Jerome Boateng, a German footballer, has been convicted guilty of beating his ex-girlfriend and fined 1.8 million euros (£1.5 million).
He had denied harming the mother of his twin girls, Sherin S, during a vacation quarrel in 2018.
She told the Munich court that the former Bayern Munich defender and 2014 World Cup winner had punched her so hard that she had to catch her breath for a moment.
Boateng presented a different account of events in his testimony.
He might have been imprisoned for up to five years under German domestic violence legislation.
On Thursday morning, he arrived in court with his lawyer, Kai Walden, wearing a dark blue suit and was escorted by security.
Ahead of the trial, prosecutors accused Boateng of wilful bodily harm, throwing a lamp and a small cooling box at his former partner while holidaying in the Caribbean in July 2018.
Testifying in court, the woman said Boateng had punched her, pulled her hair, bitten her on the head and insulted her during an altercation.
Boateng admitted in his testimony that tensions had escalated during a game of cards, and that they had argued.
But he said she had become aggressive and insulting, hitting him and injuring his lip. When he tried to push her away from him, she fell.
He said he had thrown a pillow against a table, and the lamp had fallen to the floor.
