Sharif sentenced for hitting cop
Actor Omar Sharif has been given a one-month suspended sentence for hitting a police officer in a casino in suburban Paris last month, a court official said Thursday.
The Egyptian actor, best known for his role in the romantic 1965 epic “Doctor Zhivago,” was also fined $1,700 for “violence toward a police officer,” a spokeswoman for the Pontoise criminal court in Paris said.
Sharif, 71, had been arguing with a croupier at the casino while playing roulette, and he insulted and then head-butted a policeman who tried to intervene, according to newspaper reports that a legal source said were correct.
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