WOODLAND HILLS—On Monday, June 23, 2025, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office announced that Monica Sementilli was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for orchestrating the 2017 murder of her husband, renowned hairdresser Fabio Sementilli.
The sentencing took place in Department 101 of the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center.
A jury previously found Sementilli guilty of first-degree murder with special circumstance allegations of financial gain and lying in wait, as well as conspiracy to commit murder on April 11, 2025. She sobbed in court as the verdict was read.
Evidence presented at trial showed that she conspired with her lover, Robert Louis Baker, to murder her 49-year-old husband, Fabio, in order to collect millions in life insurance benefits.
On January 23, 2017, Baker fatally stabbed Fabio as he sat on his backyard patio in Woodland Hills before fleeing the scene in Sementilli’s Porsche, which was later found abandoned. Baker previously pleaded guilty to murder and conspiracy to commit murder and was also sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
Fabio was a well-known celebrity hairdresser. He shared three children with the defendant, Gessica, Isabella and Luigi.
The Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery-Homicide Division led the investigation.
By Danny Jones