A judge in Los Angeles Friday sentenced Paris Hilton, the heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune and the daughter of real estate magnate Rick Hilton, to 45 days in jail for violating her probation in a reckless driving case.
In his judgment, Superior Court judge Michael Sauer ruled that the 26-year-old high profile celebrity heiress knowingly drove her blue Bentley Continental GTC with a suspended license when she was stopped by Los Angeles County deputies on February 27 for speeding and driving without headlights on.
Hilton was ordered that time to steer her car to the side of the road in Sunset Boulevard, and Sgt. Duane Allen Jr. of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department later impounded her $190,000 blue Bentley when they found her driving on a suspended license.
About five weeks before that incident Hilton was sentenced to three years' probation, which included the requirement that she "obey all laws," after pleading no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving deriving from a September arrest in Hollywood.
Testifying in her own defense before a packed courtroom yesterday, Hilton said she was unaware her license had been suspended. "I'm very sorry and from now on I'm going to pay complete attention to everything. I'm sorry and I did not do it on purpose at all," she told the judge before he imposed the sentence.
However, Judge Sauer rejected Hilton's defence that she didn't realize her license was suspended and ordered the blonde socialite to report to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California on June 5.
Labeled as “Party Girl”, Hilton will not be allowed any work release, furloughs, use of an alternative jail or any electronic monitoring in lieu of jail, Judge Sauer ruled after a hearing. She was ordered to report to a women's jail in suburban Lynwood on the set date or face 90 days behind bars.
Witnesses inside the courtroom told the Web site Hilton's parents, Rick and Kathy Hilton, were both visibly upset as the judge ordered their daughter to begin serving her sentence June 5 at a county detention facility.
Paris Hilton was first arrested on September 7, 2006, when she was driving home in her Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren after attending a charity event in Los Angeles where she had one drink, a margarita. She was charged with driving under the influence of intoxicant and driving with a blood alcohol level over California's legal limit of .08.
However, at the scene the party girl claimed that she had just one margarita, and the high alcohol content in her blood was a result of having no time to eat during a long day while making a music video for her new album, Paris.
She had pleaded not guilty of drunk driving in January, and was sentenced to 36 months’ probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.
Paris Hilton has been indulged in a number of cases. A Los Angeles party planner had accused her of bombarding him with angry phone calls, shoving him and threatening his life. In that case, a judge early last year ordered Hilton to stay away from the party planner. In June 2006, Hilton had a fender-bender accident when her Range Rover backed into a car in a parking garage after a shopping trip.
The life of the damsel has been in media spotlight ever since she entered the entertainment industry and has been subjected to criticism for her hard-partying lifestyle by almost everyone.
She is best known for starring in a fish-out-of-water reality show called, "The Simple Life" with a fellow heiress Nicole Richie, daughter of singer Lionel Richie. In November 2003, Hilton came in the headlines when a home video of her cavorting with her then-boyfriend Rick Solomon was published online.
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Paris Hilton
I feel that the judge made an example out of her, but she got sentenced and she should do her time like any body else that gets sentence. If it would have been a poor person like myself and the judge would have served me, I would have had to do the time. She is not specail. As a matter of fact she has NO talents, she can't sing, can't act. What is she good at? Looking good? I dont think so. Nicole Richi is much prettier than she is. She has no butt, flat like that. I mean I just dont see what all the hype is about. OH yeah is the MONEY!!!
Perhaps it is time that
Perhaps it is time that everyone including the judge look at the facts and not the person. She was not under the influence when stopped. And would another person in similar instances have gotten jail time? 45 days in jail is not something to be taken lightly.
Jail time can ruin a persons entire life, and brand them for many years after that. (They would lose their jobs, with the resultant downward cascading affect of everything affected by that. ) Jail is used to rehabilitate murderers, sex offenders and chronic thiefs. Not to make examples out of socialites. What has happened to our country? Hard core criminals go free and socialites go to prison?
In Paris Hiltons case, a lengthy stint of community service would be more appropriate. And I say lengthy because the young girl does need to learn a lesson. Jail is serious business and should be reserved for serious offenses.
Paris Hilton
Well you are right they are making an example out of her, she should not have gotten that time, but since the judge found it nessarily so, then she should do her time like everybody else that gets sentenced to time in jail. She is not specail, and dose not have get out of jail card (free)
This is justice; injustice
This is justice; injustice would be preferential treatment for her leaving potential for hurting herself and others the next time.
Bread & Water for Ms Hilton
Your parents are upset you are headed for jail.........?? They should be more upset that you are headed towards an early grave and taking others with you if you don't curb your ways........ Your lawyer says you are being singled out???? No! You are getting what the average Joe would received but he would have received it sooner.... Your mommy should have told you "Money can't buy everything" Here's hoping the system will put you away for some serious time out......
PaRiS H.
I'm glad that she will finally see that money can't buy her way out of everything. Celebrities get away with so much with their sh!t, while everyone else has to go through the system. The fact that she thought that if she told the judge how sorry she was and that she promised she would nvr do it again shows how "serious" she was taking the whole procedure. Good Luck Paris, You'll need it.
Her point of view?
LOL
I wonder just what she is thinking from her particular point of view. This is what I am most interested in.
Lesson time
I'm sorry, I'm sorry! How hollow the words ring in our ears. I can only hope her time in jail will be well spent. Perhaps Miss Hilton can turn her life into a good example for young people. In the past some of the greatest saints were rich sinners before they saw the light. Wake up Paris - before you burn out.
About Paris
About Paris
Well I believe its about time, the thing that gets me with not just her but all those that have been given in life, all the things that a person in the real world will work there life away just to be some what comfortable. Maybe while she’s in jail for those 45 days she can do a series evaluation on her life. The problem that gets me worse than all of this is people in spot light positions have turn a lot of young lives down the wrong path and if you think for a minute, their not hard to figure out. And then the laws that are wrote are broken time and time again until the young minds that idolizes think that all of this is normal. My opinion is that if you are in position that you are seen to all and you have broken the laws that are wrote for all then if anything you should pay more and not just with money. But this is what I think will happen if Paris doesn’t check out her life, after its all said and done there will probably be a sitcom and the snow ball roles on. I hope I’m wrong.
James
It's About Time!
Enjoy your time in jail, Paris. Maybe you'll learn what life is really about, and that you're no more important than anybody else. Money can't buy class, and it can't buy your way out of jail.
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