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Jean-Claude Arnault, photographer in Nobel prize scandal, jailed
Source: BBC
A French photographer at the heart of a rape scandal that saw this year's Nobel Prize for Literature postponed has been handed a two-year prison sentence.
On Monday a Swedish court found Jean-Claude Arnault, 72, guilty of raping a woman in an apartment in Stockholm in 2011.
Arnault, who is well known in Sweden, is married to a former member of the centuries-old Swedish Academy.
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He later denied all the alleged incidents, many of which were said to have happened at properties owned by the Academy or at his literary club.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45704915
