Elizabeth Taylor’s Husband Placed on 3 Years’ Probation
The husband of Elizabeth Taylor was placed on three years’ probation after pleading no contest Tuesday to drunk-driving charges filed after he was arrested while leaving a Riverside County construction site.
Municipal Judge Michael F. 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 ordered the former construction worker not to drive within six hours of drinking an alcoholic beverage and not to drive at all 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 breath test showed that he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.11.
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