Murderer Monica Sementilli sentenced to life in prison
Famed California and Toronto hairstylist was attacked from behind in 2017.
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A black widow with a high-octane sex drive and insatiable lust for money has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Monica Sementilli, 53, was convicted of first-degree murder in April for masterminding the brutal murder of her husband Fabio, a famed hair stylist in both Toronto and Los Angeles, and the father of three children.
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Fabio Sementilli, 49, was stabbed to death on the patio of his Woodland Hills, Calif., mansion on Jan. 23, 2017, while he enjoyed a glass of wine and a cigar. He had been attacked from behind.
Cops soon zeroed in his widow and her former porn star paramour, Robert Baker. Six months after Fabio was murdered, Monica and Baker were arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
Detectives believe the motive behind Fabio’s murder was sex and a whopping $1.6-million insurance policy.
On Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, her late husband’s family lambasted the stiletto-thin temptress as a “whore and a murderer” and a “demon.”
Fabio’s sister Mirella, her voice cracking, hammered her one-time close friend and confidante.
“You have the audacity to demand a trial and parade around like a woman wronged,” Mirella told the court, glaring at her former sister-in-law.
“And in the end, she exposed not only her shameful affair but the truth of the kind of mother she was. She is a complete and utter stupid bitch. Watching her dress like a slut for Robert Baker, living six months off of blood money. Only a devil can manipulate reality to suit her comforts.”
Cops kept their cards close to their chest in the early months of the investigation. If Fabio’s heartbroken family suspected anything about Monica, they kept it to themselves.
“In all my worst nightmares, I could never have fathomed this calculated plan,” Mirella said.
“Monica, you are a demon — she can’t even look at me — and all your actions and deceit have told us so. You traded a beautiful life for trashy garages, dirty beds and Pinot Grigio for tubes of semen from a repulsive convicted sex offender.”
Mirella added: “You didn’t just kill Fabio, you humiliated him. You let him carry guilt for working hard while you carried on with a degenerate sex offender.”
Her sentence of an eternity behind bars ends a horrific odyssey for Fabio’s family as proceedings were hampered by delay after delay.
Fabio suffered seven stab wounds to the neck, chest, and thigh, with his femoral and carotid arteries severed. His Porsche was stolen and later found abandoned.
Initially, investigators believed that the slaying was a home invasion gone awry. But one of Monica’s friends tipped LAPD homicide detectives off about Baker, a onetime porn actor and convicted sex offender.
He pleaded no contest in July 2023 and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. A third man, Christopher Austin, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to a minimum of 16 years behind bars.
Monica was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
“Monica Sementilli is the most unsubtle defendant of all time,” Court TV legal analyst Michael Jaffer said at the time of the conviction. “Even though the axeman (Robert Baker, the admitted killer and Monica’s lover) testified she had nothing to do with it, the jury still found her guilty. And the jury got it right.”
Jaffer added that everyone agreed former porn star and convicted sex offender Baker, 63, was the killer. He claimed the aged sex kitten had nothing to do with the killing.
But Monica Sementilli could not escape the weeks of testimony from friends, family, cops and the third accused, Austin, that painted her into a corner as details of the lurid affair and her evil schemes emerged.
There were the sex trips to Vegas, the emails, and Fabio’s life insurance policy, she pestered detectives about.
Jaffer added: “She was the most unsubtle defendant of unsubtle defendants.”
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