
Arnold Schwarzenegger Detained At Munich Airport After Failing To Declare Luxury Watch
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The action star told German newspaper Bild that he was baffled by the ordeal.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was briefly detained at the Munich airport after a customs debacle on Wednesday.
Customs officials told The Guardian that the Austrian-born actor and former governor of California was held at the airport for several hours after failing to declare a luxury watch while traveling from the United States to Germany.
The bodybuilder intended to auction the custom Piguet timepiece during a fundraising dinner at his World Climate Summit in Kitzbühel, Austria, on Thursday.
The German newspaper Bild reported that Schwarzenegger was released after agreeing to pay € 35,000 in taxes and fines.
But forking over the tariff money proved its own ordeal, according to sources with direct knowledge who spoke to TMZ about the incident.