Mark Hatten, who lists his current address as the Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, dated Smith in 2000 but was later found guilty of threatening her with a knife and assaulting one of her neighbors. He was acquitted of stalking her.
He filed his claim Wednesday in Superior Court.
Repeated calls Friday to his representatives were not returned.
Hatten's Web site says he is writing a memoir entitled "Hollywood Bad Boy: Sex, Drugs, and Anna Nicole."
Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. He died in 1995.
The reality TV star and former Playboy Playmate of the Year had fought Marshall's family over his estimated $500 million fortune from his death until her own death earlier this year.
Smith, 39, died in Florida on Feb. 8 of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.
"I have wanted to do this show for two years," says Banks, 33. "I know for a lot of women talking about what is going on in our bodies is extremely difficult, but it is incredibly important."
She added, "We should be able to talk to our daughters, sisters, mothers and friends about our bodies and not be embarrassed. I hope after this show women will not be ashamed about what's up down there."
Banks gives her audience an anatomy quiz, welcomes two gynecologist to the show, and shows a segment in which she takes a 28-year-old Plano, Texas, woman to her very first gynecological appointment – all in an effort to educate women about what can be an uncomfortable topic.
She explains: "My mother told me to look at myself because, 'It's just another part of your body that needs to be healthy just like your eyes, your nose, your ears, your mouth and everything else.' "
Chavez warmly greeted Campbell, planting a kiss on her hand as she arrived at a rally promoting state programs for single mothers in a long white dress.
"I've been here for 24 hours and I'm amazed to see the love and encouragement for the social programs that you have here for women and children in Venezuela," the British fashion model said.
After calling Campbell "a very special woman," Chavez blasted President Bush for maintaining Washington's 46-year trade embargo against Cuba.
Rocky relations between Caracas and Washington could improve, Chavez said, if Americans elect a leader whose foreign policies don't resemble those set by Bush.
"Hopefully, a U.S. president with whom it's possible to talk, converse and discuss the world's problems will come along," Chavez said.
Chavez — a close ally of Cuban leader Fidel Castro — has repeatedly clashed with Washington since taking office in 1999.
Campbell praised Chavez's health and education programs after a four-hour meeting Tuesday at the presidential palace, where she interviewed Chavez for an unspecified publication.
The hot-tempered model, who in January pled guilty to assaulting her maid in New York, is the latest foreign celebrity to visit Venezuela's socialist leader.
Chavez met last month with American actor Kevin Spacey. Hollywood stars Sean Penn, Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte have also made recent trips.
"I want to travel the world," the 26-year-old socialite says in an interview posted on the Web site of the syndicated entertainment TV show "Extra." "I feel like there's a lot I can do, and a lot I can do to help."
The Playing for Good Foundation announced last week that Hilton's philanthropic trip to Rwanda has been postponed due to restructuring of the children's charity. On her itinerary: visits to schools and health-care clinics.
Hilton told "Extra" she will now pack her bags for the African country sometime next year.
"We were supposed to be going in November, but then the charity is doing restructuring and figuring things out. It's going to be for next year," she said. "I know (Rwanda) went through a lot of traumatic experiences, and I feel like if I go there, I can help save some people's lives."
Hilton announced the mission in September, several months after serving a 23-day jail sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.
"I want kids to know, even if you're 15 or 16 years old, you can do something," she said in the interview.
CBS has found a way to flog the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show and reward the cast of "How I Met Your Mother" at the same time.
The network announced Monday (Oct. 29) that a sextet of Victoria's Secret models will be guest starring on the Nov. 26 episode of "How I Met Your Mother."
Heidi Klum ("Project Runway"), Miranda Kerr, Alessandra Ambrosio ("Entourage"), Adriana Lima ("The Follow"), Marisa Miller and Selita Ebanks ("Still Standing") will give the Monday night comedy a little end-of-sweeps sex appeal, while also helping CBS flog the Tuesday, Dec. 4 telecast of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, an event that has fallen on ratings hard times in recent installments.
If you don't wanna know how those comely ladies fit in with the regular "HIMYM" cast, stop reading now...
In the episode, Barney is worried he might be losing his mojo until he finagles an invite to the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after-party. Hilarity ensues.
The episode will shoot later this week.
Indie distributor Regent Releasing has picked up all North American rights to Tom Putnam's romantic comedy and set a February 8 release in ten major markets around the country.
The heiress and former inmate plays Cristabel Abbott, who's been eyed since the first grade by an obsessed Nate Cooper (Joel David Moore). To win her affections, Nate is forced to find a boyfriend for her less-than-beautiful friend June Phigg (Christine Lakin).
Hilton previously starred in the 2005 horror remake "House of Wax," although audiences reportedly cheered when her character was killed.
"I was very happy with how things went on Oprah," Klum said Friday at an event to launch her Very Sexy makeup collection at Victoria's Secret in Los Angeles.
During the interview Klum revealed her lusty reaction to her husband Seal the first moment she saw him.
Winfrey, said Klum, has a way of making people say more than they mean to. "It is very strange, you trust her so much that you talk sometimes without realizing what you are saying," Klum told PEOPLE.
And how does the talk show queen have the power to get her guests to open up? "She has a spell in her eyeballs that when she looks at you, you are like, 'Yes,'" said Klum.
Still, Klum says she was just being honest. "I know a lot of people talk about Seal's bicycle shorts, but it is the truth! That is what he was wearing the first time I met him and I was overwhelmed."
And the British singer continues to impress his wife, wearing those sexy shorts which he still sports "when he does all of his bicycling stuff or when he runs," she said. "He is quite athletic."
Earlier in the week Klum reiterated that first fateful encounter with the man who would be her husband, telling PEOPLE: "When I saw him, I was like, wow! He is different and so tall and dark and just handsome. I saw the package – and I mean the whole package, literally. I was like, 'That is a man.'"
And she's eternally grateful that she seized the moment. "I just think if you have an emotion and you let that go that moment might pass," she said. "If you don't open the door for the person to come in, it would have just been like, 'Nice to meet you goodbye.'"
Earlier this month, Hilton told Newsweek magazine that she was going to Rwanda to change her life and make a mark on the world following a stint in jail stemming from a drunken driving incident.
In the story, Newsweek quoted Scott Lazerson, the founder of charity Playing for Good that planned the trip, that the trip was to be filmed in hopes of selling it as part of a reality show called "The Philanthropist."
A spokesman for Playing for Good said Lazerson was no longer associated with the Spanish-based charity, the group never planned to tape Hilton's trip in order to sell a reality TV show and nor was Hilton linked to any such reality TV show.
The charity said on Thursday the trip was being postponed due to what it called a "restructuring" in its organization.
The Playing for Good Foundation, which links businesses and celebs with a multitude of charities benefiting children and families in need, announced Thursday that Paris Hilton's upcoming trip to Rwanda has been postponed while the agency restructures.
"Paris has been a loyal and gracious supporting of Playing for Good, but the foundation has to regrettably reschedule this trip," the organization said in a statement. "Playing for Good would like to thank Ms. Hilton for her generosity and her continued support of this initiative and is looking forward to rescheduling the trip with her at a later time."
It was foundation founder Scott Lazerson who originally invited the heiress to make the visit to Rwanda.
Hilton told E! Online last month that she planned to visit the impoverished, civil-war-plagued central African nation in November, after finishing work on her movie, Repo! The Genetic Opera.
"There's so much need in that area, and I feel like if I go, it will bring more attention to what people can do to help," Hilton said at the time.
The trip would have marked Hilton's first major foray into high-profile, Angelina-style philanthropy, a concept that she said she planned on becoming more familiar with while serving 23 days behind bars for probation violation earlier this year.
"Now that I've been here and I've been seeing life through different eyes—just getting letters from all around the world—I have a lot of compassion for things that are going on around me that are so much more important than things I ever thought about," the 26-year-old Simple Life star told E!'s Ryan Seacrest in a jailhouse phone call.
"I'm so much more grateful for everything that I have, even just to have a pillow at night or food or anything…I don't know," Hilton said. "I just want to start using what I've been given by God to bring light to causes that I believe in."
Namely, at the time, she said that she wanted to build a transitional facility for recently released female inmates to help them as they rework their way into society.
Hilton has certainly been busy since flying the coop, although not all of her extracurricular ventures have been of the nonprofit variety.
Aside from her movie, a rock musical that has been shooting in Toronto, the "Stars Are Blind" singer has gotten the ball rolling on a new album with über-producer Scott Storch, inked a deal with Antebi Footwear Group to launch a signature line of shoes and, in August, debuted her eponymous clothing line at celebrity shop spot Kitson in West Hollywood.
Proceeds from the launch of Hilton's latest fashionable venture were donated to Los Angeles Children's Hospital, where she also spent time meeting with patients following her release from jail on June 26.
"I met him in a hotel lobby in New York City and he came in just from the gym and I was sitting there and I was, like, wow," Klum tells Oprah Winfrey on her show's Superstar Couples episode set to air Thursday.
Wow, as in Seal was wearing bicycle shorts.
"And I pretty much saw everything," says Klum. "The whole package."
From that moment on, the passion never died. The couple, in a rare joint television interview, say on The Oprah Winfrey Show airing Thursday that they've worked to keep those early feelings alive.
"The most common hiccup," says Seal, is when the first child comes along. "And it turns into all about the kids, which is understandable because they're miraculous. But then you've got to put each other first. You know, she will always be number one for me."
"Is it true?" asks Winfrey.
"I have the most romantic husband," says Klum. "I do."
Ptolemy John Williams was born Sept. 10, the actress's rep says.
Mol, 34, who starred in 2005's The Notorious Betty Page, most recently appeared in the Russell Crowe western 3:10 to Yuma and the comedy The Ten.
At The Ten's premiere last July, she said she and Williams, 38, who directed The Door in the Floor, had recently moved back to New York. "I wanted to have a New York baby," she said.
The six-episode series, dubbed "Abbey & Janice: Beauty & The Best," will debut on the company's broadband channel SheDidWhat.tv (http://SheDidWhat.tv) on December 4, the same night the third season of the Dickinson reality series debuts on the cable channel.
The Web series, the second online-only series produced by Oxygen, will follow Dickinson as she mentors Abbey Clancy, the runner up in the U.K.'s "Next Top Model" competition.
Oxygen was recently acquired by NBC Universal for $925 million.
A video of Walsh's dramatic drop — a sensation on YouTube — shows her walking the runway at last week's presentation of the fashion line Shadang. She stares blankly ahead, not noticing the gaping hole left where a martial arts performer had cracked open the floor with a flip.
"As a runway model, you have to keep your head up, you know," Walsh told KABC-TV. "So I didn't look down for a hole, particularly."
Then came the plunge. In the video, the crowd is heard howling with apparent shock. Walsh, waist-deep in the hole, struggles to lift herself out, and is helped by "Heroes" actor Jimmy Jean-Louis, who modeled at the event. She regains her footing and exits stage left, raising her fist to seemingly signal that she's OK.
The video of the tumble, posted Thursday, had more than 1 million views on YouTube by Monday afternoon.
Walsh, now an Internet celebrity, has a good sense of humor about it.
"I hope that they're enjoying this entertainment," Walsh says. "It is just a really funny mishap. And I hope they're enjoying watching it just as much as I am."
Bravo announced on Monday (Oct. 22) that supermodels Niki Taylor and Tyson Beckford will host the upcoming "Make Me a Supermodel."
On the network's latest reality competition show, based on the UK series, men and women will compete for a chance to launch their modeling career and win $100,000. The model wannabes will live in a New York City loft together and undergo challenges over a 12-week period in order to determine who gets to stay on the catwalk.
The series is set to premiere in early 2008.
Taylor, 32, started her international modeling career at age 14 and took the world by storm on the catwalk and on countless magazine covers. She's also become a designer -- Abbie & Jesse's boutique -- and an entrepreneur, forming "begin Enterprises" and "begin Foundation for the Advancement of Women in Business.
Beckford, 36, was discovered by a scout for The Source hip-hop magazine and was shortly snapped up by Ralph Lauren for his Polo Sport campaign. The runway and cover model has also broken into the world of acting, appearing in "Biker Boyz," "Zoolander" and "Into the Blue."
The 23-year-old designer was holding court backstage Sunday at Smashbox Studios, where she unveiled her spring Chick by Nicky Hilton collection on the opening night of L.A. Fashion Week.
After making her New York Fashion Week debut last month with her high-end Nicholai line, Hilton was poised and demure as she gave interview after interview about Chick, the casual-wear label she launched in 2004.
"It's my first clothing line," she said. "So it's my baby."
Aimed at girls and named for Hilton's childhood moniker ("My parents thought I looked like Tweety Bird"), the line features flirty minidresses, floaty tops, playful patterns and super-high hemlines.
"It's very cute, very girly, very feminine. It's very reflective of the L.A. lifestyle — laid-back, casual," she said. "Nicholai is definitely for the mature, sophisticated customer ... whereas Chick is just fun pieces."
Still, the line has evolved over its three years. "Before it was a lot of sweat suits, T-shirts and tank tops, but now I'm doing more denim and tops and dresses."
Punchy prints — delicate swans, glass slippers and bright red apples — define the spring collection. An apple-covered A-line dress is topped with a black belted trench coat. Swans decorate sundresses and slim-fitting shifts. Printed halters and tanks float over tiny shorts.
Solids also make a statement in swingy T-shirt dresses, high-waisted "sailor trousers" and skinny jeans. Some of the best offerings came in black, including a knee-length dress with ruffle sleeves, a scalloped hem and a white Peter Pan collar and an airy voile top worn with wide-leg pants.
Hilton's parents took a front-row seat for the show, as did actress Jamie Pressly and Petro Zillia designer Nony Tochterman, who is set to close Fashion Week with her Thursday night show. Hilton's older sister, Paris, did not make an appearance.
Though Sunday marked Hilton's second fashion week in as many months, she's not done yet. She is set to show Nicholai in Mexico City and Moscow in the coming weeks.
The cameras are coming along, too. A crew from MySpace.com has been documenting the designer's work and plans to follow her on her international adventure for its fashion feature, "The Fit."
Still, Hilton seems humble about her international success.
"I'm excited," she said. "I've never been to Mexico City or Russia, so just for me to be able to go there is fun."
The 26-year-old a hotel heiress said in June that she was a changed person and vowed to shed her party-girl image after leaving jail where she served three weeks for violating probation in a drunken-driving case.
"Before, my life was about having fun, going to parties -- it was a fantasy," Hilton told Newsweek magazine, opting to speak to the news-focused journal rather than a celebrity magazine. "But when I had time to reflect, I felt empty inside. I want to leave a mark on the world."
She has acknowledged she has long enjoyed the Hollywood party scene but she said she spent her time in jail reading the Bible and praying to God for strength, deciding to give new meaning to her life by pursuing charity work.
Hilton skyrocketed to fame in 2003 after an amateur sex video of her filmed in night vision hit the Internet.
She used this fame to build an acting career, appearing in various movies and in reality TV, lampooning her own persona as a clueless child of privilege on "The Simple Life."
She also released a self-titled album in 2006 and has her name attached to various products from perfume to shoes.
During her trip to Rwanda, Hilton will be visiting schools and health-care clinics and staying in accommodations a long shot from the Hilton Hotels owned by her family.
"I'm scared, yeah. I've heard it's really dangerous," she told Newsweek (www.newsweek.com) in an issue on newsstands from October 15. "I've never been on a trip like this before."
She will be traveling with a children's charity called Playing for Good, a group which helps businesses and celebrities get involved in philanthropic work -- but with a camera recording it all.
"She's using her celebrity and the cameras that follow her for the good of humanity," said Scott Lazerson, the organization's founder.
Newsweek said Lazerson was filming the trip in hopes of selling it as a reality show called "The Philanthropist," featuring various celebrities on drives to help world poor.
Hilton is currently filming the horror musical "Repo! The Genetic Opera" in Toronto, in which she is playing a role in a black wig and false nose.
California Department of Justice agents raided the office of Smith's psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, and the home and office of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, who prescribed the painkiller methadone to Smith shortly before her death.
In all, six locations were raided, said Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. Authorities did not name the doctors but their attorneys confirmed the searches.
Smith died of an accidental drug overdose in February at a Florida hotel. She was 39.
The department began investigating in March because "dangerous drugs ... were part of the death of Anna Nicole Smith, and I learned that these were California doctors and California prescriptions," Attorney General Jerry Brown said at a news conference.
Brown declined to speculate on what charges the doctors might face if it was determined they improperly prescribed drugs, but indicated they might be serious. Noting the ongoing Medical Board investigation, Brown said there could be violations of the medical practice code.
"You don't go to a judge and get a search warrant for somebody's home unless you think some rather serious crime has been committed," Brown said.
A call to Eroshevich's attorney, Gary Lincenberg, was not immediately returned. However, he told KNBC-TV that the investigation only concerned whether prescriptions to Smith were proper.
"This has nothing to do with whether or not Dr. Eroshevich in any way contributed to Anna Nicole Smith's death," he said.
Ellyn Garafalo, a lawyer for Kapoor, confirmed the doctor's home and offices were searched but declined to comment further.
Howard K. Stern, Smith's attorney and companion, reportedly was at Eroshevich's Studio City home when investigators arrived. The psychiatrist had been watching Stern's dogs while he was away in New York, and he arrived back early Friday, Stern's attorney Lin Wood told CelebTV.com.
"He is not involved in anything that is being investigated and it has nothing to do with him," said James T. Neavitt, another Stern attorney.
The Medical Board of California also is investigating both Kapoor and Eroshevich. According to documents, Eroshevich authorized all 11 prescription medications found in Smith's hotel room the day she died. Eroshevich had traveled with Smith to Florida.
More than 600 pills, including 450 muscle relaxants, were missing from prescriptions that were no more than five weeks old, according to the documents obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request.
Brown said he did not know if the criminal probe could lead to exhumation of Smith's body, which is buried in the Bahamas. He said investigators have learned "quite a lot" from Bahamian authorities but he declined to be specific on grounds that it might jeopardize the investigation.
Asked if the probe would expand to include Smith's son, Daniel, who died of a drug overdose in the Bahamas less than five months before his mother, Brown replied: "We're not setting any limits on this investigation."
Agents have so far reviewed over 100,000 computer images and files, analyzed patient profiles and pharmacy logs and interviewed witnesses throughout the country and abroad, Brown said.
University of Southern California law professor Jody Armour said potential charges could include manslaughter if it is determined that a physician "exposed others to harm recklessly," and even murder if the action was so reckless it constituted malice.
A claim of criminal homicide could be brought by arguing a physician generated excessive risks, he said, by "prescribing this substance without proper supervision or without diagnosis or without a proper foundation of some kind."
Such claims are unusual in the case of physicians because society generally wants them to have wide discretion on treatment, Armour said.
However, several doctors have gone to prison because they prescribed painkillers for patients who died.
In Florida, Dr. Freddie J. Williams got a federal life sentence in 2004 for prescribing oxycodone that led to two deaths, and Dr. James Graves was sentenced to 63 years in state prison for four manslaughter counts in 2002 linked to his prescriptions.
The current investigation could lead to state charges either in California or Florida, or federal charges if the government decides it wants to send a signal that overprescribing drugs won't be tolerated, Armour said.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said in a statement that his office will file charges "as appropriate," after evaluating results of the search warrants.
The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing, declined to elaborate. California Attorney General Jerry Brown was expected to make an announcement later Friday.
The former Playboy Playmate died of an accidental drug overdose in February at a Florida hotel. She was 39.
Several people close to the model have fallen under suspicion since her death, including her psychiatrist Dr. Khristine Eroshevich.
The Medical Board of California said in April it was investigating Eroshevich, who, according to documents, authorized all 11 prescription medications found in Smith's hotel room the day she died.
