Hilton Denies Leaking Richie Baby Shower Photos

Paris Hilton has denied leaking photographs of her friend Nicole Richie's recent baby shower party to the media.

The hotel heiress was a hostess at the November 18 "Wizard of Oz"-themed event, held at Richie and her boyfriend Joel Madden's Beverly Hills, Calif., home.

Early last week, several tabloids were offered photos of the party, but none could print the pictures because deadlines had been pushed forward due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

But some suspected Hilton of leaking the images, because she was in each one and they looked "set up" -- a charge Hilton denies.

Her spokesperson says, "Paris was a hostess of the shower, which a large number of people attended. Many of these guests were taking photos with camera phones ... there is no way she had anything to do with this."

Paris Hilton’s Hairy Situation

A report on online site, Famestatic revealed that socialite Paris Hilton was none too pleased with a salon bill of $1,400. The 26-year old heiress to the Hilton fortunes reportedly balked at paying the full price for having Dreamcatcher’s hair extensions added to her locks. Hilton had gone to The Salon in the Beverly Hills Hotel to have the extensions used in a new hairstyle – a lopsided fringe.

Hilton helped to promote the Dreamcatcher’s hair extensions and felt she should get them for free. A compromise was said to have been reached and Hilton ended up paying just half-price for the job.

Paris Hilton to 'Make Millions' Writing Prison Memoirs

By Angela Carson

What will Paris Hilton do once she shows up at the Los Angeles County jail to serve her time? One report claims that the socialite is planning on keeping a prison diary and once it is completed she plans to publish the memoirs and 'make millions' from her effort, the Sun UK reports. Would anyone even buy it? According to the report a source told the British newspaper that:

“There will be details of clashes with prisoners and disgusting meals." The source added, "She thinks this will show she is paying her debt to society.” That may be a poor argument to make.

The prison diary may be a bit boring. Earlier reports have noted that Paris will be spending her time at the Century Regional Detention Facility south of downtown Los Angeles. But she won't see much jail-yard action. She will be confined 23 hours a day to an 8-foot-by-12-foot cell that she most likely will share with another inmate, a police spokesman claims.

In fact she will be placed in a "special-needs" unit designed for such high-profile prisoners as celebrities, former police officers and public officials, Cathy Beers has reported earlier. What's to write about there?

'If Paris can party, she can also show up in court', says Zeta Graff

Washington, May 20 (ANI): Diamond heiress and sometime actress, Zeta Graff, who has filed out a slander suit against Paris Hilton, has lashed out at the socialite’s attempts to postpone the case claiming that she is ‘emotionally distraught and traumatized’ by her impending imprisonment.

Graff, who filed the 10 million dollars suit in 2005 alleging Hilton of spreading lies about her, said that if Hilton can party in the nights, then should be able to turn up for the trial.

"If Ms. Hilton was night clubbing on Saturday night, she should not have been representing to the court on Monday morning that she was unable to participate in the trial," E! Online quoted her, as saying.

"Ms. Hilton should be required to explain her actions and account for them. Under the law, even Ms. Hilton is supposed to be held accountable for her actions," she added.

Last week, Dr. Charles Sophy, a psychiatrist, who examined Hilton, testified in the court that the ‘Simple Life’ star isn’t in a condition to face a trial, and that forcing her to face the trial would ‘exacerbate her current mental condition’.

Judge Linda Lefkowitz postponed the trial date from May 21 to August 22.

Graff sued the 26-year-old for spreading vicious lies about her after the two indulged in an altercation at London's Kabaret nightclub.

According to reports, in 2005, when Graff saw Hilton and Hilton's then fiancé Paris Latsis, who was hooked to Graff, at the club, she went "berserk" after seeing them and tried to choke Hilton and steal her 4 million dollar diamond necklace. (ANI)

A whole 23 days for Paris Hilton

Thirty days in the hole? Hardly. Famed-for-being famous Paris Hilton will serve about half of her original 45-day jail sentence for driving violations and will be separated from the general inmate population. Thursday, based on those numbers, she dropped a pending appeal.

PH will spend about 23 days in a "special needs housing unit" at the Century Regional Detention Center in suburban Lynwood starting June 5 unless there's a change.

Her sentence was shortened after jail officials gave her credit for good behavior; several factors were included in calculating the credit, including appearing for her latest court date.

