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Paris Hilton ordered to return to court By LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent
1 hour, 17 minutes ago



Paris Hilton's release from jail may be short lived. Hours after she was sent home under house arrest Thursday for an undisclosed medical condition, the judge who put her in jail for violating her reckless-driving probation ordered her into court to decide if she should go back behind bars.

Hilton must report to court at 9 a.m. Friday, Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini told The Associated Press.

"My understanding is she will be brought in in a sheriff's vehicle from her home," Parachini said.

The celebrity inmate was sent home from the Los Angeles County jail's Lynwood lockup shortly after 2 a.m. in a stunning reduction to her original 45-day sentence. She had reported to jail Sunday night after attending the MTV Movie Awards in a strapless designer dress.

She was ordered to finish her sentence under house arrest, meaning she could not leave her four-bedroom, three-bath home in the Hollywood Hills until next month.

City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo complained that he learned of her release the same way as almost everyone else — through news reports.

Then, late Thursday, he filed a petition questioning whether Sheriff Lee Baca should be held in contempt of court for releasing Hilton — and demanding that she be held in custody. Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer's decision to haul Hilton back to the courtroom came shortly after.

"It is the city attorney's position that the decision on whether or not Ms. Hilton should be released early and placed on electronic monitoring should be made by Judge Sauer and not the Sheriff's Department," said Jeffrey Isaacs of the city attorney's office.

Sauer himself had expressed his unhappiness with Hilton's release before Delgadillo asked him to return her to court. When he sentenced Hilton to jail last month, he ruled specifically that she could not serve her sentence at home under electronic monitoring.

Delgadillo's office indicated that it would argue that the Sheriff's Department violated Sauer's May 4 sentencing order.

As word spread earlier Thursday that the 26-year-old poster child for bad celebrity behavior was back home, radio helicopter pilots who normally report on traffic conditions were dispatched to hover over her house and describe it to morning commuters. Paparazzi photographers on the ground quickly assembled outside its gates.

Hilton herself kept a low profile, although late in the morning a man arrived outside her house with a supply of cupcakes he said she had instructed him to distribute to the media horde.

Her parents also arrived and briefly entered, then left, the home.

Shortly before noon, Hilton issued a statement through her attorney.

"I want to thank the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and staff of the Century Regional Detention Center for treating me fairly and professionally," she said. "I am going to serve the remaining 40 days of my sentence. I have learned a great deal from this ordeal and hope that others have learned from my mistakes."

Attorneys differed on whether her treatment was unusual.

"She would have gotten out early if she was plain Jane," said Leonard Levine, who has handled numerous probation violation cases. He noted that overcrowding in the Los Angeles County jail system has led to thousands of nonviolent offenders serving only 10 percent of their sentences. "She did as much time as a normal person would have done."

Loyola University law professor Laurie Levenson said that she suspected the deal for Hilton's early release was in the works even before she entered the jail system — and that officials probably were anxious to get her out of their custody.

"The time and resources needed to take care of a Paris Hilton are huge," she said. "They have to make sure she is safe and her medical needs are attended to. Everything they did was going to be looked at under a microscope."

Levine said that with rewards being offered for pictures of Hilton in custody, jail officials would have had to monitor the cell phone cameras of every employee.

Rene Seidel of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services said he had "never heard of" an inmate being released from jail for a medical condition.

Inmates with a cold are sent to a jail clinic, he said, and the seriously ill go to the jail ward of the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center.

Hilton's path to jail began Sept. 7, when she failed a sobriety test after police saw her weaving down a Hollywood street in her Mercedes-Benz on what she said was a late-night run to a hamburger stand.

She pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to 36 months' probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.

In the months that followed she was stopped twice by officers who discovered her driving on a suspended license. The second stop landed her in Sauer's courtroom, where he sentenced her to jail.

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Associated Press writer John Rogers contributed to this report.

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The Paris Hilton prison diaries

Jailhouse musings from the hotel heiress.
By John Kenney, JOHN KENNEY is a writer in New York.
June 5, 2007

Paris Hilton, after attending Sunday's MTV Movie Awards, was then off to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood. She is expected to serve about 23 days for violating her probation stemming from an alcohol-related driving charge. "I hope that I'm an example to other young people," she told reporters.

