SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 (UPI) -- A bookkeeper has been sentenced in a San Francisco court to two years and nine months in prison for stealing nearly $800,000 from novelist Danielle Steel.
Kristy Watts, 48, pleaded guilty last September to fraud and tax evasion, and has already paid nearly $1 million to Steel, who sued her in civil court, the San Francisco Chronicle said.
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Watts was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in federal prison as part of her plea agreement for which she admitted to manipulating Steel's financial accounts and embezzling $768,000, the newspaper said.
Watts was employed by Steel from 1993 until the author fired her in December 2008.
