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Jimi Blue Admits Withholding Hotel Payment, Details Costs After Airport Arrest

His televised account casts the case as a costly lesson rooted in spite.

Overview

  • He was arrested in late June at Hamburg Airport on a European arrest warrant over the long-unpaid bill from an Austrian hotel.
  • An Austrian court fined him €18,000, and he did not receive a prison sentence.
  • He says legal and court expenses lifted his total costs to roughly €60,000 to €70,000.
  • He claims his repeated attempts to speak by phone with the prosecuting attorney were refused.
  • His family supported him, with sister Cheyenne paying his bail and taking him in, while his mother publicly rejected the idea that he acted with criminal intent.