Paris Hilton has had her share of arrests for driving. She was stopped and breathalyzed in September 2006 and charged with a DUI. However, not long after that, she was pulled over once more, in February 2007, for driving with a suspended license, to which Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer said, “I think she just wanted to disregard everything that was said and continued to drive no matter what” (via Reuters).
That time around, Hilton had to face the consequences of her actions and go to jail. A few days before, she showed up at the MTV Movie Awards, saying, “I’m scared, but I’m being strong. I’m ready to face my sentence, and I hope that this can be an example to other young people and the decisions they make and use it as something positive.” She served 23 days out of the 45 she had been sentenced (via The Sun).
According to the Crime Museum, three years after her time in jail, Hilton was arrested multiple times for drug possession, including cocaine and marijuana. She was detained in South Africa at a FIFA World Cup game for suspected cannabis possession; then she was arrested in Corsica, also for marijuana possession; and finally, she was arrested in August 2010 for cocaine possession. CNN reported at the time that Hilton admitted to having lied about the drugs and confessed they were hers: “I said that the purse wasn’t mine to the officer, your honor,” she had said.
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