LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A computer technician who admitted attempting to extort 1.3 million dollars from Tom Cruise in exchange for stolen photos of the actors wedding escaped with a fine and probation on Thursday.
Marc Gittleman, 34, had pleaded guilty in Los Angeles in September to transporting stolen property after it emerged he had offered to return the photos of Cruise and wife Katie Holmes in exchange for cash, a court heard.
US District Judge George King fined Gittleman 3,000 dollars and gave him two years probation after lawyers on both sides agreed that a prison sentence or home detention was unnecessary.
Gittleman said in an address to the court he had "brought unimaginable shame upon myself and my family." "Ill be working the rest of my life to make it right," he said.
Defense lawyer Richard Hirsch said Gittlemans crime was "an impulsive act" that showed "colossal bad judgment."
Cruise was not present at the hearing.
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