" Citing 'Medical' Reasons, Sheriff Sends Paris Hilton Home to Finish Sentence
Thursday , June 07, 2007 "
" After serving only three days behind bars, Paris Hilton was released from jail early Thursday due to "medical" reasons — but she has been fitted with an ankle bracelet and must remain confined to her home for 40 days, according to sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.
She was originally sentenced to 45 days in jail for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case, but that was reduced to 23 days. She served a total of three days.
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"People aren't going to be happy about this," Jared Shapiro, the senior news and entertainment director of Life & Style Weekly magazine, told FOX News.
"This is one of the most privileged, entitled people to ever walk the face of the earth, and no matter what she does — whether its a sex tape or whether she's driving drunk or whether she goes to jail — she comes out on top, she makes money off it, she profits from it and she comes out quite all right."
The 26-year-old hotel heiress surrendered to authorities with little fanfare Sunday night after a surprise appearance earlier that day at the MTV Movie Awards, where she worked the red carpet in a strapless designer gown.
She was held in a special unit where she was spending 23 hours a day in a solitary cell, her lawyer said.
After she checked in, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Hilton's demeanor was helpful.
"She was focused; she was cooperative," he said.
Hilton's lawyer, Richard Hutton, said Monday after his client's first night in jail that she was doing well under the circumstances.
The star of "The Simple Life" reality TV show pleaded no contest to a reckless-driving charge in January and was sentenced to 36 months' probation.
When she was later pulled over by the California Highway Patrol, Hilton was told that she was driving on a suspended license and signed a document acknowledging she was not to drive. She was then pulled over by sheriff's deputies on Feb. 27 and charged with violating probation.
On Wednesday, Hilton's psychiatrist paid her a second consecutive visit, the New York Post reported.
Dr. Charles Sophy spent 90 minutes with Hilton inside the Century Regional Detention Center following a two-hour house call Tuesday.
Kyle Richards, an aunt of Hilton's, said the pampered princess has enjoyed phoning her family to break the boredom of jail.
"She's been able to call home, she's talked to her mom [Kathy] and to her sister, Nicky. And she says she's doing well. Surprisingly well!" Richards told E! Online.
"She's just sitting in there for 23 hours a day with nothing to do," Richards added. "She picked out a bunch of books to take with her, but at the last minute she found out they wouldn't let her take the books. They wouldn't let her take anything."
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