DAY 1: Arrived late Sunday night. So tired. Asked if I could check into my room immediately. Quite possibly the rudest concierge I have ever met. I told him he was fired. Not the effect I'd hoped for. And no, I did not register under the name "Little Miss Whore." What kind of hotel forces you to strip and delouse (maybe Marriott?). Although instead of a robe I got a fabulous orange jumpsuit with a cute number on it. Nothing to do at night. I'm told (as there was, like, no information in my room) that there is no bar or lounge area. I wish I'd brought flats.

Day 2: My room is insane! TINY! How is it even possible that I got a room without any view? A tiny stainless steel toilet. There is an incredibly thin mattress. If I didn't know I was in prison I'd think I was in an Ian Schrager hotel.

Day 3: So that's what a b***h slap is. Wow. Just … wow. MUST remember not to make that sarcastic face again anytime soon.

Day 5: *hi went to prison. So did Martin Luther King Jr. So did Robert Downey Jr. and Martha Stewart Jr. and I think Nelson Mandela Jr. Mandela was imprisoned for, like, 50 years or something for being black and also for driving an uninsured vehicle, if I'm reading Wikipedia correctly. Nicky often mentions me and *hi and how incredibly thin we both are and how she wonders if he used bronzer.

Day 5, shortly before lights out: Must remember not to complain about lights out. Hope mother can contact a good dentist, as the whistling from where the tooth is missing is embarrassing as well as annoying.

Several of us were talking after the movie tonight ("The Shawshank Redemption") and one gal posed a question to the group: Would you crawl to freedom through a sewer pipe, like Tim Robbins' character did? I would have answered "no" but was unfortunately bound and gagged (practical jokes are big in prison).

Day 7: Mail today. One piece. A small note from Nicky that was actually a Xerox of a text message that her assistant put a stamp on and mailed. She wrote, "Ya know that band from a long time ago, 10,000 Maniacs? There were only, like, five people in that band."

Day 9: What is time? How do we measure it? What does it mean? I find these questions on my mind more and more, especially since someone stole my Audemars Piguet watch. Shame.

Day 10: There is no TV, no iPod, no cellphone. Just — I hope I'm spelling this right — "boks" or maybe "bowks." Whatever. I took a few from the cart and have been looking at the covers. Then, last night, I looked inside and there are, like, a million words, page after page. Are these new?

Day 11: Jayne Mansfield spoke five languages. She was a concert-level pianist. Marilyn Monroe was a Formula One race car driver. Twiggy built her own home, raised guinea fowl and invented penicillin. Eleanor Roosevelt patented commercial air travel. And yet all of us played a role, the blond bimbo, the ditzy, fun-loving "party girl." Roosevelt especially. But what's to say I couldn't be the first person to walk on the moon or be the first woman to go to college?

Day 14: Yeats writes that the falcon cannot hear the falconer. What the hell? Is the falcon listening to a, like, falcon iPod or something? Also, what if the falcon was deaf? Did the falconer ever think of that? Also why "gyre?" Why not just say "swirling vortex?"

Day 18: This "Jesus Christ" was an amazing guy. It's so sad he died so young.

Day 19: While walking in the yard today, I was put in the mind of Rilke's "Requiem for a Friend." "For somewhere an ancient enmity exists between our life and the great works we do." This, I feel, is my plight. My life is in a constant struggle with my works: my "works" being staying out late and buying stuff. Also the word "enmity" is a hard one and looks misspelled to me.



Day ??: I have stopped counting the days. I live in the now.

What is freedom? It's not free, that's for sure. It's "free" with "dom." And that seems right to me. I feared prison once. I see it now as a great gift. Once, I wondered if I would have to wait in a chow line. Is there a way around the chow line, I wondered? A kind of "chow bouncer," a chow doorman I might smile at as I breeze past on my way to steamed broccoli and fried bologna? How funny to think back. Because there is a chow bouncer. And her name is Brick. And she hates me.

Joy is like steam from the kettle that the Mexican servants used to make me tea in the kitchen, wherever that was located in my former home.

Lately I'm identifying with the Jews and all the horrible things that happened to them during Vietnam.

Brick said to me today, "Ya know, I stayed in a Marriott once. And truth be told, I'd rather stay in prison."

We both laughed. And then she beat me up.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-kenney5jun05,0,4717524.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail

[RicePlateReddy]

LOL Pipsqueak. I liked the last line best.

