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Foxx Cashes Out in Casino Fight
Come this given Sunday, Jamie Foxx should be free to enjoy the Super Bowl.
The actor, who took quarterback snaps in Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday, has worked out a deal with prosecutors in New Orleans that puts a 2003 casino arrest behind him, and keeps him out of jail.
Foxx pleaded guilty to one count of disturbing peace, a misdemeanor. He received a six-month suspended jail sentence and was placed on two years' probation and fined $1,500, the Office of the Orleans Parish District Attorney announced Friday.
Foxx's plea was entered in writing on Wednesday; the judge signed off on the case on Friday. The former In Living Color funnyman, in Los Angeles of late filming the new Tom Cruise movie, Collateral, was not present in New Orleans this week. His publicist issued a "no comment" on the matter.
The 36-year-old Foxx had been facing two additional felony counts of battery against a police officer, but those charges were dropped as part of the plea agreement.
Foxx's sister, Deidre Dixon, also escaped jail time for her part in the April 2003 tussle with a cop and security guards at Harrah's New Orleans Casino.
Dixon pleaded guilty to injury-causing battery on a police officer, a felony, and one misdemeanor count each of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest.
Like her brother, she received probation, a suspended jail term and a $1,500 fine. Additionally, she was ordered to pay $13,000 in restitution for those clocked in the fracas. The New Orleans Picayune reported a New Orleans police officer was left with a bloody eye, a bloody arm and a bum neck as a result of the scuffle.
As part of Dixon's deal, prosecutors dropped an additional felony count of battery against a police officer.
The pleas head off a trial that was scheduled to start on Tuesday.
In an arraignment hearing Jan. 16, a Harrah's security official testified that Foxx and his sister became agitated when she asked for I.D. from the women in the star's entourage, the Picayune reported.
A short while later, Foxx and Dixon mixed it up with police officer near the blackjack tables. The fight was captured on videotape that was played in court, the newspaper said.
Foxx, who played a boxing trainer in Ali, will next be seen in the made-for-cable movie Redemption, a biopic about the death-row inmate who cofounded Los Angeles' Crips gang, premiering April 11 on FX.
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