Lauren Pazienza pled guilty to fatally pushing Broadway vocal coach Barbara Maier Gustern to her death in an unprovoked attack

Pazienza, 27, faced manslaughter charges for fatally shoving 87-year-old Gustern in a random attack on March 10, 2022 

The Long Island event planner is expected to serve eight years in prison

The Long Island event planner is expected to serve eight years in prison

She was facing a 25-year sentence if she went on trial and was convicted as charged

She has been held at Rikers Island for more than a year

Her attorney said she was drunk and high when she fatally shoved Gustern

She will be formally sentenced on September 29

Lauren Pazienza pleads guilty to manslaughter charges in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday for pushing Barbara Maier Gustern to her death in an unprovoked attack

New York event planner Lauren Pazienza pled guilty Wednesday to shoving veteran Broadway singing coach Barbara Maier Gustern to her death in an unprovoked attack, in March 2022.
Pazienza, 27, attacked the 87-year-old vocal coach last March on a Chelsea sidewalk, forcefully shoving her to the ground.
The convict is expected to serve eight years for the killing.
She was facing a 25-year sentence if she went on trial and was convicted as charged. She will be formally sentenced on September 29.
Pazienza, who is the heiress to a large cesspool draining empire in Long Island, fled the scene after the attack but later turned herself in and has been held at Rikers Island for over a year since the apparently motiveless attack. 

Victim: 87-year-old Broadway singing coach Barbara Maier Gustern died in a hospital five days after the random shoving attack in March 2022.

Lauren Pazienza’s parents leaves court after she pled guilty, accompanied by their high profile attorney Arthur Aidala [left]

Barbara Gustern died five days after being admitted with severe head injuries following the shoving.
It was later revealed that Pazienza, who did not know her victim, had run across the street and called the singing coach a b**** before pushing her.
According to her defense attorney, prior to the apparently random attack, Pazienza had downed several glasses of wine with her fiancé while celebrating 100 days until their wedding. She may also have taken a Xanax.
‘She had had drugs, she had maybe two bottles of wine, and a ton of marijuana,’ defense attorney Arthur Aidala claimed outside a Manhattan criminal courtroom in June. 
She had been kicked out of Chelsea Park, which was closing, when she stomped across the street and attack Gustern.
Pazienza, who has no prior criminal record, has been represented by the high profile attorney who previously represented disgraced film executive Harvey Weinstein during his 2020 Manhattan trial. 
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Pazienza, who has been held at Rikers since turning herself in last year, will be sentenced on September 29

Lauren Pazienza was caught by CCTV cameras walking away from the scene after shoving 87-year-old Broadway vocal coach Barbara Gustern to her her eventual death from injuries sustained, four days later

Killer: Lauren Pazienza is shown walking near the scene of the crime on March 10 at around 8.30pm. The motive remains unclear 

Police issued these images of Pazienza, claiming she was responsible for the attack. She handed herself in two days later

Pazienza, [photo], was arraigned on manslaughter charges in March 2022, for the death of the 87-year-old Broadway vocal coach, in NYC

Gustern’s grandson AJ (left) said Pazienza is lucky she was able to afford such competent legal counsel 

According to prosecutors, Pazienza’s fiancé previously revealed she had consumed ‘several glasses of wine’ before the attack, while the couple celebrated their engagement. 
When she was told the park was closing, she allegedly became enraged and charged Gustern on the street, shoving the 87-year-old to the ground and calling her a ‘b****’. 

Pazienza sits tearfully beside her attorney on Wednesday. She has agreed to a plea deal that will put her behind bars for eight year

Lauren’s parents who have been described their daughter’s friends as enablers are seen leaving court [right], with her defense attorney Arthur Aidala [left]

She is then said to have watched as an ambulance crew took the frail older woman away with blood seeping from her head.
Pazienza, prosecutors claim, then spent the next two weeks trying to cover her tracks. She quit her job, deleted her social media pages and even stashed her cell phone at her aunt’s house in Long Island after fleeing her Astoria apartment, where she lived with her Microsoft-employee fiancé.
After several weeks, she eventually handed herself into the NYPD after the force released footage of her as a suspect in the attack. 
Her former friends said that it came as ‘no surprise’ to see Pazienza accused of the disturbing crime. 
‘What angered me most was seeing that her lawyer said she’s overcharged and is a good and moral person. She’s not,’ one said. 
‘I knew her very well at school and she was pure trouble.’

‘She had had drugs, she had maybe two bottles of wine, and a ton of marijuana,’ defense attorney Arthur Aidala claimed outside a Manhattan criminal courtroom in June

Pazienza, seen on family vacation as a teenager, appears to have lived a life of privilege, and later glamour in New York City’s high society before landing behind bars 

Pazienza who grew up in an affluent family on Long Island and enjoyed Manhattan’s high society is currently jailed on Rikers Island. She will serve 8 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter

Lauren Pazienza seen in a photos from her teenage years was described by a friend as the ‘the poster child for white privilege. [who], never faced any consequences in her life’. because her enabling parents helped her out of evry thing

Pazienza grew up in affluence as the daughter of a Long Island septic service business owner and had been living in an Astoria condo with her then fiancé.
Former classmates at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York who said she was prone to violence and described Pazienza as ‘pure trouble’.
One former friend said she a person who ‘has no empathy,’ and never showed any remorse for her bad acts during her time as a student at FIT and spoke in a derogatory manner, ‘the poster child for white privilege. She never faced any consequences in her life’.
Adding that although ‘she was enabled by her parents who got her out of everything, she called them stupid and basic,’ the friend said

Footage appears to show Lauren Pazienza mocking handicapped persons

One acquaintance also said she was prone to mocking people and spoke in a derogatory manner, ‘about fat people and deaf people…anyone.’
They shared footage showing Lauren appearing to mock hearing impaired persons, contorting her face while screeching and feigning a disability.