Jamie Foxx placed on probation
NEW ORLEANS — Jamie Foxx has been placed on two years probation and fined $1,500 after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge from a fight with security guards at a casino.
The actor-comedian entered the plea Wednesday to disturbing the peace, Dist. Atty. Eddie Jordan announced Friday. Foxx received a six-month suspended jail sentence besides the probation and fine.
Foxx rose to prominence as part of the ensemble on the “In Living Color†TV series in the early ‘90s, had his own series on the WB in 1996 and went on to appear in such films as “Any Given Sunday†and “Ali.â€
The 36-year-old entertainer’s sister, Deidre Dixon, pleaded guilty to a felony count of battery on a police officer with injury and to misdemeanor charges of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest. She received a suspended sentence of five years in prison for the felony and one year suspended for the misdemeanors. She was placed on five years probation.
As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors dismissed two felony battery counts against Foxx and one count against Dixon.
Foxx and Dixon were arrested April 26 in a fracas captured on security cameras at Harrah’s New Orleans Casino.
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