It's definitely an A-list jail. Hilton will stay in a unit that contains 12 two-person cells reserved for police officers, public officials, celebrities and other high-profile inmates.

Like everyone else in the 2,200-inmate facility, Hilton will get at least an hour outside her cell each day to shower, watch television, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the phone.

Paris Hilton's Jail Term Cut For Good Behavior

Hilton will serve 23 days in a California detention center's 'special needs housing unit.'

By Shawn Adler

Known for a partying lifestyle and seldom far from a scandal, Paris Hilton isn't often recognized for her good behavior. But jail officials have credited good behavior, including the hotel heiress' appearance at her latest court date, for reducing Hilton's prison sentence from 45 days to at least 23, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore announced.

Hilton will serve her time separated from the general inmate population in a "special needs housing unit" at the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, California, The Associated Press reported. These cells are specifically reserved for high-profile inmates — including celebrities, police officers and prison guards — who might otherwise be targeted by fellow prisoners.

As part of her rehabilitation, the 26-year-old socialite will get at least an hour a day outside her cell, where she can participate in activities including showering, talking on the phone and watching TV.

"She will do fine if she follows the rules," Whitmore said, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Hilton's latest legal trouble stems from an arrest for driving under the influence last September (see "Paris Hilton Arrested For Suspicion Of Drunk Driving"). She pleaded no contest, was sentenced to three years probation and subsequently had her license suspended. Hilton was pulled over three times during the period of her suspension, each time violating her probation. She was sentenced to 45 days in jail on May 5 (see "Paris Hilton Sentenced To 45 Days Behind Bars") for violating the terms of her probation.

Lawyers representing Hilton initially said they would appeal the sentence. Her attorneys had not commented on the reduced term as of press time.

0517 Staying In Paris Hilton

Daily Herald

Paris Hilton's pending jail stint is surely going to muck up promotional plans for the launch of E!'s "The Simple Life."

No one at E! will talk about it publicly, but so far they're keeping scheduled appearances in place for the scandal-scarred duo of Hilton and Nicole Richie.

As of Wednesday, Hilton and Richie were scheduled to appear on the June 6 edition of CBS's "Late Show With David Letterman." And Hilton alone is booked for "Live With Regis & Kelly" on June 7.

Insiders said the bookings were still set, but no one would be surprised if she bailed.

That's because, unless her appeal works, Hilton will be wearing prison threads by then.

"Production for 'The Simple Life Goes to Camp' wrapped in early April and will premiere Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, on E!," is all a network spokesman said in a statement. "We wish Paris all the best as she deals with this difficult time."

Hilton is facing a 45-day jail stay for breaking her probation agreement on an earlier DUI infraction.

"I am ready to face the consequences of violating probation," she said in a statement Wednesday.

Hilton off the social circuit and in jail poses problems for the people at E!, who were hoping this season of "The Simple Life" would get an audience jolt because it marked the reuniting of Hilton and Richie.

When the previous season of "The Simple Life" was shot, and aired on E!, Hilton and Richie were not talking. As a result, the two were not on camera together for much of the show. No friendship meant no joint interviews and little advance publicity.

This time around, the tabloid twinkies had made up and were expected to go hand-in-hand to the usual outlets. Recently, they appeared together in People magazine.

"The Simple Life Goes to Camp" follows Richie and Hilton as they lead a bunch of campers who want to become more health-conscious at a wellness camp run by Susan Powter.

Paris Hilton-Sexy Carwash, all wet

Who says Paris Hilton doesn't have talent? Watch as she suds it all up with this car and takes a bite out of the beef

Paris Hilton’s countdown to jail

So little time, so much to do as Paris Hilton counts down the days to her incarceration
Reality is about to sink in for Paris Hilton: “Behind bars” isn’t as much fun as “going to bars.”

The hotel/real estate heiress seemed to float sublimely above the wreckage she left in her wake — how many of her party pals have ended up in rehab? — until a judge sentenced her to 45 days in jail for violating her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.

An online petition drive is asking California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to spare the rod (what, and risk spoiling the child!?). But unless he shows Hilton more mercy than he’s been showing death-row inmates, starting June 5 she’ll be locked up at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, in a cell that’s probably smaller than one of her walk-in closets.

As you may have noticed, Paris seems to have a problem keeping her personal, private things personal and private. So it’s no surprise that we recently came into possession of her day planner for the final weeks before her incarceration.

