Hollywood News Now: Hollywood producer Raymond Bouderau sentenced to 3½ years for Hamptons, Manhattan burglaries

Hollywood producer Raymond Bouderau, middle, appears at his sentencing in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead on Tuesday. Credit: James Carbone

A Hollywood producer was sentenced to 3½ years in prison Tuesday for burglarizing the Hamptons and Manhattan homes of his girlfriend's wealthy romantic rival in September 2022 and stealing more than $1 million in property.

Raymond Bouderau, 51, of Manhattan, was also ordered by State Supreme Court Justice John Collins to pay $200,000 in restitution to the victim, who called him a "con artist, master manipulator and a sociopath" when she addressed him at sentencing.

"You've lived your whole life trying to matter and pretending to be someone famous," said Jodi Allardice, of Sag Harbor, the girlfriend of the former husband of Bouderau's co-defendant, his girlfriend Jacqueline Jewett. "You're invisible to everyone except yourself."

Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney Kieran Rogers told the jury at the start of Bouderau's trial that he conspired with Jewett in the "targeted attack" of Allardice. The prosecutor said the burglaries, which included a second residence in Manhattan, were planned after Jewett's Connecticut home was burglarized in August 2022 and Bouderau convinced a "jealous" Jewett her former husband and Allardice were behind it.

The trial ended in its first week when the District Attorney's Office offered Bouderau, a producer of the 2020 film "Bill & Ted Face the Music," the 3½-year sentence after it was revealed state police investigators lost crime scene photographs and other evidence from the Manhattan burglary.

Grand larceny and conspiracy charges were dropped and Bouderau pleaded guilty to second-degree burglary. He will receive credit for the 13 months he spent in jail before the start of trial.

"The loss of cash and jewelry and watches, precious and sentimental items, has not only impacted me financially, but has far-reaching consequences that jeopardize my son's financial future," Allardice told the court during her victim impact statement. "The emotional toll is immeasurable."

Bouderau's defense attorney, Jonathan Manley, of Hauppauge, told Collins he's seen growth in his client in the nearly two years since his arrest.

"I genuinely believe the man that stands next to me today is not the same man that committed this crime," Manley said. "He's accepted responsibility and I believe very, very strongly in second chances."

Bouderau, who faced 30 years in prison if convicted at trial, declined to speak at his sentencing in Riverhead, a decision that did not sit well with the judge.

"Frankly, I think it's cowardly to not make a statement here in open court, especially with the victim of the crime present," Collins told Bouderau, who the judge noted also has a pending drug charge in California. "That is your right and perhaps [your attorney's] advice, but I don't like it."

Collins said he received dozens of letters supporting Bouderau that reference his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction and his journey to remain sober following his arrest, but the judge said the burglaries were a "calculated, well-planned event that took place over two days."

"This was not the work of an addled mind," Collins said.

Jewett, a mother of six who had been married 30 years, was also charged in the burglaries. She cooperated with prosecutors and was sentenced in March to time served and 5 years of probation, according to court documents.

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said after Bouderau and Jewett's arrest that multiple firearms and two dozen bottles of wine were stolen in the burglaries.

Detectives found electrical lines were cut and circuit breakers tripped as forced entry was gained through a basement window, prosecutors said at the time.

Video surveillance footage and license plate readers led investigators to Bouderau. Cellular location data placed him at the scene of the burglaries, Rogers said at trial.