John Galliano Found Guilty in Anti-Semitism Case
A Paris court has found John Galliano guilty of making racist and anti-Semitic remarks in a Paris bar last February.
The former Dior designer was ordered to pay a suspended fine of 6,000 euros (about $8,415 at current exchange rates), but will not serve jail time. (The maximum sentence for similar cases is a 22,000 euro fine and six months in prison.)
According to CNN, the three plaintiffs were awarded one symbolic euro each in damages.
"Despite the triple addiction from which he [Galliano] was suffering, he was lucid enough to be conscious of his acts," Anne-Marie Sauteraud, the tribunal president, said as she read the verdict, reports the Los Angeles Times.
The designer finished a stint in rehab and enjoyed a brief return to the fashion world when he created Kate Moss’s wedding dress last month, but it remains to be seen whether this incident will ever be completely behind him.
In February, he lost his positions at the helm of Dior as well as his eponymous line, both controlled by LVMH.
Galliano's successor at Christian Dior has still not been named, though Marc Jacobs is rumored to be the front-runner for the job.
