Jailed legend spins prison sentence into gold

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Fresh retired of situation for bankruptcy offenses, tennis large Boris Becker is heading for the limelight again.

The three-time Wimbledon champion was deported to his autochthonal Germany past week aft serving 8 months of a 2 1/2-year condemnation successful Britain.

German broadcaster SAT.1 was owed Tuesday evening to aerial the archetypal interrogation with Becker since his release.

The TV transmission quoted the 55-year-old arsenic saying his clip successful situation had taught him “a hard lesson, a precise costly one, a precise achy one."

Meanwhile, organisers of the yearly Berlin movie festival said adjacent year's installment volition diagnostic the premiere of an as-yet untitled documentary astir Becker by Oscar-winning manager Alex Gibney.

The organisers of the Feb. 16-26 Berlinale said Gibney trailed Becker earlier his April condemnation for illicitly transferring ample amounts of wealth and hiding assets aft helium was declared bankrupt.

Becker, who roseate to stardom successful 1985 astatine property 17 erstwhile helium became the archetypal unseeded subordinate to triumph the men's singles rubric astatine Wimbledon, said during his proceedings that payments for an “expensive divorce” and debts swallowed up his vocation earnings.

After retiring from nonrecreational tennis successful 1999, the six-time Grand Slam champion worked arsenic a manager and tv pundit portion besides engaging successful a wide scope of investments and personage poker games.

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