Take a look:

May 15 Ask granddad* to build a new jail in Lynwood, with a penthouse suite.

(*That would be Hilton Hotels co-chairman Barron Hilton.)

May 16 Try to cut deal with prosecutor; offer to testify against Nicole.

May 19 Have Nicky* design a new jail jumpsuit, preferably something with pink or rhinestones.

(*her sister)

May 20 Stockpile cigarettes to trade for lipgloss and hair gel.

May 23 Go to gym — bulk up for jail.

May 24 Aw, forget it.

May 25 Scout publishers and ghostwriter for tell-all book, “Heiress Under Lockdown.”

May 26 Appear at “Team Paris” fundraiser at the Playboy Club in Las Vegas.

May 27 “What do you mean In-N-Out Burger doesn’t deliver to jail?”

May 28 Premiere of “The Simple Life Goes to Camp.” As if!

May 29Call the Rev. Sharpton’s radio show, apologize for what I said on that YouTube video. I didn’t mean it. Really.

May 30 Call jail — add Rosie to visitors list. Scratch Cameron Diaz.

May 31 Which sunglasses to bring?

June 1 “What do you mean I can’t have a nail file in jail?”

June 2 Rent “Jailhouse Rock” and “Stir Crazy” for video party with Brit and Lindz.

June 3 Sunday brunch with Martha Stewart.

June 4 Take Tinkerbell to the kennel.

June 5 (Circled with a little frowny face.)

Paris Hilton on chain gang

PARIS Hilton could be forced to join a "chain gang" because overcrowding in Los Angeles jails mean the hotel heiress might not be able to serve her 45-day sentence in prison.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in charge of the US's only "all-female chain gang", says he's spoken to the chief of jails in Los Angeles and offered to house Hilton at Tent City.

"I just made an offer," Arpaio told the Drudge Report.

"Instead of reducing for her sentence, which I feel is wrong, why not bring her over here? We can incarcerate her here. She can do her time over here."

Should Paris join the chain gang? Join our debate.

As Hilton's psychiatrist warned The Simple Life star was "emotionally distraught and traumatised", it was reported the Los Angeles County Sheriff is considering Arpaio's proposal.

"Oh, I’d love to have her here," Arpaio said.

"Just another celebrity. Not that I'm a publicity hound, but I'd imagine if I had her in these tents there'd be (publicity)."

See the chain gang action.

Arpaio says that while that Los Angeles County is considering his offer, Hilton’s lawyers will probably object.

Hilton’s psychiatrist today filed a declaration stating her star client was too distraught to participate in a civil trial brought against her by diamond heiress Zeta Graff, according to TMZ.com.

Shrink Dr Charles Sophy claims Hilton needs time to recover from her May 4 hearing during which she was sentenced 45 days of jail time for breaking probation.

Sophy stated Paris is, “emotionally distraught and traumatized…(and) cannot effectively respond to examination as a witness or provide any significant input into her defense."

Graff filed the $10 million lawsuit in 2005 claiming slander and libel after Hilton told the New York Post that Graff once tried to snatch a necklace worth four-million dollars from Hilton’s neck at a London nightclub.

Hilton was to appear in court on May 21 but to avoid "(exacerbating) her current mental condition," the judge has move trial to August 22.

Paris Hilton prays she'll be all white in jail

BEIJING, May 15 -- Paris Hilton is turning to desperate measures to get out of her jail sentence -- prayer.

The party girl, 26, who is said to be living like a nun to avoid prison on 5 June, wore a white dress to attend a Catholic church in Beverly Hills as the countdown continues to her 45-day jail term starting next month, and then visited her ill father at Cedar Sinai hospital.

More than 25,000 signatures have been added to an online Free Paris Hilton petition - but a rival campaign, Jail Paris Hilton, is twice as popular, with more than 60,000 supporters.

(Source: China Daily)

Paris Hilton Living Like A Nun?

Paris Hilton is "living like a nun" in a bid to avoid prison. The hotel heiress - who was has been sentenced to 45 days in jail for driving with a suspended licence - has been told by her lawyers to clean up her act in an attempt to evade jail.

Paris, 26, has told friends she is quitting alcohol and partying and has replaced her skimpy outfits with a new demure look. She also made a public show of playing the loyal daughter by visiting her father Rick in hospital with a huge get well soon card.

