The fiancé of a murderous heiress breaks his silence three years after she killed a beloved New York voting coach on a sidewalk into a non -loked attack.
Naveen Pereira, 30, spoke with the Daily Mail about trying to rebuild his life after his expectant wife, Lauren Pazienza, was sentenced to eight and half a year in prison for the deadly pressure in the night of March 10, 2022.
He revealed that he 'misses' Pazienza, which he last visited during the holidays.
“It has been a stressful time,” said the soft spoken Pereira, whose old girlfriend Barbara Gustern, 87, attacked heartlessly, while drunk and high on drugs after the couple had been kicked out of a Manhattan park during closing time.
Pazienza, an heiress of a cesspool drainage of Long Island, flew into an anger and ran to the older Gustern, and called her a 'b *** h' before she pushed her on the sidewalk in the Chelsea neighborhood.
The veteran Broadway singing coach, whose students blonde front woman Debbie Harry include, sustained a traumatic brain injury and died in the hospital five days later.
Pazienza argued guilty of manslaughter in September 2023.
Remembering the events of that fateful evening, Pereira shared that the few 100 days fourth until their marital marriages when the night took a dark turn.
“We got into a fight and then this thing happened. It was unexpected, “Pereira said about the fatal slider.
“I don't feel that I am the fault of her actions,” he added.
Naveen Pereira, 30, spoke with the Daily Mail about trying to rebuild his life after his upcoming wife, Lauren Pazienza, was sentenced to eight and half a year in prison
Pazienza, an heiress of a Long Island Cesspool Drainage Empire, was in tears in court after he was found guilty of manslaughter for the 2022 attack
Pazienza flew into an anger and led vocal coach in Barbara Gustern, 87, and called her a 'b *** h' before she pushed her on the sidewalk
Prior to the random attack, Pazienza had brought down several glasses of wine, was high on Marijuana and perhaps also took a Xanax, said her high -profile lawyer.
“She had drugs, she might have two bottles of wine and a ton of Marijuana,” lawyer Arthur Aidala, who represented the shame film manager Harvey Weinstein and Rudy Giuliani, told The Daily Mail earlier.
He had argued that because Pazienza was 'bombed', she was unable to form the intention to harm Gustern.
Pazienza eventually took a plea that gave her considerably less time behind bars than the 25 years she would have risked if she had gone to court.
Debbie Harry had the sentence an 'absenteeism to manage adequate punishment'.
Pereira, who works at Microsoft as a specialist in customer support, paused pauts when asked If the couple were still involved, it called 'complicated'.
“That is clearly happening at the moment. I don't know what the future has in store for us, “he said.
“She will be there for a while and that won't change,” he added.
Pereira and Pazienza, who were loved ones in high school, grew up on Long Island and met when they were students at Ward Melville High School in East Setauket.
They stayed together during the university, despite the fact that Peregia Institute of Technology and Pazienza attended at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.
Eventually the couple moved to Astoria, Queens, and in 2018.
Pereira described his ex as a 'very passionate' person and admired her because she was 'hard -working', but said she was not someone who was stressing stress and fear well.
Her former university classmates described her earlier as 'pure problems' and 'a danger' that was susceptible to violence.
Pazienza, seen on family vacation as a teenager, lived a life of privileges before they landed behind bars
Pazienza grew up in a prosperous family on Long Island and enjoyed the High Society of Manhattan. She is seen above on photos of her teenage years
In the night of the attack, after he was told to leave the park, Pazienza Was “angry, started screaming and cursing at the park's employee, threw her food on her fiancé and stormed out of the park,” the prosecutors said.
Pereira told the police that he did not know where she was going after they were told to leave and that he intended to return to their apartment in Queens.
In the meantime, Pazienza accused in Gustern, while the 87-year-old was waiting for a taxi to attend one of her student's performances, so that her head would violate the sidewalk.
A cyclist who saw Gustern bleed on the ground, called 911.
Surveillance images showed that Pazienza looked while the care providers arrived and treated the older woman who seeped blood out of her head.
She then called Pereira, but “said nothing about the fact that she had just moved an older woman to the cement,” said public prosecutors.
“Instead, she started to argue with her fiancé and accused him of ruining her night. Just before they went to bed that night, the suspect eventually, for the first time, turned to her fiancé and told him she had pushed someone. She said she thought the person had fallen and she walked away. '
The prosecutors said Pazienza then hid in the house in Long Island of her parents and spent more than a week to cover her spurs.
She fired her job, removed her social media pages and wedding website and raised her phone at her aunt's house, so that the police would not find it.
She was called a suspect and on March 19 she became inside after the police had visited her parents' house.
Pazienza's high -profile lawyer Arthur Aidala (left) and her parents (right)
Gustern's grandson, AJ Maier Gustern (left), named Pazienza 'Lucky' to reach a plea. “I hope you learn some empathy,” he said, “because apparently you are unable to empathy”
In 2022 a former friend Pazienza described as 'no empathy' and never repentance for her bad deeds.
“She is the poster child for white privilege,” the person said. “She was never confronted with some consequences in her life.”
Pazienza's eight -year punishment was extended by another six months after the judge in her case had torn for her inability to take responsibility for her actions. '
Gustern's grandson, AJ Maier Gustern, called Pazienza 'Lucky' to reach a plea.
Pereira said that the 'media assumed many things', adding that both he and his family had to deal with intimidation about the test.
“It's not easy for her,” he said. “She does the best she can do.” Pereira said Pazienza had tried to get involved in a kind of work or to take lessons in prison.
“I think there is your time to think in and evaluate your life,” he said. “She looks forward to restarting her life when she gets out. She misses her life that she had and has realized what she lost. It is a difficult situation. '
The police published these images of Pazienza after the attack
Pazienza is shown near the scene of the crime on March 10, 2022
Pazienza was depicted from the police part to the courthouse
He said he speaks to Pazienza's parents from time to time. “It's hard for everyone,” he said.
Pereira said it took him for a while to withdraw into a routine.
'I try to live as well as possible. I try to see friends, I stay busy at work and concentrate on things that make my life happy, “he said.
Nevertheless, Pereira admitted that he has not left anyone since because it is 'too painful'.
“This is not the life I had for myself,” he said.
