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.