Appeal an Italian court reduced the sentence Ornella Muti
ROME, July 8. /TASS/. The court of appeal in Trieste has confirmed a guilty verdict by the Italian actress Ornella Muti, convicted by the primary court in 2015 for a pass play on a fake medical certificate about the illness.
As have informed on Friday Agency ANSA, the punishment was mitigated a bit: prison sentence was reduced from eight to six months and the fine from €600 up to €500.
To avoid serving a prison actress can, if you pay €30 thousand to the injured party. However, until now she did not, although this condition is established the primary instance. As stated by the lawyers representing the interests of the theatre, they are going to obtain the money. “Otherwise, Signora Muti do jail or the appointment of social work,” said the lawyers.
The theatre’s administration filed a lawsuit against the actress, catching her in giving a false medical certificate, which freed her from the obligation to go on stage in a production of 10 December 2010. For this work, her fee amounted to €25 thousand But then it turned out that the same evening, Muti was the guest at a charity dinner in St. Petersburg together with the American actor Kevin costner.
Muti has already apologized to the public. The actress explained that her disease (laringofaringit) would not allow her to work using the vocal cords, while at a charity dinner in favor of sick children she needed to say. In recent years, Muti works a lot in Russia. So, the actress was a jury of Moscow international film festival. On her page in Facebook posted a photo with the President of the festival Nikita Mikhalkov.
Earlier it was reported that the actress is preparing to debut on the Russian theatrical stage. Muti, known for numerous film roles, including a duet with Adriano Celentano, in 2010 first turned to the theatre, playing in a modern play “the Jew”, a story about the post-war years in Italy.