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"   Photo: Getty Images  This past March Dior designer John Galliano was accused of verbally abusing two women and one man at a bar in Paris and caught on camera spewing anti-Semitic thoughts like, &amp;quot;I love Hitler&amp;quot; at another. The house of Dior immediately suspended (and later fired) the designer who hopped on a plane to an Arizona rehab center to get a grip on what now appears to be a years long battle with drugs and alcohol. Since making racist comments in public is a crime in France, his trial starts today. New details have emerged over the past two weeks thanks to a confidential dossier obtained by Newsweek. The drinking has, apparently, been a problem for years, and the violent racism that accompanies it isn&amp;#039;t new either. According to witnesses, neither Galliano&amp;#039;s driver or bodyguard was particularly shocked when Galliano lost his cool and the former had a lawyer on the phone trying to calm one of the victims. The documents, which will be presented in court today, suggest that Galliano&amp;#039;s defense will rest on his not remembering the incidents, and swearing he has no such prejudices. His lawyer said, &amp;quot;This is not the trial of a racist man or an anti-Semitic man, it is the trial of a sick man who said things he doesn&amp;#039;t believe.&amp;quot; The Telegraph will be live blogging the trial; it starts at 9:30AM New York time. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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