Eroshevich had traveled with Smith to Florida.
More than 600 pills, including 450 muscle relaxants, were missing from prescriptions that were no more than five weeks old, according to the documents, which were obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request.
California's medical board also opened an inquiry to determine if there was any misconduct by Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, who reportedly prescribed methadone to Smith.
Methadone is a popular narcotic painkiller that is used as part of drug addiction detoxification and maintenance programs. Methadone overdoses can cause shallow breathing and dangerous changes in heartbeat.
"Ultimate Style," which premieres November 3 at 11 p.m., will focus on fashion, beauty, home, travel and celebrity style. It also will offer practical advice for viewers.
Fuentes, a former MTV VJ, has hosted MTV's "House of Style" and ABC's "America's Funniest Home Videos." She also is the creative director for her own lifestyle brand for Kohl's.
Rodriguez is known for his role as the "culture vulture" on Bravo's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," which is in its fifth and final season.
He’s James Scott, a 6-foot-4-inch hunk who stars as E.J. Wells in the daytime soap opera “Days of Our Lives.” She’s his fiancée, Meyghan Hill, a blue-eyed brunette model and actress from Los Angeles.
So what was the couple doing when they were caught sunning their bodies at the Dr. Julian G. Bruce St. George Island State Park in August? In a Sept. 18 cover story in “Soap Opera Digest,” Scott told all.
“I went to do a soap event and then drove out to St. George Island, which is beautiful, and I walked for maybe a mile or two along the beach with my girlfriend,” Scott, 28, told the magazine.
It was about 2 p.m. on Aug. 20, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Law Enforcement, when Scott and Hill, 29, were approached by “a plump-looking warden … looking at me sideways because he was afraid to look at anything other than the sand,” Scott told Soap Opera Digest. “And he told me that he could arrest me.”
The officer, Scott Henderson, was patrolling the park and reported the woman was sunbathing completely nude when he arrived. The Britishborn Scott told the magazine he thought Henderson was joking.
“I told him that my name was E.J. Wells, because I thought it would be awfully clever on my arrest sheet,” Scott told Soap Opera Digest. “I was trying to persuade my girlfriend to say that her name was Samantha Roberts,” he said, referring to another character on the soap opera. “But then we started to take it a little more seriously when he said again that he could arrest us.”
Henderson let Scott off with a warning, “on the grounds that I was English and didn’t really know better,” he told the magazine, but Henderson issued Hill a citation. The citation, for violating a public nudity ban in state parks, carries a $215 fine.
Hill had not paid the fine as of Wednesday afternoon, according to a spokeswoman for the Franklin County clerk of courts. Either Hill or a representative will have to appear in court today if the fine is not paid.
A message left on Hill’s phone was not returned late Wednesday.
“There wasn’t a person for miles around,” Scott told the magazine, “except a beady little man with binoculars trying to spot bottoms, and he spotted one.”
"Selita and Nick are taking a break to focus on their careers but still very much love each other and remain the best of friends," says her rep, Melissa Raubvogel.
The breakup comes just five months after the Drumline actor made a proposal that lit up New York's Times Square – literally – as he asked Ebanks to marry him with the help of a jumbotron.
By August, Cannon, 26, was more measured when it came to nailing down wedding details, telling PEOPLE, "We haven't really talked about a lot of that stuff. You've got to take it slow."
As for Ebanks, 24, she said earlier in the summer that the pair had some fundamental differences between their ideal ceremony. "He's all about the bling and having a big wedding. Me? I'm all about the courthouse."
Instead, it will be Irina Lazareanu, the singer-model is informing those who inquire about the engagement ring on her hand, reports Wednesday's Women's Wear Daily.
"I very recently got engaged," the Romania-born, Canada-reared Lazareanu, 25, is quoted by the fashion-industry trade paper as saying at Tuesday's fashion shows in Paris. No wedding date has been set, the paper adds.
Lazareanu and Doherty have reportedly known each other for 10 years and have long been linked through his band – she was a backup singer – as well as with fellow musician (and friend) Sean Lennon.
A rep for Lazareanu's agency would not confirm or deny the engagement. But a friend who was with her backstage Tuesday told PEOPLE, "She had a huge rock on her finger and when I asked her about it, she said she was engaged."
In March 2007, the U.K.'s Vogue.com reported that it was Moss herself who first discovered Lazareanu, and used her when Moss, now 33, was guest-editing French Vogue in 2005.
"Kate thinks she's got a very unique, rock-chick look," Vogue.com quotes a source as saying. "Her porcelain skin, her big eyes under her thick '60s fringe – it was a look Kate was impressed with."
The two are friends and Moss even made Lazareanu the face of her Top Shop collection.
Meanwhile, when he's not making music, Doherty, 28, has been known to run afoul of the law. In August, he checked into rehab after battling drug addiction for years.
In July, he admitted in court to possessing quantities of crack cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine, as well as to two driving infractions.
"I thought she handled herself well," Silverman, 36, tells USA Today.
But Silverman also has praise for the host, who questioned Hilton about her jail stint for more than six uncomfortable minutes.
"I love Dave. The old Letterman was back a little bit," she says. "He was being a hilarious pain. I thought it was like old, classic Dave."
Silverman herself told an off-color joke about Hilton's jail sentence during the June's MTV Movie Awards. (She later apologized.)
As for Spears, whom Silverman made fun of during the MTV VMA's last month, (she called the singer's sons "the most adorable mistakes"), Silverman is unapologetic.
"My instinct is to answer honestly. People keep saying I'm still talking about it, but I'm not the one bringing it up. I'm over it," she says. "I loved the jokes."
Asked if she has spoken to Spears, she quips, "We're not hanging out like we used to."
The campaign provides information and tools that men, women, children and teens can use to become educated on how to prevent abuse and how to recognize the signs. The company created a free curriculum for use in schools to help increase knowledge of teen dating abuse and violence, and how to stop it.
"It's going to save lives and help people; using my voice, hopefully they feel I can help educate people," she said.
As the show's winner, Gonzalez is managed by Elite Model Management. She also received a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl. And she appears on the cover and six-page fashion spread in Seventeen magazine.
The Israeli media have closely followed the 22-year-old supermodel and DiCaprio with a hint of pride that a local girl snagged an A-list Hollywood beau.
When Refaeli brought DiCaprio to Israel in March, the couple created a paparazzi storm. After eluding journalists for days, they were met by a group of waiting photographers in Jerusalem. Their bodyguards scuffled with photographers, punching some and damaging equipment.
"I won't bring anyone famous to Israel because there is a chutzpah here that you won't see anywhere else," Refaeli said in comments published Tuesday in the Yediot Ahronot daily.
Refaeli also said she has no regrets about dodging mandatory military service and announced that she's moving to Los Angeles.
"I don't regret not having been drafted into the army, because I made out big," Refaeli said.
The newspaper said the full interview would be published Wednesday.
While military service has historically been a rite of passage in Israel, a growing number of youths, including several prominent celebrities, have figured out ways to avoid it.
DiCaprio, 32, has received Oscar nominations for his roles in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," "The Aviator" and "Blood Diamond."
He and Refaeli have been romantically linked for about 18 months, and Israeli newspapers regularly run updates on their relationship.
"PETA's totally aware of me," Von Teese told PEOPLE before performing – in fox fur – her signature striptease at the Macy's Passport AIDS benefit last week. "I'm not working with PETA to tell people to be vegetarians or to stop wearing fur. I am there to strictly speak about spaying and neutering your pets."
The animal-rights organization says it was aware of Von Teese's fur affections before approaching her to star in its campaign.
"She said she has some vintage furs she wears occasionally," says spokesman Michael McGraw. "PETA often works with a celebrity on an issue they feel comfortable supporting, whether it's supporting spaying and neutering, or speaking out against products that are tested on animals. So they may not be an animal rights activist, but their contribution to any of our campaigns is appreciated."
The group says it has not yet asked Von Teese to stop wearing fur, but might "possibly" have that discussion in the future. "We're happy to have her support on that issue (spay/neutering), and we'll see where it goes," says McGraw.
Letterman, 60, greeted Hilton – who was sporting a form-fitting black halter dress – with a warm hug, telling her she looked "better than ever" as she took a seat.
After welcoming her back to New York City ("I love New York – I was born here," Hilton said), Letterman abruptly asked: "Uh, how'd you like being in jail?" Audience members gasped and laughed as Hilton, 26, paused for a few seconds before saying, "Not too much."
Letterman then observed, "You know what, they locked up your friend Nicole," referring to Nicole Richie's brief time in jail for a DUI.
About Hilton's own experience behind bars, Letterman asked: "Tell us now looking back on that experience, what have we learned? What can you tell us?" Hilton shifted in her seat before answering, "Well, obviously it was a very traumatic experience, but I did it, so I feel like I can do anything now."
After grilling her about the food – dinner, Hilton said, was normally "jail mystery meat" – Letterman kept going: "So what was it you did? Do you know what you did?" Obviously uncomfortable, Hilton stared at Letterman and laughed nervously. "It was something about driving with an invalid license, wasn't it?" Letterman said. "Yeah," Hilton answered.
After facing a continued barrage of jail related questions, Hilton, who was on the show to promote her new fragrance Can- Can and her upcoming movie, Repo! The Genetic Opera, said, "I don't really want to talk about it anymore." But Letterman would not be swayed. "This is where you and I are different. Because this is all I want to talk about," he said.
As Letterman continued to press, Hilton held up her hand: "I'm going on the next question. I'm over it."
At one point a crowd member yelled, "I love you Paris!" which she answered by saying, "I love you too," and blowing a kiss. Quipped Letterman, "Somebody you met in prison?" Hilton, blushing, shook her head no.
"There's other stuff to talk about Dave," Hilton said. "I didn't come here to talk about this. That was a long time ago."
Finally, after more than six minutes of grilling, Hilton said Letterman was making her "sad that I came here." Trying to make amends, Letterman offered: "I'll buy you a parakeet."
The supermodel, 27, who is dating Tom Brady, has placed her 1,750-sq.ft. Greenwich Village apartment – with its 2,500 sq.-ft. landscaped roof deck – on sale with an asking price of $10.9 million, reports the Wall Street Journal
The two-bedroom, two-bath condo overlooks the Hudson River from each of its three floors and has among its special features a high-tech security system, a wood-burning fireplace and – perhaps not surprisingly, given Bündchen's Brazilian-birthplace – Brazilian-wood floors, says the Journal.
The New York Post's Page Six column, which also reported the sale, says that the rooftop has a chef's grill and a party-sized hot tub. There's a hammock too, reports the Journal".
In February, Bündchen, who Forbes magazine named this year's richest model in the world, sold her Los Angeles home for $3.98 million, according to the Journal. The Post says she has already purchased a large townhouse in Greenwich Village.
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover girl was voted off of Dancing with the Stars Wednesday, becoming the first casualty of the hit ABC show's fifth season.
While Maran, 29, certainly looked stunning in her glittering backless gown, the long skirt couldn't hide what judge Len Goodman called her "one constant": bad footwork.
Resident metaphor king Bruno Tonioli compared the model-actress to "a beautiful sailing ship stranded on a sand bank" and Maran's 16 was the lowest score of all 12 competitors.
"Thanks for being honest, is that what it is?" a glum yet gracious Maran told the judges after getting the news.
"Thank you for this amazing experience…This has changed my life. I have the dancing bug—and I'm going to dance alone," she added sassily.
Partner Alec Mazo, who won the inaugural Dancing crown with Kelly Monaco two summers ago, told the fans at home to reroute their votes to his wife of four weeks, Edyta Sliwinska, who's dancing this season with All My Children star Cameron Mathison.
Barely hanging in there was billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban, who was in the middle of the pack, score-wise, with a 21, but who apparently doesn't yet have the built-in fan base that boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., who only earned an 18 but is 38-0 in the ring, has.
As expected, the appropriately dashing racecar driver Hélio Castroneves and Cheetah Girl Sabrina Bryan, praised for her "surgical precision" footwork, were among the first celebs to find out they were safe for the week.
Bryan and partner Mark Ballas Jr., making his first Dancing appearance, scored a 27 Monday, the highest first-week total awarded to a couple in the show's history. But after praising the 23-year-old for her rockin' cha-cha, judge Carrie Ann Inaba warned the Disney Channel star not to trot any more hip-hop moves out to the ballroom.
"We're already starting to rehearse for next week—tonight!" Bryan told guest host Drew Lachey backstage. Lachey is filling in for Samantha Harris, who's on maternity leave.
Castroneves foxtrotted his way to a 26, which tied the previous record set by Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff on the first episode of season three.
Dolly Parton also stopped by Wednesday night to sing her Oscar-nominated tune "9 to 5" and the new single "Better Get to Livin" from her latest album, Backwoods Barbie. Additionally, tap-dancer extraordinaire Savion Glover brought in noise, funk and some major style with his signature "how does a person's feet move so fast!" brand of showmanship.
Also as expected, Dancing with the Stars hit the ground running this week. Monday's premiere averaged 21.3 million viewers, putting it on par with last season's March debut. We'll wait and see whether the show's new three-night format can maintain the momentum.
Eleven contestants remain to hoof it out for bragging rights and the prestigious disco ball trophy.
In fact, Hilton says it's all part of her new, postjail commitment to use her celebrity to bring the spotlight to what she feels are important causes around the world.
"I'll be going in November, after I get back from filming my movie," Hilton exclusively tells E! Online.
As she spoke, Hilton was boarding a plane to film her new role in the horror-musical flick Repo! The Genetic Opera, from Darren Lynn Bousman, director of the immensely popular Saw films.
"There's so much need in that area, and I feel like if I go, it will bring more attention to what people can do to help," Hilton said of the region.
Wracked by genocide and tribal warfare, Rwanda currently has a life-expectancy rate of just 39 years and and only 41 percent of the population has easy access to safe drinking water, according to the humanitarian group CARE.
Hilton was originally invited to visit Rwanda by Scott Lazerson, of Playing for Good. Lazerson helped found the organization in 2006 to help high-end business and entertainment personalities become involved in a variety of charities benefiting children and families in need.
And don't expect the Rwandan expedition to be Hilton's last.
"I want to visit more countries where poverty and children's issues are a big concern," the 26-year-old socialite said. "I know there's a lot of good I can do just by getting involved and bringing attention to these issues."
Aside from her do-gooder plans, Hilton told E! Online that that she will also be working on her new Beverly Hills home to make it more "green friendly."
"I just bought the house and haven't been able to work on it yet," Hilton said. "But I intend to."
In the meantime, Hilton will be in Toronto to shoot Repo!, which costars stage siren Sarah Brightman, former Buffy boss Anthony Head, Goodfellas heavy Paul Sorvino and Spy Kids' Alexa Vega.
Based on Bousman's stage musical, Repo! is set in the near future, where an epidemic of organ failures forces people to buy expensive new internal parts on credit. Default results in a painful visit from the nefarious repo men.
Von Teese, whose real name is Heather Sweet, is shown standing in front of a blackboard in a pink and black corset, thigh high fishnet stockings and black stiletto heels.
In the ad, a seated bookish-looking older man stares up at her.
"Nearly 4 million dogs and cats are put to death in the U.S. every year because there are not enough good homes. You can help prevent this," she says in the ad, shown on PETA's Web site.
The ad also asks people considering dog or cat adoptions to adopt from local animal shelters.
Alicia Silverstone appeared naked in a PETA commercial promoting vegetarianism which was set to run in Houston last week. The ad never aired because of its nude content, Comcast Cable Communications Inc. spokeswoman Dana Runnells told the Los Angeles Times.
Von Teese, who has gained attention as a retro fashion muse, filed for divorce from goth rocker Manson last December after a year of marriage.
Campbell, in town to promote her Fashion for Relief charity, strode down the catwalk to the tune of "It Began in Africa," by The Chemical Brothers, which kicked off the collection by Alessandra and Francesca Piacentini.
The duo are giving 150 bikinis and cocktail dresses to sell on the charity's Web site to gather funds for the victims of Britain's worst floods in 60 years, which caused billions of pounds in damage and drove thousands from their homes.
Fashion for Relief says it has already given $1 million to help in the United States after Hurricane Katrina.
The LUXE collection, which departs from the designers' traditional swimwear line into dresses and wraps, mixed skimpy bikinis with floaty seventies and animal print wraps. Wide leather studded belts and armbands provided a clashing contrast.
Valeria Marini used underwear as outerwear for her Diamond Seduction collection, with elongated lace bodices worn as cocktail dresses and chiffon evening wraps that could easily slip into negligees.
Marini, who sported a pink kiss tattooed on her arm, ran a series of famous film kisses as a backdrop to the collection and a soundtrack which included snatches from Bizet's "Carmen."
On one model, a necklace of black chandelier drops lay heavily on a see-through dress in grey and yellow animal print that split at the crotch to drift into a train at the back.
In contrast, shocking pink and turquoise satin turned slips into stunning short dresses or elegant shirts for the evening.
Around 80 designers show collections on the catwalks this week, including big names like Giorgio Armani, Versace and Dolce & Gabbana.
And there is a host of parties, presentations and concerts planned as Milan aims to prove it is still, as designer Roberto Cavalli said in a newspaper interview on Saturday, the fashion capital of the world.
Milan, with its stable of established designers, faces a challenge from an effervescent London, where shows last week sparkled with new talent and innovation.
"London is very interesting and a testing ground for young designers," Cavalli told Il Sole 24 Ore in the interview.
And he raised another likely theme for the week ahead when he said he could sell a stake in his company. Bankers are likely to be keeping an eye on the catwalks -- and not just to see whether hemlines will fall with the markets.
They are planning a duet on Seal's upcoming album, his rep confirms to PEOPLE, saying: "Heidi does sing on one song on Seal's new album System."
The track is called "Wedding Day," which Seal wrote for his model wife the day they got married in Mexico in May 2005.
"Family, my wife and children, that's my reason for being," Seal said last month. "I am finally in a content and happy place to the point where I feel like I need to sing about it."
In posting on his Web site earlier this year, the British singer wrote, "I am having a really good time making this record – there is an excitement in the studio a bit like the first record I made only this time with a lot more peacefulness."
Klum, 34, and Seal, 44, are parents to three children.
System, Seal's fifth studio album, is due out Nov. 13.
Klum's participation on the album was first reported by Perezhilton.com.'
The Foo Fighters frontman reportedly also told London's The Sun newspaper: "Paris is f--king lame."
Grohl and Hilton reportedly fell out after meeting in a restaurant years ago, when the singer claims the millionaire heiress put on "the full princess attitude with the nose in the air."
Consequently, he concluded: "I pray that my daughter will not turn out like her."
"Friends of ours had tried to fix us up — we both live in New York, we're both pretty low-key, both heterosexual — but she was like, `Uh, not really interested,'" the 39-year-old actor-director tells Best Life magazine in its October issue. "That did not deter me. I just wanted to get her to laugh."
How long did it take to build up the nerve to kiss her?
"Probably within five minutes of meeting her," Burns says. "Which hurt my chances. It took her a long time to come around. But I got her good and drunk, if I remember correctly, which never hurts."
Turlington and Burns wed in 2003. They have two children.
Burns was seen as the next Woody Allen after directing and starring in 1995's "The Brothers McMullen."
"I was the toast of the town," he tells the magazine. "All of a sudden I was semifamous. There were six-figure checks."
However, his other New York-based movies, including "Sidewalks of New York" and "The Groomsmen," didn't fare well at the box office, and failed to meet critics' expectations.
"I'd been trying to forge another version of Woody Allen's career, to the point that when I signed with ICM right after `The Brothers McMullen,' I signed with Sam Cohn, who was Woody Allen's longtime agent," Burns says. "The obsession ran that deep."
