Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
ElephantLoveMedley
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Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#2Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 3/15/22 at 4:18pmHoly God.
rj1060
Swing Joined: 9/27/21
#3Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 3/15/22 at 4:58pm
Absolutely horrifying and senseless
#4Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 3/15/22 at 11:08pm
I am so sorry to hear this.
#5Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 3/15/22 at 11:19pm
Heartbreaking. They got video of the woman who did it and I hope they throw her under the jail.
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TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#6Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 3/22/22 at 12:44pm
The assailant has been arrested.
https://gothamist.com/news/woman-who-shoved-beloved-broadway-singing-coach-arrested-for-manslaughter?fbclid=IwAR1Xs_TJ9O5ZSaE3t4t1_BgDa8BXz7p1QV1exfwa7nc6fuHm0IthXyta0GA
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#7Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 3/22/22 at 1:59pm
I was just about to post this.
I'm sure she'll get off with a slap on the wrist because white girl.
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#8Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 3/22/22 at 2:12pm
Well, if it were a White attack on a person of color, sure....but it's not. And the victim is elderly. (I'm sure she won't get the maximum, but still....)
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#9Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 3/23/22 at 11:09am
This one just gets weirder.
Not only did she push this woman down and kill her, she apparently stood by afterwards and watched Gustern get loaded into an ambulance. And then spent the next two weeks scrubbing her social media, quitting her job, and hiding her cellphone at her aunties. When police showed up at her house, her father refused to let them in.
Oh, and she's a daughter of privilege. Apparently, she is--get this--a cesspool heiress.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
MemorableUserName
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/19
#10Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 4/21/22 at 6:52pm
Today's NYT piece on her is lovely.
She Taught New York to Sing
“Throw the note over your shoulder!” Debbie Harry, Kathleen Hanna, Justin Vivian Bond and other singers recall Barbara Gustern, a beloved vocal coach who was killed last month at age 87.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/style/she-taught-new-york-to-sing.html
MemorableUserName
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/19
#11Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 8/23/23 at 1:34pm
The killer pled guilty to manslaughter. Sentenced to 8 years in prison.
https://deadline.com/2023/08/lauren-pazienza-barbara-gustern-fatal-shoving-vocal-coach-1235526144/
"Lauren Pazienza, who deliberately and randomly shoved 87-year-old Broadway vocal coach Barbara Gustern to the ground on a Manhattan sidewalk in 2022 causing the elderly woman’s death, changed her plea from not guilty to guilty and will be sentenced to eight years in state prison.
The plea deal was announced today by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr."
#12Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 8/23/23 at 1:38pm
Only eight years?? Ugh.
JSquared2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/17
#13Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 8/23/23 at 1:48pm
She'll probably end up serving 2-3 years max. Disgusting.
#14Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 8/23/23 at 5:43pm
JSquared2 said: "She'll probably end up serving 2-3 years max. Disgusting
That is disgusting and most likely true. She never should have been offered a plea deal. What she did is so cruel and vile. Unbelievable. She can easily do something like this again if she did it with such callousness before.
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Pashacar
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/18
#15Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 8/23/23 at 10:46pm
I’m going to come at this from the opposite angle and say that even if she only serves 2-3 years that is a very substantial stain on a life. The best we can hope for at this point is that it leaves an imprint and she is rehabilitated.
#16Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 8/23/23 at 11:02pm
Pashacar said: "I’m going to come at this from the opposite angle and say that even if she only serves 2-3 years that is a very substantial stain on a life. The best we can hope for at this point is that it leaves an imprint and she is rehabilitated."
I'm hoping for that as well.
The United States has the largest prison population in the world, both in gross numbers and per capita. As long as that's the case, I will never complain about someone being given too lenient a sentence. Let's root for rehabilitation.
Dom P
Featured Actor Joined: 7/22/23
#17Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 8/24/23 at 12:06am
Bettyboy72 said: "JSquared2 said: "She'll probably end up serving 2-3 years max. Disgusting
That is disgusting and most likely true. She never should have been offered a plea deal. What she did is so cruel and vile. Unbelievable. She can easily do something like this again if she did it with such callousness before.
Im not quite sure why she was offered a plea deal. There was very substantial evidence of her actions in the commission of this crime.
