Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hanks talk to the audience during the taping of “Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular” at the United Center in Chicago on May 17. 2011. The show, which featured several surprise celebrity guests, aired over two days, May 23 and 24. UPI/David Banks | License Photo
Spearing reported the bogus attack and theft to police in May. Under questioning, he later admitted he had told his wife they had tickets to Winfrey's "Farewell Spectacular" at the United Center when he had been unable to get them, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
"He didn't want his wife to be mad at him, so he said he got robbed,'' Police Lt. Kenneth Stoppa said at the time.
Spearing damaged himself, using a rock and the sidewalk to get a cut on his forehead and scrapes on his hands, police said.
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