The idea was to stay in New York and make small dialogue-driven movies, says Burns, who grew up in Valley Stream, N.Y.
"And I have to admit, I love most of my films," he says. "But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist."
"I don't want to explore what it's like to reconnect with old friends, what it's like to grow up on Long Island, what it's like to cheat on your girlfriend, or any of that. ... I want to raise the stakes."
Next month, Burns' new romantic comedy, "Purple Violets," will become the first featured film to be released and distributed by iTunes.
Kate Walsh, Jennifer Morrison, Rebecca Romijn and Katherine Heigl channeled screen sirens of yesteryear with their retro looks.
Heigl was in a white, off-the-shoulder Zac Posen gown that was punched up with red lips — also seen on Klum and Christina Aguilera.
"Red is a really hot color for fall," said Monika Blunder, the Chanel makeup artist who worked with Heigl. "She had an old Hollywood feel with a modern twist."
Walsh's red satin dress was by Pamela Dennis, who also designed Michelle Pfieffer's fitted knee-length black dress with sequins on the front.
Morrison wore a beaded gown by Elie Saab. "We had to take it apart to fit me, but look at it now. It has a total classical feel to it," she said. Romijn's vintage Guy Laroche gown was decorated with flapper fringe. She wore her hair in a soft, wavy updo that showed off her diamond, ruby and white-enamel earrings by Neil Lane.
Eva Longoria literally sparkled in a gold cocktail dress with an open back by Kaufman Franco. "He designed my wedding dress and I just thought this was perfect," she said, particularly thankful for the low-cut back because of the heat.
Teri Hatcher wore a blush-colored silk chiffon gown with a crystal beaded bodice by Badgley Mischka Couture. She stars in the label's current ad campaign.
Felicity Huffman's asymmetrical draped gown by David Meister in a bright magenta color balanced sexy and elegant. She joked on E!'s preshow that she had to sew it to her skin. Marcia Cross wore a silver diamante pleated gown by Georges Chakra that was accessorized with a Lorraine Schwartz snake bracelet and triple-teardrop earrings.
Dangling earrings were a major trend of the night, with Patricia Heaton pairing oversized gold earrings with her sparkling gold gown.
Sally Field's strapless Valentino gown was simple except for its bright magenta color. She wore dangling diamond earrings by Cathy Waterman, but unlike most of the stars she won't be returning them — she owns them.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus wore one of the top colors for this fall — purple. Her dress was a deep jewel color by Narciso Rodriguez with a scoop neck and pintucks on the bust. Minnie Driver's draped chartreuse gown was by Donna Karan, and Vanessa Williams' seafoam green gown with feather embellishment was by Kevan Hall.
Ferrera's strapless gown with a jeweled waist was electric blue.
Joely Fisher wore a lemon yellow, plunging V-neck gown with beaded mesh insets by Pamella Roland, and Hayden Panettiere's empire-waist, blush-colored gown was by Marc Bouwer.
There always are actresses who go with classic black — a safe choice that can also prove stunning: Mariska Hargitay wore a Zac Posen with architectural lines, Rachel Griffiths was in a strapless Chanel and Kyra Sedgwick wore a two-piece outfit by Oscar de la Renta with a subtle touch of feathers at the peplum and on the tiers of the skirt.
Jaime Pressly's beaded scoop-neck gown by St. John Couture had a '40s feel. She chose it, she said, because it was a bit unusual. "I knew nobody would be wearing this," she said.
Oh's black dress by Bottega Veneta had a touch of white tulle on top.
Pompeo added a gold tassel necklace and lots of bracelets by Fred Leighton to her navy dress by Michael Kors, whom she joked was her boyfriend because she so often wears his designs to big events. Her hair was big in a 1950s style.
Wanda Sykes was in a black Gucci pantsuit. She said she looked good in Gucci suits. "I just love the way it feels," she said of her outfit. "Except for right now, it's hot."
Glenn Close selected a Giorgio Armani midnight navy silk halter gown with satin lapel detailing, front slit and delicate train, and Tina Fey wore a Carolina Herrera navy chiffon gown with a polka-dot underlay.
Elizabeth Perkins' Carolina Herrera sleeveless white dress with bits of black and yellow was from the designer's resort collection. Perkins, who also wore champagne-colored cushion-cut diamond earrings on a French wire set by Chopard, said the dress was right for the night because it was light. "It's not necessarily couture but it's comfortable."
There also was a red-dress camp that included Mary Louise Parker, who wore a Marquesa diamond bracelet totaling almost 30 carats from Harry Winston, and Ali Larter, who called her strapless goddess gown by Reem Acra "a little sliver of nothing."
Klum wore a wine-colored gown with an up-to-there slit by Christian Dior Couture. She wore diamond jewelry from her own collection.
And veteran star Leslie Caron wore a gown she designed herself with fabric she bought in India.
"Someone just said that I'm adopting four blonde babies," Hilton, 26, told PEOPLE at Friday's Kate Somerville White Room Emmy suite in West Hollywood. "That's retarded. No, I'm not."
Asked if she'd want to adopt, Hilton said, "Maybe, but I want to have my own children."
The unattached Hilton, who in recent weeks has been seen with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, 31, insists that the actor is not a romantic interest.
"Totally just friends," says Hilton. "We met a couple years ago [and] we've stayed friends. He's been like kind of a mentor to me, teaching me about the environment and what I can do."
She adds, "I think it's cool to talk to someone in L.A. who has more to talk about than all this artificial crap people talk about. It's nice to talk to someone who's real."
Hilton has had a real busy September, filming her upcoming movie Repo! The Genetic Opera in Toronto, partying at the MTV Movie Awards in Las Vegas and returning to Los Angeles for this weekend's heavy round of Emmy parties.
Having previously starred in 2005's horror remake House of Wax, Hilton also says she's stepping up her acting and working with acting coach Ivana Chubbuck.
"This is my first time that I've actually taken it seriously. Before, I was just doing it for fun, not really paying attention – not even studying my lines. But this time, I'm serious about it," she says.
"I really tried hard to get this role. I rehearsed. I was the best at the audition. I got this part because I deserved it, and I'm going to make sure I do the best job ever."
To be taken seriously as a designer, Hilton had to show that she was not just another celebrity who wanted to see her name on a collection — despite the success of her handbag line in Japan and the sportswear collection she launched three years ago.
"She's been very dedicated for all these years," said Simmons before the show. "I think for her it's a real passion. She's seriously invested her time."
Hilton showed she was serious Sunday night with her collection Nicholai (which is her real name). With her parents beaming from the front row, models pranced down the runway in outfits alternating between bourgeois — including a black silk cape over a white dress shirt paired with mini-shorts — and flirty, such as a black strapless dress wrapped in tulle.
She mixed it up with bandeau bikinis, summer dresses in bright colors, such as tangerine and fuschia, and silk jersey evening gowns.
She managed to take each piece in her collection upscale, adding accents such as a chain belt to a romper and making a pair of those signature mini-shorts sparkle with silver. The 23-year-old fashionista even added chain embroidery to an emerald jersey dress.
Big sister Paris was not at the show. Her father said she was working.
The collection, he said, was all Nicky.
"Congratulations to the most beautiful pregnant woman in the world. You're gorgeous," Hilton announced at about 2 a.m. Sunday at an Aguilera-hosted party at LAX Nightclub in the Luxor.
Aguilera, who has never confirmed being pregnant despite a visible bump beneath her pink chiffon mini-dress, appeared temporarily shocked as she sat in her perch in the elevated VIP booth. She sank her head into the shoulder of husband Jordan Bratman as her friends looked stunned.
But she quickly recovered, and the two looked at each other and laughed as the crowd – which included Adrien Grenier, Melanie Brown, Criss Angel and cast members from The Hills – erupted in applause. (Aguilera's rep declined to comment).
Hilton's surprise announcement, coming after she earlier put her hand on Aguilera's stomach and the pair giggled, was the highlight of the LAX party, one of many rocking Las Vegas on the weekend of the MTV Video Music Awards.
Hilton, 26, is suing for an injunction against the U.S. greeting card company and for damages in excess of $100,000, according to the suit filed late on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
Kansas City-based Hallmark Cards said the card was part of a satirical series that parodied celebrities and politicians.
According to the lawsuit, Hilton's face is superimposed over a cartoon of a waitress serving food to a patron with the dialogue "Don't touch that, it's hot. What's hot? That's hot."
It says the card was selling in the United States for $2.49.
The suit says that Hallmark failed to obtain approval from the hotel heiress for using her image and had damaged her rights to privacy and publicity.
"These cards take a satirical look at news and gossip surrounding ... public figures, including Paris Hilton, and we do not believe Hallmark has violated any of Ms. Hilton's rights," Hallmark said in a statement.
Hilton gained notoriety in 2003 when a home video of her having sex with her boyfriend was posted on the Internet. In June, she made international headlines when she was sent to jail on a driving violation, released early and then sent back to complete a 23-day sentence.
After unloading her 3,000-sq.-ft. Hollywood Hills home last month, the hotel heiress, 26, is more than doubling her living space with the purchase of an almost-7,000-sq.-ft. Beverly Hills mansion in the gated Mulholland Estates, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The new place, built in 1991, is said to offer more privacy, as well as five bedrooms, 5½ bathrooms and a fitness room that Hilton intends to convert into a shoe closet, her uncle and real-estate agent, Mauricio Umansky of Hilton & Hyland (which is affiliated with Christie's Great Estates), tells the paper.
The Mediterranean-style house on more than three-quarters of an acre was also a bit of a bargain for Hilton: $5.9 million, which was below the original $6.25 million asking price.
Her uncle also says that Hilton looked at more than a dozen properties before settling upon this one, which also offers shared tennis courts.
Her former residence, which went on the market in July for $4.25 million, has been sold to an unidentified buyer who has signed a purchase contract for $4.2 million, says the Journal.
In June, following her release from jail after serving a sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related driving case, Hilton rented a Malibu beach house.
Meanwhile, Hilton currently is in Toronto, where the annual film festival opened Thursday night.
In the wee hours of Thursday morning she was inside a Queen Street West hot spot called Ultra Supper Lounge, which was promoting Rich Prosecco, a fruity sparkling beverage for which she serves as spokesperson.
A Los Angeles judge has extended a temporary restraining order barring a Texas plastic surgeon from trying to profit from a 1994 videotape showing Anna Nicole Smith undergoing a boob job.
Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff issued a permanent injunction Friday at the behest of the late Playboy Playmate's lawyer, Howard K. Stern, against Dr. Gerald Wayne Johnson, prohibiting him from attempting to sell, distribute or disseminate the lurid footage, which showed him performing the breast augmentation operation.
Stern filed suit on behalf of Smith's estate earlier this month, alleging the physician violated numerous state and federal laws by filming the model without her permission when she went under the knife at age 26, then trying to sell it to an L.A.-based memorabilia broker after she died of an accidental drug overdose in February.
Johnson argued that he typically obtains his patients' permission to film such surgeries and promises to keep all videos private "during a patient's lifetime."
Beckloff issued his initial order, which also blocked Johnson's wife, Alana from disseminating the footage, on Aug. 3. As part of Monday's permanent embargo, the judge also instructed the couple to hand over the original videotape, as well as any copies that have been made, to Smith's legal eagle, who's also the executor of her will.
According to a Los Angeles wire service report, Beckloff was hesitant to include Alana Johnson in the permanent injunction since she hadn't yet been served in the case. However, after a court official stated that the doctor's missus nearly got into a high-speed chase in an effort to avoid being given court papers, the judge decided that she was being evasive.
Beckloff set a hearing for Sept. 14 to get a progress report on whether Alana Johnson had been served or not.
Stern's lawyer, Vivian L. Thoreen, was not available for comment. Neither the Johnsons nor their lawyer were in court for the judge's decision.
Turlington, Russell Simmons and Ziggy Marley are participating in the Global Mala Project, an international effort that aims to use yoga-centered events to raise awareness and funds for global causes on the United Nations' International Day of Peace. Events will be held in 30 countries, including Israel, Africa, India, Australia and the United States, beginning Sept. 21.
"With so many people involved, the impact is going to be quite astounding as a collective consciousness," Turlington told The Associated Press. "There will be an energetic charge."
"Selfless service" is part of the yogic tradition, the 38-year-old supermodel said, "so if anyone can lead in this way, this is the group to start with."
Dozens of events will benefit charitable groups dedicated to fighting global warming and AIDS.
Hilton headed to the hot Hollywood boutique Intuition, perused the baby section and walked out with a dozen bags of merchandise full of goodies for the baby Richie is expecting with Joel Madden.
"She was in the best mood," a source tells PEOPLE. "She couldn't wait to get to the baby department and look for things for Nicole’s baby. She said she was very happy for her."
Hilton was an equal-opportunity shopper, choosing gifts in both pink and blue. Among the items she bought was a Tuni & G Baby set (pants and T-shirt) with the text "Don't Ya Wish Your Mommy Was Hot Like Mine" with the pants bottom saying "Don't Ya." She also bought Baby’s First Fashion Words book, a Baby Jar Baby Snuggler Blanket and Trumpette socks.
"She can't wait to hang out with the baby," says the source about Hilton. "She's happy Nicole is healthy and thinks she looks great."
Hilton, 26, told PEOPLE last week about Richie: "I know she's going to be the best mom ever."
In a series of interviews on ABC at the beginning of the month, Richie, 25, told Diane Sawyer that she is four months pregnant with musician-boyfriend Madden, 28.
The British catwalker tried to block former maid Gaby Gibson from bringing up Campbell's history of dust-ups with people who work for her, saying it was "scandalous and prejudicial." But in a ruling published Wednesday, Manhattan state Supreme Court Judge Michael Stallman said previous incidents could be admitted.
"Those alleged acts might be relevant to the issues of intent and the need for future deterrence," Stallman wrote.
Gibson was "very happy" about Stallman's ruling, said her lawyer, Lambros Lambrou.
Campbell's lawyer did not return a telephone message left at his office early Thursday.
Gibson worked for Campbell from November 2005 through January 2006. She claims the 37-year-old model hit her, called her bigoted names and threatened to charge her with theft after being unable to find a pair of jeans designed by Stella McCartney.
Campbell has denied the claims. She was never charged with any crime in the incident Gibson alleges.
Campbell did plead guilty in January to misdemeanor assault for throwing her cell phone at another maid, Ana Scolavino. Sentenced to pay Scolavino's medical expenses, attend an anger management program and do five days of community service, Campbell traded couture togs for a city Department of Sanitation vest to sweep, mop and scrub at a Manhattan garbage truck garage in March.
In February 2000, Campbell pleaded guilty in Toronto to an assault charge for beating assistant Georgina Galanis while making a film in Canada in 1998. Under an agreement with prosecutors, Campbell expressed remorse and was released without punishment or a criminal record.
Campbell also has faced other lawsuits from other former employees who accused her of violent behavior. She settled a claim filed by former employee Amanda Brack this year, but no settlement terms were disclosed.
The hotel heiress has avoided another trip to the courthouse, amicably settling her $10 million slander lawsuit—and, presumably, feud—with fellow socialite Zeta Graff, lawyers for the two announced Wednesday. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
"Both parties are glad that the matter could be resolved without the time and expense of a trial," the heiress' lawyers said in a joint statement. "The resolution is confidential, and no one will comment further."
The confidential deal was signed off by Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Linda K. Lefkowitz.
Word of a settlement came the same day jury selection was set to begin in the long-pending trial. Sources said the two sides have been working hard toward negotiating a settlement for the past few days. Opening statements weren't expected in Lefkowitz's courtroom until sometime next week.
The showdown was initially delayed earlier this year, when an "emotionally distraught and traumatized" Hilton was busy working through her more serious legal issues.
Graff, who preceded Hilton as a two-year paramour of Greek shipping heir—and fleeting Hilton fiancé—Paris Latsis, filed suit against Hilton back in July 2005. The complaint alleged that Hilton had planted a New York Post gossip item containing "vicious lies" about Graff.
According to the Post, Graff, Latsis and Hilton all showed up separately to the late-night London hot spot Kabaret. Graff subsequently went "berserk" after spotting the new couple and attempted to both strangle Hilton and then swipe her $4 million diamond necklace, per the newspaper. Adding insult to injury, the Post claimed the necklace was loaned to Hilton by the jeweler Graff, owned by the rival heiress' ex-husband, François.
Graff not only long denied the entire report but claimed that after she arrived at the club, Hilton approached her and said, "I'm going to destroy you," and then attempted to have Graff kicked out of the club.
Hilton's publicist at the time, Rob Shuter, backed Graff's side of the tale. During a deposition, he admitted that Hilton had him feed the story to the Post and that all quotes from the item, attributed to various "sources," had all been dictated to him by Hilton.
The trial was slated to kick off in May, but Hilton managed to get the case postponed after her psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Sophy, testified that she was too rattled with the details of her impending DUI jail stint to deal with another court battle.
The party will be held at the home of Tricia Barnstable Brown, who hosts an annual Kentucky Derby-eve party packed with celebrities. Smith and Dannielynn's father, Larry Birkhead, met at the 2003 party.
Brown said Birkhead, a Louisville native, asked her to host the party.
"They met at my Derby party here at my home," Brown said Saturday. "Now Larry is bringing Dannielynn in from L.A. to celebrate her first birthday party."
Brown said she expects about 200 people, including family and friends. She said Howard K. Stern, who had been in a custody battle with Birkhead over Dannielynn, will also attend.
The catered party will have elaborate decorations and hot-air balloons, Brown said.
Smith gave birth to Dannielynn in the Bahamas on Sept. 7. Her 20-year-old son, Daniel, died three days later at her hospital bedside from a lethal combination of drugs.
Smith died in Florida on Feb. 8, at age 39, from a deadly mix of prescription drugs.
Stern claimed to be Dannielynn's father, but DNA tests proved last spring that Birkhead is the father. Birkhead is now raising Dannielynn.
The heiress, author, singer, perfume designer and reality-TV star unveiled the line at Kitson, a boutique known for its celebrity clientele. The traffic lane was closed for pedestrians' safety, a city spokesman said.
Clad in a gold sequin minidress, Hilton, 26, emerged from a black sport utility vehicle to a throng of fans who spilled into the street Thursday. Inside the store, Hilton was all smiles.
"It's a dream come true to have my own clothing line," she said. "It's just Paris style: fun, bright and flashy."
The collection, which Hilton described as "really comfortable" and "really affordable," includes shoes, T-shirts and jeans. Hilton said she spent a year submitting and approving designs.
"It's just from my closet to their closets," she said. Additional pieces will be released next month, she said.
She also discussed other newsy matters in her life: her pregnant pal, Nicole Richie ("She's going to be a great mom," Hilton said), and the pending sale of her Hollywood Hills home.
"I'm going to miss my house because I love it. I really designed it to be my perfect taste," she said. "But too many people know where I live and I'd rather be in a gated community."
Clad in a gold sequin mini-dress, Hilton, 26, emerged from a black SUV to a throng of fans who spilled into the street. Police and city workers were called in to handle the crowd and a lane of traffic was closed for pedestrians' safety, said Bruce Gillman, spokesman for the city Department of Transportation.
Inside the store, Hilton was all smiles.
"It's a dream come true to have my own clothing line," she said. "It's just Paris style: fun, bright and flashy."
The collection, which Hilton described as "really comfortable" and "really affordable," includes shoes, T-shirts and jeans. Hilton said she spent a year submitting and approving designs.
"It's just from my closet to their closets," she said. "I'm just excited about it and everyone really loves it."
Additional pieces will be released next month, she said.
The heiress also discussed other newsy matters in her life: her pregnant pal, Nicole Richie ("She's going to be a great mom," Hilton said), and the pending sale of her Hollywood Hills home.
