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Omar Sharif was convicted last week of attacking a casino guard after he lost $30,000 on a single roulette bet. The 71-year-old actor got into an argument with the croupier and then head-butted a guard who asked him to leave the casino. A French court admonished him gently with a one-month suspended sentence and a small fine. The Egyptian-born Sharif, best known for his roles in the films Dr. Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, has lived in Paris for many years. He has reportedly squandered much of his acting fortune in casinos—a habit he inherited from his mother, Claire Shatoub, who was a legendary gambler in Cairo.
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