Los Angeles photographer who claims he was pummeled by Von Anhalt awarded $4,510 in damages

A judge on Friday awarded $4,510 (euro2,858.05) in damages to a photographer who worried he would be killed when Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband punched him in the face on a Beverly Hills street.

The eccentric hubby, Frederic Von Anhalt, initially wanted to give the man much more for busting open his lip.

In his complaint, Dirk Smeten claimed Frederic Von Anhalt, 62, angrily approached and began punching him repeatedly while Smeten attempted to photograph him in May 2005. The blows caused Smeten to fall to the sidewalk, according to the complaint.

Smeten claimed he suffered lip lacerations, cuts to his face, swelling, pain, high blood pressure, headaches …