"I'm going to miss my house because I love it. I really designed it to be my perfect taste," she said. "But too many people know where I live and I'd rather be in a gated community."
So how has she managed a supermodel body after baby?
"I have three children," she tells PEOPLE. "That keeps you busy all the time. I work and we do a lot of things that are active. We work in the garden. We jump on the trampoline. I just started playing tennis with my husband. We climb in the tree house with the children. We go to the park and feed the ducks. We are always mobile."
But the 34-year-old German native acknowledges that kids and ducks only go so far – she cops to other help to pull off her provocative look in the black-and-white print ads in which she poses topless (with strategically placed blond locks to keep things PG-13.)
"There were 20, 30 people on set to take the pictures," she said of the photo shoots with Brett Ratner, normally an action movie director moonlighting as a fashion photographer. "He had a lot of assistants. So I don't have to do that much. They all make me look good."
Her husband, musician Seal, also chips in around the house, whipping up traditional English breakfasts of eggs and beans. And they take time for each other, keeping the romance alive – aided by her tight-fitting jeans.
"He always does a butt check," says Klum, who returns the favor. "I like him in jeans. I like him in anything. I like him without anything."
Which almost makes it obvious how they keep their relationship hot.
Says Seal: "It keeps itself hot."
The heiress' Hollywood Hills pad has been snapped up for $4.25 million after just 10 days on the market, Us Weekly reports. Potential bidders were prescreened in order to weed out looky-loos hoping to get a glimpse inside.
Hilton, 26, paid $2.9 million for the 3,000-square foot, Spanish-style 1920s residence back in 2004. The home features three and a half baths and four bedrooms—one of which the fashion-loving celebutante converted into "the ultimate closet."
The property also comes with a pool, complete with Jacuzzi, waterfall and hotel-style cabanas, as well as separate guest quarters and a separate office.
Hilton is reportedly shopping for a new home that offers a little more privacy. So far, there's no word on where she plans to relocate. Her publicist, Elliot Mintz, has not yet commented on her real-estate forays.
With the heiress pulling up stakes, it's a safe bet her neighbors aren't sorry to see her go.
During the height of Hilton's legal troubles in June, the area was swarmed by paparazzi, leading residents to circulate a petition urging neighbors to call police and local officials if traffic and noise conditions became unmanageable upon the heiress' return from jail.
Cameron Diaz, who lives near the hotel namesake's former home, was one of many to express displeasure over the media crush that descended as a result of Hilton's notoriety.
"There were 10 helicopters above her house, which I live not too far from," Diaz complained at the time. "I was like, 'Could you please keep it down?' We all suffer when Paris suffers."
Now, a new neighborhood will bear the burden.
Recently, Hilton has been seen in conservative one-piece bathing suits, hugging tiny tots for the cameras and acting demure with the paparazzi. But it's all the work of spin doctor Michael Sitrick and his crisis management team, Sitrick & Company, our sources say.
"Paris hired a crisis publicist because of all the negative attention after she got out of jail. But it's just for her public image," one Hollywood insider said.
And those close to the heiress doubt she can keep the good-girl act going too much longer. "She's being smart right now, but she's a party girl at heart . . . we'll just have to wait and see," dished one pal.
After Hilton's stint in jail, she abandoned longtime publicist Elliot Mintz for Sitrick, who's handled Ryan Phillipe, Rush Limbaugh and Naomi Campbell during their own scandals. Since then, in addition to dressing more like a classy socialite and avoiding late-night stumbles out of Hollywood clubs, Hilton - who now parties away from the cameras in her Malibu house - has stopped her longtime habit of chatting with photographers.
"You can tell that it's hard for her that she is not supposed to be seeking the attention anymore," said one Hilton lensman. "She is going to the types of events that her people tell her to go to. But she is definitely staying away from the club scene. Paris is all about her dogs and hanging out alone."
Just like any good flack, Sitrick takes no credit for Hilton's sudden transformation.
"Paris said when she got out of jail that it was a life-changing experience, and indeed she has changed," he told us. "She's more involved in charities now - from volunteering at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles to her being a sponsor at a spinal cord injury fundraiser and more. People may try to read something into this that's not there - but that is who she is."
Whatever you say, Mike.
Meanwhile, Mintz says he remains Paris' "media consultant and dear friend."
CBS will be bringing sexy back Dec. 4 at 10 p.m., late enough, execs are hoping, to placate those concerned viewers out there who worry that all that low-cut lace is a little much for those whose bedtimes fall in the 8-10 p.m. range.
Heidi Klum, Adriana Lima, Karolina Kurkova and Selita Ebanks will be among the professional lovelies taking part in the nearly annual event, which was temporarily replaced by the Angels Across America tour in 2004. The lingerie showcase was booted from the airwaves in 2004 in the wake of Janet Jackson's nipple slip and then again the following year, to avoid antagonizing the FCC.
Ebanks and Kurkova joined Victoria's Secret president and CEO Sharen Tuney Monday at the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street to ring the bell that opens the day's trading and announce the plans for this year's program.
Notably missing from the catwalk this year will be Giselle Bündchen, who parted ways with Victoria's Secret in May after being a frequent catalogue fixture for several years. While neither party gave a particular reason, the breakup reportedly occurred after the upscale undies purveyor refused to raise the leggy Brazilian's $5 million annual salary.
Justin Timberlake headlined last year's special, which returned to CBS after its aforementioned two-year absence, but there's no word yet on what sort of musical accompaniment is in the works for 2007.
The Bachelor Party actress sued her ex-boyfriend Monday for allegedly stealing more than $3 million in assets over the course of their four-year relationship.
According to the complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Kitaen is accusing real estate executive Philip W. Cyburt of fraud, conversion and breach of fiduciary duty for supposedly, among other things, forging her name on checks, pilfering her airline miles, using her credit cards and making unauthorized withdrawals from her brokerage account.
There was no immediate comment from Cyburt.
Kitaen's suit states that, in 2005, she noticed unfamiliar charges on her credit card statements, saw that checks that had been fraudulently issued in her name, learned that the titleholder information on her real estate holdings had been changes and discovered that nearly $300,000 had been withdrawn from her brokerage account.
"She never imagined this seemingly honest and caring man would slither into her life only to rob her of over three million dollars," the lawsuit states. While together, the couple traveled extensively, celebrated birthdays and holidays, and interacted with the other's children. They broke up in February 2006, partly due to Cyburt's purported financial indiscretions.
At the end of 2006, the suit states, Kitaen hired a handwriting expert to analyze her financial and real estate records, and the results of the investigation confirmed her suspicions.
She alleges that Cyburt sold real estate that she owned in West Hollywood, Newport Beach and Los Angeles, pocketed the difference and then used her money to repurchase the properties at a higher price.
And Kitaen, who most recently was a housemate on the sixth season of The Surreal Life, had probably been hoping that things would be getting a little easier from now on.
Whitesnake's onetime video muse checked into rehab last May after police found cocaine at her home during a routine "welfare check" on her and her two daughters with ex-husband Chuck Finley.
Prosecutors agreed to drop a felony drug-possession charge against her if she successfully completed a treatment program.
News reports said the alleged incident took place at the weekend during a pajama party hosted by Playboy magazine's 81-year-old founder, Hugh Hefner, who has lived and worked at the expansive property since 1971.
According to Playboy.com, the annual Midsummer Night's Dream bash was attended by the likes of socialites Paris and Nicky Hilton, movie director Garry Marshall, rock star Dave Navarro and Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau.
An LAPD statement said detectives had started their investigation into "a possible sexual assault" on Monday.
"For reasons of law and confidentiality that are critical aspects in investigations of this type, no additional information will be released at this time," the statement said.
A spokesman for Playboy Enterprises Inc., the adult-entertainment firm that owns the mansion and published the flagship magazine, also declined comment.
The mock-Tudor mansion sits on a lush six-acre (2.4-hectare) lot that Hefner bought for $1.05 million according to Playboy.com.
Located in the chic suburb of Holmby Hills, the estate has hosted thousands of parties over the years, drawing guests who luxuriate in the freewheeling atmosphere. These days, it is often rented out as a corporate entertainment venue.
"She's really happy," Hilton, 26, told PEOPLE about her Simple Life costar at Wednesday's Helio Ocean launch party in West Hollywood, to benefit Heal the Bay. "I just got off the phone with her. She's so excited."
Adds the hotel heiress, "I know she's going to be the best mom ever."
In a series of ABC interviews last week, Richie, 25, told Diane Sawyer that she is four months pregnant with musician boyfriend Joel Madden, 28.
"They're really in love," Hilton says of the expectant parents.
Not that all is hearts and flowers for the mom-to-be.
Due to serve four days in a L.A. County jail, for a second DUI conviction (she must put in her time before Sept. 28), Richie will likely be kept at Lynwood, Calif.'s Century Regional Detention Center – the same lockup where Hilton spent 23 days earlier this summer.
The couple's second child, named Henry Lee White, was born Tuesday, a publicist for the White Stripes frontman said Wednesday.
White and Elson have a 15-month-old daughter, Scarlett Teresa White.
"The new child and his mother are both feeling very healthy and happy," White's representative, Chloe Walsh, said in a statement to The Associated Press.
White, 32, married Elson, a 28-year-old model, in 2005. The White Stripes are on a break from their North America tour, which will resume Sept. 13 at the Kiva Auditorium in Albuquerque, N.M.
Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff granted the order Friday at the request of Smith's former attorney and executor of her will, Howard K. Stern. The injunction prevents the sale, distribution or dissemination of the videotape.
In court documents, first obtained by CelebTV.com, Stern accused Gerald Wayne Johnson, the Texas doctor who performed the surgery, of sending a tape showing the procedure to Thomas Riccio, a Los Angeles-based memorabilia dealer. Stern claims the surgery was taped without the former model's consent.
Smith died of an accidental drug overdose in Florida in February at the age of 39.
In a letter written June 22, Johnson said he routinely records surgeries with the patient's permission and promises to keep the video confidential "during the patient's lifetime." Johnson said he gave Riccio permission to use the video after Smith died.
Stern claims Johnson's wife and Riccio would share in any proceeds from the sale of the videotape to various media outlets.
Telephone messages left for Stern's attorney, Vivian Thoreen, and Johnson's attorney, Gus Pappas, were not immediately returned Tuesday.
Equally difficult, Hilton, 48, tells PEOPLE after a screening of The Kingdom in Southampton, N.Y., was witnessing the correctional facility's guards physically pulling her 26-year-old daughter away after one visit, "grabbing her under the arm" – and then seeing the words "L.A. County" printed on the back of Paris's jail jumpsuit.
Yet as hard as it was to endure what the elder Hilton observed inside the jail, more overhelming was the media circus she faced once her daughter was freed and the family was driving her home.
"We were surrounded," recalls Hilton. "There were six helicopters and a pink Hummer advertising bail bonds. We could not get rid of it. It was actually very clever marketing. But we could barely see. They were shining all these lights."
For Paris's homecoming, her mother wished to comfort the Simple Life star, so she set up a room in what, she said, "used to be the baby nursery for the grandchildren at [Paris's grandfather's] house. I had fresh, really soft towels, and really soft sheets and one of those really soft, cuddly [blankets] called 'my blankey,' and nice soft pillow cases."
Kathy Hilton's rationale, she said, was that Paris – who currently is "spending time with her cousins in Malibu getting ready to go back to work" – had "been in jail, obviously with the very thin sheets and one pillow and one little thin blanket. That's how [inmates] get rashes. It feels like sandpaper."
Paris's reaction to all this softness, says her mother, was that "she went in, and she looked at the Fresh Farms soap, and she looked at the towels and the Evian water by her bedside. I wanted to make her feel really welcome. And we went downstairs and made a sandwich. And she ran outside with her doggie. And she ran, and she was screaming, 'Oh, this feels so good. I feel so lucky.' "
That was the first day home. "But then," says Kathy, "the next day she got up and the emotions [kicked] in. She couldn't really sleep [in] – she was working that day, doing a photo shoot. I made her a big breakfast. She had pancakes. She said, 'Mom, I want eggs, I want pancakes, I want waffles, I want toast, fresh juice.' "
Prepared to indulge her daughter's wishes, Hilton says, "I went and picked oranges and made her fresh juice. And then that night, she could not go to sleep."
At the end of that day, says Kathy, "She started going through the fan mail. She kept me up until 4:30 in the morning. There are several people who said, 'I wasn't a fan of yours. I never cared about you' – that kind of tone.
"But most of it was, 'I love you, and you're the best, and I'm with you, and my whole family, we're praying [for you].' "
Says Kathy, "I have to tell you, there are so many wonderful people out there."
And the outcome of this entire experience? Kathy Hilton says that if one person can be helped by the example set by her daughter – who now says, according to Kathy, "Mom, one thing I know is that I will never have a drink and get in the car and drive again" – then it was "worth it."
With her cocaine scandal seemingly a distant memory, the 33-year-old supermodel has announced plans to launch her first fragrance line this fall. Imaginatively labeled Kate by Kate Moss, the perfume will be bottled by go-to celebrity collaborator Coty Inc. and will hit store shelves just months after Moss' mega-successful Topshop apparel debuted to hordes of credit card-wielding copy Kates.
If all goes according to plan, the Moss line—which will also include scented shower gel, body lotion and deodorant spray—will launch to similar demand.
"It's something I've thought of doing for a long time, but it just never felt right," Moss told Women's Wear Daily. "It felt natural to take the next step."
According to Moss, the scent features a blend of lily of the valley, heliotrope, magnolia, peony and rose petals. Base and top notes are set to include orange blossom, pink pepper, patchouli, musk and sandalwood.
"When I put it on, I want to feel fresh and light and as the day goes on I want to feel sexier," she said of the pink-hued potion, adding that she was not simply the face of the product, but that she was a part of its production from the start.
"I learned a lot about having to smell layers and picking out the scents. I don't think people generally smell a perfume and say, 'Oh, that bottom note!' "
The packaging will continue the floral theme, featuring a black rose motif complete with thorns, with the black and pink meant to represent the dark and light sides of Moss' personality.
Coty Inc. stand to rake in more than $50 million in sales in the line's first year on the market, per WWD. The company says its decision to team with Moss stemmed from a longtime relationship with the model, who has served as the face of Coty's Rimmel cosmetics for nearly six years. Rimmel was one of the few employers who did not drop Moss in the aftermath of her 2005 tabloid debacle, when she and on-off boyfriend Pete Doherty were photographed doing what appeared to be lines of cocaine.
Moss, meanwhile, says she's excited to work behind the scenes for her latest endeavor.
"I'm really happy that I'm able to have a voice," she told WWD. "Now, I'm able to say, 'I want such a photographer' and 'I want it to look like this.'
"With Topshop, I used another model [in the campaign]. It was nice to dress her, and it was nice to be behind the scenes and not to feel like I had to be in front all the time.
"I still love modeling. It's nice to be able to do both."
Indeed, she will be pulling double duty, unsurprisingly appearing as the face of Kate by Kate Moss in both print and TV ads.
The scent will be retail between $24 and $65 when it debuts in North America early next year. The scent debuts in Europe and Asia in September.
The heiress and star of the upcoming thriller Repo! The Genetic Opera has inked a deal with Antebi Footwear Group to launch a signature line of shoes.
"My goal is to create a stylish and fun fashion line from head to toe," said Hilton, who has already tried her hand at purses, jewelry, perfume and hair extensions.
"Paris has been a pleasure to work with and we are very excited to be able to translate her vision into reality," said Antebi Footwear CEO Joseph Antebi. "Her previous ventures, such as her fragrance line, have proven to be extremely successful and we are confident that this venture will exceed her previous success."
Hilton teamed up with Parlux Fragrances in 2004 to bring scents such as Heiress and Just Me to a counter near you. Her fourth offering, Can Can, is due in October.
Paris Hilton Footwear, featuring stilettos, flats, wedges and a range of more casual styles (sorry, it looks as if Nicole will have to go elsewhere for baby booties), is expected to hit stores early next year.
In the meantime, the recently liberated socialite is looking for a new place to hang her hat, not to mention her shoes, having put her Hollywood Hills home up for sale.
The 3,000 square-foot, 1926 Spanish-style residence where helicopters circled and the paparazzi swarmed during the height of Hilton's legal troubles—i.e. being shuttled to jail and back, and then back to jail—is on the market for $4.25 million. The Simple Life star bought it for just under $3 million in 2004, when it was just a house and not a piece of pop culture lore.
With that place in history come four bedrooms (one of which has been converted into an "ultimate closet"), three and a half bathrooms, an office, separate guest quarters and a 7,000 square-foot lot with a swimming pool, Jacuzzi and waterfall.
But no matter where Hilton chooses to lead the shutterbugs to next, the Hills will not be bereft of her good name now that sister Nicky has purchased a 4,000 square-foot 1940s-era home in the area, as well.
The designer's new digs include three bedrooms, four and a half baths, an office-gym, a family room and, according to the Los Angeles Times, a "relatively nondescript" pool.
Doherty used Tuesday's edition of the U.K.'s Daily Mirror to profess his love and desire to be with Moss again.
"I love her with all my heart," he told the newspaper. "I like the way she walks and talks. I love her bones. I love her brain." He claims he has no other way of reaching her.
He goes on to say their tempestuous relationship was marred by the fact she is a jealous "nasty old rag" with a violent temper, and claims she once kicked him in the head.
On Wednesday, he elaborated on the reasons for their breakup, telling the Mirror that Moss went "ballistic" when they settled in one night to watch a DVD trailer for a feature-length film about Doherty.
When images of him flirting with groupies appeared on the screen, he says that Moss accused him of cheating and kicked him out of her home "for good."
Meanwhile, the newly blonde Doherty tells The Sun that dating Moss was like being on the front line. He contradicts earlier claims by saying he left her and doesn't want her back.
The couple split up last month. On July 4, movers were spotted at Moss's London home removing furniture and guitars, a piano, paintings and suitcases.
"The last six weeks of our relationship were bad. We had one massive bust-up and it carried on from there," he said. "I was always dodging bullets ... [it] became like the Vietnam war."
Doherty has battled drug addiction for years and has had numerous run-ins with police for drug offenses. Last month he admitted in court to possessing quantities of crack cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine as well as to two driving infractions.
Moss, 33, and Doherty, 28, have dated off and on for more than two years, and he claimed in memoirs published in June that they would wed this summer if he could stay drug-free.
The 1926 Spanish-style house went on the market on Friday for a cool $4.25 million.
"This is a very special celebrity-owned home," according to a description on MLS, the multiple listing service that brokers and customers rely on for a first look at available properties.
The house boasts 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms an a separate guest quarter and office. One bedroom was converted into the "ultimate closet."
Hilton's publicist, Elliot Mintz, confirmed the house was put up for sale but declined to comment further.
The 26-year-old hotel heiress and reality TV star walked out of jail a month ago after a three-week stay in which she was briefly released to home confinement and then sent back screaming to a lockup. She had been sentenced to 45 days for a probation violation.
A throng of reporters and paparazzi staked out the home above Sunset Boulevard last month, capturing her move from jail to home and back. The onslaught caused some residents to circulate a letter advising neighbors to call police about the noise and traffic.
A call to the listing agent, Mauricio Umansky, was not immediately returned.
The America's Next Top Model finalist has filed an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against two men, including her former talent agent, who allegedly published racy photographs of her without her permission.
According to the lawsuit, filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the pictures were taken when Strauss was 16 and ended up in a book called Beautiful: Nudes by Marc Baptiste, which was published by Rizzoli/Universe Publications Inc. in 2001. Some of the shots that originally ended up on the cutting room floor were posted on the Internet and their distribution was enhanced once Strauss made it onto the hit CW reality series, the suit alleges.
