A journalist accused of striking Brad Pitt at the “Maleficent” premiere is out of a job and possibly faces months in jail.
Ukrainian TV reporter Vitalii Sediuk is infamous for red carpet pranks around the world, including kissing Will Smith in Moscow and hugging Leonardo DiCaprio and Bradley Cooper around the knees at separate events earlier this year.
Sediuk, 25, was fired from his reporter job with Ukrainian television channel 1+1 after he jumped under actress America Ferrera’s dress on a Cannes red carpet on May 17, a spokesman for the company told CNN.
The TV network was not involved in his stunts, a spokesman said.
He was already on three years of “formal diversion” — a form of probation — in Los Angeles for crashing the Grammy stage during Adele’s acceptance last year, according to the Los Angeles city attorney’s spokesman. Prosecutors are now preparing new charges for his Hollywood arrest Wednesday, spokesman Rob Wilcox said.
Sediuk is set for an initial appearance before a Los Angeles judge Friday, Wilcox said.