[fineleg]

Hilton's case creates a circus in court

http://www.lompocrecord.com/articles/2007/06/09/ap/entertainment/d8pl9m980.txt

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http://counterpunch.org/leupp06092007.html

Weekend Edition
June 9 / 10, 2007

"Mommy, It's Not Right!"

The Unfair Treatment of Paris Hilton

By GARY LEUPP



June 8. I'm in the midst of a column about the planned U.S. attack on Iran, but I have to interrupt that project to comment on the breaking news about Paris Hilton.

"It's not right!" she shouted to the judge ordering her back to the jail she'd been freed from a day earlier, before she was hauled away weeping.

No, nothing about this is right.

Here's a young woman who came into our lives in August 2003, just as the mainstream press was timidly beginning to question the Bush administration lies justifying the invasion of Iraq. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the people were already rebelling against the occupation. In that context of uncertainty, Paris burst onto the scene, a rich heiress socialite party girl, in our faces on the internet, spreading for boyfriend Rick Salomon and pleasuring him orally. Relatively few saw the clip of course, but we all heard about it, and associated this emerging personality with internet porn.

It was perhaps unfair because there is so much more to Paris.

While stating she was "humiliated" by Rick's posting of the video, Paris accepted the situation with good humor, joking about it on TV as she went on to pursue her career as model, actress, singer, heiress and socialite.

She wasn't just fellating Rick but all of us, when America needed it most. Those accessing the readily available footage will notice her pubes were shaved. Were they only shaved for Rick, whom she soon discarded? No, I believe they were shaved for all of us, representing childlike innocence lost. A pudendum shining hairless for you, and for me, as the nation descended deeper and deeper into darkness.

Already 22, Paris had dropped out of the prestigious Dwight School in the Upper West Side of New York unfairly hounded by the accusation that "Dwight" stood for "Drunk White Idiots Getting High Together." But she had acquired her General Education Degree (GED), serving as a role model for other dropouts who have the courage and fortitude to also take the challenging GED exam.

Just as the porn video came out Paris launched a career playing herself in a reality television series about socialites in real-world situations airing on the prestigious Fox network. In that series, she walked through cow manure in stilettos, made sausages, worked as a maid at a nudist resort. She became a Donald Trump model. She appeared in minor roles in films and released an album, Paris, on her very own label, Heiress Records, which might some day release a second album by her or someone else.

In May 2004 Paris released her "Paris Hilton" perfume. "I mixed all these scents together...it smells so good," she explained as she continued to enrich our culture. It is true that her appearance on Saturday Night Life in 2005 (in which she hyped the video with Rick) was panned by some persnickety critics, and Tina Fey later nastily called her a "piece of *" and "unbelievably dumb." But she had unleashed a chain of nightclubs, and there were more nude photos of her on the net. So it made prefect sense for Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman to proclaim August 29, 2006 "Paris Hilton Day."

On that day in 1862, the Second Battle of Bull Run began. On that day in 1966, the Beatles performed their last public concert. On that day in 1944, American troops liberated Paris. Surely Goodman had these historical events in mind as he honored our Paris.

It is sad that on September 7, 2006, at the height of her powers, Paris was pulled over by a member of the notorious LAPD on suspicion of drunken driving. Her blood alcohol content was just 0.08%. Taking advantage of her low tolerance level for alcohol, and lack of experience driving responsibly after a few beers, the officer arrested Paris. The court suspended her driver's license and she received a 36 month probabtion sentence plus a $1,500 fine. She was ordered to attend an alcohol-education program but apparently didn't. This is understandable. It was probably an AA program with a "higher power" religious content and the requirement that everybody hold hands. I can see why Paris would reject that.

Unbowed by this setback, Paris continued to drive through the streets of Los Angeles and on January 15 was pulled over for driving with a suspended license. She signed a document acknowledging that she wasn't permitted to drive, but didn't let the Man cramp her style. On February 27 was pulled over for driving without her lights on 70 miles per hour in a 35 mile per hour zone. LA prosecutors threw the book at her, finding her in violation of the terms of her probation.

But Paris's many admirors campaigned for her freedom of any punishment, posting the following petition online addressed to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger:

Paris Whitney Hilton is an American celebrity and socialite. She is an heiress to a share of the Hilton Hotel fortune, as well as to the real estate fortune of her father Richard Hilton. 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.