Baptiste, who is also responsible for the 2003 tome Intimate: Nudes by Marc Baptiste, photographed Strauss in 2000 at locales in Inglewood and at Malibu's Surf Rider Beach. The Detroit native was naked in some of the shots, she says.
Strauss, who finished fifth earlier this year on Top Model's eighth cycle after Tyra & Co. decided that her looks couldn't compensate for her brash personality, alleges that her ex-agent, Christopher Donahue, allowed fellow plaintiff Baptiste to take erotic photos of the then-teenager and then signed off on the book without asking for permission from Strauss' parents.
Also named in the suit are the Millennium Agency, where Donahue works, and Rizzoli/Universe. Strauss is seeking unspecified restitution, as well as punitive and compensatory damages.
In addition to invasion of privacy, Strauss claims that she wasn't paid for the use of her pictures and is also suing for theft of image and unjust enrichment. The aspiring catwalker also accuses Baptiste of trying to seduce her after a photo session.
"During the shoots…Baptiste offered Jael alcohol, allegedly to calm her nervousness and to relax her," the suit states. "On returning from the shoot in Malibu to Jael's residence, Baptiste inquired whether Jael would like to have sex with him. She declined."
The book's publication and the unsolicited Internet presence have "damaged [Strauss] in the beginning of her entertainment career and caused severe damage to her public image," court documents state.
Strauss, whose time on Top Model was jolted by news that a friend had died of a drug overdose and by the usual fights with her fellow competitors, had to pose nude, albeit covered with makeup and ice cream, for one of the would-be cover girls' weekly photo shoots.
After she was booted from the show, Strauss told realitytvworld.com that she had no problem baring all.
"I loved it," she said. "I totally strive to be fearless. I am not uncomfortable with my body. People should not be uncomfortable with their bodies and learn to be free."
E! has opted not to renew The Simple Life, announcing Monday that the finale of the show's latest season, The Simple Life Goes to Camp, will also mark the end of the shenanigan-laced series as a whole. (E! Online is a division of E! Networks.)
The news comes as the longtime pals have faced their own legal woes.
Hilton is now entering her sixth week as a free woman, after serving 23 days behind bars for violating probation on an alcohol-related reckless driving charge. The heiress has rebranded herself as a changed woman, volunteering at children's hospitals and making as many appearances at charitable functions as at the Hollywood clubs—which, it must be said, she has not completely forsaken.
Richie, meanwhile, is smack in the middle of her own legal nightmare, having pleaded guilty last Friday to driving under the influence of drugs following a wrong-way drive on a Los Angeles freeway last December. She was sentenced to 96 hours in jail, three years' probation, alcohol-education classes and fines.
Richie has until Sept. 28 to serve her time. By then, it should be known definitively whether the 25-year-old is expecting her first child with Good Charlotte boyfriend and courtroom stalwart Joel Madden. Richie has not publicly confirmed rampant reports of her pregnancy, which show no signs of abating as she continues to make public appearances in xexcessively baggy clothes or covered by a body pillow.
In comparison, the biggest scrape the girls found themselves in during The Simple Life Goes to Camp was attempting to hide the contents of a fat camp's refrigerator.
While E! has pulled the plug on The Simple Life, series producer Twentieth Century Fox refuses to say the show is a goner. The company is apparently holding out hope another network may pick up the show for another go-round, à la E! did in 2005 after Fox dropped the show.
Conceived as a fish-out-water "reality sitcom," The Simple Life debuted in 2003 and was an instant hit, establishing its stars as bona fide Hollywood players. The first season featured Hilton and Richie as inept farmhands in Arkansas.
The second season, subtiled Road Trip, featured the two pals on an RV tooling around the country to jobs on a ranch, nudist colony and, ironically enough, as deputy sheriffs working in a jail. That was filed by Interns, in which they traveled by Greyhound bus to various interships, including at a mortuary, fire station and zoo.
Faced with declining ratings and growing behind-the-scenes tension between Hilton and Richie, Fox canceled the show in 2005; a month later, E! announced plans to air a fourth, 10-episode season, 'Til Death Do Us Part.
The season was an exercise in editing as much as programming. By the season's start, Richie and Hilton were in full-blown public feud, refusing to appear in scenes with each other. Despite specuation that Hilton partying sidekick Kimberly Stewart might replace Richie in the show, producers opted to head into production with Hilton and Richie performing their scenes solo.
In October 2006, they called a truce in time to begin production on the current season of The Simple Life.
But the season wasn't without its hiccups. Aside from their various legal melodramas, Richie was briefly hospitalized in March for dehydration after falling ill on the set.
On the series-ending installment of the reality show, airing Sunday, the duo will be at drama camp, enlisting the help of celebrity counselor Sally Kirkland. After casting and rehearsing an original production, the trio costar in a performance, with Kirkland taking on the role of Richie papa Lionel.
Perhaps the experience inspired Hilton, who just confirmed she has begun rehearsals for Repo! The Genetic Opera, a musical thriller that begins filming next month in Toronto. After that, she's due to begin work on her sophomore album.
Until she figures out what that is, the tabloid favorite has joined the cast of Lionsgate's musical thriller "Repo! The Genetic Opera."
Also featuring in the Darren Lynn Bousman-directed feature are Alexa Vega ("Spy Kids") and Paul Sorvino ("Law & Order").
Bousman, director of the last three "Saw" films, has been working with writer-composers Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich for years on the project, set in the year 2056. After a plague nearly wipes out humanity, organ transplants are at a premium.
Sorvino plays an evil organ transplant magnate, with Hilton as his daughter, according to Variety. She will have to sing in the movie.
This is Hilton's first acting role since her brief jail stint last month. Her acting credits include "House of Wax" and several years of "The Simple Life."
"I wanted to have a New York baby," the pregnant actress, attributing her glow at the premiere of her new movie The Ten to being back in the big city, tells PEOPLE of her recent move.
"I've just been walking everywhere," says the star of 2005's The Notorious Betty Page. "I'm really happy to be back in the city, so I feel like that's been helping my mood and everything."
For her red carpet turn, Mol, 34, was accompanied by her husband, director Tod Williams, 38.
Mol will continue to walk in style even after the baby is born: She tells PEOPLE her favorite baby gift so far is the Bugaboo stroller from her parents.
But with only seven weeks left until her due date, she admitted they still haven't picked out a name for this, their first child. "We won't know until he comes," she says.
The Ten – a comedy of 10 biblical-based vignettes including one where Mol plays a virgin librarian deflowered by Christ himself – is set for limited release Aug. 3 and stars Famke Janssen, Winona Ryder, Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Adam Brody and Liev Schreiber.
"I was never a skinny, skinny type – the more I tried, the worse it was. I'd think about food more than ever," the Project Runway host and judge, 34, tells Britain's Easy Living magazine.
"They'd say 'You have to lose weight', and I'd be like, 'All I can think about is muffins!' " she says. "I don't want to get too skinny. I still want to have a round, womanly figure."
The German-born mom of three (8-month-old Johan, Henry,1, and Leni, 3) and wife to singer Seal since 2005, claims that doing what makes you happy and being there for your children are the keys to a healthy lifestyle.
She further admits to trying to cut carbs and candy to lose some pregnancy weight, but is "not a freak with working out and food."
She admits, "I always eat the profiteroles. I eat the pasta when I want it."
And who can tell? Klum is smoking hot in photos from the September issue of Arena magazine, which are burning up the Internet.
"I used to complain that I couldn't seem to fit into the clothes for the edgy fashion shows, but I found my own path," she says in the Arena article accompanying the very revealing pics.
Their solution: take the wedding trip first, head down the aisle later.
"I highly recommend to anyone that's getting married to take the honeymoon first," Romijn told PEOPLE at the ABC Television Critics Association party in Beverly Hills on Thursday night. "We got to spend a great deal of time together before we got married relaxed and with a tan."
The pair, who were at the event to boost their respective ABC shows (she stars on the Emmy-nominated Ugly Betty while he's on the fall comedy Carpoolers), managed two weeks off to bask in a pre-wedding glow.
"We spent the first few days out in Montauk [on New York's Long Island] with Jerry's parents, and then we went down to Mexico for nine days," Romijn said. "It was the way to do it, and at the wedding we had butterflies, but every time we talked about it for the weeks leading up to it, we just felt so warm and excited."
Romijn, 34 and O'Connell, 33, were wed in an intimate ceremony in Los Angeles before 100 family and friends. Still, jumping back into work, says Romijn, was a good thing, given that she developed a small case of post-wedding blues.
After the festivities, "We both had the day off Tuesday, and we were driving around going 'What do we get ready for now?' " Romijn recalled. "And then we realized we both were starting to suffer from post-wedding depression. And the good news is, when you have to go back to work, you jump right back into your routine and that's that."
The actress tells PEOPLE she's keeping Romijn as her stage name, though she joked that she has considered "just taking the 'O' " and changing her name to "Rebecca O' Romijn" – in honor of her husband's Irish heritage.
The heiress adopted the young, male pooch from Pets of Bel Air in Los Angeles just after 1 p.m.
"She loved the puppy, she was all smiles and carried him out of the store in her arms," an onlooker tells PEOPLE. A store employee said Hilton was "so sweet."
The store is the same one where Britney Spears bought a $3,000 Yorkie puppy less than two weeks ago.
And speaking of celeb purchases: Earlier on Wednesday, rocker Fred Durst and his son came into the store and purchased a Chihuahua as well.
Hilton, who has said she really missed her pets while in jail, also recently bought a new Yorkie named Cinderella, and has another Chihuahua named Tinkerbell, among other pets. (In 2005, she was forced to give up her kinkajou, Baby Luv, because it was considered an exotic species and was illegal to own.)
"She is a really smart, amazing girl and we share similar interests," Atkins tells Australia's Who.com in a new interview.
"We have been hanging out at the beach, talking about fashion and it has been lots of fun," Atkins said Thursday. "She's a cool girl and we're having a really great time enjoying each other's company."
Hilton, who has rented a house in Malibu for the summer, has been snapped cuddling on the beach with Atkins. On July 14, the pair hung out at the Lia Sophia jewelry clam bake where Hilton noshed on lobster and corn on the cob – and showed off her new Yorkie pup. Then, Hilton and a shirtless Atkins spent more time together down the beach at Rock & Republic's five-year anniversary party.
Among other things, the two share an interest in fashion. Hilton has her own clothing line. And Atkins, according to Who, is a designer for the Australia-based clothing and accessories company Rock Stars & Angels, which is available at U.S. boutiques like Kitson.
Grenier has been dating the 28-year-old Keller on and off for two years, according to the sources, but recently they've been more public, PEOPLE reports in its new issue, on sale Friday.
Keller was at the side of the Entourage star at his 31st birthday party earlier this month at a Malibu beach house. And on July 14, they cuddled at a Los Angeles bash, where, says an insider, they "seemed oblivious to everyone around them."
Grenier's rep had no comment.
Pictures of Hilton appear on the inside cover of the reunited Pumpkins' first new album since 2000.
Frontman Billy Corgan said he took the photos of Hilton, who he had met previously.
He told MTV News: "The original idea was we were gonna see if Lindsay [Lohan], Britney [Spears], and Paris would all shoot...[but] Paris I knew personally and hung out with her a few times, and so I asked her...and God bless her, she came, she showed up at 10am on a Sunday morning, sat in the chair, got made up, and [I] shot her."
Smashing Pumpkins, who are currently touring in the U.S., will return to the U.K. for a one off date at Carling Academy in Glasgow, Scotland on August 22, followed by a headline slot at the Carling Weekend: Reading & Leeds festivals in England over the weekend of August 24-26.
The Brazilian supermodel strutted past the likes of Kate Moss, who came in at No.2, and Heidi Klum, who placed third on the list.
Bundchen, 26, parted ways with Victoria's Secret in May and will see her lucrative contract with the lingerie brand expire at the end of the year.
Still, she boasts "more contracts than any other model on the planet," Forbes.com said, and has appeared in campaigns for high-end brands including Apple, Dolce & Gabbana and Roberto Cavalli.
Moss, who recently launched a clothing line at British fashion retailer Topshop, ranks second with $9 million. The 33-year-old fashion icon is the new face of fashion label Stella McCartney and Italian sportswear company Belstaff.
Klum, 34, placed third with $8 million. She is a Victoria's Secret spokesmodel and host of Bravo's "Project Runway."
Two more Victoria's Secret beauties — Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio — rounded out the top five with $6 million each.
They were followed by Carolyn Murphy ($5 million); Natalia Vodianova ($4.5 million); Karolina Kurkova and Daria Werbowy (both $3.5 million); Gemma Ward ($3 million); Liya Kebede ($2.5 million); Hilary Rhoda and Shalom Harlow (both $2 million); and Doutzen Kroes and Jessica Stam (both $1.5 million).
In ranking these catwalkers, Forbes.com said editors also factored in a model's "relevancy" — determined by recent campaigns, fashion magazine covers and opinions of those in the fashion industry — where necessary. The list was posted Monday on the Web site.
The 26-year-old, who spent 23 days in Los Angeles County Jail after violating probation for an alcohol-related driving conviction, tells E! Online, "I'm already working on my new record."
The hotel heiress and Simple Life star adds that she has been collaborating "for a few weeks" with Scott Storch, a producer who helped with her first album, Paris, and has also produced hits with Beyoncé Knowles, Christina Aguilera, 50 Cent and others.
Hilton, meanwhile, has been making music of a different sort on the sand with 21-year-old Australian clothing entrepreneur Tyler Atkins, sources tell PEOPLE.
On Saturday, the two cuddled on the beach at the Lia Sophia jewelry clam bake at a private estate, where Hilton nibbled on lobster and corn on the cob (along with celeb pals like Luke Wilson and Jesse Metcalfe) and snagged thousands of dollars worth of jewelry from the line's Malibu collection.
Hilton showed off her new Yorkie pup to her shirtless new friend and gushed to him about how much she loves dogs. Later that evening, they hung out down the beach at Rock & Republic's five-year anniversary bash, where Atkins held her purse and refilled her drink.
Atkins, who sources say is with the Australia-based clothing and accessories company Rock Stars & Angels, reveals some of his personality in loopy (and profanity-punctuated) interviews on YouTube. (See one of the videos.)
As for Hilton's music career, she has nowhere to go but up. When her first album was released last summer, Paris, a co-production between Warner Bros. and Hilton's own Heiress Records, experienced so-so sales of about 600,000 copies and received a decidedly cool reception from critics. Her single, "Stars Are Blind," proved a minor hit, however.
This time up at bat, Hilton – who told Larry King last month that she was turning over a new leaf – is determined to take her music seriously and is having voice lessons several times a week, unnamed friends tell E! Online. Another friend says that her music is a top priority for Hilton.
How she'll fare with music critics and the CD-buying public remains to be seen. What is certain is that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is currently investigating whether Hilton received special treatment while behind bars.
Created by Hill Holiday of Boston, Massachusetts, the new multi-million-dollar campaign consists of national, regional and local television placements and will run through the end of the year.
Dunkin' Donuts' new light-hearted campaign uses the celebrities as "foils" to illuminate how Dunkin' Donuts understands and celebrates the everyday folks who make America run. Braff, who starred in, wrote and directed the critically acclaimed "Garden State", brought the campaign to life through his direction. In the spots, Campbell and Frehley are showcased attempting to do everyday tasks, juxtaposed with non-celebrity folks who upstage the celebrities and do a better job completing the tasks due to their unpretentious, down-to-earth attitude and a little help from Dunkin' Donuts products.
"By casting the celebrity in a role that pokes fun at their public persona, we are taking a unique approach with these ads," said Robert Rodriguez, Dunkin' Donuts brand president. "The celebrities have been great sports in allowing themselves to be portrayed this way, so therefore we can highlight the everyday women and men who keep this country running as celebrities in their own right."
Other celebrity spots will debut later in the year.
"I'm already working on my new record," Hilton tells E! Online. "I've been in meetings with Scott [Storch] and we've been working on it."
Storch is the the überproducer who helped guide Hilton through her eponymous first album. He's also known for his chart-busting work with Beyoncé Knowles, Christina Aguilera, R. Kelly, 50 Cent and Dr. Dre.
"I've been working on it with Scott for a few weeks," adds Hilton, whose most recent musical endeavor was as cover girl on the U.K. version of the new Smashing Pumpkins single, "Tarantula"—a favor for friend Billy Corgan.
Sources close to The Simple Life star say she is determined to make the new album better than her last, which met with skepticism and lukewarm sales.
"She takes voice lessons several times a week," says an insider. "She's really serious about her music career."
The 26-year-old even had a meeting Monday with MTV executives, though it's not clear if that meeting was connected to her upcoming sophomore music release or her collaboration with Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee. (Lee has confirmed he's working with Hilton on a feature project but has not elaborated; MTV has described the project as in very early development.)
Hilton's debut album, entitled simply Paris, debuted in August 2006. Released via her Heiress Records and Warner Bros., the album opened at number six on the Billboard 200 and sold more than 600,000 copies. Paris included the modest hit "Stars Are Blind" (a Top 20 single) and "Jealousy," a scathing tune about her feud with then enemy Nicole Richie.
"Of all her projects, her music is the most important to her," says a source close to Hilton. "She really works very hard to be taken seriously in the industry and make good music people will enjoy."
Court documents show that a settlement was reached Friday in the personal injury lawsuit brought against the heiress by a SoCal couple who were involved in a four-car accident caused by Hilton's cousin back in 2004.
Brooke Ashley Brinson had been driving Hilton's Mercedes at the time of the crash, but her celebutante relative was present only in terms of ownership papers and not physically along for the ride.
Brinson was motoring eastbound on Los Angeles' 10 Freeway on May 30, 2004, when she rear-ended a car that in turn struck two other vehicles, including the plaintiffs'.
Ivan Alvarez and Monica Delgado of West Covina sued Hilton and Brinson for negligence in May 2005, seeking cash to pay for medical bills, damage to their car, emotional distress and loss of wages and earning capacity.
They alleged that Brinson didn't slow down in time to avoid plowing into a car that was stopped in heavy traffic and that Hilton was legally responsible for the chain-reaction smashup.
The duo originally filed suit in Pomona Superior Court, figuring that their alleged pain and suffering amounted to at least $250,000 in damages, but a judge transferred their case to the lower claim courthouse in West Covina after ruling that the financial compensation that Alvarez and Delgado were entitled to didn't surpass $25,000.
Neither side would divulge the terms of the deal, but the case is scheduled to be formally dismissed at an Aug. 29 hearing, while a Sept. 10 trial date has been cleared from the docket.
"We're happy it's over and it was settled satisfactory to all parties," Alvarez and Delgado's attorney, Mauro Fiore Jr., told reporters.
While there was no need for Hilton to appear in court last week, having surely had her fill of gavels and bailiffs for the time being, TMZ reported that Brinson has more quality time with the criminal justice system in store.
The now-21-year-old was busted in December for DUI after she was pulled over and registered at least a 0.15 percent blood-alcohol level, nearly twice the legal limit. Brinson was 20 at the time and, in addition to misdemeanor charges of driving a vehicle while under the influence and driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent or higher, she's been charged with unlawful use of license. Per TMZ, she's due back in court Aug. 3.
And as an investigation within the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department swirls around whether Hilton was given special treatment behind bars, the 26-year-old socialite is busy milking freedom for all its worth. Hilton spent this past weekend in Malibu, engaging in some beginner-level surfing and pro-level partying at the Polaroid Beach House, where, according to E! Online's Party Girl, she stuck to Evian and fruit smoothies.
"We're going to dance for you a few tidbits that you created," choreographer Maurice Bejart said, looking up from the stage at a giant photograph of Versace, who was gunned down outside his Miami house by serial killer Andrew Cunanan.
