Ms Hilton must start her jail term next month

 

Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton has been jailed for 45 days after being found guilty of violating her probation for a drink-driving conviction.

A Los Angeles judge ruled she must start her sentence on 5 June and has no prospect of an early release.

 

Ms Hilton told the judge she was very sorry and that she would "pay complete attention to everything" from now on.

 

The socialite said she did not know her licence had been suspended when caught driving without headlights in February.

 

According to papers filed in Los Angeles' Superior Court, Ms Hilton was stopped by California Highway Patrol officers on 15 January and informed she was driving on a suspended licence.

 

The 26-year-old then reportedly signed a document acknowledging she was not allowed to drive.

 

On 27 February, she was stopped by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for speeding on Sunset Boulevard with her car's headlights off and charged with violating her probation.

 

Although Ms Hilton maintained she was not aware her licence had been suspended, court papers said the document she signed in January was found in her car's glove compartment.

 

She was also accused of failing to enrol in an alcohol education programme by a court-ordered deadline.

 

Late entrance

 

Ms Hilton was sentenced to three years' probation, fined $1,150 (£582), and lost her licence at the end of January after pleading no contest to a drink driving charge in September.

 

Despite prosecutors saying the heiress deserved a jail sentence prior to Friday's hearing, Ms Hilton arrived at the court at least 10 minutes late.

 

One of the world's most photographed women, her arrival attracted a swarm of paparazzi at a courthouse whose most glamorous work usually consists of dealing with parking fines.

 

Her mother, Kathy, laughed when the demand for a custodial sentence was made during the prosecution's closing argument and asked Judge Michael Sauer for his autograph.

 

"I'm very sorry and from now on I'm going to pay complete attention to everything," Ms Hilton told the court before she was sentenced.

 

"I'm sorry and I did not do it on purpose at all," she said. But the judge was unmoved.

 

The 26-year-old heiress wept when the ruling was announced, and her mother shouted at the prosecutor: "You're pathetic."

 

One of Ms Hilton's lawyers said the jail sentence was unfair.

 

"To sentence Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail to me was uncalled for, inappropriate and bordered on the ludicrous. I think she was singled out because she's who she is," Howard Weitzman said.

 

If Ms Hilton does not report to jail on 5 June she will face 90 days behind bars.

 

Ms Hilton, heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, first gained notoriety for her constant partying as a teenager.

 

The BBC's David Willis says the austere surrounding of the all-women's detention centre will be a far cry from the five-star luxury the hotel heiress has become used to.

 

What her fellow inmates will make of her, and she of them, remains to be seen, our correspondent says.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6624223.stm

Justice :)

She is 26? I always thought she was younger than me.....

 

Anyway, 45 days isn't so bad compared to 90 days.

:lol:

they've reduced it by half and are going to ensure she doesn't have to mix with the other inmates

hmmm.....even though i hate the woman i must say i feel sorry for her....well thats justice eh?

they've reduced it by half and are going to ensure she doesn't have to mix with the other inmates

 

BOO!!!

I lol'd.

But the real question is: who get's to be her cell-mate?:P:laugh3:

But the real question is: who get's to be her cell-mate?:P:laugh3:

 

And who will be on video duty?:rolleyes:

I hope they lose the key and forget she's in there!

^ amen to that

i think she wants make a porn movie in jail hahahahh :D

lol

 

Whatever it'll happen to her... she'll do it again. She is rich. She can do anything she want to. Sad. But true!

 

45 days? not enough.

She had already deserved jail for releasing that awful CD of hers!!:rolleyes:

lol

 

Whatever it'll happen to her... she'll do it again. She is rich. She can do anything she want to. Sad. But true!

 

45 days? not enough.

 

Not that she would be able to tell, because she can't even count to 45!!;)

:laugh3:

True!

 

I even wonder how she succeeded in having her driving license...

 

*thinking*

 

oooh.... nooo... it can't be....

 

:thinking:

 

:lol:finally... it can.

It was the only way for her to get it...

this is almost amusing as martha stewarts jail time.

this is almost amusing as martha stewarts jail time.

 

 

 

this is more amusing because martha was a real celebrity. paris is just a spoiled brat who shouldn't be famous at all, and now shell be famous for going to jail

And who will be on video duty?:rolleyes:

 

:laugh3:

I don't reckon she will even do any time!

She probably already has a book deal lined up about the experience... :dozey:

Yeah,i even heard they are gonna try and make a television show about it!!!

Yeah,i even heard they are gonna try and make a television show about it!!!

 

Yes - they could call it the Hilton Penitentiary!!:rolleyes:

this whole thing is just rediculous