Hilton is notable for her leading roles on the FOX reality series The Simple Life and in the remake of the Vincent Price horror classic "House of Wax." In addition to her work as an actress, she has achieved some recognition as a model, celebrity spokesperson, singer, and writer.

Now, if that doesn't move you, you're just not human. But on May 4, a cruel and biased Judge Michael T. Sauer sentenced Paris to 45 days in jail on this dubious charge of violating her probation.

The day after she appeared on the MTV awards, Paris dutifully reported to the Century Regional Detention Center where she was given a private cell so she would not be sexually abused by any ugly people. She has since thanked the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and staff of for treating" her "fairly and professionally." But confinement was too much for this sensitive young woman, whom a psychologist ascertained, was on the verge of a nervous breakdown within five days of confinement. Accordingly the Detention Center authorities released her, ordering her to serve the remaining 40 days of her sentence under house arrest at her home on Kings Road in Hollywood Hills.

But then, the hate. The pettiness. The unfairness.

The Rev. Al Sharpton denounced the early release, claiming it had "all of the appearances of economic and racial favoritism." Obviously he had it out for Paris, just because her former friend Brandon Davis told the press that the heiress regularly refers to black people using the n-word. Given protests about the reduced sentence, Sauer ordered Paris back to jail. He gave no explanation at all for his ruling! But obviously powerful and influential people were behind this decision.

Outside the courtroom, Jake Byrd of Chino spoke for the millions whose lives have been touched by this woman who once told the British press "There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde---like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana--- and right now, I'm that icon."

"No! No! No!" Jake screamed as a court spokesman announced the verdict.

Oh, the horror of this. What sort of person, looking at that photo of Paris, hand-cuffed and humiliated, sitting in the back seat of a police car, disheveled, without her make-up, her lovely features contorted with suffering, tears streaming down her face, would not be moved by the injustice pervading our society?

What will become of this candle in the wind?

I for one will be unable during these next 40 days to think of Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib without thinking too of Paris in the Detention Center. It's just not right.



Gary Leupp is Professor of History at Tufts University, and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion. He is the author of Servants, Shophands and Laborers in in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan; Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan; and Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900. He is also a contributor to CounterPunch's merciless chronicle of the wars on Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, Imperial Crusades.

He can be reached at: gleupp@granite.tufts.edu

[pipsqueak]

No more the party girl: Paris finds God and plans new life after jail


http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2100913,00.html

Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Tuesday June 12, 2007
The Guardian


The world received proof yesterday that prison does indeed work. In an interview from the Los Angeles jail where she is serving a sentence for driving while banned, celebrity inmate Paris Hilton claimed a remarkable transformation in her character. She said she was no longer superficial, had found God, wanted to work with sick children and had not looked in a mirror since entering prison.
Speaking to the veteran television anchorwoman Barbara Walters by phone, Hilton revealed herself to be an acute critic of her former persona. "I'm not the same person I was," she said. "I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me.

"I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that. I have been thinking that I want to do different things when I am out of here. I have become much more spiritual. God has given me this new chance."

Hilton, the party-going former model and hotel heiress famous for being famous, became notable for something more tangible last week when a judge ordered her back to jail after the Los Angeles county sheriff had released her to house arrest.

Hilton was sentenced last month to 45 days in jail, but with good behaviour, Walters said, she is likely to be released on June 25, after serving a total of 23 days.

Describing her first few days in jail, Hilton said: "I was not eating or sleeping. I was severely depressed and felt as if I was in a cage. It was a horrible experience."

But she has subsequently warmed to the idea of not being herself, she said. "I feel as if I'm a different person. I've dropped my appeal. I don't want to cause any more problems."

She said she had been guided in her transformation by a spiritual adviser who told her: "My spirit or soul did not like the way I was being seen and that is why I was sent to jail." But redemption was at hand. "God has released me. I feel that the purpose of my life is to be where I am."

However she is hoping for early release. "Usually with a situation like mine, the person serves 10% of their time. I have already served 30% of my time. I hope if there is overcrowding in the jail, I would be let out."

She said she had spent her time playing table tennis, reading newspapers, the Bible and self-help books such as The Power of Now.