Bejart and Versace collaborated on 12 ballets, including "Sudden Death," from 1984 and ending in June 1997 with "Barocco Bel Canto."
The audience at La Scala on Sunday also included actor Rupert Everett, designer Karl Lagerfeld and Italian television show presenter Mike Buongiorno. Many of the guests were wearing Versace creations, including a striking red skirt with a black top covered in sparkling embroidery and a cream sheath silk dress with pleated bodice.
Versace was known as a fashion designer for his exuberant prints and love of gold, making his outfits popular with rock stars and emblematic of the 1980s glitz and money culture.
Bejart, who turned 80 at the start of this year, described the mini-ballets leaning against a dance exercise bar at the side of La Scala's stage, at times speaking to the dancers as if in class.
Costumes for ballerinas were the focus at the start of the "Thanks, Gianni, with love" show, as male dancers wore flesh tones that kept them in the background as they supported their more colorful partners.
A dancer in a black and white long dress with net layers fluffing the skirt started the show, her arm movements fluid as her performance echoed a feather in its float to earth.
Another costume was of deep black pleats formed into an hour glass shape around the dancer's body, while silver spangled black folds in an outfit created for a ballet about Eva Peron.
Music ranged from Gustav Mahler to Queen, with dance routines equally varied.
One interlude started with dancers lying on stage covered by white cloths -- an eerie calmness redolent of the morgue.
But to the sound of Queen's "It's a Beautiful Day," the dancers sat up, peeping over the outstretched cloths, then wound them round like rumpled sheets and finally jumped up, crumpling the cloths into bundles that were tossed from hand to hand.
With Gianni's sister Donatella, who now designs for the label, watching from La Scala's best seats with her family, the show ended with a plaintive call of his name from the leading ballerina as she turned to look at his photograph.
"Rebecca and Jerry were married on Saturday evening in an intimate ceremony at their home surrounded by family and close friends," says the actress' rep.
Romijn, 34, wore a Ralph Lauren gown and jewelry by Neil Lane as she and O'Connell, 33, exchanged vows in front of 100 family and friends.
The couple met in the fall of 2004 when Romijn was scouting for her documentary Wet Dreams, about choreographing the fountains at Las Vegas' Bellagio Hotel and Casino.
"We met Jerry at a party," Romijn told PEOPLE. "We told him what we were doing and he was like, 'You're making a documentary out of this? I want to be the boom operator!' He was totally game."
O'Connell proposed to Romijn in September 2005, during a trip to New York.
This is the first marriage for O'Connell and the second for Romijn.
Romijn currently stars in ABC's hit comedy Ugly Betty. O'Connell stars in the NBC medical crime drama Crossing Jordan.
For more info go to InStyle.com, and check out next week's PEOPLE magazine for exclusive coverage and wedding pictures!
"She's been outstanding in everything she has done, and she will be an outstanding board member," Donald Trump told The Press of Atlantic City for Saturday editions.
Ivanka Trump will join the board of Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc.
The 25-year-old already has some experience to draw from: She was her father's sidekick on his reality television show "The Apprentice."
She currently is a vice president with the Trump Organization, which controls Trump hotels, real estate holdings and golf courses, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, one of the nation's top business schools.
Before joining the board, Ivanka Trump must get a license from the state Casino Control Commission. The agency is expected to grant her preliminary approval as soon as Wednesday.
Casino regulators will conduct a background check to make sure she has done nothing that would disqualify her from holding a gambling license.
The internal probe will examine whether the hotel heiress was given free access to a cordless phone instead of being forced to wait in line to use a pay phone at certain hours, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
Also under scrutiny are claims Hilton received a new jail uniform instead of the recycled ones given to many inmates and that her mail was delivered by a captain instead of inmate trusties, Whitmore said.
The allegations were brought to the attention of the department's union, the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, by its members, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday on its Web site.
Whitmore said the claims differ from the department's own information about Hilton's incarceration.
"We're going to investigate it and get to the bottom of it and find out exactly what happened," he said.
A message left with a Hilton spokesman late Thursday was not immediately returned.
The department was also accused of granting Hilton special treatment when Sheriff Lee Baca released the 26-year-old from jail after only three days for medical reasons. She was sent back to jail after one night.
"There's zero chance I would do that," The Donald's daughter told Ryan Seacrest during his KIIS FM radio show on Tuesday.
Earlier this week, the New York Post's Page Six reported that Trump was among the candidates being considered to replace Rosie O'Donnell.
"I'm working on the sexiest projects around the world," said Trump, who is the Vice President of real estate development and acquisitions for her father's company. "So to me to be on a television show every single day at a designated period of time just wouldn't work for my schedule."
When Seacrest asked if she'd been offered the position, Trump replied: "I've gotten a lot of requests – let's just leave it at that."
"Have you had a conversation with Barbara Walters?" Seacrest asked her. "Not with Barbara personally, no." She said.
As for Walters's relationship with Donald Trump, which allegedly chilled after the blow-out between him and O'Donnell, Ivanka said it's not an issue for her.
"I think Barbara Walters is terrific. I think she's done a great job. She has had differences with my father," she said. "I think his problems mostly lay with Rosie, and somehow that sort of boiled over. But I think Barbara's great, and the show is much better today than it was."
Despite saying she won't accept a permanent co-hosting job, a temporary gig isn't out of the question.
Asked if she'd consider sitting in on the show for a week, Trump answered: "That could be interesting."
Giorgio Armani, Karl Lagerfeld, Donatella Versace and Tom Ford joined movie stars Uma Thurman and Sarah Jessica Parker on the front row for a catwalk spectacular drawing on symbols of the Italian "dolce vita" -- opera, glamorous gowns and gelato.
Valentino, famed for his lipstick red evening dresses, gave them a show wreathed with the opulence that has defined his career since he dressed Audrey Hepburn and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the 1960s.
It was the centerpiece of three days of parties marking his 45 years as a designer and attracting the kind of slew of stars usually reserved for the Academy Awards.
Mick Jagger, Sienna Miller and Maggie Cheung joined revelers at the after-party in Rome's Villa Borghese.
"I love Valentino. His dresses are so elegant and feminine. They are a pleasure and a privilege to wear," Thurman said.
At the show in a 12th century basilica near the Vatican, models wore day wear skirt suits webbed with lace work before switching into floor-skimming gowns glittering with diamante in blacks, whites, pastels and Valentino's signature red.
Fur, feathers and embroidery accentuated waists and shoulders while discs of chiffon on coats and sleeves lent the effect of scoops of ice cream.
"It was beautiful. I loved the ice cream dresses, the sorbet dresses. The pink and the purple ones were the best," said up-and-coming U.S. designer Zac Posen, another front row guest.
THE FUTURE
Valentino, who has repeatedly denied the celebrations are a prelude to his retirement, closed the show in a white suit and in tears met by a standing ovation from the crowd and the strains of Giacomo Puccini's "O Mio Babbino Caro."
"That seemed the show of a young man with a great future ahead of him," said Andre Leon Talley, U.S. Vogue editor-at-large and a front row regular for 25 years.
The future for Valentino, now in his seventies, has been the subject of rumors in the run-up to event, which immediately followed Paris haute couture week.
The famed fashion house landed in the grasp of a European private equity group, Permira, in May and a takeover is expected to be completed by the end of the summer.
Industry watchers are skeptical the new owners, whose trade is to cut costs and boost profits, will sanction the lavish spending that has defined Valentino's career. He reportedly spent $270,000 to rebuild a temple in the Roman Forum temporarily for dinner on the opening night of the celebrations.
Although Valentino's business partner Giancarlo Giammetti said it would be business as usual under the new owners, he failed to clear a lingering sense of the end of an era.
"It seems like a retirement," said Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova.
The heiress arrived at the Hollywood club a little before midnight Friday with a group including her sister Nicky and Erin Foster (daughter of music producer David Foster).
Wearing a gray sleeved shirt and black fedora, Paris, 26, sat at a table protected by two bodyguards who struggled to keep fans from snapping pictures.
She later stood on a couch and – with most eyes on her – danced seductively against a wall with an arm extended up in the air, singing the words to every song that played, including her own single, "Stars Are Blind."
"Paris was super happy and full of smiles," says one clubgoer. "She was laughing, having fun, drinking, dancing, singing along to songs, talking to everyone and hugging all the girls at her table."
Once a fixture at clubs, Hilton had not been spotted on the town until Friday night since she was released from jail after serving more than three weeks for a probation violation in an alcohol-related driving case.
She told PEOPLE just hours after her release that she had learned "there is so much more to life than that whole club scene," but that she wasn't going to give it up entirely.
"I've been doing it for a long time. It's fun. I'm a social person. I love music. I love to dance. I love to hang out with my friends," she said. "But that's not what I care about as much anymore. Obviously I'll still go out sometimes. I'm young and I like to be social, but I'm going to focus more on my work."
Brzezinski used both to destroy a script calling for her to read about Hilton's release from jail on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program recently. Part serious, part an act, it has become an Internet sensation. More than 2 million people have watched a clip of the incident, around 10 times the number who watched it live on TV.
Apparently, she's not the only one sick of the socialite.
"Among journalists it touched a nerve because I think we're tired of pretending this is important," she said. "We also know that, deep down inside, our viewers know that we don't believe this is news. They can't. They can't think we're that dumb."
Brzezinski, who left CBS News last year, has been working as a news-reader and on-air foil for Joe Scarborough on the show MSNBC is trying out to replace Don Imus in the morning.
Hours after Hilton's June 26 catwalk to freedom, Scarborough and Brzezinski discussed one of the day's other big stories at their show's opening: influential Republican Sen. Richard Lugar's declaration that President Bush's Iraq strategy wasn't working.
It was then Brzezinski's turn to sum up the day's news. She looked down at her script and Hilton was the top story. She froze.
"I could not get through the first three words without crumbling," she said. "My skin was crawling. This was our lead? On a day like this? To me, it was just the ultimate Paris Hilton out-of-control moment. We've gone too far and we've got to stop. That was all real. There was nothing planned about that, and I believe we got a little snappy."
Indeed, Scarborough egged her on. He took the wadded-up script and drew it to his nose, inhaling with a look of rapture on his face. "Smell that," he said. "It even smells good."
Broader show-biz antics took over during subsequent news breaks. Brzezinski attempted to set the script ablaze at one point, then sent it through a shredder borrowed from network chief Dan Abrams' office.
She attracted the world's attention. Brzezinski's gotten over a thousand e-mails, and was named "woman of the week" by a British Web site. She's been invited to address a media symposium in Scotland. The New Zealand Herald hailed her: "Deliberate or not, there is no denying the incident struck a chord with viewers the world over. When it comes to Paris, we've all had enough."
It may be a coincidence, but three days after the incident MSNBC told Brzezinski that she'll have a regular hour to anchor the news each morning.
There's been no shortage of journalists making clear their distaste for the story, only to find Hilton's siren song irresistible.
CBS's Katie Couric told a Boston audience in May, to applause, that "we have a precious amount of time on the `CBS Evening News' and I don't think we need to ever utter the name Paris Hilton." A month later, Couric's broadcast reported on Hilton's jailing and the controversy over her short-lived release.
NBC's Brian Williams noted on his Web log when Hilton was taken into custody that "nobody mentioned Paris Hilton at our afternoon editorial meeting." He did say Hilton news could be revisited if there was a larger point to be made about the justice system — and it was the very next day, when Hilton's brief release was the No. 2 story on NBC's "Nightly News."
Anderson Cooper couldn't help himself when his CNN newscast immediately followed Larry King's exclusive interview with Hilton on June 27. King landed the interview only after ABC and NBC backed off their hot pursuit, skittish about publicity that they were, it appeared, willing to pay for her cooperation.
"I think we have heard a couple of you screaming at the screens," Cooper said.
He then proceeded to spend an hour talking about Hilton. And he was amply rewarded: Cooper's 1.89 million viewers that evening more than doubled his average June audience of 790,000 people, according to Nielsen Media Research. King nearly tripled his typical audience that night.
The Associated Press tried a voluntary ban on Hilton news earlier this year, just to see who would notice. It ended when she was ticketed for driving with a suspended license, the offense that eventually landed her behind bars.
Television ratings aren't the only proof that reporting on Hilton is like eating junk food — you know it's bad for you, but you do it anyway.
News Web sites can track exactly how many people click on certain articles. On the Web site AP provides to its members, the Hilton story is the fourth most clicked-upon one of the year, after the Iraq war, the death of Anna Nicole Smith and the Virginia Tech shootings.
"It has always been part of the job of news organizations to provide people with the news that they need to know as well as the news that they want to know," said Deborah Potter, a former CBS News reporter and executive director of the News Lab think tank. "What you don't want to do is allow the news that you want to know swallow the news that you need to know."
Hilton's special treatment by authorities in a celebrity-obsessed city was a legitimate news story, she said.
What she wore or ate in prison? Not so much.
Brzezinski, daughter of Carter administration national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, said that after her initial annoyance on the morning of Hilton's release, she and Scarborough were really just mocking themselves.
But if that makes people think about Hilton coverage, so much the better, she said.
"It's not like I'll never cover a Paris Hilton story again and it's not like I'm never going to listen to my producer again," she said. "But that day, that story as the lead was just preposterous. It made me feel stupid."
Called "A Process A Gift and A Journey" (words from her journal), the video comes from the comedians at funnyordie.com, the minds behind Will Ferrell's infamous "cursing baby" video.
Why make the video? "Poetry is a dying art form," deadpans Amy Rhodes, production manager for FunnyorDie.com, "and we just want to make sure this generation's poets have their voices heard."
Columnist Joel Stein came up with the idea and comedian Scott Brown wrote and performed the song, Rhodes says. Fellow comic Jason Averett put together the video, complete with clips from Larry King Live and paparazzi footage of Hilton's life.
"Baby girl, how are you?" one man purred in a foreign accent. "Why are you doing this?" a woman asked. "This is so rude." And there were several seemingly random references to "Paris."
As in Paris Hilton.
Barlow's story began on Valentine's Day during a night out with friends. She was carrying her phone in a back pocket when it fell into a toilet. When she replaced it, her wireless company insisted on assigning the San Francisco native a new number with a 310 area code rather than 415.
Barlow had been given a recycled phone number that used to be Hilton's. The practice stems from efforts to conserve phone numbers to minimize area-code splitting.
Just after Barlow got her new phone close to Hilton's Feb. 17 birthday, a flurry of calls and texts arrived. "Oh my God," one caller said. "Where's the party?"
Then came the day Hilton was sentenced to jail after violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. Messages about parties were replaced by dozens expressing condolences.
"People were scared for her," Barlow said.
The phone traffic trailed off when Hilton entered jail last month. But when Hilton was released, a new crop of messages flooded in.
"It's disgusting how they treated you in there, but once again you have showed the world that you can do anything," one wrote.
Barlow said she has resisted the temptation to pose as Hilton to get into exclusive parties. But she did message supporters "thanks so much," believing Hilton would appreciate it.
Barlow plans to keep the number because she says it has been a greater source of amusement than a hassle.
"It was really out of convenience," she added. "I didn't want to switch again."
Movers were spotted at Moss's London home Wednesday removing furniture and guitars, a piano, paintings and suitcases.
According to the UK's Daily Mirror, Moss was furious over reports that Doherty had a fling with a South African model last week.
It's been a rocky week for the Babyshambles frontman, who pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a drug charge and was warned by the judge that he must attend rehab or face time in jail.
Judge Davinder Lachhar deferred sentencing until August as long as the singer attends a detox program and commits no more offenses.
Moss, 33, and Doherty, 28, have dated off and on for two years, with their relationship marked by Doherty's repeated arrests on drug charges. Still, Doherty has long insisted they planned to marry, and claimed in memoirs published last month that they would wed this summer if he could stay drug-free.
Reps for the model and singer had no comment.
Paris and other descendants of her great grandfather Conrad Hilton -- who started the hotel group in 1919 when he bought a small hotel in Cisco, Texas -- are expected to get little from the buyer, private equity firm Blackstone Group.
That's because the family has little stake left in the company and what's remaining is expected to ultimately go to charity.
"Very few Hiltons will benefit very much from this sale," said Jerry Oppenheimer, who profiled the Hilton family in his 2006 book "House of Hilton."
Hilton Co-Chairman Barron Hilton, Conrad's son and Paris' grandfather, is the only member of the Hilton clan that has a sizable role at the company. He's expected to give the roughly $1 billion that he stands to get from the sale of his 5.3 percent stake to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
The foundation supports projects that provide clean water in Africa, education for blind children, and housing for the mentally ill. Its aims, based on Conrad Hilton's will, are "to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute."
"Barron made a pledge that he was going to abide by his father's wishes (and leave his money to his father's foundation)," said Oppenheimer.
The sale of the hotel company, which manages more than 2,800 hotels in 76 countries, comes with the low-key, 79-year-old Barron Hilton seeking to cement his business legacy, even as his partying granddaughter fills gossip columns.
"Barron wanted to go out a hero. That's the kind of guy he is," said Oppenheimer. "He was going to make sure this company was sold at a huge profit before he died."
"He was, and is, extremely embarrassed by how the Hilton name has been sullied by Paris," said Oppenheimer. "He doesn't want to leave unearned wealth to his family."
Representatives the Hilton family weren't immediately available for comment.
Paris, a symbol of celebrity privilege in America, gained notoriety in 2003 when a home video of her having sex was posted on the Internet.
She parlayed her notoriety, fueled by tabloid headlines about her partying lifestyle, into a celebrity career that has included a reality television show, a book, a music album, and film roles.
Last month, she was released from jail after about three weeks for violating probation in a drunk-driving case.
"If it wasn't for Paris, no one would be talking about the Hilton name. It would just be a financial story," said Oppenheimer.
However, Lohan, in an extended-care program after her rehab stint, and Hilton, fresh out of jail, were never seen interacting, although they've hit the L.A. clubs together in the past.
The day began around 2 p.m. when Lohan, her mother Dina, sister Ali and brother Dakota arrived at the Polaroid Beach House, a $30 million home the company has rented for the summer to throw events and host celebrities.
The actress, wearing a white bikini top and denim short-shorts, at one point took a beach stroll with her sister.
For most of the remainder of the day, Lohan and her family remained on the second-floor balcony overlooking the massive party that also drew JC Chasez, Maria Menounos, Amy Smart, Dave Navarro, Kevin Connolly, Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Finnigan and Jonathan Silverman, Jason Statham, Jeremy Piven and Matt Leinart.
A little before 5 p.m., Hilton came over from her own beach pad two houses over and greeted the guests. Wearing a blue floral-print dress, Hilton smiled and giggled – looking relaxed after her post-jail Maui vacation – before returning to her Spanish-style house without meeting Lohan.
That left the rest of the day for Lohan and family to listen to music (including a remix of Eminem's "Shake That" and Kelly Clarkson's "Since You've Been Gone") and enjoy a half-hour fireworks show.
"Happy 4th of July everyone, and remember to be responsible and have a designated driver!" the heiress writes in a blog entry on her MySpace Web page Tuesday.
Hilton, 26, was released from jail last week after spending about 23 days behind bars for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. The notorious party girl has since touted a new beginning — one that she says won't include going out as much.
"The past month has inspired me to move forward with some exciting new projects, so I will keep you all posted," she writes.
After getting out of jail, Hilton did a series of interviews, including one on CNN's "Larry King Live," then skipped town for some rest and relaxation in Maui.
Hilton, who's back from Hawaii getting ready for her July Fourth party tonight in Malibu, was snapped by her paparazzi pals lounging in the sun in Maui and playing in the surf - an apparent bid to show the public that she could relax without partying.
