WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A former Florida escort convicted of trying to hire a hit man to murder her newlywed husband was sentenced Friday to 16 years in prison, perhaps ending a drawn-out case that drew notice for its startling videos and salacious characters.

Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley imposed the sentence on Dalia Dippolito, who was convicted last month of solicitation of first-degree murder. She was recorded on video and audio in 2009 as she plotted to have Michael Dippolito killed, telling an undercover detective she was “5,000 percent sure” she wanted her husband dead.

Kelley said Dippolito acted in a “cold and calculated manner.”

“This particular crime was committed not in an unsophisticated way, but in a sophisticated way in a calculated fashion,” Kelley said. “There was a plan put in place by Dalia Dippolito to kill Mike Dippolito.” He said the evidence showed that Dalia Dippolito may have been manipulating two other men in her effort to kill her husband.

Neither Dippolito nor her family showed any reaction when the sentence was handed down.

A 2011 conviction and 20-year sentence had been thrown out on appeal. A retrial last fall ended with a 3-3 hung jury. This time, it took the six-member jury 90 minutes to convict Dippolito, 34, who had a child last year while under house arrest.

Prosecutors believe she wanted control of the couple’s town house and her husband’s savings. The case gained national attention when Boynton Beach police video from the investigation went viral on the internet and was featured on the TV shows “Cops” and “20/20.”

Boynton Beach’s cooperation with “Cops” had been a key part of the defense, as Dippolito’s attorneys argued detectives manipulated her and their investigation to play to the cameras. Kelley said that while “theater” should not be part of law enforcement and the investigation wasn’t perfect, he believes the detectives saved Michael Dippolito’s life.

“The evidence supports that Miss Dippolito wanted him killed,” Kelley said. While prosecutors argued for a 30-year sentence, Kelley said he agreed with the previous judge’s sentence but gave her four years credit for the eight years she spent on house arrest.

Michael Dippolito, a convicted conman, testified Friday that his wife’s actions ruined his life. He said her unsubstantiated claims of spousal abuse as the reason for her actions still haunt him. He said that when he was arrested for stock trading fraud, he plead guilty and accepted his prison sentence and she should have done the same.

“People will say, ‘You’re really lucky to be alive,’” Michael Dippolito said. “I guess but I can’t get to that because I had to deal with this nonsense for nine years,” referring to the three trials. He testified he met his ex-wife in October 2008 when he hired her for sex, but they hit it off so well they were married in February. Within a month, he said, she was stealing money from him and trying to get his probation revoked by planting drugs in his truck and, he believes, spiked his ice tea with antifreeze in an attempt to kill him.

Prosecutor Craig Williams called Dippolito “a master manipulator” who needed to be imprisoned “to protect society.”

“If she wants something, first-degree murder is not enough for her,” Williams said. “She’ll do whatever it takes.”

Defense attorney Greg Rosenfeld unsuccessfully argued for probation, saying Dalia Dippolito had lived an “exemplary life” and she should not be judged by “the worst moment of her life.” After the hearing, he said he respected Kelley’s sentence but an appeal is planned.

Williams and co-prosecutor Laura Laurie argued during the latest trial that the evidence against Dippolito was overwhelming. They played a 23-minute video in which Dippolito told undercover officer Widy Jean she wanted her husband killed and agreed to pay $7,000. She also discussed various plots before Jean said he would kill her husband at the couple’s home, making it look like a botched burglary while she was at the gym.

Prosecutors also read for the jury X-rated text messages Dalia Dippolito exchanged with a now-deceased lover, Mike Stanley, in 2009 after she got married.

She had Stanley impersonate a doctor, to help her hide the $100,000 theft by pretending to be pregnant, and later a lawyer, to make her husband wrongly think he had completed probation, prosecutors said. She hoped that if her husband stopped visiting his probation officer, he would be found in violation and returned to prison. In one text message, she rejoiced after persuading her husband to put their town house in her name only; in another, she complained after learning she still couldn’t sell it without his signature.

A brother and sister are behind bars after allegedly having sex in a tractor trailer parked in a church parking lot.

Police say Christopher Buckner, 20, and her half-brother Timothy Savoy, 25, admitted to committing incest three times in a church parking lot outside of Savannah, Georgia after watching the Ryan Gosling romance “The Notebook.”

(For those not familiar with the cult film, it doesn’t have a happy ending).

