Sounds like he got a sweet deal. Sugar heir Alexander “Nico” Fanjul has pleaded guilty — and received four years of probation and 200 hours of community service — for a shocking domestic violence incident at his Palm Beach, Fla., home.
On Monday, a judge ruled that Fanjul — who was charged with petit theft, criminal mischief and felony battery stemming from the incident earlier this year — serve “concurrent probation terms of four years for the battery charge, and one year for each of the misdemeanor offenses,” reported the Palm Beach Post. A rep for Fanjul told Page Six in a statement: “We thank all the parties for this resolution. Nico has been very clear that he has and will continue to focus on improving himself and being a positive influence in his community.
” Fanjul — whose family owns Florida Crystals and Fanjul Corp, a major sugar and real estate conglomerate in the US and Dominican Republic — was arrested in January when neighbors called 911 after hearing a woman screaming. Police arrived to find Fanjul standing over a woman “in a defensive ‘fetal’ position,” a police report said. An officer saw the woman’s face bleeding, the report further said, and the unidentified woman told cops she had been physically assaulted and, “thought she was going to die.
” The pair had been dining earlier at the swank Flagler Steakhouse at the ritzy Breakers Hotel when wealthy Fanjul flew into a rage, and, “became irate because the two were sat by .