But there are widely different accounts of what went on behind the scenes. Maui vacationers told us Hilton made herself almost as unwelcome with local resorts as she did with the news networks.
"Paris tried to check into the Four Seasons first, but they turned her down," said one guest at that hotel. "She then tried to stay at the Fairmont Kea Lani, but they turned her down, as well. She finally got a place at the Grand Wailea Resort, but that's because it was a Hilton. We all thought it was hilarious that the Hilton hotel was her third choice."
Perhaps the hotels were wary of her cozy relationship with photographers. "The paparazzi told us that Paris calls them herself," said a different source, who claimed a lensman told him, "We love her. She lets us know where she's going to be so we can take as many pictures as we want."
The Four Seasons guest reinforced that impression, noting, "She was shopping at the Wailea concourse, strutting around, posing for the cameras. It was disgusting."
But Hilton didn't tell the paparazzi what she was doing at night. "She slipped out of the hotel and went to the club at the Hyatt a couple of times," we're told. "She made friends with a couple of local guys and made out with them there. I guess she didn't want pictures of herself doing that."
"It's amazing," the annoyed vacationer continued. "She hasn't changed at all."
But Hilton's rep, Elliot Mintz, disputed just about everything. Her drives into and out of the Four Seasons and the Fairmont were a ruse to dodge the paparazzi, he said. And, "She never checked into the Grand Wailea. She spent all her time at a private residence" and hung out only with her ex-boyfriend, Stavros Niarchos.
Mintz said Hilton was at the Hyatt to celebrate a girlfriend's birthday. "And as for dropping dimes on the paparazzi, the last thing she needs is more paparazzi coverage."
The list of 19 famous faces, which appears in the magazine's latest issue, on newsstands Friday, was separated by editors into six categories: beauty queens, style setters, entertainers, newsmakers, survivors and body shapers.
OK! named Holmes, the 28-year-old wife of Tom Cruise and mother of their 1-year-old daughter, Suri, a beauty queen because of her "refreshing girl-next-door look" and sporty cropped haircut. Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez also made the cut.
O'Donnell, who brought ratings and controversy during her tumultuous tenure on ABC's "The View," made the list of newsmakers, as did Hollywood supercouple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and "Grey's Anatomy" star T.R. Knight. Knight announced he was gay after it surfaced that Isaiah Washington had used an anti-gay slur against him during an on-set clash with a co-star.
The youngest celebrity on the list: 10-month-old Dannielynn Hope, who was recognized as a survivor because she has been "at the center of Hollywood's most controversial tragedies," the magazine said. Her mother, Anna Nicole Smith, died in Florida in February. A bitter paternity dispute between Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead was put to rest months later when Birkhead showed he was Dannielynn's father.
The top three entertainers — the "people who decide what we watch and listen to," according to OK! — were "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell, Carrie Underwood and model-TV host Heidi Klum.
Tyra Banks was among the "body shapers" who influence notions of body image. Banks, who was dubbed fat after she was photographed on the beach, later appeared on her syndicated TV talk show in a bathing suit.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Justin Timberlake and Kate Moss were named the most prominent trendsetters in fashion.
The heiress, who arrived back in Los Angeles Tuesday after a post-prison trip to Maui, went on a Hawaiian shopping spree this week. The freed heiress hit the upscale Shops at Wailea – the antithesis of the jail commissary – stopping in Guess, BCBG Max Azria, the art gallery Celebrities (featuring works by famous people), the Enchantress Boutique and its new sister store, Fifi & Bootsie.
On two different private shopping excursions, Hilton, wearing linen shorts, a silk top, big straw hat and white sunglasses, spent "a lot" in Enchantress and Fifi & Bootsie, eclectic specialty boutiques that carry 600 different designers between them, a source says.
Her purchases included T-shirts by Brokedown and Hello Kitty, jewelery, candles, a pink leopard caftan by Monique Leshman, a tunic by Gold Hawk, and a princess-themed toilet roll dispenser for $29.
"She was in a really good mood; she's a sweet girl," said one observer. "And she looked great. She's got so much style."
The shopping spree also spared her the solitude she endured in her single-person cell: Eighty to 100 people followed her around the outdoor mall trying to snap her picture or obtain an autograph.
"She was so nice and peaceful," said Enchantress/Fifi & Bootsie co-owner Britta Alexandra. "She's awesome; it was really great to see her again."
A used toothbrush sold for $305; two envelopes sent to her while she was in jail sold for $510; and a Coke can pulled from her trash went for $51.
The organic gourmet dog food was produced by Party Animal Inc., and can be found in about 150 stores in Southern California and about 40 in New York. It can also be bought through the company's Web site.
In response to the part of Hilton's postincarceration interview with the CNN talk-show host in which she said that she'd like to work with Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the nonprofit outfit explained why it might not be ready to make the heiress a poster girl just yet.
"We have reservations about her behavior thus far," MADD spokeswoman Misty Moyse told a Los Angeles wire service Monday, seemingly unimpressed so far by Hilton's statements that she saw the light while spending 23 days in jail for repeatedly driving with a suspended license while on probation for a drunken-driving-related charge.
"Typically, we've only worked with high-profile figures if there's true responsibility for those actions," Moyse said, adding that, as far as she knew, MADD hasn't yet heard from anyone representing Hilton, nor has the organization reached out to Hilton.
"Typically, we wait until the case is closed. There's just a lot of parameters we have to look at at our end, regarding the person taking responsibility and other things."
Hilton's publicist, Elliot Mintz, has not yet responded to a request for comment.
Hilton told King last Wednesday that, though she at first thought that she was slapped with a raw deal by getting jail time and not just community service, as her lawyer had predicted, the time away was really "a blessing in disguise."
Regarding the DUI that kicked off the ensuing mess back in September, Hilton said: "I'll never make that mistake again. I take full responsibility. And I hope by me serving this sentence, and I know it has helped, because I've received a lot of letters from different people that they've made the mistake of drinking and driving. And because I went through this, like, wow, it could happen to me, too."
But that new brand of self-awareness may not be enough for the decades-old MADD, founded in 1980 by a California mom whose 13-year-old daughter was killed by an intoxicated driver with three prior drunken-driving convictions.
Citing Hilton's behavior as an example, MADD National president Glynn Birch issued a statement June 7 saying they would like to see at least a one-year ignition interlock provision added to people's sentences after they're caught driving with suspended licenses after being busted for a DUI. (The system prevents a car from starting if the driver's blood-alcohol level is above a preset limit, determined by blowing into a small sensor attached to the dashboard.)
"Paris Hilton and the number of many other high-profile celebrities and sports figures committing to drunk driving offenses are alarming, and this problem needs to stop. Hilton has not been responsible in using her celebrity during this time," the statement read.
"Additionally, if high-profile celebrities and athletes can afford alternative transportation, MADD wants to know why aren’t they using it? It should not be a rite of passage in Hollywood to have a drunk driving arrest, but based on recent media accounts, MADD’s beginning to wonder if this is not the case."
On June 7, Hilton was remanded to house arrest after three days behind bars after Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca saw fit to transfer her due to an undisclosed medical condition, that Hilton later described as a series of panic attacks brought on by claustrophobia.
By June 8, medical and psychiatric tests had shown that Hilton was well enough to be back in jail.
During last week's interview, King questioned Hilton about MADD's perception of her, and asked whether she planned to work with the group.
"Yes, I'd love to work with them, and I think me, by doing my sentence and doing my time, I have served as a bit of an example and I want to continue to do so," the Simple Life star said.
Hilton, who's currently vacationing in Maui, went on to say that she is not a big drinker, despite her being a fixture on the international party circuit, and that she had never taken drugs.
"People make up so many crazy stories," she said. "The things I read about, and things I see is not the person who I am. It really baffles me sometimes when I read things. The places I've never been. People I've never met. It's really shocking to me."
King told E! News' Ryan Seacrest the following day that he doesn't think "anyone believes that she's never done drugs," but that it seemed Hilton was being honest "for the most part."
"She gives you shorter answers than you would like. I might have wanted more introspection," King said.
Celebrities who have made the grade in the past with MADD include Nick Cannon, Hilary Duff, Nelly Furtado and skateboarding icon Tony Hawk, all of whom were featured in the group's 2005 Backstage Pass school assembly DVD, which was shown in thousands of junior high and high schools nationwide.
MADD's "primary concern" about Hilton, Moyse said, is "the kind of messages being sent to the public and young girls nationwide about the seriousness of drunk driving and drinking by those under 21."
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The heiress touched down in Maui Thursday afternoon, clad in sunglasses and a black wig in an apparently futile attempt at disguising herself as she made her way from first-class airport lounge to first-class resort accommodations
Either way, Hilton has left the contiguous 48 states, two days removed from a three-week stint in jail and less than 24 hours after opening up on Larry King Live about what she went through, who she really is and what she plans on doing now that she's seen the error of her oft-flighty ways.
Hilton said that, while at first she expected to be sentenced to community service and that jail was unfair, the punishment was really a "blessing in disguise," a chance to discover what was really important in life and turn over a new leaf.
"I just had to deal with it," she said. "If I was going to be there, I had to make the best of it."
The perennial red carpet and tabloid presence also told King that, despite her party-hearty image (and the myriad photographic images contributing to her reputation), she is not a big drinker and, other than prescription meds to treat attention deficit disorder, does not take drugs.
King, who has lobbed quite a few questions in his lifetime, wasn't quite sure whether Hilton was being perfectly ingenuous during that part of the interview, however.
King felt Hilton was being honest "for the most part," he told Ryan Seacrest Thursday during the E! News anchor's KIIS-FM morning show.
"I don't think anyone believes that she's never done drugs. When you do something, the best way to be is to say that you did them. Then the audience will believe you. The worst is to try to deny it. And I think that's hard to take."
Also in a debunking mood was The Smoking Gun, which has posted seven videos featuring Hilton talking about smoking marijuana, engaged in a discussion about Quaaludes and prescription painkillers, musing about whether to take hallucinogenic mushrooms, and smoking hash—albeit in Amsterdam, where it's legal.
But, whether Hilton fudged the truth or not, King deemed their Q&A good television.
"I don't think you turned it off," he said. "I thought she looked good—for someone who'd been in jail, she looked fine."
Also, "she gives you shorter answers than you would like. I might have wanted more introspection. And I think she's finding herself. She's been raised with more money than God. And you've got to face life as she's tried to face it."
Hilton's appearance was certainly a coup for King, whose long-running CNN show attracted nearly triple the audience it usually gets, a hefty 3.2 million viewers as opposed to its usual 1.1 million.
Will the hotel heiress have the good sense to hand her keys to someone else after a night of club-hopping, or risk another stay at the gray-bar hotel?
She says she's wised up, but the intersection of Hollywood and wine (not to mention beer and booze) has long spelled trouble for celebrities who take the wheel, meaning it could be harder than even Hilton realizes to find another way home.
"They don't want to spend the money to pay for a car service because they want to be photographed in their fancy cars," veteran Hollywood media image consultant Michael Sands says of too many celebrities he's known.
What should be a no-brainer — don't drink and drive — becomes all but impossible for many of them, Sands says. As a result, the list of celebrity DUI scofflaws grows almost daily.
A few highlights:
• Mel Gibson tools down Pacific Coast Highway at 87 mph with a bottle of tequila in his Lexus last year before he's pulled over. After an angry, anti-Semitic rant in which he blames Jews for all the world's wars, he's taken to jail for drunken driving.
• Lindsay Lohan, six weeks shy of the legal drinking age, winds up in the hospital, then under arrest on suspicion of DUI and finally in rehab after crashing her Mercedes-Benz into a curb on the Sunset Strip over Memorial Day weekend.
• Nicole Richie, 25, is charged with DUI in December after the California Highway Patrol finds her SUV parked in a freeway car pool lane with her in it. She's entered a not guilty plea.
• Rapper-actress Eve pleads no contest to DUI after smashing her Maserati into a concrete median on Hollywood Boulevard and is sentenced to wearing a booze-detecting ankle bracelet for 45 days.
Observers in other parts of the country wonder why someone with more than enough money to hire a limo — not to mention a small army of hangers-on to drive it — would persist in getting plastered and then getting behind the wheel.
In New York, with more public transportation and less emphasis on personal cars, fewer celebrities seem to get stopped. Actor Tracy Morgan of "30 Rock" did manage to get busted for DUI in both cities, however, pleading no contest in Los Angeles last year and guilty in New York this year.
Driving drunk has less to do with Southern California's car culture and more with a mind-set, says Los Angeles behavioral psychologist Antoine Bechara. Someone who is drunk, celebrity or otherwise, has trouble realizing they shouldn't drive, he said.
"Alcohol tends to impact the area of the brain ... which has to do with judgment and decision making," Bechara said. "Usually these individuals become unaware, or they just deny, that they are drunk and not able to drive."
Add to that the self-importance and narcissism of famous people who are surrounded by entourages, says University of Southern California sociologist Julie Albright, and it can be a dangerous mix.
"Often, they're so self-absorbed that they can't think of the impact of their behavior on others," she said.
That's an attitude Chris Heltai has seen firsthand. He's the chief driver for Home James, a business that dispatches drivers on small fold-up motor scooters to clubs and bars where people have had too much to drink. The riders fold up their scooters, put them in a client's car and drive the person home.
The number of celebrities using the service is small, said Heltai.
"They just don't want to be bothered. They think it's a hassle," he said. "They feel a lack of control when they hand their car over to someone else. And to acknowledge they're too drunk to drive is another thing. No one wants to feel like a wuss."
And so Vivica A. Fox collects a DUI arrest in March after officers saw her blow by their patrol car at 80 mph. Haley Joel Osment, just 18 at the time, rams his car into a Pasadena mailbox last July, breaks a rib and pleads no contest to driving under the influence.
In one of the most serious cases, former "Prison Break" actor Lane Garrison pleads guilty to vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving after his SUV hits a tree and his teenage passenger is killed. He'll be sentenced in August and could face nearly seven years in prison.
Not that such celebrity troubles are anything new.
A wild-eyed Nick Nolte provided the Internet with one of its most outrageous booking photos after he was stopped for driving erratically on Pacific Coast Highway in 2002 and pleaded no contest to driving under the influence of drugs.
Also to be found on the Web is a YouTube clip of an embarrassed "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson explaining his early 1980s drunken driving arrest.
"I'll tell you one thing, you will never see me do that again," Carson promises his audience.
The talk-show host, who died in 2005, kept that promise.
So has Gibson, so far. Since his arrest last year, the 51-year-old actor-director apologized, completed rehab and went on to promote his latest directing effort, "Apocalypto." A judge praised him in May for his progress.
Whether the 26-year-old Hilton can do the same remains to be seen.
During her interview Wednesday with CNN's Larry King, she pledged, "I will never drink and drive again."
Hilton was tossed into the slammer after failing a field sobriety test last September, pleading no contest to reckless driving and then getting caught twice violating probation by driving on a suspended license. She told King she had only one drink.
One thing she and several of her young Hollywood peers may have had working against them, Bechara says, is their age. The prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that controls judgment, doesn't fully develop until people are in their 20s.
"Luckily, in most people it eventually matures and everybody wises up," he said.
Hilton's one-hour interview on Wednesday's "Larry King Live" averaged 3.2 million viewers, according to live-plus-same-day ratings released Thursday by Nielsen Media Research.
That beat Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes," which almost always wins at 9 p.m., as well as traditional cable news winner "The O'Reilly Factor." "O'Reilly's" Wednesday show averaged 2.6 million viewers at 8 p.m. EDT; "Hannity & Colmes" averaged 1.6 million viewers.
Wednesday's show was King's highest telecast since September 21, 2005, when 4.9 million viewers tuned in for breaking news that included the emergency landing of a Jet Blue Airbus 320 in Los Angeles and Hurricane Rita. It also surpassed King's high-profile interview June 29, 2006, with Star Jones Reynolds after her departure from "The View," which averaged 3 million viewers. By comparison, Tuesday's "Larry King Live" averaged 1.5 million viewers.
That once-in-a-blue-moon boost gave CNN the win against Fox News Channel in primetime, though Fox came out ahead in total day. It even helped "Anderson Cooper 360," which averaged 1.9 million viewers from 10-11 p.m.
But the Hilton interview doesn't come close to King's greatest hits, ranking far behind other telecasts in the ratings.
Only days after being released from jail, the hotel heiress, 26, has leased a $2.9 million Malibu beach house for the season, Entertainment Tonight reports on its Web site.
The 2,258-sq.-ft. residence is described as being right on the water, with two bedrooms and three baths. Hilton may take possession as early as this weekend, ET reports, adding that Hilton's parents, Kathy and Rick Hilton, may also be renting their own summer place nearby.
Calls to Hilton's rep were not immediately returned.
Meanwhile, Hilton said in her concluding remarks to King on Wednesday, "I've definitely matured and grown a lot from this experience. ... I'm 26 years old. I'm an adult, and I ... have to just grow up and to be a more responsible – a role model, because I've gotten a lot of letters from mothers and their daughters."
The story of how Hilton came to give her first post-jail interview to King has been thoroughly reported, from her father's botched effort to sell it to NBC for $1 million to a rejection by ABC's Barbara Walters, who felt double-crossed. What needs to be said -- and what was baldly apparent on Wednesday's "Larry King Live" -- was that Hilton needed this interview far more than any network needed to give it to her.
There's no denying that the humbled celebrity interview has become a talk show staple, whether it's Hugh Grant, Mel Gibson or Jerry Seinfeld doing penance for Michael Richards. They are good for ratings and good for the humiliated star who is, in essence, cleansed by the public show of remorse.
And when it's over, the actor can go back to acting and the tabloids can go find a shocking and shameful new controversy.
In Hilton's case, though, there isn't that much to go back to. Neither singer nor actress, she desperately needed to reinvent herself. Ideally, she needed to appear chastened, slightly victimized by an unfair justice system, brave, vaguely philanthropic, spiritual and determined to jettison her wild ways. Thanks to King's aversion to follow-up after even the most self-serving of Hilton's answers, Hilton accomplished much of what she set out to do.
If only she had been just a little more believable. ...
King asked if she had to undergo a strip search at the jail. Yes, Hilton replied, and it was "the most humiliating experience of my life." So then those sex tapes all over the Internet fell to second place?
King asked Hilton if she is a party girl. "I'm a social person," she replied. In case you're taking notes, the woman who looked incredibly like Hilton on King's show denied ever taking drugs or drinking to excess.
When Hilton talked about reading the Bible in jail, it was too much, even for King. What was your favorite passage, he asked. "I don't have a favorite," she answered. But you read it every day, he persisted. "In jail, I read it a lot," she said. "Are you going to go to Mass?" he asked. "Yes," she replied. All right, then, she really has found religion.
It was such an obviously scripted performance and so at odds with everything that has ever been reported about Hilton that there is a temptation to believe that no one in their right mind could buy it.
But that's not so. This is a big world, and there will always be people who want to believe that someone young and pretty can be redeemed. They know how the media loves to sensationalize, but what they don't know is how well celebrities have learned to manipulate the media.
This Hilton will be open for business in no time.
In her first televised interview since leaving jail, a demure Hilton said Wednesday that even though she's an Aquarius and "we're social people," her time behind bars taught her "there's a lot more important things in life" than partying.
"I'm frankly sick of it," Hilton said, with loose, re-blonded locks and camera-ready makeup. "I've been going out for a long time now. Yeah, it's fun, but it's not going to be the mainstay of my life anymore."
She said her incarceration was "a very traumatic experience" that inspired a "journey" of self-discovery that she intends to continue. The world will see a new Paris Hilton, she said.
"I'm glad it happened in a way because it's changed my life forever," she said in the pre-taped, hour-long interview. "I feel stronger than ever and, I don't know, I feel like this is a lesson in disguise."
