Sophia Loren's romance with Carlo Ponti, Sr. spanned two marriages...and it also nearly landed the legendary actress in jail. Loren first married Ponti in 1957, just as her career in the states was taking off. The pair was forced to annul in 1962, as Ponti's divorce from another woman was not recognized, but he and Loren and later remarried in 1966, staying together until Ponti's death in 2007. As it turned out, however, the annulment back in 1962 had led to warrants being issued for both Loren's and Ponti's arrests — and that wouldn't be the actress's last run-in with the law.
Forbes reports that Loren was arrested in 1982 on charges of income tax evasion that reached back to 1974, and served 17 days in jail — not nearly as much time as some other celebrity jailbirds. Loren had vehemently denied responsibility for the crime, claiming that the charge stemmed from a mistake made by a deceased accountant. In fact, the charges were actually finally dropped in 2013, when the Italian Court of Cassation ruled Loren was not at fault in the long-run. As you're no doubt aware, this isn't the only time someone's suffered the consequences of the strange legal system at work in Italy.
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