Police were alerted to the pair’s antics early on Tuesday morning after responding to a call about a prowler in the area.

Sheriff’s Office spokesman David Ehsanipoor told the Savannah Morning News deputies went to inspect the area after a call at about 4:30 a.m.

During their patrol of the area they spotted a man and woman walking down the road. The male said he was walking the female back to her house.

Deputies determined that the pair were brother and sister and that they had just had sex in a Kenworth tractor trailer, which was parked at Countryside Baptist Church, Ehsanipoor said.

The pair have been charged with incest, aggravated sodomy and prowling and are being held in the Effingham County jail.

More than a quarter-million residents of greater Seattle have considered leaving the Emerald City due to rising crime — the highest percentage of any large metro area in the country, according to a new national survey.

The data, collected by the US Census Bureau and other federal agencies as part of the Household Pulse Survey, shows that 7.2% of adults in and around the Washington state city have felt pressure to move in the last six months because they felt their neighborhood isn’t safe, the Seattle Times said.

That number translates to about 227,000 people out of the 3.1 million who inhabit the city and its suburbs.

In comparison, only 3.4% of New Yorkers considered moving away over similar concerns, according to the study.

Some conservatives believe the numbers are tied to supposedly “soft-on-crime” policies the city has long embraced — as well as its efforts to defund its police department after the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minnesota, which sparked outrage throughout the nation.

4 More than 7% of the residents of greater Seattle have considered leaving because they consider their neighborhood unsafe, a new survey said. Getty Images

“The obvious consequences of those policies is an increase in crime and a less safe community where it’s more difficult for people to live and do business,” Zach Smith, legal fellow and manager of the Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Program for the Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center, told Fox News.

“Seattle was at the forefront of the ‘Defund the Police’ movement and local leaders committed to cutting the city’s police budget by half — though they had to back away from that audacious goal when confronted with the reality of rising crime rates,” Smith said.

4 The rate — which translates to more than a quarter-million people — is the highest of the 15 American cities surveyed. AP

4 Some conservatives blamed the “Defund the police” movement for rising crime rates. Getty Images

Crime has indeed risen in the city — homicides spiked by 24% last year, and motor vehicle thefts climbed by 30%, Fox said. Overall crime ticked up by 4%.

The increases came as police staffing fell to a 30-year low in 2022 as cops left the department for retirement or other jobs, according to Fox.

Despite this, officials have continued to reject tough-on-crime measures — such as a June bill that would have allowed the city attorney to prosecute public drug use and possession.

4 Despite the crime increases, city officials have refused to enact legislation that would punish public drug use. Getty Images

The city council shot down the measure in a 5-4 vote.

“At a critical time for the recovery of downtown, the use of dangerous drugs in our public spaces is a significant contributing factor to residents, employees, families and visitors feeling unsafe exploring our city or returning to the office,” the Downtown Seattle Association said in scathing take-down of the vote.

“In fact, in a poll we commissioned … a full 77% of voters agreed with the statement ‘Seattle’s hands-off approach to people using illegal drugs in public is contributing to rampant street crime and is making it much harder for downtown to recover,’” the association said, noting that 63% strongly agreed.

Due to the crime infestation, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has pushed for more cops on the streets.

“We need immediate action and innovation to respond to our public safety issues,” Harrell said in February. “We need more officers to address our staffing crisis.”

Nearly 150 concertgoers, many of them teenage girls, were jabbed with a syringe in a bizarre attack at a nationwide music festival in France Saturday, and a dozen suspects have been nabbed in connection with the disturbing barrage, according to officials.

Local and national law enforcement are investigating the wave of deranged incidents in which suspects wielding syringes with unknown contents jabbed 145 victims at the popular Fêtes de la Musique, or World Music Day, celebrations across the country, causing several to be hospitalized.

3 Police in France are investigating a bizarre syringe attack at Saturday’s Fêtes de la Musique, or World Music Day, celebrations on Saturday. POOL/AFP via Getty Images

The first attack was reported to police at 9:15 p.m. on the Rue du Palais in Metz in northeastern France, according to Mayor François Grosdidie.

Authorities received a report of a suspect involved in one of the attacks and used security footage to track him down, Grosdidie said.

“The municipal police identified him on Rue Serpenoise, arrested him, and made him available to the National Police and the Justice Department,” he added.

“I hope that the investigation, particularly through the examination of his cellphone, will lead to the identification of other attackers.”

