Ezra granted a request by federal prosecutors to revoke Sia's bail and said he he did so since he now believes that Sia, 43, is a flight risk since he pleaded guilty in October to bankruptcy fraud charges.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mark Rectenwald and Craig Nakamura sought to have Sia's bail revoked after they learned that police were called to the home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles Feb. 12 after Sia's longtime girlfriend Kelly Randall placed a 911 emergency phone call.

Randall hung up before dispatchers could talk to her. Two Los Angeles police officers who went to the home on Moraga Drive, and who testified yesterday at Sia's bail revocation hearing, said Randall first said Sia slapped her three or four times but later recanted after being told Sia was going to be arrested on suspicion of domestic battery.

The Los Angeles city attorney's office declined to prosecute Sia in the case, based on its review of a police report submitted by the two officers.

Ezra today said he was not revoking Sia's bail based on the domestic battery allegations, but because Sia lied to the police officers who responded to Randall's call by telling them he had never been arrested before and that an electronic monitoring device permanently attached to his wrist was merely a watch.

Ezra said his decision to revoke Sia's bail was due in part to the fact that Sia is not a U.S. citizen and continues to have significant financial resources, even though he filed for bankruptcy in 1998. Those two factors combined with the fact Sia is awaiting sentencing in the bankruptcy case make him much more of a flight risk now than in the past, Ezra said.

At yesterday's hearing before Ezra, Los Angeles police officers Brian Strader and Rafael Rocha Jr. said they were sent to a home on Moraga Drive after police received a 911 emergency call.

Strader said Randall, 34, told him she had argued with Sia and that he slapped her on the face three or four times with an open hand. Strader described Randall as "visibly shaken and crying off and on."

But when Randall was informed that Sia was going to be arrested for domestic battery, she said: "I lied, he really didn't hit me," Strader testified.

He said Randall told him she planned to file for a restraining order against Sia the next day.

When Sia's attorney, David Chesnoff, questioned the two police officers, they said they were not aware the Los Angeles city attorney's office had decided not to pursue the case against Sia.

Randall testified yesterday on Sia's behalf. She said Sia did not hit her on the night in question. She said she was upset that Sia had allowed a woman who dined with them earlier in the evening, and who had become drunk and was left at a restaurant by her date, to accompany them home.

When asked directly by William McCorriston, one of Sia's lawyers, if Sia slapped her on the face, Randall replied, "Absolutely not."