Parker, Longoria fined by San Antonio police

Tony Parker and Eva Longoria. Picture / Reuters

LOS ANGELES - French basketball star Tony Parker, driving with actress girlfriend Eva Longoria, was fined in San Antonio on Christmas Eve for impeding traffic and failing to show a US driver's license, police said.

Sergeant Joe Myers of the San Antonio Police Department said an officer had determined that the car was impeding traffic.

The officer's report also said that the two celebrities had been verbally abusive, including a comment from Longoria, star of the hit ABC television show Desperate Housewives, about the officer being a Mexican.

Through her publicist, Longoria said that "the police report is highly inaccurate, defamatory, false and fraudulent."

The publicist also said Longoria had never made any racial slurs, as she is Mexican herself.

- REUTERS