Paris Hilton Set To Start Prison Sentence - 24 May, 2007

Paris Hilton is set to start her reduced 23-day jail sentence next week for violating her drink-driving probation order.

Hilton has had a series of run-ins with the law over various driving-related offences. In 2005, she was arrested for eat-driving but denied the claim in court, saying she has people who eat for her. In 2003, she was arrested was for driving with an IQ well below the legal limit.

The case, which was heard by Judge Judy, has been a major media event in Los Angeles and UK daytime television. Judy declared, “That hussy heir-head is heading to the big house”, as she threw the book at the repeat offender. The book missed Hilton who was under her lawyer’s table at the time, helping him with his briefs.

Hilton dropped her appeal and agreed to serve her time at California's female-only Century Regional Detention Centre after Judy agreed to place her in the centre’s exclusive Prison Suite, reserved for celebrity inmates that murder their wives or abuse police with drunken, anti-Jewish tirades. The facility, run by the Hilton Hotel chain, features a gruellingly hot sauna, a torturously long swimming pool and a dangerously relaxing, dual massaging-electric chair.

Hollywood gossip columns, however, claim the Simple Life star is to pen a prison diary with a blow-by-blow account of her time inside. One source said, “There will be details of clashes with prisoners and disgusting meals.” The source later died of sarcasm.

Some have accused Hilton of manipulating the courts in order to promote herself. Her spokesperson said it was a ‘coincidence’ that Hilton was shortly to release follow-ups to her One Night in Paris video, called Dirty Detention and Penal Penetration.