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Paris Hilton's release a cheery affair
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Wednesday, 27 Jun 2007
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Smiling and waving for a scrum of cameras, Paris Hilton returned to the celebrity socialite limelight today after completing a three week jail term for drink-driving violations.
Wearing a ponytail and short-sleeved blouse, the blonde heiress smiled for the pack of photographers waiting outside the jail and ran to hug her mother Kathy Hilton, who was waiting in a car with her father Rick.
The last time she had been seen on June 8, Hilton was weeping and wailing as she was dragged back to jail after a judge overruled a sheriff's decision to free her for unspecified medical reasons after just three days.
Her departure was a much cheerier affair. She served just 23 days of a 45 day sentence at the spartan Century Regional Detention Facility in the Los Angeles suburb of Lynwood.
The 26-year-old reality television star and heiress to the Hilton hotel empire was jailed for violating probation over a conviction for alcohol-related reckless driving, drawing frenzied media attention.
Television helicopters pursued the cavalcade accompanying her as the car took to the highway shortly after the midnight release. It was unclear where she would spend her first night of freedom.
Hilton's parents were reported to have planned a lavish coming-out party in Las Vegas, Fox News said. But reports today quoted family and friends as saying that a "quiet gathering" was planned.
The Los Angeles Times reported that neighbours at Hilton's parental home in the Hollywood Hills had distributed leaflets protesting the party girl's presence in their midst.
The blonde icon was sentenced to jail in May. She had been handed 36 months' probation after driving her Mercedes with an alcohol level equal to the legal limit, but was then twice caught driving on her suspended licence.
On the first occasion, Hilton signed a statement acknowledging that she was not supposed to drive, and was let off with a warning. But the next month police pulled her over in her $US190,000 ($224,000) Bentley Continental GTC when they spotted her driving at night with the headlights off.
She is now due to complete her probation in March 2009 if she stays out of trouble.
During her time in jail Hilton said in a telephone interview with a television journalist that the sentence was a message from God to change her party-loving lifestyle and become a positive role model for women.
"I have been thinking that I want to do different things when I am out of here," she said. "I have become much more spiritual. God has given me this new chance."
She said she was considering pursuing work to raise awareness about breast cancer or multiple sclerosis.
"Paris is doing really well, she is really looking forward to going home, and she thanks you in the press who supported her," a spokeswoman for the Hilton family said ahead of her release.
"She wants to be with the family and she can't wait to take that orange suit off."
Hilton is mostly well-known for being rich and famous, and shot to international fame thanks largely to a sex tape of her and an-ex boyfriend which appeared on the internet.
She has also released a music album and appeared in films such as House of Wax, Pledge This and the forthcoming The Hottie and the Nottie.
Her first post-prison interview will be held with veteran CNN anchor Larry King on Wednesday. The network and a spokesman for Hilton said the celebrity would not receive payment for the interview.
In a statement released through her publicist, Hilton said she was pleased to go on the show, "to discuss my experience in jail, what I have learned, how I have grown".
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