What a douche.
After a whopping three days, the heiress is reassigned to house arrest.
by Ryan Porter
After a grimy three days that will go down as "not hot" in Paris Hilton's legacy, the 26-year-old heiress and publicity princess is out of jail and under house arrest, sporting a fashionable ankle bracelet.
House party!
She was released Thursday, June 7, shortly after midnight. Her 45 day sentence for breaking probation on a DUI charge was originally going to be sliced to 23 days pending cooperative behaviour. She will now serve 40 days because the hour or two she served before midnight on Sunday and after midnight on Thursday are being counted as full days.
"After extensive consultation with medical personnel, including doctors here at CRDF [Century Regional Detention Facility], it was determined that Paris Hilton would be reassigned to our community based alternatives to custody electronic monitoring program," Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesguy Steve Whitmore said Thursday morning. This decision comes after Paris took a 90-minute meeting with her psychiatrist on Tuesday, June 5.
Reports had claimed Paris was having a rough go of it in jail. Stuck in solitary confinement for her own benefit, she's been crying herself to sleep, listening to the round-the-clock hoopla of the other inmates. Paris's aunt, Kyle Richards, sister of Kathy Hilton, said the family had planned to send her a luxury sleepmask and earplugs but were unsure if the jail would allow such luxuries.
The early escape comes with a precedent. Lost star Michelle Rodriquez was sentenced to the same jail, L.A.'s Century Regional Detention Facility, in May 2006, and, because of overcrowding, was released on the same day she was incarcerated. The Los Angles County Sheriff's spokesman, Steve Whitmore, had previously told the Associated Press that Paris was not eligible to be released any earlier than the rumoured 23 days. "The situation in the jail will not determine [Hilton's] release," Steve said. "She has been given a full sentence.
She will do her full sentence."
Despite a lot of trash-talking before the heiress went in to serve her time, the inmates proved to be as star-struck by Paris as anyone.
"They've been really nice to her," aunt Kyle, who appeared on Little House on the Prarie, told E! Online. She said there's been a lot of, "Hey, Paris! How's it going? Paris, Paris!" TMZ reported that another prisoner slipped an oragami bird under her door.
So was justice served? After bravely refusing a pay jail in the hopes that it would sway public opinion, this cop-out only stregthens the impression that Paris is a softie of a socialite who can't sleep without her teddy bear. Or maybe she was going into wang deprivation.
While she'll certainly be sleeping better for the next month, all that talk of character-building and serving as an example of the consequences of driving under the influence just lost all its impact.
At least she'll have plenty of time to watch people's disgust unfold on TV. We'd take jail.
Well, kids. If you drink and drive, you're only going to get house arrest anyway. So drink away!