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Freed Paris gets back to being Paris


Updated: 2007-06-27 07:55









Paris Hilton walks out of the Angeles County Sheriff Department's Century
Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., Tuesday June 26, 2007.
Paris Hilton has been released from jail after serving about three weeks
for an alcohol-related reckless driving case. [AP]



LOS ANGELES - Paris Hilton got out of jail Tuesday and immediately got
back to being Paris Hilton, summoning a hair-salon van and, by her mere
presence, creating a huge traffic jam that angered the neighbors.

It appeared that Hilton's plans to serve God in some way, perhaps by
creating a halfway house for former ex-convicts like herself, would have
to wait at least a day as she readjusted to the simple life of fame and
celebrity.

"There's not going to be a press conference today. I just spoke to Mr.
Hilton. They have no plans to make any statement," police Sgt. B. Anthony
Roberts told reporters assembled outside the front gate of her
grandparents' estate as the newly freed heiress kept a low profile inside.

Although Hilton kept out of sight, her presence was still palpable up and
down the block, from the TV satellite vans that took up so much room on
the narrow street that cars couldn't pass one another to the fast-food
luncheon that was passed along to the assembled masses outside.

"Delivery for Paris from Taco Bell," one of two delivery people who
arrived with bags of food said into the intercom outside the front gate.

"Thank you. Give it to the media and the police," a voice from inside the
mansion replied.

Her transition back to celebutante started hours earlier when she was let
out of jail shortly after midnight in a seedy section of Lynwood. Hilton
managed to transform the event to almost the equivalent of a red-carpet
arrival.

With cameras flashing, she made her so-called perp walk from jail to a
waiting SUV by smiling, waving and strutting past the assembled masses in
tight jeans and white stiletto heels. She ignored shouted questions, but
occasionally said hi or slapped hands with sheriff's deputies holding the
photographers at bay until she reached the SUV and hugged her mother.

From there it was a quick drive to fashionable Holmby Hills, home to
Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner among others, and a stop at her
grandparents' house.

As she stayed inside throughout the day, more than a dozen cars pulled up
to the gate and were quickly buzzed inside, their occupants declining to
talk with reporters. One of those who entered was her spokesman, Elliott
Mintz, who declined to comment.

Hilton was scheduled to break her silence Wednesday night with an
interview on CNN's "Larry King Live."

At one point Tuesday, a black Cadillac Escalade carrying balloons and a
cake with the words "Welcome Home" in pink frosting arrived at her
grandparents' home. At another, a van from DreamCatchers Hair Extensions,
for which Hilton is the celebrity pitchwoman, passed through the gates.
DreamCatchers receptionist Crystal Armijo confirmed the heiress was
having extensions added to her hair.

A makeup artist arrived on foot with a little pushcart filled with
cosmetics. A stylist also walked up to the gate carrying several designer
bags filled with stuff.

So what about Hilton's words from jail, issued through various interviews
and statements, about how God had given her a second chance and she was
going to do something more meaningful with her life.

"Oh please!" said retired attorney Martha Karsh who was out for a morning
walk with her 21-year-old daughter, Katie, when she came upon the media
onslaught. Until then, she said, she never knew a Hilton lived in the
neighborhood.

Karsh and other early morning walkers found the scrum of paparazzi
photographers and journalists amusing. As the day progressed and traffic
picked up, however, people trapped in the street in their cars with horns
honking all around them failed to see the humor.

"I'm trying to get my daughter to her dance class," an angry Mindy Mann
said as she called police on her cell phone.

One passing motorist took both hands off the steering wheel to make an
obscene gesture to reporters. Roberts, the police sergeant, urged those
gathered outside the mansion to park responsibly.

It was driving, not parking, irresponsibly that put Hilton in jail. She
failed a field sobriety test after being stopped last September, then got
caught twice driving with a suspended license while on probation for
reckless driving.

She reported to jail June 3 after walking the red carpet at the MTV Movie
Awards but was sent home under house arrest four days later after Sheriff
Lee Baca said she developed psychological problems while in jail. Ordered
back to the slammer by her sentencing judge, she remained locked up
another 2 1/2 weeks.








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