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Depardieu fined 4000 Euros for drunk scooter ride
22 June, 2013
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A French court on Friday ordered actor Gerard Depardieu to pay a 4,000 euro ($5,290) fine and suspended his driver's license for six months for driving his scooter in Paris while drunk , AFP informs.
After falling off his scooter in November, he was found more than three times over the legal alcohol limit, BBC reports.
Depardieu, 64, is hailed as one of the finest actors of his generation for films that include Cyrano de Bergerac.
Nobody was hurt in the incident on 29 November, which could have incurred a two-year prison sentence.
The actor's licence was suspended for six months.
Depardieu is currently making a revenge thriller in Russia, where his new film Rasputin is playing at this year's Moscow International Film Festival.

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