March 17th, 2011
05:06 PM ET
Mel Gibson gets bookedThe same day that Jodie Foster was singing Mel Gibson’s praises at the SXSW premiere of their film “The Beaver,” Gibson was busy being booked. The actor headed over to the El Segundo Police Department in California on Wednesday as part of the sentence that was handed down last week after he entered a “no contest” plea on a misdemeanor battery charge related to a prior incident with his ex, Oksana Grigorieva. The actor has been sentenced to three years of unsupervised probation and 52 weeks of anger management counseling. He must also complete 16 hours of community service work and pay a $400 domestic violence fine and $180 in other fees. The actor was released on $20,000 bail.
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For the ones that don´t know what is "unsupervised probation" :
It´s a kind of option that lets him on the stream for 3 years and if he gets booked again by any misdreavous thing, he will have to comply with 3 years of jail term and get a new trial for the thing that got him into jail.
So he is on probation during 3 years but without the tax payer paying for someone to be checking him. After the time is over he will get is 20k back if he completes everything.
Even the 52 weeks of counseling can be done by him talking with other people that got the same problems.
That little Gold Digger got what was coming to her and Im happy for Mel being able to vent on her. Its always a good thing to toss the corn niblets back at the source.
Mel can afford this measley $20K and I wish him only the best!!
Happy Friday! 🙂
Mel is a mess, I agree. he & david hasslehof should get drunk n do youtube videos. twould be hilarious!
while I agree that it's pure B.S. that they consider UNSUPERVISED 'probation' a fitting sentence... sadly this ignorant do uche bag IS an american. he was born and raised in Peekskill NY (a few miles north of the Bronx) until the age of 12 or 13 yrs old. the loser Does unfortunately have dual citizenship.
Stfu Robin! there is nothing wrong with a man going with a younger woman as so a woman with a younger man. Stop putting an age on everything! you are just jealous that no one younger wants you
Mel u should not have thought that the grass was greener on the other side and not hooked up with a younger woman. Karma
Hope the 52 weeks of anger management works. He needs to control that anger before he bursts a blood vessel screaming for as loud and as long as he did.
He's still not as cool as Peter Tosh & Bob Marley! Legalize It, Don't Criticize It!
That's right. Mel was born in New York. His family moved to Sydney when he was 12 years old.
@ law watcher
A20,000 bond sounds right for slappin your ho, as far as the fines, he might have got off a little easy. But everything else is right on the money , as far as I'm concernd JUSTICE has been served dick!
Justice has been a joke in this country for a while. Where have you been?
To the moocher East European who he slapped around......hope you learned your lesson that money is not everything. She looks like she would do anything for a buck. Find yourself a nice Polish man and settle for modesty.....minus the slaps.
What is going on with the Law System/Judicial System in the US? this guy is NOT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, he is an australian national, therefore he supposed to be deported long long time ago, for all the crimes and felonies he's commited in US soil. The judges give him a lot of breaks, why? is it because he is whealthy? he can buy the system with his money? tons of inmigrants are being deported just for misdeminors every day, even if they are naturalized or legal residents of the US. WHERE IS THE JUSTICE?
.....grow up. Yes, we live in a world where money does get you anything and everything.
No doubt Mel's money and celebrity has helped him out but he is an American citizen...born in New York.
Um...law watcher...he is an american citizen seeing as he was born in NY
Looks like the press is still after you, Mel.
"unsupervised"? that means no drug test, right? Party on, Dude! just stay away from crazy East European chicks!
2,580 alltogether to get released and to pay off his fines , I love the unsupervised part! Ha!
Love Mel as a real actor. He is having all the trobles because of his anti-jew comments. Thanks Mel to speak out the truth. Lets enjoy"The Beaver".