BEL-AIR : Elizabeth Taylor’s Husband Gets 3 Years’ Probation
The husband of Elizabeth Taylor was placed on three years’ probation after pleading no contest Tuesday in Corona to drunken driving charges filed after he was arrested while leaving a Riverside County construction site.
Municipal Court Judge Michael Flynn also ordered Larry Fortensky, 40, of Bel-Air to take part in an 18-month alcohol abuse program and to pay a $1,178 fine. The judge prohibited the ex-construction worker from driving within six hours of drinking an alcoholic beverage, and from driving a vehicle except to go to and from work or for business. Flynn stayed the sentence to give Fortensky’s attorney, Richard Moore, time to appeal.
Fortensky failed a field sobriety test Oct. 26, 1987, and a Breathalyzer test showed he had a blood-alcohol level of .11, just over what then was the legal limit of .10.
Taylor and Fortensky met four years ago while both were undergoing substance abuse treatment at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage.
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