A friend of the socialite's told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Paris' attorneys have insisted she live like a nun. She has been strictly advised to stop acting like a Hollywood brat and appear more humble as they battle to keep her out of jail.

"They have ordered her to show a judge she has some humility and social responsibility if she is going to have her sentence reduced on appeal. That means no booze, no parading round in skimpy outfits, no partying. She's got to stick with her family and take on a healthier regime."

Paris is due to begin her sentence at California's female-only Century Regional Detention Centre in Lynwood on June 5. Just in case her appeal is not successful, the socialite is said to be learning self-defence so she can protect herself against inmates who have threatened to target her.

Authorities have announced that Paris could serve less than half her sentence because of a state directive which reduces the length of incarceration for good behaviour and to ease overcrowding.

Rescuing Paris

There is a crisis in California, a crisis so great that the governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has been asked to intervene. No, we're not talking about the ever-present threat of earthquakes or the raging conflagration this past week that, regrettably, consumed more than 800 acres of Los Angeles' famed Griffith Park.

Nor is this about energy rates or North Korean missiles. This is about another looming peril -- a world without beauty, without excitement, without Paris ... Hilton, that is.

How did the Golden State reach such depths?

It all began on Sept. 7, 2006, when a police officer had the audacity to pull over the lithe, leggy Hilton, driving with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit. Her license was suspended. But Hilton continued to drive. And cops continued to have the audacity to pull her over. In the most audacious move of all, Judge Michael Sauer, a 35-year veteran of the bench, had the temerity to sentence Hilton on May 4 to 45 days in jail. She's set to report next month.

So does the punishment fit the crimes? No, no, 25,000 times no, her disciples insist. A world without Paris, they say, is a much poorer world (and, no, they're not talking about her conspicuous consumption).

Here we were thinking Paris Hilton was just a rich girl who parlayed blond hair and breathless Valley-girl argot into inexplicable fame. It turns out, though, that she is a beacon.

"She provides hope for young people all over the U.S. and the world. She provides beauty and excitement to [most of] our otherwise mundane lives," aver the signers of an online petition asking Schwarzenegger to liberate Paris.

By late Sunday, the petition had more than 25,000 signatures, 508 pages of John Hancocks in all. It seems there is a true grass-roots movement that, thanks to the Internet, has spread far and wide.

"If the late former President Gerald Ford could find it in his heart to pardon the late Former President Richard Nixon after his mistake[s], we undeniably support Paris Hilton being pardoned," the petition states.

So will the governor act? Will he exercise the power of his office to right a perceived wrong?

"Typically, he only acts in very extraordinary circumstances," spokesman Aaron McLear told the Los Angeles Times.

Sex tapes couldn't bring her down. Nor could public spats or dubious talent. But Paris has finally fallen. What could be more extraordinary than that?


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Hilton's sentence could be cut short

Socialite Paris Hilton could serve just half of her 45-day jail sentence due to prison overcrowding, authorities said.


The hotel heiress - who was jailed for 45 days for driving with a suspended licence - could serve less than three weeks due to a state directive to reduce terms for good behaviour and to ease overcrowding.

Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said: "It's possible that it could be 21 days to 23 days. It's a complicated formula that the state sets down. It's possible that she could do less time.

"Our jail is bursting at the seams and some women inmates have been released after serving only 10 per cent of their sentence."

Last year, Lost actress Michelle Rodriguez was released within hours due to overcrowding, despite being sentenced to 60 days in jail for violating probation after her drunk driving arrest in Hawaii.

Paris will be eligible for 'Good Time/Work Time' credit, a federal mandate which allows inmates sentenced to 11 days or more to leave early if they behave themselves.

Every four days that an inmate spends behind bars "in an acceptable manner" count as six days.

Meanwhile a 'Save Paris' rally held in New York's Greenwich Village flopped when only three protesters turned up.

The trio held up posters of The Simple Life star with the words "martyr" and "victim" on them.

Paris Hilton, ex-con, likely will be worse

BY MITCH ALBOM
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST


I'm less concerned about Paris Hilton going to jail than I am about her getting out.