Its quite dispiriting that will most likely only do only2-3 yrs which seems like an insubtantial of time for causing the death of another
#18Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 8/24/23 at 12:30am
Her father is the Sewer King and hired a top attorney. This is probably the best the DA could do; it's how our system works, unfortunately.
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#19Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 8/24/23 at 1:55am
Lauren crossed the street she was walking on, screamed at Barbara, knocked her down, and walked away. She then took the subway back to her Queens apartment with her fiancé roughly 20 minutes after the incident. She deleted her social media accounts, took down her wedding website, and later went to Long Island to stay with family, all to avoid any kind of prosecution.
GET F*CKED, LAUREN.
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#20Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 8/24/23 at 7:07am
kdogg36 said: "Pashacar said: "I’m going to come at this from the opposite angle and say that even if she only serves 2-3 years that is a very substantial stain on a life. The best we can hope for at this point is that it leaves an imprint and she is rehabilitated."
I'm hoping for that as well.
The United States has the largest prison population in the world, both in gross numbers and per capita. As long as that's the case, I will never complain about someone being given too lenient a sentence. Let's root for rehabilitation."
We should never look the other way when people commit crimes, especially violent crimes, just because we don't like what having a lot people in prison says about us.
#21Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 8/24/23 at 7:19am
kdogg36 said: "Pashacar said: "I’m going to come at this from the opposite angle and say that even if she only serves 2-3 years that is a very substantial stain on a life. The best we can hope for at this point is that it leaves an imprint and she is rehabilitated."
I'm hoping for that as well.
The United States has the largest prison population in the world, both in gross numbers and per capita. As long as that's the case, I will never complain about someone being given too lenient a sentence. Let's root for rehabilitation."
In agreement with these two posts. It may be an unpopular opinion, but expecting and wanting people to get life sentences is so gross. People deserve the chance to better themselves, but in our current system prisoners often become repeat offenders because we don’t allow them to.
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#22Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 8/24/23 at 7:30am
Our prisons have all to do with punishment, little to do with rehabilitation. (Yes, punishment IS, and should be, part of the consequences.)
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JSquared2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/17
#23Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 8/24/23 at 10:48am
Call_me_jorge said: "kdogg36 said: "Pashacar said: "I’m going to come at this from the opposite angle and say that even if she only serves 2-3 years that is a very substantial stain on a life. The best we can hope for at this point is that it leaves an imprint and she is rehabilitated."
I'm hoping for that as well.
The United States has the largest prison population in the world, both in gross numbers and per capita. As long as that's the case, I will never complain about someone being given too lenient a sentence. Let's root for rehabilitation."
In agreement with these two posts. It may be an unpopular opinion, but expecting and wanting people to get life sentences is so gross. People deserve the chance to better themselves, but in our current system prisoners often become repeat offenders because we don’t allow them to."
Yeah, and I'm sure you would feel the same way if it had been your mother or grandmother or spouse who had been brutally murdered by a random psycho.
#24Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 8/24/23 at 10:55am
If they were, truly, a psycho I would hope they would get psychiatric care, not be locked up in a prison where their mental state would only decline.
In our millions, in our billions, we are most powerful when we stand together. TW4C unwaveringly joins the worldwide masses, for we know our liberation is inseparably bound.
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Updated On: 8/24/23 at 10:55 AM
#25Broadway Singing Coach Barbara Maier Gustern Dies After Attack on Street
Posted: 8/24/23 at 11:48am
This animal IS a psycho. She deliberately approached a defenseless senior citizen for no reason and then verbally and brutally physically attacked her by shoving her to the ground from behind - causing her death.
She then stood there for 20 minutes and watched as the ambulance arrived to take the victim to the hospital. scrubbed her online presence, quit her job, dumped her cell phone at her aunt's house, high-tailed it to Long Island, and hid in her parent's home - all to avoid arrest.
When she was released on bail, her attorney stated that she was relieved to be released and that she and her family would have her victim's family in their thoughts and prayers on the day of her victim's funeral.
Well, guess what? If she hadn't attacked her victim in the first place there wouldn't be the need to have a family to keep in their "thoughts and prayers" and there would be no funeral! The fvcking gall
This is NOT normal behavior! So fitting that her family deals with sewers because they are all pieces of excrement.
Fvck her, her family, and her fvcking rehabilitation.
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