Amber Heard, the wife of actor Johnny Depp, has avoided a conviction for illegally taking two dogs into Australia.
Mr Depp accompanied Ms Heard for the hearing at Southport magistrates court, near where he had been shooting a "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel when the scandal erupted last year.
Bringing an end to what the Australian media had dubbed the "war on terrier", a magistrate filed no conviction for Ms Heard but issued a formal order to stay out of trouble for a month or face a Aus$1,000 (€680) fine.
Ms Heard, 29, had faced charges of illegally importing animals after authorities accused the couple of flying their Yorkshire Terriers, Pistol and Boo, into the country without going through proper quarantine procedures.
However, the court learned that state prosecutors agreed to drop those charges when Ms Heard pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of lying on an incoming passenger form when entering the country to visit Mr Depp on set last year.
For the A-list couple, the result is a reassuringly un-Hollywood ending to their brush with Australia's notoriously tough quarantine laws.
The original charges against Ms Heard carried a prison sentence of up to 10 years and a fine of Aus$10,000 (€6,800).
The ruling also drew a line under the unlikely diplomatic tangle between the celebrity pair and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, who in his capacity as farm minister threatened to have the dogs put down if Mr Depp and Ms Heard did not remove them.
Mr Depp made no comments before entering the court other than brief pleasantries to waiting media.
In court, Ms Heard's lawyers played a video apology in which the expressionless couple praised Australia's bio-security rules and Mr Depp noted that "if you disrespect Australian law, they will tell you firmly".
Ms Heard added, in the video, that Australia was "a wonderful island" and she was "truly sorry that Pistol and Boo were not declared" because "protecting Australia is important".
Ms Heard's lawyer, Jeremy Kirk, told the court his client was jet-lagged and worried about a hand injury Mr Depp received on set, and believed all appropriate arrangements in relation to the dogs had been made.
"She has made a tired, terrible mistake," he said.
In a statement, Mr Joyce said he appreciated Ms Heard's "willingness to take responsibility for her actions" and" acknowledgement that she broke our national bio-security laws".
He used more rugged language 11 months ago when he warned that "if we start letting movie stars, even though they've been the sexiest man alive twice - to come into our nation (with pets), then why don't we just break the laws for everybody?"
