Celebrities’ maid given prison term
A maid whose clients included Robert De Niro and Candice Bergen was sentenced Tuesday to one to three years in prison by a judge in New York who said the defendant was “cleaning out” her celebrity employers’ valuables while cleaning their homes.
New York Supreme Court Justice Renee White ignored the pleas of a weeping Lucyna Turyk-Wawrynowicz to let her return immediately to Poland.
Turyk - Wawrynowicz pleaded guilty two weeks ago to grand larceny, forgery and identity theft.
“I would like the judge to allow me to go home,” Turyk-Wawrynowicz, 35, said through tears and a Polish interpreter.
White told the maid she had “shown no remorse for your actions but only remorse for your predicament,” and imposed the prison sentence.
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