Actor Emile Hirsch has been sentenced to 15 days in jail after pleading guilty to the misdemeanour assault of a female studio executive at a Utah nightclub during the Sundance Film Festival.
Daniele Bernfeld, an executive for the Paramount Pictures subsidiary Insurge Pictures, was placed in a chokehold by the Lone Survivor and Into the Wild star at Tao Nightclub in Park City on January 25.
Police records show that Hirsch then dragged Bernfeld across a table and threw her to the floor.
Hirsch had been drinking and reiterated in court on Monday that he could not remember the attack. He entered rehab after the assault and has been sober since.
County attorney Robert Hilder said the star had expressed his remorse on a number of occasions.
Under a plea deal agreed with prosecutors, Hirsch must also pay a $4,750 fine and perform 50 hours of community service.
The charge will be dismissed if he completes the sentence.
Bernfeld has criticised the sentence as being too lenient and said in a statement issued through her lawyer that the attack had caused psychological trauma as well as physical injuries.
"It took two people to pull him off me, and if not for their intervention, the attack would have continued," she said. "I thought I was going to die."
She continued: "If a violent attack in front of a roomful of witnesses can be labelled a misdemeanour and dismissed, what of women who are assaulted while alone in hallways or bathrooms, or behind the closed doors of their own homes?"
