Actress Gets Probation, Fine in Bar Incident
Actress Shannen Doherty agreed to anger management counseling and two years’ probation Friday in connection with a confrontation last year outside a West Hollywood bar.
Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox also ordered the former “Beverly Hills, 90210” star to pay $5,400 or perform 540 hours of community service after she pleaded no contest to a vandalism charge.
As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors dropped one count of assault with a deadly weapon.
Doherty allegedly broke a beer bottle on the victim’s car window outside the Formosa Cafe in West Hollywood last August.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Ellen Aragon said it appeared that the victim “was a stranger to her, and whether they had some words or she was confusing him with someone else, she followed him out to his car and struck his car with a beer bottle.”
Doherty was not in court Friday.
Doherty also must either pay a $2,000 fine or perform 80 hours of community service, and pay $100 to the state victims restitution fund.
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