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Embattled Gibson pleads no contest to drunk driving charge
Aug 17, 2006, 19:42 GMT
Los Angeles - Actor-director Mel Gibson was sentenced to three year's probation Thursday after pleading no contest to a misdemeanour drunken driving charge.
As part of the plea deal, Gibson was also required to spend the next year in intensive alcoholism rehabilitation and fined 1,300 dollars. Gibson was not in court for the hearing at Los Angeles Superior Court.
Gibson was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving on July 28. The incident turned into a wider scandal when a police report showed that the filmmaker made anti-Jewish remarks when detained. Gibson later issued a pair of apologies for his remarks and behaviour.
The Disney-owned ABC network cancelled a Holocaust mini-series that Gibson's company was working on, but Disney itself went ahead with plans to release his next film, Apocalypto.
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