MOVIES - Feb. 24, 1989
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A Rome court Thursday cleared Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli (“Romeo and Juliet,” “Jesus of Nazareth,” “Othello”) of evading $650,000 in income taxes, accepting his defense that he was a legal resident of Tunisia. Zeffirelli, who is also appealing a one-year prison sentence for breaking Italian foreign-exchange laws, had been accused of failing to file Italian tax returns in 1982 and 1983. Zeffirelli had said he had worked outside the country for most of that time and that as a Tunisian resident was not liable for Italian income tax.
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