When she gets out, the fawning over her will be even worse, multiplied by the fact that -- unlike most moments in her vapid life -- there is actually something to talk about. Listen. You can hear it already:

What was life like in jail, Paris? How did you survive it, Paris? What did you eat there, Paris? How did the other women treat you, Paris? Every talk show will claw for her. Every L.A. photographer will have a camera hoisted. When Paris gets out, she'll be the first person to ever sit in a cell, the first person to endure three hots and a cot, her prison number will be a badge of honor, her orange jumpsuit will fetch huge money on eBay. People used to be ashamed of going to jail. Then again, people used to close the door for sex. Now, leaking a video of you and your boyfriend in full-throttle is considered a brilliant career move. It worked for Paris. It put Paris on the map.

Interviews. Book opportunities. Regis, Jay, Dave, Matt. There will be more fuss over Hilton's release than there has been over her incarceration.

She puts the pro into being a con.

Putting her PR machine to work

Of course, like Nelson Mandela, Ghandi or Joan of Arc, Paris is being unfairly jailed by evil authorities. At least this is what she -- and her publicity machine -- would have you believe. "I just sign what people tell me to sign," she told the judge who asked if she understood what it meant to accept a drunken-driving plea, which she had done. "... I'm a very busy person." And there you have it.

She's very busy. Hey. It takes time to have sex and film it. It takes time to shop every store in Beverly Hills. It takes time to get paid $50,000 to show up at a party, to giggle and curse and slur into cameras, to declare on a TV show that you are giving up sex for a year and then be photographed five days later kissing a guy, to date not one but two Greek shipping millionaires, to start a record company called Heiress Records and be the only artist on it.

It takes time to get drunk, then get in your car and drive, speed, make an illegal turn and get pulled over. It takes time to explain the incident hours later on Ryan Seacrest's radio show, calling it "nothing" and explaining "I was just really hungry and I wanted to have an In-N-Out burger." It takes time to have your license suspended for four months, then almost immediately go driving anyhow and be pulled over and cited, then go driving the next month and get pulled over and cited again, then go driving the next month and be cited again -- with the previous warning still sitting in your car. It takes time to come up with an explanation for why you did that, and why you failed to attend alcohol education classes you agreed to, and why you arrived late for court.

Here was her explanation:

It was my publicist's fault.

See? That's exhausting.

A full-time job as a celeb

Now, if you're over 30, you probably have seen photos of Hilton slinking around, sleepy-eyed, purse pooch in hand, various states of undress, and you've asked yourself, "What exactly does this woman do?" She doesn't do. She just ... is. Which makes railing against her so insidious. Because, devoid of talent, Paris Hilton exists only for publicity. You can't stop her when she does something bad -- it only makes her more famous -- and you can't ruin her when she does something good, because that, too, makes her more famous. She's like a cyborg, some science-fiction creature that rebuilds itself after you hit it with a rocket.

Which leaves us only one choice: to ignore her. My dream would be the day she gets out of jail, she steps through the doors -- and nobody is there. No cameras. No microphones. Just the sycophants of her strange world looking around, lifting their sunglasses and wondering, "Where is everybody?" Because the point of Paris Hilton's existence -- bad behavior and all -- is to be noticed.

You really want to teach Paris Hilton a lesson while she's in jail? You don't lose the key. You lose interest.

Governor Arnold too busy to help Paris Hilton

LOS ANGELES - Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday he has more pressing issues to deal with than whether or not to consider sparing celebrity socialite Paris Hilton from a jail sentence.

Supporters of the hotel heiress had launched an online petition urging the California governor and action-movie hero to grant her a pardon after she was slapped with a 45-day jail term last week.

But Schwarzenegger indicated on Friday that the nascent "Free Paris!" campaign is likely to end in disappointment.

"I've never got any request," Schwarzenegger said when asked if he would give Hilton a pardon, before adding: "But I have many more important things to think about."

In a blog posted on her MySpace homepage on Tuesday, Hilton urged fans to sign the petition being organized by a supporter.

"My friend Joshua started this petition, please help and sign it. i LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!," Hilton said in a message above a link to the petition (http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/PH21781).

The petition claimed Hilton has been used as a scapegoat by authorities seeking to highlight the dangers of drink-driving.

Hilton must begin her prison sentence at the Los Angeles Century Regional Detention Facility on June 5 or else risk seeing her sentence doubled.

She was handed her jail term after a court ruled she had violated her probation by driving twice after having been banned earlier this year following a conviction for drink-driving. Lawyers have said they will appeal the decision.

