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Sep 15, 2010 Updated Sep 20, 2010

George Michael has been jailed for eight weeks after crashing his car while under the influence of cannabis.

Michael, 47 was also fined £1,250 - around $2000 - and banned from driving for five years.

He was arrested on July 4th this year after crashing his Range Rover into a photo shop in North West London at around 4am. After being told by police he had crashed into the shop, he reportedly proclaimed: "No I didn't. I didn't crash into anything."

Source: The Guardian external link

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George Michael, born as Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou is a two-time Grammy Award winning English singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s, when he formed the pop duo Wham! along with his school friend Andrew Ridgeley. His first solo single, Careless Whisper was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide. He has sold over 100 million records worldwide...

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