IN December 2001, Hollywood actress, Winona Ryder was charged with shoplifting from a store in USA. She was allegedly trying to take clothing and hair accessories valued at $4,760 (sh8.3m).
IN December 2001, Hollywood actress, Winona Ryder was charged with shoplifting from a store in USA. She was allegedly trying to take clothing and hair accessories valued at $4,760 (sh8.3m). She was sentenced to three years probation, 480 hours of community service and ordered to pay a $10,000 (sh17.5m)
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Will and Grace TV show actress Shelley Morrison was in June 2003 convicted of shoplifting jewellery worth $446 (sh780,500) from a departmental store in Los Angeles. She was sentenced to one year’s probation and a fine of $300 (sh525,000).
Senegalese footballer Kalilu Fadiga was caught with a golden chain he had stolen from a store in Korea during the 2002 World Cup finals.
In 1988, former Miss America, and one time New York City’s commissioner for cultural affairs, Bess Myerson, was arrested for shoplifting outside a shopping mall
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Famous actress and Ecstasy star, Hedy Lamarr was in August 1991 arrested for stealing goods worth $21.48 (sh37,590) from a drugstore in Florida. She had earlier been arrested in 1966 for stealing merchandise worth $86 (sh150,500) in a departmental store in Los Angeles.
Queen Mary of England (1911-1952) is known to have had the habit of shoplifting. She had a penchant for “collecting†precious jewels, many of which now belong to the royal family. Once she stole emeralds from her late brother’s mistress. Many times her aides politely returned the objects she had stolen to the owners.
