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December 2, 2008 8:01:40 AM CST



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Paris Behind Bars

America's heiress, all locked up and nowhere to go

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20 Stories

  • August 2008
    • LAPD Chief Dishes on Brit, LiLo

      LAPD Chief Dishes on Brit, LiLo

      (Newser) - LA's police chief said yesterday the city's paparazzi problems are under control now that Britney Spears has “started wearing clothes and behaving” and "Lindsay Lohan has gone gay." A proposed anti-paparazzi law is a "complete waste of time," William Bratton told KNBC-TV before a meeting about the need for restrictions. More »

  • July 2007
    • Send Cons Home to Do Time, Says Paris Sheriff

      Send Cons Home to Do Time, Says Paris Sheriff

      (Newser) - The sheriff who put Paris Hilton on mansion arrest is now championing a bill that would curb the overcrowding in California jails by sending thousands of other Los Angeles County inmates home to carry out their sentences. Some 2,000 low-level offenders would be tracked via ankle monitoring devices under the plan. More »

  • June 2007
    • News Anchor Shreds Script, Hailed as Hero

      News Anchor Shreds Script, Hailed as Hero

      (Newser) - Bloggers, who normally revel in afflicting TV news anchors, have made one a star. MSNBC newsreader Mika Brzezinski won legions of fans in the blogosphere when she refused, despite prodding from her co-hosts, to read a news item about Paris Hilton Wednesday morning, and then shredded the script. “I have a new hero, and her name is Mika Brzezinski,” one blogger wrote. More »

    • The Simple Life in Jail: Bad Food, Fan Mail

      The Simple Life in Jail: Bad Food, Fan Mail

      (Newser) - Still convinced she got a "raw deal," an almost Zen-like Paris Hilton spilled the beans yesterday about her 23-day stretch in stir, where the food "wasn't that tasty" and being strip-searched was the most humiliating experience of her life. Also especially tough: not being able to hug her dad on Father's Day, the heiress told Larry King. More »

    • Paris Blackout Sweeps Mag

      Paris Blackout Sweeps Mag

      (Newser) - It may be spring time for Paris but one of the nation's top pop culture rags won't be participating in the media frenzy. Just as the scofflaw celebutante ends her well-publicized stint in jail this week, Us Weekly is bowing out of the competition—not only eschewing the predictable cover story, but and expunging all mention of the heiress from its coming issue, the AP reports. More »

    • Paris Is Liberated

      Paris Is Liberated

      (Newser) - Our long national nightmare is over; Paris is out of the slammer. The heiress left the Los Angeles County jail in Lynwood just 15 minutes after midnight today—technically completing a three-week stay—and was swarmed by a crowd of waiting photographers enroute to her parents' black SUV. More »

    • And the 'Winner' of the Who Gets Paris Contest Is...

      And the 'Winner' of the Who Gets Paris Contest Is...

      (Newser) - Nobody else wanted her.  So Larry King got the honor of being the first to interview Paris Hilton following her release from jail next week.  After being spurned by the three major networks who were asked for large sums of money for the interview, Hilton finally got a deal done with King.  Total price: $0. More »

    • NBC Cancels $1M Deal With Ex-Con Heiress

      NBC Cancels $1M Deal With Ex-Con Heiress

      (Newser) - Paris Hilton got jilted by NBC yesterday, the New York Post reports. The peacock network reneged on its reported $1-million offer for her first apres-jail interview after executives got cold feet. Then they decided they didn't even want the "Today" show interview for free. And none of the other networks would touch the heiress on the rebound. More »

    • NBC Win$ Battle to Chat Up Paris

      NBC Win$ Battle to Chat Up Paris

      (Newser) - NBC seems to have beaten out ABC in a bidding war for the first TV interview with post-jail Paris Hilton, although both networks and the Hilton family officially deny that money changed hands. Paris will come clean to Meredith Vieira rather than family pal Barbara Walters, the Times quotes anonymous ABC execs saying, unless an offer materializes that tops $750,000. More »

    • Paris Was Right: It's Not Fair!

      Paris Was Right: It's Not Fair!

