Russell Crowe Got Away

Russell Crowe can now pursue his film career without being bothered with a conviction.
The pleading guilty was what made the prosecutors drop the felony charge filed against him for flinging a phone at a hotel clerk this past summer.

He had made such a gesture not because he thought he was Gladiator still, but because he was angry for not being able to contact his wife in Australia through the respective phone. He had reportedly ripped the phone from the socket in his suite and stormed downstairs to attack the innocent clerk.

Crowe was sentenced to a conditional discharge and ordered to pay a $160 fine for the attack on Mercer Hotel clerk Nestor Estrada, according to TV's "The Insider".

He apologized to the clerk, and later declared for CBS TV about the incident, that it was "the most shameful situation I`ve ever gotten into in my life."

The conditional discharge implies that Crowe must not get arrested for one year.

If convicted, the time in prison would have been seven years plus loosing his US visa. Luckily, the US court released the actor otherwise famous for his wild temper.