A Recent Orleans judge ordered actor Shia LaBeouf to return to drug and alcohol rehabilitation and set a $100,000 bond on Thursday. That comes after the film star was charged with two counts of battery over an alleged assault outside a bar during Mardi Gras.
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LaBeouf appeared in court wearing a fleece jacket and jeans tucked into cowboy boots.
Orleans Parish Criminal Court Judge Simone Levine called him out for allegedly yelling homophobic slurs while hitting multiple people near the French Quarter. The police report said LaBeouf dislocated one victim’s nose. Shia LaBeouf now has to undergo weekly drug tests, including one on the spot within the courthouse. He agreed and his attorney said the test didn’t show illegal substances in his system. Judge Levine said the episode was a priority for “the protection of this larger community, especially relative to a marginalized community that has passed through a lot terror,” referring to the LGBTQ+ community.
“This defendant doesn’t take his alcohol addiction seriously,” Levine said. “This court doesn’t imagine he understands the extent of seriousness in the case of these allegations.”
Jude Levine ordered LaBeouf to avoid the victims and the bar where the fight occurred.
The judge denied a request by Shia LaBeouf to travel to Rome in March for “religious observations, including his father’s baptism.” Levine said throughout the hearing that she was concerned whether LaBeouf “could handle his alcohol.”
“Frankly,” LaBeouf’s attorney Sarah Chervinsky told the judge, “being drunk on Mardi Gras is just not a criminal offense.”
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Jeffrey Damnit previously told The Associated Press that LaBeouf repeatedly punched him and used homophobic slurs while threatening his life. Damnit said he believed LaBeouf had targeted him because he wore makeup and eyeliner.
“This guy wants me to be dead because I wear makeup,” Damnit said. “It’s a screwed-up thing.”
The judge released Shia LaBeouf without bond inside hours of his arrest on Feb. 17. She said on Thursday that she had not previously had access to a police report that said the actor allegedly used homophobic slurs as he returned to a bar. He also hit individuals with a closed fist after being asked to go away. Videos of the altercations have surfaced showing LaBeouf striking multiple people.
After LaBeouf was released from custody, the actor was seen within the French Quarter dancing within the streets on Mardi Gras.
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LaBeouf posted bond and declined to comment to reporters. He has not yet formally entered a plea to the fees.
“No, I won’t say a word,” he said in a court hallway while getting back from taking a drug and alcohol test before the judge’s order. “God bless you, leave me alone.”
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Associated Press/Report for America author Jack Brook contributed to this report via AP Newsroom.
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