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Gary Coleman

The plea stems froma domestic violence incident last April in Santaquin, Utah.

While the judge sentenced Coleman to 31 and a half days in jail, the “Diff’rent Strokes” star can avoid time behind bars if he completes a domestic violence course and pays a $595 fine.

Before the hearing began, Coleman said, “I’ve been in better places on my birthday.”

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According to a story out today, Gary Coleman supposedly traded nudity for bail.

Ballsy producers of a film called “Midgets vs. Mascots” used an unauthorized shot of Coleman’s penis, incurring the actor’s anger earlier this month, and are now claiming they paid for Coleman’s bail after his Utah arrest on Sunday in exchange for his permission to keep the controversial footage.

Reportedly, Coleman’s naked moment occurs during an improvised moment in a shower scene in which Coleman’s robe comes open while he breaks up a fight.

The penis-for-bail rumor understandably raised eyebrows.

However, there are now reports that that is not what actually happened.

The real story is that Coleman was bailed out by fan named Jarrod Clarke of Draper, Utah. Clarke, who wasn’t looking for publicity and owns Money Train Title Loans, told the local KSL Newsradio, “If you see his mug shot, I mean, what a sad face… To see that he was sitting in there — and he’d been there for 27 hours—and bail was only $1,700, I thought somebody probably ought to do something.”

Clarke then drove to the jail, some distance away, because he was told Coleman needed a drive home. The fan, however, didn’t get to give the “Diff’rent Strokes” star a lift because the actor’s father-in-law had arrived and agreed to drive him home.

“I don’t want to be selfish,” Clarke said about driving Coleman home. “It would have been fun, but it didn’t happen.”

Coleman’s wife called Clarke to thank him.

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