One of the two men who tried to extort $1.3 million for a series of personal photos he stole from Tom Cruise’s computer got sentenced on Thursday to two years probation and ordered to pay a $3,000 fine.
Computer technician Marc Lewis Gittleman, 34, pleaded guilty in August to a charge of transporting stolen property after he admitted to trying to sell Cruise copies of stolen photos from the actor's 2006 nuptials to Katie Holmes.
Gittleman, who has no criminal record, expressed remorse, telling the court, "I brought unimaginable shame upon myself and my family. I'll be working the rest of my life to make it right," and also by writing an apology letter to Cruise himself.
His lawyer, Richard Hirsch, called his client's crime "an impulsive act" that mainly reeked of "colossal bad judgment."
The judge and attorneys agreed Thursday that prison was not necessary for Gittleman.
According to court papers, Gittleman kept approximately 7,000 shots from Cruise and Holmes’ wedding after a photographer brought in a damaged computer hard drive for repair. He then took the pictures to infamous celebrity porn peddler David Hans Schmidt, who threatened to publish them unless Cruise would pay up.
Schmidt was arrested last July and pleaded guilty to transmitting threatening communications with intent to extort but he hanged himself in September, just two weeks before his scheduled court appearance.
Via efluxmedia.com
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