Paris Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in jail on Friday, but it somehow wasn't for crimes against music.
The 26-year-old celebutante received the sentence from Los Angeles Superior Court judge Michael Sauer for violating her probation from an alcohol-related driving charge. He said that she was knowingly driving her $190,000 U.
S. Bentley Continental GTC with a suspended license when she was on Feb. 27 for speeding and driving with her headlights off (proving, perhaps, that stars aren't blind).
Hilton was with driving under the influence of alcohol after being last September. She was sentenced to 36 months' probation, alcohol education, $1,500 U.S.
in fines and had her license suspended in January.
The hotel heiress claims that her publicist, Elliot Mintz, had told her that she was allowed to drive for work-related reasons and that she didn't know that her driving privileges had been completely revoked. How shopping at a Virgin Megastore can be considered work-related (unless she was buying all the copies of her Paris album that were sitting unwanted on the store's shelves) is a question that wasn't addressed.
Hilton could have been jailed for 90 days, but will spend half that time at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California beginning on June 5. She'll share a 3.7-metre by 2.
4-metre cell with another inmate and will only be allowed to leave it for an hour a day. She'll be expected to get up at 6 a.m.
and wear a blue jumpsuit, which may not look so "hot." She'll only be allowed to make calls from communal telephones at the 2,200-person prison.
Hilton's lawyer, Howard Wetizman, plans to appeal the decision and try to have the sentence modified, since he believes that his client was singled out because of her notoriety and that her punishment is too severe for her crime.
"I feel that I was treated unfairly and that the sentence is both cruel and unwarranted," Hilton told reporters and photographers waiting outside her home on Saturday night, according to The Money Times. "I don't deserve this."
"Due to the misunderstanding, I am no longer representing Paris," Mintz told TMZ.
com. "For the record, I have nothing but love and respect for Paris and her family.
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