Paris Hilton May Not Serve Full Sentence

LOS ANGELES -- Paris Hilton may spend far less than 45 days in county jail for violating probation because of state policies and jail overcrowding, authorities said Thursday.

Hilton, sentenced last week to do the time, could spend three weeks or less behind bars because of a state requirement that grants inmates time off for good behavior and because of overcrowding in the system, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

"It's possible that it could be 21 days, 23 days. It's a complicated formula that the state sets down. It's possible that she could do less time," Whitmore told The Associated Press.

As for overcrowding, "our jail is bursting at the seams" and some women inmates have been released after serving only 10 percent of their sentence, Whitmore said.

Last year, "Lost" actress Michelle Rodriguez was sentenced to 60 days in jail for violating probation after her drunken driving arrest in Hawaii. She was released in hours because of overcrowding.

Hilton's time will be determined when she is booked into the county system, Whitmore said.

She will not receive any favors because she is a celebrity, he added.

"She will be treated like any other inmate who's classified as a low-level security risk," Whitmore told the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the development on its Web site.

A call to Hilton's publicist seeking comment was not immediately returned.

Hilton, 26, was sentenced last week for violating the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. A judge ordered her to report to the women's jail in Lynwood by June 5.

Hilton intends to appeal and her fans have posted a petition on the Internet urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon her.

Sculpture shows Paris Hilton in deadly pose

NEW YORK - A New York gallery is featuring a bizarre sculpture of Hollywood celebutante and socialite Paris Hilton in a distinctly unglamorous pose -- pregnant on an autopsy slab with one leg up in stirrups.

The sculpture, which goes on public display on Friday, was dreamed up by artist Daniel Edwards, whose previous works have included a nude, life-sized sculpture of pop princess Britney Spears on all fours giving birth.

The Hilton sculpture, which is designed to warn of the dangers of drink driving, comes complete with interactive opened abdominal cavity and the gallery is encouraging art lovers to get their hands on the removable organs.

Hilton was arrested in September last year for drink driving and was sentenced to a jail term last week for driving on a suspended license.

"An interactive Public Service Announcement featuring the graphic display of a tiara-wearing, autopsied Paris Hilton with removable innards is designed to warn teenagers of the hazards of underage drinking," the gallery said.

"Paris's internals, which include her small intestines, uterus and foetuses, are removable to assist teens with an empathetic view of drunk driving tragedy from the coroner's perspective," gallery director David Kesting said.

The sculpture also features Hilton's Chihuahua Tinkerbell, also wearing a tiara, rampant and begging for attention.

"The tableau... reminds potential prom queens no one is impervious to the pitfalls of drinking," the gallery, Capla Kesting Fine Art, said.

The sculpture is for sale, although the asking price was not disclosed.

The gallery has also invited students to compose an obituary for the socialite, based on the artwork. - AFP/ir

Paris Hilton - Jealousy

Music video for Paris Hilton's song Jealousy

Paris Hilton hires legal DUI specialist

LOS ANGELES - Following her sentence on May 4 of 45 days in the slammer for violating her DUI probation, Paris Hilton has hired a new attorney.

The heiress has snapped up DUI-specialist, Richard Hutton from the Southern California based firm Hutton & Wilson. According to DUI-California.com, Hutton is a past President of the California DUI Lawyers Association and a founding member of the National College of DUI Defense.

As for her first attorney, Howard Weitzman, he told “Access,” “I am still representing Paris in the reckless driving matter in which she was originally charged with DUI.”

Paris, who blew a .08 on her sobriety test could stand to benefit from her new attorney’s experience. According to the Hutton-Wilson.com Web site, a host of clients are listed who blew higher alcohol ratings on their breathalyzer tests than Hilton, but ended up with not guilty verdicts in front of a jury. At least one of their clients, who was on their fourth DUI offense, was not sentenced to any jail time at all, but 180 days of treatment.

Paris’ trouble legally, however, may be a harder web to unravel. The heiress already pled her DUI charge from last fall. She was ordered to jail for the 45 days after a judge ruled Paris’ two stops earlier this year when her licenses was revoked, counted as probation violations stemming from her DUI conviction.

Meanwhile, following yesterday’s news that a petition had popped up, asking California Governor Schwarzenegger to pardon Paris’ sentence, a host of petitions concerned with the opposite move are making the rounds.

