Foxy Brown To Serve One Year Behind Bars
Posted September 8, 2007 12:00 pm.
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Foxy Brown was sentenced to serve one year in prison on Friday.
A U.S. judge ruled the hip-hop artist had violated the terms of her probation by failing to attend anger management classes after assaulting two nail salon stylists over a $20 manicure back in October.
Judge Melissa Jackson told Brown, 28, whose real name is Inga Marchand, that she had failed to take probation seriously and that she would be treated “just like any other defendant” despite her celebrity status.
Brown told the court that she deserved another chance. “Being in jail humbled me in a way I never imagined,” she said. “I realize that this is not where I want to be.” But Jackson called her apology “too little, too late.”
“Probation is a gift that is given to the defendant and I feel very strongly that I gave her the chance to do what she wanted with her life,” Jackson said.
Jackson handled Brown’s case last year, when she also ordered Brown to undergo periodic drug testing, stay away from the manicurists for five years and get the court’s approval before traveling.
Brown got into trouble again in August when she was accused of bruising the eye and chipping the tooth of a Brooklyn woman with her BlackBerry. Also in August, she was arrested in New Jersey for misspelling her name and giving an incorrect date of birth to a police officer.
Following those arrests, Jackson sent Brown to jail pending a full hearing.
Foxy Brown carries a newspaper as she arrives to appear in Manhattan Criminal Court on January 17, 2007, in New York.(Photo Courtesy Getty Images/Bryan Bedder)