The privations of prison life, she added, had enriched her. Make-up was not allowed, and while the absence of face cream had left her skin parched, she had her mind on more important matters.

"It doesn't matter," she said, "I'm not that superficial girl. I haven't looked in the mirror since I got here."

After her release, she said she hoped to find a role for herself in helping people suffering from breast cancer or multiple sclerosis. She also hoped to work with children, envisioning a Paris Hilton playhouse where sick children could come to play with donated toys.

[fineleg]

Paris Hilton's speech: "The blah, the blah, the blah" 

[pipsqueak]

Paris Hilton's speech: "The blah, the blah, the blah" 

...and fineleg's posts on SG?   

[feverpitch]

Paris Hilton's speech: "The blah, the blah, the blah" 

...and fineleg's posts on SG?   

are u suggesting that fineleg = paris hilton?

[pipsqueak]

Paris Hilton's speech: "The blah, the blah, the blah" 

...and fineleg's posts on SG?   

are u suggesting that fineleg = paris hilton?

it isn't my area of expertise, am afraid, but does paris hilton have fine legs?

[feverpitch]

Paris Hilton's speech: "The blah, the blah, the blah" 

...and fineleg's posts on SG?   

are u suggesting that fineleg = paris hilton?

it isn't my area of expertise, am afraid, but does paris hilton have fine legs?

So far I haven't wandered beyond her landing strip [on the video] but I can check and report back.

What I'm sure of is that she is too sluttish and skinny for my tastes. Plus, IMHO, her screech, blonde hair, dumb face, and mongrel would push any potential customer towards a celibate life.

[pipsqueak]

Paris Hilton's speech: "The blah, the blah, the blah" 

...and fineleg's posts on SG?   

are u suggesting that fineleg = paris hilton?

it isn't my area of expertise, am afraid, but does paris hilton have fine legs?

So far I haven't wandered beyond her landing strip [on the video] but I can check and report back.

What I'm sure of is that she is too sluttish and skinny for my tastes. Plus, IMHO, her screech, blonde hair, dumb face, and mongrel would push any potential customer towards a celibate life.

interesting. i was told by many here that the only thing men care about is a safe landing. no?

[feverpitch]

Paris Hilton's speech: "The blah, the blah, the blah" 

...and fineleg's posts on SG?   

are u suggesting that fineleg = paris hilton?

it isn't my area of expertise, am afraid, but does paris hilton have fine legs?

So far I haven't wandered beyond her landing strip [on the video] but I can check and report back.

What I'm sure of is that she is too sluttish and skinny for my tastes. Plus, IMHO, her screech, blonde hair, dumb face, and mongrel would push any potential customer towards a celibate life.

interesting. i was told by many here that the only thing men care about is a safe landing. no?

i'm sure ur informant was correct. what he prolly failed to add is that in the age of AIDS men also think twice about  cheap hos.

[fineleg]

Paris Hilton's speech: "The blah, the blah, the blah" 

...and fineleg's posts on SG?   

and many Gangulians on SG/GC? 

[pipsqueak]

Paris Hilton's speech: "The blah, the blah, the blah" 

...and fineleg's posts on SG?   

and many Gangulians on SG/GC? 

copycat!

i had anticipated just this response from you. come up with your own woriginal retorts please, your blahness.   

[fineleg]

Paris Hilton's speech: "The blah, the blah, the blah" 

...and fineleg's posts on SG?   

and many Gangulians on SG/GC? 

copycat!

i had anticipated just this response from you. come up with your own woriginal retorts please, your blahness.   

I was stating a fact  and I'm not hunting for original retorts all the time either. No problem in admitting my laziness!

[pipsqueak]

Paris Hilton's speech: "The blah, the blah, the blah" 

...and fineleg's posts on SG?   

and many Gangulians on SG/GC? 

copycat!

i had anticipated just this response from you. come up with your own woriginal retorts please, your blahness.   

I was stating a fact  and I'm not hunting for original retorts all the time either. No problem in admitting my laziness!

lazy people rarely change their opinions even after proven wrong. glad you admitted it.  explains a lot of things.

btw, a terminal "?" usually makes it an interrogative statement and not an assertion.

[fineleg]

Wokay, Ms.Grammar. Gotcha 

Dex
BTW - what is the pencil next to my id when i post?