“Paris chose to drive drunk, she chose to drive with a suspended license and she now chooses to whine about her punishment, which is reasonable in every sense of the word,” the ParisNo petition author writes. “I’m insulted that Paris Hilton compares her spending 45 days in a jail to cruelty. There are so many more injustices occurring right now as I type this out, much more pressing than a spoiled heiress spending a month and a half in a jail cell subject to bologna sandwiches.”

Through her new attorney, Hilton released the following statement today: “After reading the media’s coverage of my court hearing, I feel the need to correct what I believe are misperceptions about me. I absolutely realize how serious driving under the influence is. I could not live with myself if anyone was injured or killed while I was driving while impaired. Clearly, no one should — no matter how slightly. I am ready to face the consequences of violating probation.

No one is above the law. I surely am not. I do not expect to be treated better than anyone else who violated probation. However, my hope is that I will not be treated worse.”

The Associated Press

PRECEDENTS: Paris tries hard sell on Arnie

FOR those who ask, "What does Paris Hilton actually do?", here's the answer, from the woman herself: she "provides hope for young people all over the US and the world. She provides beauty and excitement to (most of) our otherwise mundane lives".

That's the reason Hilton believes she is entitled to a pardon by California's Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, but she needs your help convincing him.

In an attempt to free herself from California's Century Regional Detention Facility, where from June 5 she will spend 45 days for driving without a licence, Hilton has launched a petition.
"My friend Joshua started this petition, please help and sihn [sic] it. i LOVE YOU ALL " the heiress (or one of her lackies) writes on her MySpace site. There are already nearly 10,000 signatures, including some by concerned Australians.

Others think Hilton deserves her sentence. "The only thing I would sign for Paris would be a death warrant," writes "Andria" on Hilton's site. "Come on, Paris. Get real ... and get ready to take it rough from Big Bertha in the slammer."

Legal experts say the petition is unlikely to succeed. "I don't think the founding fathers had Paris Hilton's driving conviction in mind when they enacted the cruel and unusual punishment provision of the Constitution," said Loyola Law School professor Laurie Levenson.

Levenson said Hilton's legal team "took the wrong approach from the beginning, which was to contest the violation, rather than throw themselves on the mercy of the court and show some real contrition.

"You don't want to be the celebrity, after O.J. Simpson, Robert Blake and Michael Jackson are acquitted, and suggest that you are asking for special treatment".


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Britney, Paris among top overexposed stars

© 2007 Forbes.com

Not all press is good press, no matter what the publicists say.

Consider pop tart Britney Spears, whose every move from club-hopping to head-shaving has grabbed gobs of tabloid ink. But rather than earn her adoration, the recent media onslaught has resulted in eye rolls. And worse.

According to studies by Encino, Calif.-based E-Poll Market Research, which provides appeal rankings for more than 3,000 celebrities, 72 percent of the U.S. population would use the term “overexposed” to describe Spears in 2007, as compared to only 54 percent five years earlier. To put that in perspective, most celebrities average between 3 percent and 7 percent during the peak of their careers. Worse: During that same period, her “talented” score, the presumed basis for her celebrity, fell from 35 percent to 25 percent on the E-Poll index.

But Spears isn’t the only star to have worn out her public welcome. Among others who audiences have tired of: Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and the late-Anna Nicole Smith’s lover Howard K. Stern. And while overexposure may have less to do with the precise number of headlines than it does the public’s perception of the celebrity, the 15 stars on our list have proved that familiarity can, and does, breed contempt.

So who’s to blame? The stars, or the tabloids that cover them?

Blame the celebs, says publicist Stan Rosenfield, whose clients include George Clooney and Robert De Niro. “It’s like the juggler’s lament: The balls go where you throw them,” he says. “If you show up at places that are covered by the media, then they’re going to cover you. And if you don’t (show up), they won’t.”

It comes down to how these celebrities choose to lead their lives, adds In Touch Weekly editor-in-chief Richard Spencer. Risk-free lives don’t sell magazines. “No one wants to read about the cup of tea and the great banana bread (a star) made yesterday,” he says. “What gets exposure? Kissing a guy at 4 in the morning.”

And while E-Poll Chief Executive Gerry Philpott agrees that the press can only build somebody up or tear somebody down so much, he argues that the 24/7 attention that the Internet provides expedites the fame trajectory, and the exposure that comes along with it. The result: “You can go from zero to 60 in exposure like that,” he says. “And, for that matter, 60 to zero.”