Wife in deadly love triangle with squash coach and her hair tycoon husband for life
The celebrity hairstylist’s wife will spend the rest of her life in jail for letting her lover kill her husband because it could have gone wrong as a robbery for a family invasion.
Monica Sementelli, 53, was sentenced to life imprisonment for a brutal stabbing eight years ago in their husband Fabio Sementelli, 49. The jury in April was convicted of murder and conspiracy for orchestrating murder as they planned the killing of people on their woodland deck, one of their daughters later found him injured in blood.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ronald Coen rejected Sementelli’s legal team’s bid for her 25-year prison sentence before announcing her sentence.
Fabio Sementelli’s face, chin, neck, chest and thighs were injured, and the fact that the $8,000 Rolex watch after he was killed was confused.
The blood at the crime scene was soon associated with Robert Baker, a convicted sex offender and former porn star who started a relationship with Monica Sementilli after working as a squash coach at the West Hills Fitness Club. While prosecutors portrayed Sementilli as the “master” behind the killing, she stood for $1.6 million in life insurance costs, Baker picked up his stance at the 2 1/2 month trial and insisted that he killed Hairy for love.
“I murdered him because I wanted her,” Baker testified at the trial. “She has nothing to do with it.”
Baker was previously convicted of Fabio Sementilli’s murder and not parole.
During Sementilli’s trial, Los Angeles County agent. Atti. Beth Silverman provided video evidence showing Monica Sementilli watched live feed in the area shortly before the attack to ensure Baker had a clear path to her husband. Mitzi Roberts, a veteran homicide detective at the Los Angeles Police Department, also testified that Sementilli and Baker passed 95 messages through an encrypted message called Viber on the day of the killing and 180 messages were made the day before.
Although Sementilli denied all misconduct and publicly saddened her husband – an executive at hair care firm Wella – she was involved in pain with Baker. According to Silverman, the two had splits during her husband’s funeral, who said the new widow even sent nudes to Baker while serving in Toronto.
Baker’s accomplice Christopher Austin also testified the prosecution and insisted that Baker told him that Sementilli directed her husband’s murder. Former Oregon probation officer Austin said he never spoke directly to Monica, but Baker made it clear that his lover wanted her husband to “leave.”
“Everything he did, everything he did after receiving the text message, told me he was talking to her through the text message,” Austin testified. “I didn’t hear him talking to her on the phone…but it all happened.”
Defense attorney Leonard Levin insisted: “Adultery is not murder. … Everything she did was to protect the matter, not to cover up the murder.” He called Baker “Svengali”, and he said Sementilli made the “`the biggest mistake of her life” when he was involved in an extramarital affair.
