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June 8, 2007, 12:57 pm
So here’s something new: A celebrity whose fame stemmed at least as much from good looks and sex appeal as from actual work product is nabbed for driving while blotto again, but nonetheless manages to avoid jail time.
No, not her.
George Michael, he of the stubble and the dance moves and the not all that many hit records lately, was sentenced in Brent Magistrates’ Court in London to 100 hours of community service after pleading guilty to driving while unfit (in his case, it was drugs, not booze).
Oct. 1, 2006, he was evidently found snoozing at the wheel of his Mercedes in the middle of an intersection after witnesses saw him driving slowly and erratically on the wrong side of the road.
Intoxication was immediately suspected, especially in light of the marijuana the police said they found in his possession when they woke him up (for that he apparently got off with a stern caution).
This wasn’t a new scenario: Mr. Michael had been found slumped in the driver’s seat in February 2006 as well.