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Actor Sylvester Stallone was formally convicted Monday of importing restricted muscle-building hormones into Australia and ordered to pay $10,651 in fines and court costs.
New South Wales state Deputy Chief Magistrate Paul Cloran said the "Rocky" and "Rambo" star failed to show he had a valid prescription for dozens of vials of human growth hormone found in his luggage when he arrived in Sydney for a promotional tour in February...
Cloran fined Stallone, who was not present in court and had previously pleaded guilty, a total of $2,451 on both charges and ordered him to pay prosecution costs of $8,200.
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Stallone was charged after a customs search of his luggage at the start of a three-day visit to Sydney in February revealed 48 vials of the human growth hormone drug, Jintropin...
Cloran said Jintropin is not legally available for sale in the United States, and found that Stallone had been “untruthful about the existence of a prescription.”
However, citing testimony from Stallone’s Beverly Hills-based doctor, Robert Huizenga, Cloran found that Stallone had been using the testosterone legally under medical supervision, although he had failed to declare it to customs officials....
In an interview with customs officials after the growth hormone was discovered in his bags, Stallone said he was carrying such a large amount of the drug because he was about to go on location in Thailand and Myanmar — formerly known as Burma — for three months to shoot the latest installment of the “Rambo” series.
“As you get older, the pituitary gland slows and you feel older, your bones narrow. This stuff gives your body a boost and you feel and look good,” court documents quoted him as saying. “Doing ’Rambo’ is hard work ... Where do you think I am going to get this stuff in Burma?”
Actor Sylvester Stallone was formally convicted Monday of importing restricted muscle-building hormones into Australia and ordered to pay $10,651 in fines and court costs.
New South Wales state Deputy Chief Magistrate Paul Cloran said the "Rocky" and "Rambo" star failed to show he had a valid prescription for dozens of vials of human growth hormone found in his luggage when he arrived in Sydney for a promotional tour in February...
Cloran fined Stallone, who was not present in court and had previously pleaded guilty, a total of $2,451 on both charges and ordered him to pay prosecution costs of $8,200.
...
Stallone was charged after a customs search of his luggage at the start of a three-day visit to Sydney in February revealed 48 vials of the human growth hormone drug, Jintropin...
Cloran said Jintropin is not legally available for sale in the United States, and found that Stallone had been “untruthful about the existence of a prescription.”
However, citing testimony from Stallone’s Beverly Hills-based doctor, Robert Huizenga, Cloran found that Stallone had been using the testosterone legally under medical supervision, although he had failed to declare it to customs officials....
In an interview with customs officials after the growth hormone was discovered in his bags, Stallone said he was carrying such a large amount of the drug because he was about to go on location in Thailand and Myanmar — formerly known as Burma — for three months to shoot the latest installment of the “Rambo” series.
“As you get older, the pituitary gland slows and you feel older, your bones narrow. This stuff gives your body a boost and you feel and look good,” court documents quoted him as saying. “Doing ’Rambo’ is hard work ... Where do you think I am going to get this stuff in Burma?”