      (Newser) - Paris Hilton wasn't just  being a spoiled brat when she cried injustice on being hauled back to jail earlier this week. The weepy celebutante is in fact doing more hard time than most people guilty of crimes like hers, the LA Times reports after  analyzing 1,500 similar cases in the last five years. More »

    • Paris' Slammer Grub Beats Its Bum Rap

      Paris' Slammer Grub Beats Its Bum Rap

      (Newser) - Cuisine at the LA County Jail may not be fit for an heiress, but meals in the California's penitentiary system are surprisingly appetizing, the Chronicle reports. Paris Hilton has reportedly been turning up her nose at provisions in the poke, although state regulations require chow to be tasty, varied and nourishing. More »

    • Paris Declares She's Got God Intentions

      Paris Declares She's Got God Intentions

      (Newser) - Paris Hilton says she's found God and will change her life at the end of her 45-day jail term. Barbara Walters chatted with the heretofore mischievous and materialistic heiress on a collect call from prison, and recapped the conversation on yesterday's View . "I have become much more spiritual," Paris said. "God has given me this new chance." More »

    • Weeping Heiress Sent Back to Cell

      Weeping Heiress Sent Back to Cell

      (Newser) - Paris Hilton is back in lockup after a courtroom scene worthy of a daytime soap, with the 26-year-old celebutante led from the room weeping and wailing, "Mom, Mom! It's not right!" Judge Michael Sauer, miffed that the scofflaw heiress had been sprung after just 3 days of a his 45-day sentence, remanded her after failing to get a good explanation—or any explanation—for why she was released to house arrest. More »

    • Judge Fumes as Paris Goes From Big House to Big House

      Judge Fumes as Paris Goes From Big House to Big House

      (Newser) - A livid judge ordered Paris Hilton to appear in court today, prompting speculation that the heiress may be headed back behind bars after a night of beauty rest at her Hollywood Hills mansion. Prosecutors charged that the sheriff who released her for mysterious "medical" reasons after just three days was in contempt of court. More »

    • Paris Is Liberated

      Paris Is Liberated

      (Newser) - Jailed heiress Paris Hilton will get to do her time from her $3.1 mil Hollywood Hills mansion, due to an unspecified medical complication. The celebutante started what should have been a truncated 23-day sentence for reckless driving Sunday, but was transferred to a full 40 days of house arrest today—but only after being accessorized with an ankle monitor. More »

    • Paris Checks In at Concrete Hilton

      Paris Checks In at Concrete Hilton

      (Newser) - Socialite Paris Hilton checked out a new set of bars late Sunday, at the LA County Jail. The celebutante debuted there in her three-week sentence for violating probation last month. Paris chose the venue herself, passing up ritzier pay prisons to deflect media rebukes. "I'm going to do the time, I'm going to do it the right way," the reality star affirmed. More »

  • May 2007
    • Paris Gets Prison Break

      Paris Gets Prison Break

      (Newser) - Before even setting foot in jail, Paris Hilton is already getting time off for good behavior. The celebutante will serve only 23 days of her 45-day sentence, and she'll spend it in a "special needs housing unit"—a sort of Hilton behind bars—reserved for high-profile inmates, the LA sheriff said yesterday. More »

    • Pals Seek Pardon for Jail-Bound Heiress

      Pals Seek Pardon for Jail-Bound Heiress

      (Newser) - Paris Hilton fans are rallying to keep the heiress out of an orange jumpsuit. More than 1,000 have signed an online petition to Gov. Schwarzenegger to pardon her for the parole-violation conviction that otherwise will cost her 45 days in jail. The grounds: that she "provides hope for young people all over the U.S. and the world."  More »

    • Hilton Headed To Hoosegow

      Hilton Headed To Hoosegow

      (Newser) - Supply your own "simple life" joke: Paris Hilton is going to jail. After finding that the famous-for-being-famous socialite violated her probation, Los Angeles Superior Court judge Michael Sauer today sentenced her to 45 days. The sometime reality-TV star wept as she learned she has until June 5 to find a dog-sitter. More »

    • LA Wants Paris Behind Bars

      LA Wants Paris Behind Bars

      (Newser) - Los Angeles prosecutors want to show Paris Hilton the real simple life: jail. The city's lawyers are pushing for the itinerant blonde heiress to spend 45 days in the slammer for repeatedly violating her parole on a reckless driving conviction after a tad too much clubbing last fall. Hilton got three years probation and alcohol education, but hasn't fallen in line with either. More »