{"id":346242,"date":"2026-07-20T17:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346242\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:30:12","slug":"long-island-lolita-amy-fishers-troubled-son-accused-of-brutally-killing-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346242\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Long Island Lolita’ Amy Fisher’s troubled son accused of brutally killing cat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The troubled son of notorious \u201cLong Island Lolita\u201d<\/a> Amy Fisher has been charged with killing his pet cat \u2014 possibly by putting it in the microwave, according to officials.<\/p>\n

Brett Anthony Bellera, 25, and his girlfriend, Jennifer Armenti, 36, have both been charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after their cat, Reaper, was found burned to death in their apartment in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. in December 2024, according to the Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

The cat suffered severe pain before it died from \u201cinvoluntary heat exposure\u201d \u2014 through either microwave radiation, being submerged in hot water or exposure to hot water vapor, according to a forensic necropsy performed by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), WPLG reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brett Anthony Bellera, the son of \u2018Long Island Lolita\u2019 Amy Fisher, is charged with animal cruelty. Broward Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n

Bellera \u2014 Fisher\u2019s eldest son with her ex-husband, retired NYPD officer Louis Bellera \u2014 was charged while already behind bars on other charges, with his lengthy rap sheet including robbery and drug charges.<\/p>\n

A friend of the couple had notified authorities of the cat\u2019s death on Dec. 15, 2024, according to their arrest affidavits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Armenti claimed that she found the cat\u2019s body on the bathroom floor and believed he\u2019d ingested cleaning products. However, animal care employees found the critter dead on the back patio in a massive pool of blood in a laundry basket.<\/p>\n

After a long investigation, Armenti was arrested by police in Miramar on Wednesday and Bellera was charged earlier this month.<\/p>\n

His lengthy rap sheet dating back seven years to when he was 18, including drug and robbery charges, according to records reviewed by the Daily Mail<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amy Fisher was convicted of shooting her lover\u2019s wife in the face when she was 17. Getty Images<\/p>\n

He grew up with his mom in the national spotlight after she became a tabloid sensation when, at the age of 17, she shot her married, 36-year-old lover Joey Buttafuoco\u2019s wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, in the face in 1992.<\/p>\n

Mary Jo Buttafuoco, who later publicly forgave Fisher, survived but was left with permanent facial paralysis. Her husband served four months in the slammer for statutory rape.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fisher herself served seven years in prison before she was paroled in 1999. She married retired NYPD officer Louis Bellera and moved to Florida \u2014 but she told the Post in 2017 that she moved back to Long Island because her kids were \u201costracized\u201d there.<\/p>\n

Bellera and Armenti lived with the cat at their shared apartment in Fort Lauderdale. Anthony Bellera \/ Facebook<\/p>\n

\u201cMy kids were ostracized in Florida. They had no friends. All the mothers thought their kids would get the Amy Fisher gene if they hung out with them,\u201d Fisher said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings got so bad for my [eldest] son, the school psychologist even suggested he drop out and get his GED,\u201d she told the Post.<\/p>\n

Fisher, now 51, later launched a raunchy webcam career <\/a>from her Long Island home. <\/p>\n

Her ex Lou Berella told The Post in 2017, he doesn\u2019t \u201capprove of what she\u2019s doing, but we\u2019re divorced two years now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t force her not to do it,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The troubled son of notorious \u201cLong Island Lolita\u201d Amy Fisher has been charged with killing his pet cat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10238,28,249,251,250,141799,4278],"class_list":["post-346242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-animal-abuse","tag-florida","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-long-island-city","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}