04-28-2011, 10:05 AM
hahahahahaha if the jury believes this one, i have a big bridge to sell them in Brooklyn~ i remember the video of her being stung, and i loved the video of her confronted with her live husband in interrogation room...it was priceless! 
DailyMail
* 'You have to come with us your wife is going to have you killed today': What police told intended victim
A cheating wife thought she was starring in a reality TV show when caught on video trying to hire a hitman to murder her husband, a court heard today.
Dalia Dippolito, 30, knew she was being filmed but was merely acting out an elaborate hoax set up by her husband Michael, her lawyer claimed.
Michael was an avid fan of reality shows such as Cops, Jersey Shore and Cheaters, Michael Salnick told a jury at West Palm Beach, Florida.
Salnick added: 'The plot for the contract killing was never real. It was a stunt that Michael Dippolito, whether he’ll admit it or not, hoped to capture the attention of someone in reality TV.
'His hoax to achieve fame and fortune was a bad prank.'
But prosecutors insist that Mrs Dippolito, a former prostitute HO who had two affairs during her six-month marriage, wanted him dead.
She was genuinely attempting to hire a killer and that the video, filmed by undercover detectives, had nothing to do with television.
Chief assistant state attorney Elizabeth Parker described Mrs Dippolito as a 'scheming, manipulative woman who used sex to make men do what she wanted.'
She allegedly told the fake hitman – really an undercover officer from the Boynton Beach police department – that she was '5,000 per cent sure' she wanted her husband dead and offered to pay him $3,000.
Later in her trial for solicitation to commit first-degree murder, which carries a sentence of up to 30 years, jurors will see another video in which Mrs Dippolito is filmed screaming and crying as police officers tell her that Michael had been killed.
Detectives staged a fake murder scene to convince her that the killing had taken place, and later filmed her again when they brought her face-to-face with the husband she thought was dead.
Her reaction of shock when they brought Mr Dippolito into the room will also be shown as evidence.
Ms Parker said that the plot came to light when one of Mrs Dippolito's lovers, Mohammed Shihadeh, went to police when he realised that she was serious about killing her husband.
She described how the wife plotted to kill her husband after her initial plan to have him arrested for violating his probation didn't work.
She said Dippolito wanted the lavish lifestyle without her husband.
She said text messages, phone conversations and a recording of what Boynton Beach police claim is a deal with the undercover officer prove Dippolito paid someone to kill her husband.
'He asked her, 'Are you sure you want to kill him?' Ms Parker said. 'Without hesitation, as if she had ice running through her veins, she says, 'There's no changing.'
Today Mr Dippolito told jurors how he lavished money and gifts on his wife and her family, including a Prada bag, jewellery and expensive sports tickets
But he could not escape the feeling that somebody was out to get him after finding threatening notes on his car
He said: 'Every time I walk up to my vehicle, I’m scared,' he said.
Mr Dippolito described the day police knocked on his door while his wife was at the gym and told him of her alleged plot to kill him.
He said: 'The guy blurted out, 'Listen, you have to come with us. Your wife's going to have you killed today.'
Dalia Dippolito stared at her estranged husband as he testified and he occasionally glanced back at her.
The trial continues.
DailyMail
* 'You have to come with us your wife is going to have you killed today': What police told intended victim
A cheating wife thought she was starring in a reality TV show when caught on video trying to hire a hitman to murder her husband, a court heard today.
Dalia Dippolito, 30, knew she was being filmed but was merely acting out an elaborate hoax set up by her husband Michael, her lawyer claimed.
Michael was an avid fan of reality shows such as Cops, Jersey Shore and Cheaters, Michael Salnick told a jury at West Palm Beach, Florida.
Salnick added: 'The plot for the contract killing was never real. It was a stunt that Michael Dippolito, whether he’ll admit it or not, hoped to capture the attention of someone in reality TV.
'His hoax to achieve fame and fortune was a bad prank.'
But prosecutors insist that Mrs Dippolito, a former prostitute HO who had two affairs during her six-month marriage, wanted him dead.
She was genuinely attempting to hire a killer and that the video, filmed by undercover detectives, had nothing to do with television.
Chief assistant state attorney Elizabeth Parker described Mrs Dippolito as a 'scheming, manipulative woman who used sex to make men do what she wanted.'
She allegedly told the fake hitman – really an undercover officer from the Boynton Beach police department – that she was '5,000 per cent sure' she wanted her husband dead and offered to pay him $3,000.
Later in her trial for solicitation to commit first-degree murder, which carries a sentence of up to 30 years, jurors will see another video in which Mrs Dippolito is filmed screaming and crying as police officers tell her that Michael had been killed.
Detectives staged a fake murder scene to convince her that the killing had taken place, and later filmed her again when they brought her face-to-face with the husband she thought was dead.
Her reaction of shock when they brought Mr Dippolito into the room will also be shown as evidence.
Ms Parker said that the plot came to light when one of Mrs Dippolito's lovers, Mohammed Shihadeh, went to police when he realised that she was serious about killing her husband.
She described how the wife plotted to kill her husband after her initial plan to have him arrested for violating his probation didn't work.
She said Dippolito wanted the lavish lifestyle without her husband.
She said text messages, phone conversations and a recording of what Boynton Beach police claim is a deal with the undercover officer prove Dippolito paid someone to kill her husband.
'He asked her, 'Are you sure you want to kill him?' Ms Parker said. 'Without hesitation, as if she had ice running through her veins, she says, 'There's no changing.'
Today Mr Dippolito told jurors how he lavished money and gifts on his wife and her family, including a Prada bag, jewellery and expensive sports tickets
But he could not escape the feeling that somebody was out to get him after finding threatening notes on his car
He said: 'Every time I walk up to my vehicle, I’m scared,' he said.
Mr Dippolito described the day police knocked on his door while his wife was at the gym and told him of her alleged plot to kill him.
He said: 'The guy blurted out, 'Listen, you have to come with us. Your wife's going to have you killed today.'
Dalia Dippolito stared at her estranged husband as he testified and he occasionally glanced back at her.
The trial continues.
