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A hairdresser hired for Kevin Costner's 2004 wedding and accused of stealing the actor's laptop computer has finally admitted his guilt:

Pascal Bensimon, 45, was ordered to pay $1,500 restitution, serve two years of unsupervised probation and perform 25 hours of community service.

I'm sorry for all of the trouble I've caused," Bensimon quietly told the judge Monday after pleading guilty to misdemeanor theft in a deal with prosecutors.

"I want to go forward," he said. [...]

Pitkin County Detective Ron Ryan has said Bensimon wrote out a confession.

After briefly being shopped around town, the confession was picked up by DreamWorks for somewhere in the "mid six figures," who saw great comic potential in it as the basis for a "Will Ferrell as wacky occupation X" vehicle. Look early next year for billboards announcing Will Ferrell IS Pascal Bensimon: World's Most Dastardly Hairdresser to dot the landscape, with a planned Summer 2007 release.