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Sylvester Stallone

Sydney: Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone told an Australian court on Tuesday bringing two banned muscle-building hormones was a ``terrible mistake'' caused by ignorance of local laws. Mr. Stallone will be sentenced on Monday next week after he pleaded guilty to bringing dozens of vials of the restricted drugs into Australia during a tour to promote his film, ``Rocky Balboa''. ``I made a terrible mistake, not because I was attempting to deceive anyone but I was simply ignorant of your official rules,'' said Mr. Stallone in a letter to Sydney's Local Court, claiming the drugs had been prescribed to him for an unspecified medical condition.

— AP

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