Paris Hilton: Celebrity News

Posted on 08 May 2007 by Paris

Paris Hilton met her fired publicist for dinner last night (May 07) to see if their relationship could be salvaged. Elliot Mintz confirmed he had parted company with the socialite in a statement on Sunday, but it seems Hilton has had second thoughts about her decision. Yesterday the publicist told internet blogger Marc Malkin he was hoping to patch things up with Hilton over dinner. Mintz told Malkin the split was “probably a bit premature,” adding he’s “very optimistic” that the two will reunite. He said, “We had a telephone conversation on Sunday night. It was a good and healthy exchange… I think the world of her.”

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Posted on 07 May 2007 by Paris

After the shocking announcement from last Friday that Paris Hilton would go to jail for 45 days, it's not too surprising to hear that the man that Paris holds partially responsible for getting her into this mess, her publicist Elliot Mintz, has been fired by the hotel heiress. Without a publicist, Paris Hilton has actually commented on the jail term on her own, describing her punishment as cruel and unwarranted.

On Friday, a visibly shaken and crying Paris Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in jail in a suburban Los Angeles lock up. A judge ruled that Paris Hilton had knowingly violated her probation when she got behind the wheel with a suspended license. At the hearing, Paris Hilton claimed that it was Elliot Mintz who told her that she was allowed to drive for work-related reasons. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer rejected the claim that Paris Hilton thought she was allowed to drive and ordered her to turn herself in by June 5th.

Of course, the press mobbed the home of Paris Hilton over the weekend and, on Saturday, the hotel heiress and celebrity icon took the time to step out and speak to the photographers. Paris Hilton said, as quoted by Reuters, "I told the truth. I feel that I was treated unfairly and that the sentence is both cruel and unwarranted. I don't deserve this."

The Associated Press reports that, at the hearing, Paris Hilton tried to convince the judge that she only followed the orders of her publicist. Paris Hilton told the judge, when asked if she read the mail sent to her about the license suspension, "I have people who do that for me. I just sign what people tell me to sign."

Don't mark your calendars for June 5th yet. The attorney for Paris Hilton, Howard Weitzman, has already filed an appeal to try and get the sentence handed down to his client modified. Elliot Mintz, a legendary publicist who has represented John Lennon and Bob Dylan, took the stand to defend Paris Hilton, but, according to Reuters, his testimony was rejected as worthless by the judge. Mintz told TMZ on Sunday that he was deeply and profoundly sorry for giving Paris Hilton bad advice. He told the site, "Due to this misunderstanding, I am no longer representing Paris. For the record, I have nothing but love and respect for Paris and her family. Paris is a wonderful person and does not deserve the punishment that was handed down by the court. I only wish her my best."

A publicist spoke to the AP and claimed that the jail sentence will only make Paris Hilton more popular. Michael Levine told the news service, "It will actually increase her star appeal in a very sick and demented way. There's a segment of our society that's somehow engaged in the soap opera that is Paris Hilton, and this a very compelling plot line in the soap opera."

Another publicist, David Brokaw, echoed the sentiment that jail might be the best thing that could have happened to the career of Paris Hilton - "The premise of her fame is being naughty. This is a career move for her. It simply fuels the fascination. She can only win with this."

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Posted on 07 May 2007 by Paris

Paris Hilton's mother Kathy has hit out at a judge's decision to send her daughter to jail, branding the ruling "a joke." The 26-year-old socialite was sentenced to 45 days in prison by Judge Michael T. Sauer at Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday, after she was found guilty of violating her probation on an alcohol-related reckless driving charge.

But Kathy, who joined the hotel heiress in court with her husband Rick, has voiced her anger at the shocking sentence, which was handed down to Paris for driving her Bentley with a suspended license in February.

She fumes, "This is pathetic and disgusting, a waste of taxpayer money with this nonsense. It's a joke."

Hilton's lawyer, Howard Weitzman adds the sentence was "uncalled for, inappropriate and bordered on the ludicrous". He says, "I'm shocked, I'm surprised and disheartened in the system that I've worked in for close to 40 years. I think she's singled out because of who she is."

Hilton will begin her jail stint at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Los Angeles County on June 5.

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Posted on 06 May 2007 by Paris

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Posted on 05 May 2007 by Paris

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Posted on 05 May 2007 by Paris

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Posted on 05 May 2007 by Paris

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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.

Hilton first gained notoriety for her constant partying as a teenager
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.

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