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Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Fined for Threatening to Kill French Policemen

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Jonathan Rhys-Meyers' aggressive antics have finally caught up with him.

A French court ordered The Tudors star, 34, to pay a 1,000 euro (about $1300) fine and gave him a one-month suspended sentence Wednesday, two years after he was charged with drunk and disorderly conduct and threatened to kill three police officers.

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In June 2009, Match Point's Meyers was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris after he struck a bartender and threatened to pay to get someone to kill three police officers and their families.

Once he sobered up, the actor apologized to officers and cited alcoholism as a reason for his outburst. The Parisian court said that Meyers had compensated his victims.

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At Wednesday's sentencing — for which Meyers was not present — the actor's lawyer painted him as a "weak person" who "suffers…from his demons." Asking the court to dismiss the charges, lawyer Vincent Toledano said Meyers was "a fragile man."

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In summer 2011, Meyers underwent a brief rehab stay, and relapsed shortly after his release. While reports say the actor attempted suicide by swallowing pills, his rep denied the claims to Us Weekly. "It was not a suicide attempt," the rep said in June. "He did relapse and was hospitalized for that, but was released."

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