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Designer fined for anti-Semitic slurs.

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Just in time for Fashion Week: John Galliano was found guilty by a French court on Thursday for the anti-Semitic tirade that cost him his job as chief designer at Dior. Galliano, who in two separate incidents said “I love Hitler” and called a woman a “dirty Jew,” had faced up to six months in prison, but was only given a suspended fine of 6,000 euros, or about $8,400. He has said he cannot remember the incidents because of his “triple addiction” to alcohol, Valium, and sleeping pills.

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