Paris Hilton decides not to appeal jail-term

Paris Hilton, the heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune and the daughter of real estate magnate Rick Hilton, has received visits from her sister, Nicky, and her ex boyfriend, Stavros Niarchos on Sunday, a day after she returned to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, according to the celebrity Web site TMZ.com.

Stavros Niarchos III is a professional kiteboarder and heir to a Greek shipping fortune. He is perhaps best-known for dating Paris Hilton, Mary-Kate Olsen and Lindsay Lohan. Younger to Paris Hilton, Nicky Hilton is known for the jet-set lifestyles, just like her sister, though Nicky has kept a lower profile.

"She's being strong," Nicky said as she walked out of the jail after meeting her older sister.

The 26-year-old high profile celebrity blonde, who checked herself into Los Angeles jail late last Sunday night (June 3), one and a half day before her deadline, was released from the county jail Thursday by Sheriff Lee Baca because of an unspecified medical condition.

But a day after, the Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer ordered Hilton to leave her mansion and return to a Los Angeles county jail to serve the sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.

After spending three days in the slammer, Hilton was sent to her $2.1 million home with silk sheets, servants and a pool in the hills above Sunset Strip, with an electronic ankle bracelet to monitor her movements. The celebrity inmate was told she could finish her sentence under house arrest, meaning she could not leave her four-bedroom, three-bathroom home in the Hollywood Hills until next month.

But, judge Sauer called her back to his courtroom on Friday and apparently unmoved by the pleas of Hilton's three lawyers to send her back to home confinement due to an undisclosed medical condition (a skin rash), ordered to send her back to jail.

In defence of their decision to release the hotel heiress, Mr. Baca had said that he allowed Hilton home because of “her severe medical problems” and confirmed that her condition was “mental”. “This lady has some severe problems. “I can’t trust her tenuous status. I need more cooperation from the courts and from the city attorney’s office,” he had said.

Besides ordering to send Hilton back to jail, the sentencing judge insisted Hilton serve her full sentence, i.e. 45 days in jail, not the reduced 23-day sentence the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department gave her.

Apparently fed up with her regular fruitless appeals for the freedom, Paris said she would not appeal Judge’s decision. "I told my attorneys not to appeal the judge's decision," Hilton said in a statement released through her lawyers yesterday.

"During the past several days, I have had a lot of time to think, and I believe that I am learning and growing from this experience," she said.

Hilton's troubles began in September when the socialite was arrested for drunken driving. She was charged with driving under the influence of intoxicant and driving with a blood alcohol level over California's legal limit of .08.

Labeled as the “Party Girl”, Hilton had pleaded not guilty of drunk driving in January, and was sentenced to 36 months’ probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.

After receiving 45-day sentence from Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer for violating her probation in a reckless driving case, Paris Hilton made immense efforts to escape from the punishment, to which she initially described as ‘cruel’ and ‘unwarranted’.

After failing to win the favor of judge Sauer and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon her, she eventually was favored by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which decided to cut Hilton’s sentence after reviewing the case and giving her credit for good behavior.

However, in his ruling on Friday, Judge Sauer, for the second time, ordered to send the celebrity heiress behind bars, and instead of favored, reduced jail term, ordered her to serve full sentence.