By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2026-07-20 10:20:07 | Updated at 2026-08-09 06:04:16
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The son of 'Long Island Lolita' Amy Fisher has been accused of animal cruelty over the disturbing death of his pet cat at his Florida home - after already building up a lengthy rap sheet, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Brett Anthony Bellera, 35, Fisher's eldest child with ex-husband, retired NYPD officer Louis Bellera, has racked up a seven-year long string of crimes and brushes with the law – including a gun arrest.
Court records show Bellera is now facing a charge of aggravated cruelty to animals over the December 2024 death of a cat named Reaper, kept at the Fort Lauderdale, Florida apartment he shared with his girlfriend, Jennifer Armenti, 36.
An ASPCA forensic necropsy found Reaper died from what examiners described as 'involuntary heat exposure' – through microwave radiation, submersion in hot water, or exposure to hot water vapor.
Investigators concluded he had not died immediately, suffering 'excessive and repeated' pain beforehand, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Bellera told police he woke up on December 15, 2024, and found the cat dead, suggesting Reaper may have accidentally ingested cleaning products.
But Animal Control officers instead found the cat's body stuffed in a plastic laundry basket on the back patio, in a 'stiff, unnatural position' with blood pooling beneath it.
The affidavit states Bellera and Armenti 'reside together as a family unit' at the apartment, despite several allegations of domestic abuse against each other.
Brett Anthony Bellera, the eldest son notorious 'Long Island Lolita' Amy Fisher, has been charged with aggravated animal cruelty over the death of a pet cat in Florida, the Daily Mail has learned
Amy Fisher, now 51, (pictured in 2011) became one of America's most infamous tabloid figures after shooting her lover's wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the head in 1992
Bellera's own booking sheet from a separate arrest lists a neck tattoo reading Armenti's name.
Court records reviewed by the Daily Mail show the animal cruelty charge, filed in June 2026, is only the latest entry in a criminal history dating back to 2019 – the year Bellera turned 18.
The Daily Mail can also reveal a previously unreported allegation from the same year Bellera's record began. In 2019, Boca Raton Police accused him of robbing a man at gunpoint.
According to a probable cause affidavit, the victim told police he had arranged to sell Bellera marijuana over Snapchat.
When the two met, Bellera allegedly produced a firearm, pointed it at the victim, and took his cash and drugs before fleeing in a BMW.
A warrant was issued for Bellera's arrest on charges of robbery with a firearm, a first-degree felony, and grand theft.
It was that warrant deputies were trying to serve, in the middle of the night, when they went to his grandmother's Deerfield Beach address – the raid that led to his first drug charges.
However, the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office formally declined to file charges in the robbery, citing an inability to reach the victim to move the case forward.
Bellera was arrested in June 2026 on a charge of aggravated animal cruelty and later released on a $25,000 bond with GPS monitoring, according to court records. His girlfriend Jennifer Armenti, 36, (right) is also facing animal cruelty charges in connection with Reaper's death
Bellera and Armenti lived with the cat at their shared apartment in Fort Lauderdale, Florida apartment he shared with his girlfriend, Jennifer Armenti, 36.
Fisher's own defining crime, at 17, was one of gun violence.
She became infamous in 1992 after shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her older lover Joey Buttafuoco, in the head. The pair had been having an affair since she was 16.
Buttafuoco survived, but was left with permanent partial facial paralysis.
Fisher was arrested and initially charged with attempted murder. In September 1992, under a plea deal, she pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated assault instead.
She was sentenced to up to 15 years at Albion Correctional Facility in upstate New York. A Nassau County judge later shortened her maximum sentence to 10 years, making her immediately eligible, and she was paroled in May 1999 after serving seven years.
The case made Fisher a tabloid fixture as the 'Long Island Lolita,' spawning three competing made-for-TV movies within months of her arrest.
After her release, Fisher briefly worked as a columnist before her then-husband sold a sex tape of the pair to a distribution company; she went on to build a career in adult film and later webcam work.
Fisher married Louis 'Lou' Bellera, a retired NYPD officer, in 2003, and the couple had three children together, including Brett, before divorcing in 2015.
Bellera is accused of causing the deeath of two-year-old cat named Reaper (left), who investigators say suffered 'excessive and repeated' pain before dying, according to court records
The animal cruelty charge is the latest in a string of criminal cases involving Bellera, including drug offenses, burglary allegations, and other arrests dating back to 2019
They first separated in 2007 – during which time Fisher briefly reconciled with Buttafuoco – before reuniting.
The family relocated to Florida around 2011-2012, buying a home in Wellington, Palm Beach County.
In a 2017 interview with the New York Post, Fisher said her children had been ostracized because of her notoriety, recalling that other parents feared they might inherit the 'Amy Fisher gene.'
Since then, Bellera has been arrested several times, with a string of drug, burglary and violence charges since coming of age.