Firefighters responded promptly to each attack, deploying seven emergency vehicles and creating a staging area for the victims on Place d’Armes, Grosdidie said.

French officials were anticipating unprecedented crowds for this year’s Fêtes de la Musique, a free music festival held every year on the summer solstice.

3 Millions of people across France attended Saturday’s Fêtes de la Musique. Abdullah Firas/ABACA/Shutterstock

It showcases a mix of professional and amateur musicians who play at different venues, including parks and street corners in cities across the country. Officials estimated that 50,000 people attended the concerts in Metz while “unprecedented crowds” descended upon Paris.

Across France, there were millions of people who took to the streets Saturday evening for the festival, according to La Monde. None of them were deterred by posts on Snapchat and other social media sites warning of the bizarre syringe attack.

The Interior Ministry said 145 victims across the nation reported being stabbed with needles, with Paris police officials probing 13 cases in the capital.

Officials did not specify if the syringes were filled with date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol or GHB, used by sexual assailants to make women and girls vulnerable to sexual assault, La Monde reported.

As of Sunday, at least three people reported feeling sick after getting jabbed by the syringe-wielding maniacs.

3 Police arrested 12 suspects whom they believe were involved in the twisted syringe attacks, the Interior Ministry said. AFP via Getty Images

“Some victims were taken to hospital for toxicological tests,” the ministry said.

Police arrested 12 suspects whom they believe were involved in the twisted syringe attacks, the Interior Ministry said. The attackers are believed to have targeted around 50 victims, a police source told La Monde.

Women may soon be painting the town red — literally.

A social media influencer is urging New York City women to carry spray paint instead of pepper spray to defend themselves from attackers, amid a string of unprovoked attacks and assaults on women.

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Monique “Moe” Black, a 29-year-old fashion influencer Detroit native who regularly travels to the Big Apple for gigs, said a can of spray paint is more reliable and easier to get — and marks the perp so that cops know exactly who the bad guy is.

“I prefer spray enamel, to be honest, because that sh-t is never coming off,” Black told The Post.

She said she knew she needed some type of protection when she started traveling to the city for work.

4 Moe Black argues a can of spray paint can be better than pepper spray for self-defense and is easier to get in New York. TikTok moeblackx

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Black puts a can in her tote bag, under her shoulder where it is easy to grab.

The idea came from her stepdad, a retired homicide detective for the Detroit Police Department.

“He was like, ‘You know, if you spray somebody in the face and then whack them over the head with it, you’re probably going to have enough time to run away,’” Black said.

And there is less chance it will blow back in the user’s face like pepper spray.

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4 Moe Black says friends in New York City have to order pepper spray to a Jersey address in order to obtain it. Courtesy of Monique Black

Growing up in the notoriously tough 7 Mile Road area of Detroit, she and her friends would walk to school with Master Locks in a sock to defend themselves.

The Big Apple now feels a lot like Detroit, she added.

And after watching videos of women getting randomly attacked in New York City, she was inspired to share the tip on TikTok. The video has gotten over 3 million views.

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@moeblackx #stitch with @SMITH you can use pepper spray but not have it shipped to the city & its extremely hard to find in stock because of ny legislation around self defense items anyways stay safe and please give them hell if you cant run #nycsafetytip ♬ original sound – Moe

Already, one woman messaged her to thank her for sharing the tip, saying it saved her life in a domestic violence situation.

“I was in a domestic violence situation and I remembered your video,” the woman told Black. “I used spray paint and it gave me enough time to run out of my house and my neighbors were able to see me covered in blood and they called the police.”

Others reached out from around the world, like in the UK, where many self-defense tools are prohibited.

In New York, it is legal to carry pepper spray but illegal for it to be shipped here. Stores must be licensed or authorized to sell it in person and few are.

4 Pepper spray is legal to carry in New York, but cannot be shipped here legally. It can be ineffective if it blows back in the user’s face. Rust-Oleum

“All my friends in the city order it to, like, an Amazon locker in Jersey City,” said Black. “It is technically legal, but you’re gonna have to go over the river and through the woods to maybe pick up a bedazzled pepper spray that probably won’t do anything.”

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4 A Detroit native, Moe Black knew she would need to carry some form of self-defense on her in New York City, too. TikTok moeblackx

She was most surprised at comments on her video from women who were afraid of injuring their attacker.

“They should feel no sympathy,” Black said. “You have every right to do whatever you need to to survive.”