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Guardian (UK)
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Jun 30, 07 12:52 PM CDT
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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.
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CNN
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Jun 28, 07 5:32 AM CDT
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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.
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Associated Press
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Jun 27, 07 4:29 AM CDT
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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.
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Associated Press
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Jun 26, 07 7:00 AM CDT
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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.
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Los Angeles Times
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Jun 24, 07 12:42 PM CDT
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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.
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New York Post
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Jun 23, 07 8:30 AM CDT
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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.
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New York Times
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Jun 22, 07 11:36 AM CDT
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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.
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Los Angeles Times
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Jun 14, 07 12:53 PM CDT
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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.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Jun 14, 07 8:15 AM CDT
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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.
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Guardian (UK)
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Jun 12, 07 6:17 AM CDT
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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."
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Los Angeles Times
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Jun 8, 07 4:15 PM CDT
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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.
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CNN
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Jun 8, 07 7:35 AM CDT
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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.
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CNN
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Jun 7, 07 10:23 AM CDT
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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.
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Associated Press
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Jun 4, 07 8:22 AM CDT
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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.
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