In 2019 he was charged with trafficking a synthetic cannabinoid, possession with intent to sell or deliver cannabis, LSD and psilocybin, and simple cannabis possession.
He pleaded no contest to all three counts and was sentenced to five years' probation with random drug testing.
In 2023, shortly after completing his probation, he was arrested for burglary of an unoccupied dwelling, a second-degree felony. Ultimately the State Attorney's Office declined to prosecute.
Court records then show that in 2024 Bellera was arrested and charged with possession of fentanyl, alongside separate counts of possessing alprazolam and THC and disorderly conduct – all three of which were later dropped.
Fisher was just 17 years old when she was accused of shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the head
Mary Jo, pictured leaving court with husband Joey Buttafuoco in 1993, survived, but was left with permanent partial facial paralysis
He pleaded no contest to the fentanyl count and was sentenced to 18 months' probation. That was amended in June 2025 to add up to 180 days in Broward County Jail, reducible through a substance abuse program.
In January 2025, Bellera was himself arrested on a domestic violence battery charge against Armenti, but prosecutors again declined to proceed.
A previously unreported case surfaced that October, when Armenti herself was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated battery and two counts of battery, all classified as dating violence – with Bellera named as the victim.
According to the arrest affidavit, Bellera told police Armenti struck him with a hot curling iron, burning the bridge of his nose and forehead, and cut him with a bladed tool.
He said she also struck his hand with a makeup item and threw hot coffee on him while he was sleeping, at a Best Western in Oakland Park.
He described an earlier, unreported incident that left him with a scar, and said Armenti had previously cut his leg with a knife and threatened to kill him and his family.
The arresting officer noted Armenti's account of events was 'extremely inconsistent,' and that she told police she has been diagnosed with PTSD, bipolar disorder and depression.
The case did not proceed, with Bellera asked prosecutors to drop the charges in a signed waiver later, writing that he was not afraid of Armenti and wanted to remain in contact with her, and calling the incident 'a misunderstanding.'
Fisher was arrested and initially charged with attempted murder before taking a plea deal on first-degree aggravated assault charges instead
She later went on to build a career in adult entertainment (pictured in 2009)
Bellera was arrested again in August 2025, facing two counts of armed burglary of a dwelling, structure or conveyance, possession of burglary tools, and possession of synthetic cathinones.
He pleaded no contest to the cathinones count, and on April 6, 2026, was sentenced to up to 364 days in Broward County Jail, credited with 93 days already served, reducible to 180 days on completion of a substance abuse program.
In January 2026, he was arrested for cocaine possession, later amended to possession of synthetic cathinones, a third-degree felony.
He pleaded no contest, adjudication withheld, and sentenced the same day, April 6, 2026, to the same terms as the August 2025 case – to run concurrently.
In June 2026 he was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals over Reaper's death, and released on $25,000 bond with GPS monitoring, barred from possessing animals, and restricted to Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties.
Eighteen days later Bellera was charged with grand theft in the third degree, accused of shoplifting $770.82 worth of merchandise from a TJ Maxx in Fort Lauderdale, allegedly caught on store surveillance video.
The Fisher family appears to have moved back to Florida after another stint in New York, with Bellera sparking a raid on his grandmother, Roseann Fisher's home.
A sworn Broward County civil forfeiture complaint reviewed by the Daily Mail states Bellera had lived in a bedroom there, rent-free, since December 2018.
While searching for Bellera, they allegedly saw drugs in plain view in his room, which produced a search warrant.
That search allegedly turned up close to a kilogram of cannabis, hundreds of grams of THC resin and cartridges, 102 grams of psilocybin mushrooms, packaging equipment, and a fake North Carolina driver's license bearing his photo under a false name.
Deputies also found $30,000 in cash in Roseann Fisher's bedroom, with a K9 unit alerted to the presence of narcotics odor on the money in a blind test, and Broward's Sheriff's Office moved to permanently seize it through civil forfeiture.
Roseann, came forward to claim it, with the case settled in January 2020, recovering $9,000 and the remaining $21,000 was forfeited to the City of Deerfield Beach and the Broward Sheriff's Office.
The Daily Mail has also learned that Armenti appears to have taken in another cat in the months after Reaper's death.
In a Facebook post from May 30, 2025, she wrote that her 'sweet sweet baby,' a tabby named Sapphire, had gone missing, posting several photos of the cat wearing a pink collar and pleading for help finding her.
Then, on November 6, 2025 – nearly a year after Reaper's death, and while she was under investigation for it – Armenti joined a Facebook group called 'Rehoming All Animals,' identifying herself as based in Coral Springs, Florida, and posted looking for a new cat.
'I recently joined because I lost my baby boy in December, he was only two years old and very unexpected and then my little girl has been missing since May,' she wrote, adding that she had 'so much love' to give 'to a little boy or girl that needs a good home.'
Bellera and Armenti are both due in court on the animal cruelty charge.
