Former child television star Gary Coleman pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor criminal mischief charge related to a domestic violence incident last April.
Coleman entered the plea in a Utah court on his 42nd birthday.
Court clerk Jane Swan says the original charge of domestic violence assault was dropped. No details of the April 18, 2009, incident are detailed in court documents, but defense attorney Randy Kester said Coleman and his wife, Shannon Price, had an argument that got out of hand.
“No one was injured and no ambulances were called,” Kester said by phone. “It was just a disagreement.”
Judge Sharla Williams sentenced Coleman to 31 1/2 days in jail. The “Diff’rent Strokes” star will serve the time only if he fails to complete a domestic violence course and pay a $595 fine.
Charlie Sheen and his wife, Brooke Mueller, were reunited Monday after a judge in Apsen, Colo., modified a restraining order and allowed them them to work out their differences following a Christmas Day domestic violence dispute in which the actor allegedly pinned his spouse on a bed with a knife to her throat.
Sheen is accused of holding a knife to his wife’s throat Dec. 25 and threatening to kill her. Prosecutors charged TV’s “Two and a Half Men” star with felony menacing and misdemeanor charges of third-degree assault and criminal mischief. Sheen did not enter a plea Monday and is due back in court March 15.
Miley Cyrus has organized an online auction to benefit the relief effort in Haiti, and Britney Spears, Hugh Jackman, Ellen DeGeneres, Julianne Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Demi Lovato and others will donate items.
Cyrus is donating several items, including the Herve Leger dress she wore to the 2010 Grammy Awards.
Fans can also bid on Spears’ 2008 MTV Video Music Awards dress, a set visit to Jackman’s new film, Lovato’s tour wardrobe and other items.
The auction began Monday on eBay and will continue to 7 p.m. PST Feb. 18. All proceeds go to the American Red Cross.
Associated Press
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