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A Tel Aviv court sentenced Bar Refaeli, a famous Israeli top model, to nine months of community service and her mother, Tzipi, to 16 months in prison, both on charges of tax fraud. Agerpres.
According to a plea agreement, Bar and Tzipi Refaeli must each pay a fine of 2.5 million shekels ($ 730,000), according to the transcript of the Tel Aviv Court verdict and made available to the DPA.
Tzipi Refaeli must appear at Neveh Tirza Women’s Penitentiary, southeast of Tel Aviv, on September 21, no later than 10:00 am Both women were sentenced at the end of July.
Refaeli did not report millions of dollars in revenue between 2009 and 2012.
The 35-year-old model said she did not reside in Israel for most of that period, but the court ruled otherwise. The model’s mother fraudulently registered her daughter’s apartments under different names.
Refaeli came into the spotlight in 2007 when she was the first Israeli model on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine. She was also in the media for her relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The two separated in 2011.
She was one of the presenters of the 2019 edition of the Eurovision music competition, held in Tel Aviv.
