FACTBOX-Celebrities get wide range of punishments in U.S.

Thu Jun 7, 2007 8:48pm BST
 
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(Reuters) - Hotel heiress Paris Hilton was released on Thursday after serving three of a scheduled 23 days in a Los Angeles jail, and was instead given 40 days house arrest. She was jailed for violating probation in a reckless driving case.

Following are some recent sentences meted out to celebrities who have run afoul of the law in the United States;

- NAOMI CAMPBELL, fashion model, spent five days community service mopping floors and cleaning toilets at a New York garbage depot in March after pleading guilty to assaulting a housekeeper.

- MEL GIBSON, actor/director, sentenced to three years probation, one year mandatory alcohol rehab program for July 2006 drunk driving conviction.

- MARTHA STEWART, U.S. home guru, served five months in prison in 2005 for lying to investigators about a stock trade.

- NICK NOLTE, actor, was given three years probation and 90 days drug rehab for driving under influence of drugs in 2002.

- BOY GEORGE, pop singer, sentenced to five days community service in 2006 sweeping streets in New York for falsely reporting a burglary.

- COURTNEY LOVE, singer, got three years probation and six months mandatory drug rehab for various drug and assault charges in 2005.

- OMAR SHARIF, actor, was given two years probation and anger management counselling for 2005 assault on a Beverly Hills parking attendant.  Continued...

 

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