Actress Ornella Muti got a definitive suspended jail term of six months and a 500-euro fine for attempted fraud as the supreme Court of Cassation upheld an appeals court verdict.
Muti, 64, was again convicted of cancelling an Italian tour
date with a false sick note in 2010 to attend a gala dinner in
Russia with President Vladimir Putin and US actor Kevin Costner.
The actress was first given the suspended jail term of six
months and the 500-euro fine by the Trieste appeals court two
years ago, which upheld a lower court's verdict two years
previously.
The court said the sentence would only be suspended if Muti
paid Pordenone's Teatro Verdi 30,000 in damages for fraudulently
calling off her show.
Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in
La moglie più bella (The Most Beautiful Wife).
She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her
English-speaking film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in
1980.
American movies she appeared in include Love and Money
(1982), Casanova (1987), Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989), A
Season of Giants (1990), Oscar (1991), Once Upon a Crime (1992),
Somewhere in the City (1998) and To Rome with Love (2012).
She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a
television commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta.
She was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994
by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class.
In 2008, Muti introduced her own line of jewelry. She opened
new shops in Paris, Milan, Rome, Riga, Moscow and Almaty.
She reportedly once insured her breasts for $350,000.
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