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De Niro Ex-Maid Makes Prison Bed
A former maid for Robert De Niro will be hanging her duster in the big house for up to three years after sentencing Tuesday on charges related to the "cleaning out" of her clients.
Lucyna Turyk-Wawrynowicz cried in a New York York courtroom, the Associated Press reported, as she asked through an interpreter to be sent home to Poland instead of prison for her misdeeds. The ex-housekeeper pleaded guilty Feb. 8 to grand larceny, forgery and identity theft.
State Supreme Court Justice Renee White was unmoved by Turk-Wawrynowicz's teary request, sentencing the woman to as little as one year or as many as three years behind bars, the A.P. said.
Defense attorney Mark T. Zawisny told the wire service that his client could be out of prison in as little as four to six months if the minimum sentence applies.
In issuing her sentence, White told Turyk-Wawrynowicz that she "violated the trust" of the families for whom she worked.
"You worked not just by cleaning and dusting, but by cleaning out the property of the various employers you worked for," White said, according to the A.P.
Turyk-Wawrynowicz's haul included a pair of $95,000 diamond earrings belonging to De Niro's wife, Grace Hightower, a pair of $1,000 shoes also belonging to Mrs. Goodfellas, and a $1,000 leather jacket from the closet of Boston Legal lawyer Candice Bergen.
Isabella Rossellini also employed Turyk-Wawrynowicz, but apparently suffered no material loss. Turyk-Wawrynowicz reportedly said she didn't steal from Rossellini because the actress "treated me well." Hightower, on the other hand, according to the ex-maid, was "mean."
Prosecutors alleged Turyk-Wawrynowicz's crimes occurred over a four-year span, starting in 2001. She was arrested last June.
After prison, Turyk-Wawrynowicz's next stop will be her native country, where she has vowed to return, and where federal officials probably will send her anyway since she was accused of illegally living and working in the United States.
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