PARIS — French actor Gerard Depardieu was banned from driving for six months yesterday after he was found to be three times over the legal alcohol limit when he fell from his scooter last year.
The 64-year-old star of films such as “Green Card” and “Cyrano de Bergerac” was not in the Paris courtroom to hear its decision to suspend his driver’s licence and fine him $5,300. Drunken driving can be punishable by up to two years’ jail.
The flamboyant actor, who owns a vineyard in the Loire Valley, injured his elbow but nobody else when he fell from the scooter in the capital in mid-afternoon last November.