drugs during alleged ren-
dezvous with her, according to
law-enforcement sources and
court documents.
Angelina Barini, 41, is ac-
cused of providing a lethal
dose of fentanyl and an un-
known substance to Zamper-
oni, which caused him to OD in
the Kamway Lodge & Tavern in
Elmhurst early last week.
She faces a charge of conspir-
acy to distribute and possession
with intent to distribute one or
more substances containing
fentanyl in connection with the
33-year-old chef’s death, federal
authorities said Monday.
The toxicology report is
pending, but Barini is sus-
pected of killing two otherJohns with deadly mixes of the
synthetic opioid, which she al-
legedly combined with meth
and cocaine, court papers say.
Investigators believe the
deaths may have been linked to
a robbery scheme.
Barini, who was arrested last
week, appeared in Brooklyn
federal court Monday wearing
a loose-fitting sweater and
baggy gray sweatpants, and did
not enter a plea.
Cops had busted Barini at the
Kamway Lodge when they dis-
covered Zamperoni’s body last
Wednesday.
Officers came to the chef’s
room in the boarding house at
around 8:30 p.m. and encoun-
tered the stench of decay
masked with incense when
Barini opened the door, the
court documents say.
“In the corner of the room,
law enforcement authorities
noticed what appeared to be a
garbage can with bed linens
stuffed inside and what ap-
peared to be a bare, human foot
sticking out of the bed linens,”
the documents read.Barini told cops “she did not
do it, her pimp made her do it
and it was not her,” but later
admitted to providing the chef
drugs, the court papers say.
The pimp, whose name was
not known, allegedly would not
let Barini call the police and
discussed cutting up the body
to cover up the chef’s death,
according to the complaint.
Barini is suspected of supply-
ing the fatal doses of drugs to
the other two Johns in July, ac-
cording to the complaint.
Jean-Alessandro Silvero, 28,
died at a Woodside motel July11 as a result of fentanyl intoxi-
cation, according to the Office
of Chief Medical Examiner.
Norrele Silvero described her
son’s death as a “bad dream.”
“It’s still surreal at this point,”
she said, speaking after Barini’s
court appearance Monday.
“Difficult for a mom to see this
event right in front of our faces.”
The third victim has not been
identified.
Barini’s public defender did
not immediately respond to a
request for comment.
Additional reporting by Tina
MooreCHILLING:
Angelina Barini
(above) allegedly
supplied drugs to
chef Andrea
Zamperoni (inset
above right),
whose body was
found in the Kam-
way Lodge (left),
and she’s sus-
pected in the death
of Jean-Ales-
AP sandro Silvero.A magician dressed as
Pennywise the clown from
the Stephen King horror
flick “It” strolled onto a
Manhattan L train Friday,
clutching the character’s red
balloon and uttering his fa-
mous line, “We all float
down here.”
His 1 a.m. appearance was
enough to nearly clear out
the car at first, the per-
former, Alejandro Torres, 25,
told The Post on Monday.
“When I first boarded, ev-
erybody was freaked out,”
Torres said.
Then, in true New York
City fashion, straphangers
went back to their phones.
Torres said he was headed
back from a video shoot to
his home in Brooklyn when
he decided to keep his cos-
tume on for the subway ride.
A stranger filmed him
aboard the train, he said.
The video (above), first
posted to the Instagram ac-
count of SubwayCreatures,
has since gone viral, with
more than 620,000 views.
Torres said he has been
making a video of himself as
Pennywise and plans to re-
lease it on his Instagram,
Facebook and YouTube ac-
counts next week, timing it
with the release of the se-
quel “It Chapter Two” in
September.
“I have seen the first one,”
he said. “I rewatched it ear-
lier this week to hear... the
voice to get it down.”
Kate Sheehy
It creeps
out the
subway
A North Carolina water-
melon thief was nabbed
when his truck got stuck in
the mud, officials said.
Edgecombe County offic-
ers , responding to a call Fri-
day , found Michael An-
thony Bryant and a pickup
filled with melons bogged
down in mire, they said.AP
Thief mucks up