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French film star Gerard Depardieu has been fined ¬800 ($1640) by an Italian court after being found guilty of head-butting a photographer.
The Oscar-nominated film star was ordered to pay the fine for "injuries and threats against Dario Orlandi" in 2005.
Depardieu was found to have assaulted the journalist after being snapped shopping in the southern Italian city with a young woman.
