'Into the Wild' actor Emile Hirsch charged with attacking woman with chokehold

[zwiebel]

'Actor Emile Hirsch was charged Thursday with assault after police said he put a studio employee in a chokehold and dragged her across a nightclub table while he was in Utah for the Sundance Film Festival.

Hirsch was charged with aggravated assault, which is punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. He was also charged with intoxication, a misdemeanor.

Summit County prosecutor Ryan Stack confirmed that the victim, Daniele Bernfeld, works for Paramount Pictures.'...

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[zwiebel]

'Into the Wild' actor Emile Hirsch has been jailed for 15 days after pleading guilty to putting a female studio executive in a chokehold and bodyslamming her during the Sundance Film Festival in January.

The 30-year-old also has to pay a $4,750 fine and carry out 50 hours of community service. Victim Daniele Bernfeld, a Paramount Pictures employee, said she was disappointed the charges for the nightclub attack were reduced to a misdemeanor.

It took two people to pull him off me, and if not for their intervention, the attack would have continued,” she said. “I thought I was going to die.”

http://time.com/4001118/emile-hirsch-assault/

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[bettybaby00]

Wow. How disgusting.

 

[Ray_of_hope]

"She said authorities treated her with respect and dignity, but she’s disappointed that prosecutors agreed to a deal that meets the bare minimum.

“If a violent attack in front of a roomful of witnesses can be labeled a misdemeanor and dismissed, what of women who are assaulted while alone in hallways or bathrooms, or behind the closed doors of their own homes?” Bernfeld said in a statement sent by Los Angeles attorney Don Etra."

http://time.com/4001118/emile-hirsch-assault/

I, too, am very disappointed. Since when does going to rehab cancel out a brutal and unprovoked attack.