Paris Hilton gets 45 days in jail

Paris Hilton is one of the most photographed women in the world well known for her participation in The Simple Life reality series and also for 1 Night in Paris, a homemade sex video of her with then-boyfriend Rick Salomon, which leaked onto the Internet in late 2003.
Hilton is again in light, a judge sentenced a shocked and tearful Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail on Friday, ruling that the celebrity hotel heiress violated her probation for an earlier alcohol-related traffic offense.

Los Angeles superior court judge Michael Sauer sternly rejected Hilton’s story that she did not knowingly disobey the law by driving while her license was suspended and ordered the 26-year-old socialite to report to a county detention facility on June 5, or face 90 days in jail.
Hilton wept and her mother, Kathy, yelled at the prosecutor, “You’re pathetic,” as the packed courtroom cleared.

The stunning decision capped a two-hour hearing in which prosecutors argued that Hilton was thumbing her nose at the court and seeking to be placed above the law, while defense lawyers said she was being singled out for harsh treatment because of her celebrity status. Taking the witness stand in her own defense, the star of the reality TV show ‘The Simple Life’ testified that she was unaware her driving privileges had been completely suspended at the time police stopped her and impounded her car on February 27.

Hilton said she had relied on information conveyed to her by her publicist, Elliot Mintz, who she said told her that she was permitted to drive for work-related reasons after the first 30 days of her license suspension late last November.

But the judge said he disbelieved Hilton, declaring that the “smoking gun” in the case was a notice she had received from a police officer, and had signed, during an earlier traffic stop in January.

He said Hilton had “completely ignored” that notice, which she had carried in her glove box for weeks, and another license suspension notice sent to her office address by the department of motor vehicles that Hilton said she never saw.
“In my opinion, there’s not doubt that she knew that her license had been suspended,” the judge said. “She doesn’t look at her mail, her personal assistant never goes through it either. ... I think she just wanted to disregard everything that was said and continued to drive no matter what.” In a final statement before she was sentenced Hilton denied that she sought to flout the law. But the judge was unmoved.

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