Loren freed

Press, 7 June 1982, Page 6

Loren freed

NZPA-Reuter Caserta The actress. Sophia Loren, was freed from jail at the week-end, after serving 17 days of a 30-day sentence for tax evasion and was promptly involved in a crash with a police car. Miss Loren, aged 47, smiled cheerfully behind a pair of large tinted spectacles as she walked through the arched prison gateway after spending her seventeenth night in a cell. She stepped into her expensive silver-grey Mercedes saloon which was rammed in the back by a police escort car as it nosed its way through a crowd of waiting journalists. Miss Loren, granted parole on Friday, had to spend an extra two nights in jail because of bureaucratic delays. She had to wait for a special licence before she could leave the jaii. in Caserta. a southern Italian town near Naples. She returned to Italy from Geneva last month to’ serve her sentence for a 1963 tax offence which she had always said was an accident caused by wrong financial advice. ; "J;