The hotel heiress spent about 23 days in custody before she was sprung Tuesday. Hilton passed the time, she said, considering "what was important and what I want to do."
Among those plans? Using her fame to bring attention to social causes rather than the newest Hollywood nightspot.
"I feel like being in the spotlight, I have a platform where I can raise awareness for so many great causes and just do so much with this instead of superficial things like going out," she said. "I want to help raise money for kids and for breast cancer and multiple sclerosis."
Hilton said a big misconception about her is that she lives off her family's money.
"I completely disagree with that," she said. "I work very hard. I run a business. I've had a book on The New York Times best-sellers list. I'm on the fifth season of my TV show. I did an album. I do movies."
The media has exaggerated her party-girl image, she said, telling King twice she's never taken drugs and does not have a drinking problem.
"I'm not really into it," Hilton said of drinking.
Asked why she never tried to correct inaccurate reports of partying and drug use, Hilton said, "I'm telling you right now so I put a stop to it."
Alone in her cell for 23 hours a day, Hilton devoted herself to reading, writing and thinking. She said she made plans to help her fellow inmates and imagined ways to be "a more responsible role model."
"I feel like God does make everything happen for a reason," she said. "And it gave me, you know, a time-out in life just to really find out what is important and what I want to do, figure out who I am."
Educated in Roman Catholic schools, Hilton said she's "always been religious" and "always had a sense of spirituality but even more so after being in jail."
She bought a Bible from the jail commissary and read it daily, she said. Asked to name her favorite passage, she smiled and looked away.
"I don't have a favorite," she said.
At various points during the interview, Hilton read excerpts from her jailtime journals, beginning each passage with a heavy sigh. She wrote about being at a crossroads, characterizing it as "neither a downfall nor a failure, but a new beginning," and about her "compassion for those I left behind at the prison."
"I want to help set up a place where these women can get themselves back on their feet," she read. "I know I can make a difference and hopefully stop this vicious circle of these people going in and out of jail."
Hilton said she suffers from claustrophobia and attention deficit disorder, for which she takes medication. She said sheriff's officials released her to home confinement after just three days because of claustrophobia and anxiety and panic attacks.
After a judge ordered her back to jail, Hilton said she coped by meditating and reading letters from fans. But she still had nightmares of "someone trying to break into my cell and hurt me."
"Just the whole idea of being in jail is really scary," she said. "I hate to be alone so that was really just hard for me in the beginning."
When asked about the party crowd she hangs with, including Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and her reality TV co-star Nicole Richie, Hilton said "everybody makes mistakes."
"I think it's hard for anyone when you're in the spotlight so much," she said. "It's overwhelming for any young girl, but I've handled it well."
Excerpts of the interview, to be broadcast at 9 p.m. EDT, were posted an hour early on the celebrity Web site TMZ.com and later aired on CNN before the show. They show a soft-spoken Hilton dressed in white lace as she sits across from King.
"I've been through a lot," said Hilton, her blond hair cascading across her forehead. "And it was a pretty traumatic experience, something that I really have grown from."
Asked why she was going public about her experience, she told King, "I just want to let people know what I went through." It was her first broadcast interview since being released.
She added that going to jail was the last thing she expected when Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer ordered her to his court in May for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless-driving case.
"I was walking in there assuming I was just going to get community service," Hilton said. "That's what my lawyer said at the time. So when he sentenced me to that much time in jail it was shocking because that doesn't happen, ever.
"It wasn't for DUI, it was for suspended license," she said of her case.
Hilton also told King she thought the experience had changed her for the better.
"I feel like God does make everything happen for a reason," she said. "And it gave me, you know, a time-out in life just to really find out what is important and what I want to do, figure out who I am. And even though it was really hard, I took that time just to get to know myself."
She called her release from jail shortly after midnight Tuesday "one of the happiest days of my life."
"It's hard to even describe. It was so exciting," she said of walking past a gauntlet of reporters and photographers to an SUV where her mother and father were waiting for her.
"It was just pandemonium, and then as soon as I saw my mom I just ran to her to go give her a hug."
The messy ponytail and makeup-free face Hilton displayed when she left the Century Regional Detention Facility Tuesday were replaced Wednesday with loose, re-blonded locks and camera-ready blue eye-shadow and pink lipstick.
She faced another gauntlet when she arrived at CNN's Los Angeles studios, with paparazzi shouting, "Paris, we love you" and asking her what she had learned in jail.
Hilton, wearing oversized, white-framed sunglasses, didn't reply but waved demurely to the crowd before turning and walking into the studio.
After leaving jail Hilton went to her grandparents' Holmby Hills mansion where she stayed holed up Tuesday preparing for Wednesday's appearance.
Her path to jail began Sept. 7, when she failed a sobriety test after police saw her weaving down a street in her Mercedes-Benz. Hilton, who said she was hungry and on the way to get a hamburger, pleaded no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving and was sentenced to probation for three years.
In the months that followed she was stopped twice by officers who discovered her driving with a suspended license. The second stop landed her in court and then in jail.
These were the words of Paris Hilton, smiling and fluffing her newly replaced blonde hair extensions Tuesday at her grandfather's Bel Air mansion, just hours after her release from the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif.
In an exclusive interview and photo shoot with PEOPLE, Hilton, 26, gave a candid glimpse into her 23 days in jail – including her explanation of the medical problems that led to her brief transfer to house arrest, and what she says she's learned from her experience.
"I was basically in the fetal position, basically in hysterics," Hilton says of her first sleepless nights in jail. As for her fellow inmates, she adds, "All of the inmates were very supportive. There were girls next to me. We could talk through the vents and they were just really sweet."
Other highlights from her sit-down interview with PEOPLE's Jess Cagle and Elizabeth Leonard:
On her medical condition:
"The doctors were observing me while I was there. They explained to Sheriff [Lee] Baca that they thought I was having severe anxiety, panic attacks, claustrophobia."
On people who doubt that she will change after her jail experience:
"They're wrong and they don't know me. I'm a good person. I'm a compassionate person. I have a big heart. I'm sincere, and they'll see."
On getting out:
"Just being able to hug my mom felt so great, and I really needed it 'cause I haven't had a hug in a long time."
For more, including exclusive photos, plus the negative influences Hilton says she's cutting from her life and what she plans to do next, pick up the latest PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
Paris Hilton was expected to make her first televised comments on life after jail Wednesday during an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live."
The 26-year-old hotel heiress and notorious party girl walked out of the Century Regional Detention Facility early Tuesday and was immediately driven to her grandparents' home in fashionable Holmby Hills. She remained inside throughout the day.
Hilton has given hints about what she might say about her future during brief interviews while in county lockup.
"I want to help build a transitional home so that when inmates leave here they don't have to go back to the street," she told E! News' Ryan Seacrest from jail last week.
She also said she'd like to change her image.
"I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute," Hilton told ABC News' Barbara Walters.
She revealed more details in a post-jail interview with People magazine, on newsstands Friday. Excerpts were posted Wednesday on People's Web site.
Hilton said doctors observing her thought she was having "severe anxiety, panic attacks, claustrophobia."
She added that during her first few days behind bars, "I was basically in the fetal position, basically in hysterics."
Her medical condition prompted Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca to transfer Hilton to home confinement just days into her sentence, igniting furious debate over celebrity treatment in the jail system.
Hilton has said she was "shocked" by the attention given to her case.
To help reshape her image, Hilton has enlisted crisis management expert Michael Sitrick, whose Los Angeles firm has represented talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, singer R. Kelly and drummer Tommy Lee.
She tells those who doubt her sincerity: "They're wrong and they don't know me. I'm a good person. I'm a compassionate person. I have a big heart. I'm sincere, and they'll see," according to People.
For now, however, the image splashed on the Internet, television and in newspapers has been of her red-carpet style exit from jail, strutting past the assembled masses in tight jeans and white stiletto heels and slapping hands with sheriff's deputies holding photographers at bay.
At her grandparents' mansion, more than a dozen cars pulled up and were quickly buzzed inside, while photographers and journalists waited for any sign of Hilton.
Hilton's path to jail began Sept. 7, when she failed a sobriety test after police saw her weaving down a street in her Mercedes-Benz. Hilton, who said she was hungry and on the way to get a hamburger, pleaded no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving and was sentenced to three years' probation.
In the months that followed she was stopped twice by officers who discovered her driving with a suspended license. The second stop landed her in court and then in jail.
"Our doctors said we had no solution to Hilton's medical problems. None," insisted Baca, who did not elaborate on Hilton's illness. "As a sheriff in this county, I'm not going to let any inmate die in this jail."
Baca, whose department runs the jails, spoke to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, which oversees sheriff's funding. Baca and the board have long clashed over the budget and its impact on the jail population.
The sheriff, an elected official, said his decision to place Hilton in home-confinement was also motivated by a federal mandate to relieve jail overcrowding that results in early release of minor offenders.
"What's worth more," he asked, "a person spending time in a county jail for driving on a suspended license or a person losing her life?"
Baca held up a medical report, and said Hilton had two doctors prescribing different medications.
"She was at a place where we couldn't fix whatever that medical problem was with the resources we have. We knew this problem was not going to get better," Baca said. "We were placed in a very unusual and awkward position with Ms. Hilton."
But the supervisors questioned the severity of Hilton's health problem. "She looked pretty healthy at the MTV Awards before going into jail," said Supervisor Don Knabe.
Baca explained that, eventually, Hilton's doctors "gave us the right information concerning her medication."
But the larger issues remained, he said. Baca said he has dwindling space, and most of it has to go to felons awaiting sentencing.
"Everyone who goes in to serve county jail time is early released," Baca said. "If Ms. Hilton got preferential treatment, it's that she spent more time in the county jail than the average inmate."
"She's very happy to be home – very, very happy," said her aunt, Kyle Richards, who arrived with her two daughters. Richards said Hilton planned to relax and "spend family time."
"I think she's just excited to be at home and be with her family," Richards added.
Hilton, 26, walked out of jail at about 12:15 a.m. Tuesday after serving 23 days for violating her probation in an alcohol-related driving case. The heiress smiled and waved, then embraced her mother, before being driven away from the jail in Lynwood, Calif.
She spent the night at the Hilton family compound, where an army of reporters and photographers were camped outside. Pink balloons were delivered to the house, as was a white frosted cake with the words "Welcome Home" written on it. No word on who sent the goodies. Pink hydrangeas, yellow lilies and pink roses valued at $200 were also delivered by Urban Florists Tuesday afternoon.
A family friend told PEOPLE Tuesday morning: "She has been missing her pets a lot. And she loves fast food. She's looking forward to In-N-Out Burger and Taco Bell."
Later in the day, two Taco Bell reps arrived at the mansion and announced they had a delivery of four bags of food from Paris to the media. They then handed out taquitos and chips to everyone, including police officers.
"When it came down to it, the staff and I felt what I believe a lot of people in America are feeling. Which is just enormous Paris fatigue," US Weekly Editor Janice Min told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
As a result, Hilton not only won't be on the cover, there won't even be a mention of her in the magazine.
"I don't think," Min joked, "we even mention the city of Paris."
That was no easy task, she said, adding US Weekly editors had to comb carefully through every beauty story and every fashion item to make sure there wasn't an offhand mention of the hotel heiress somewhere.
The Associated Press put in place a similar Hilton moratorium for a week earlier this year, just to see what would happen.
As it turned out, the celebutante didn't do much that was of interest to anyone that week. Certainly she didn't get out of jail and get chased across town by a pack of Hilton-hungry photographers.
Still, Min expects her magazine will do just fine without her. Hilton, she said, has become such a mainstream media staple "that in many ways her time with US Weekly has moved on."
So look instead for an US Weekly cover photo Friday of Tom Cruise's baby and, inside the magazine, a dozen pages of other Hollywood babies.
Which raises the question, what would US Weekly do if Paris Hilton had a baby?
"That will elevate her, probably, back onto the cover," Min said with a laugh.
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.
As Hilton was unwinding in Holmby Hills on Tuesday, Baca appeared before the county Board of Supervisors to angrily defend his original decision to release her. He said Hilton had developed a life-threatening psychological condition called decompensating. Exacerbating her condition, he said, was the fact she couldn't tell jailers exactly what medications she had been prescribed and a disagreement between her own physicians on how she should be treated.
"What's worth more, a person going to jail for driving with a suspended drivers license or someone losing their life?" Baca asked.
Supervisor Don Knabe questioned whether Hilton was really that ill.
"She looked pretty healthy at the MTV awards before going to jail," he said.
The board took no action.
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Looking exuberant, Hilton sashayed past two rows of reporters and photographers held behind yellow police tape at the Lynwood women's jail just after midnight, before running to a waiting sport utility vehicle to hug her mother, Kathy.
Without saying a word, they left quickly for a Hilton family home in the exclusive enclave of Bel-Air, with several vehicles full of photographers tailing them all the way.
Hilton, who has vowed to change her party-going ways and give new meaning to her life, was set to give her first after jail interview on Wednesday on CNN's "Larry King Live."
The incarceration of the 26-year-old multimillionaire, who lampooned her own persona as a clueless child of privilege on the reality TV show "The Simple Life," ignited a worldwide media frenzy and debate about celebrity justice.
The saga hit a crescendo when Hilton was placed briefly under house arrest after just three days in jail, sparking an uproar over what many saw as preferential treatment. A Los Angeles Times analysis, however, found her sentence far exceeded those served by most inmates for similar offenses.
Her departure from jail on Tuesday was in stark contrast to the scene when a sobbing Hilton was ordered back to her cell earlier this month, crying: "Mom, mom. It is not right."
In the end, Hilton served just over 22 days in detention. The original 45-day term set by the judge was effectively cut in half under a standard credit applied for good behavior.
SHERIFF VS. PROSECUTOR
The case has also led to a rare public showdown between two of Los Angeles' top law enforcement officers -- City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, who prosecuted Hilton, and Sheriff Lee Baca, who oversees the county jail system and moved to "reassign" Hilton to house arrest.
The judge sided with the prosecutor in sending Hilton back to jail to finish her term. But Delgadillo, a rising political star, soon found himself under fire for his own misconduct, including improper use of city resources and revelations that his wife had been the subject of a 9-year-old arrest warrant.
Hilton has spoken in interviews of being transformed by her experience, of wanting to be taken more seriously and of feeling that God had given her a second chance.
Her jail time stemmed from her arrest in September on a charge of drunken driving. She pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of alcohol-related reckless driving in January and was sentenced to three years probation.
The next month she was caught driving on a suspended license, which Judge Michael Sauer ruled violated probation.
Hilton surrendered the night of June 3 to begin her sentence. Days later, Sheriff Baca released her to house arrest, citing unspecified medical problems that he later described as psychological. Hilton later said she suffers from claustrophobia.
The 26-year-old celebutante was greeted by an enormous gathering of cameras and reporters upon leaving the all-women's facility in Lynwood about 15 minutes past midnight. She had checked into the Century Regional Detention Facility late June 3, largely avoiding the spotlight, after a surprise appearance at the MTV Movie Awards.
Hilton smiled and waved as she filed past deputies and the media, her blond hair pulled back in a braided ponytail. Her parents, Kathy and Rick, waited in a black SUV. Hilton hurried to the vehicle, where she hugged her mom through the window.
Hilton, who was wearing a sage jacket with white trim over a white shirt and skinny jeans, did not respond to reporters' questions.
"She fulfilled her debt. She was obviously in good spirits. She thanked people as she left," said sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.
Photographers sprinted after Hilton's vehicle as she left. When the SUV hit a red light during the ride, photographers jumped out of their cars and swarmed it.
Hilton appeared to have gone to a family home in a ritzy Los Angeles canyon north of Sunset Blvd.
The hotel heiress will complete her probation in March 2009 as long as she keeps her driver's license current and doesn't break any laws. She can reduce that time by 12 months if she does community service that could include a public-service announcement, the city attorney's office has said.
During her stay at the Lynwood facility, Hilton was mostly confined to a solitary cell in the special needs unit away from the other 2,200 inmates.
After spending only three days there, she was released to home confinement by Sheriff Lee Baca for an unspecified medical condition that he later said was psychological.
The following day, Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer, who sentenced the hotel heiress, called her back into court and ordered her returned to jail, saying he had not condoned her release.
Hilton left the courtroom in tears calling for her mother and shouting, "It's not right!"
She was then taken to the downtown Twin Towers jail, which houses men and the county jail's medical treatment center, where she underwent medical and psychiatric exams to determine where she should be confined.
Hilton's stay there cost taxpayers $1,109.78 a day, more than 10 times the cost of housing inmates in the general population.
The move by Baca caused a firestorm of criticism over whether the celebrity was getting special treatment. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has launched an investigation into whether the multimillionaire received special treatment because of her wealth and fame.
At least one person has filed a claim against the county alleging she "had serious medical issues" but was not treated as well as Hilton.
A few days into her stint at the Twin Towers medical ward, the heiress said in a phone call to Barbara Walters that she had a new outlook.
"I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute," Hilton said during the call, according to an account posted June 11 by Walters on ABC's Web site.
"It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me," Hilton was quoted as saying.
Hilton's path to jail began Sept. 7, when she failed a sobriety test after police saw her weaving down a street in her car on what she said was a late-night run to a hamburger stand.
She pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to 36 months' probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.
In the months that followed, she was stopped twice by officers who discovered her driving with a suspended license. The second stop landed her in Sauer's courtroom, where he sentenced her to 45-days in jail. She was released after three weeks for reasons including good behavior.
So far the answer is $0.
But the people from HollywoodStarTrash.com are counting on someone forking over at least $40. That's the starting bid listed on eBay for the can that once contained a helping of Party Animal organic gourmet. Bidding closes Sunday.
As of midday Monday, the can had no takers. Nor had anyone put down a bid for the used toothbrush, the Hilton fan letter or the Hilton-autographed postcard also said to have been plucked from the hotel heiress' garbage.
According to a video placed on hollywoodstartrash.com, a guy wearing an Uncle Sam mask tracked down Hilton's address from a map to movie stars' homes. Then he and a colleague, who remains off camera, sneaked into Hilton's neighborhood before dawn on a recent Thursday and absconded with six bags of garbage.
"We discovered that Paris Hilton throws out a well organized and quite neat bag of trash, save for a few Cobb salads and banana peels," says one of the two.
Neither immediately responded to an e-mailed request to elaborate.
Their Web site indicated that as time goes by they'll be sifting through other celebrities' trash and offering it for sale. A man identified as a lawyer, who appears on the video, tells them their actions are legal as long as they wait for celebrities to put their trash cans out on the street and don't trespass on their property.
As to whether the trash is really Hilton's, they place the following statement on each of the eBay offerings: "We guarantee that each item comes from the trash bins outside the celebrity's home!"
And who wouldn't believe a guy in an Uncle Sam mask?
With Hilton due to be released sometime Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration promised to keep a close watch on the paparazzi helicopter pilots expected to track her every move.
"We will be sending inspectors to her neighborhood and to the jail to keep an eye on all the helicopter and perhaps even airplane traffic in the vicinity and make sure all the operations are conducted safely," said FAA spokesman Ian Gregor.
He noted that copter pilots could be cited for such things as hovering dangerously low over people or hovering low enough to kick up debris that damages homes and vehicles.
Meanwhile, in the fashionable Hollywood Hills neighborhood that Hilton calls home when she's not in jail, city transportation officials put up temporary no-parking signs during the weekend to ensure that news vans and other vehicles didn't block access to the narrow, winding street.
"It's done to enable the people who live in the community to have access to their homes," said Transportation Department spokesman Bruce Gillman. He didn't know how long the signs would remain but said, "Hopefully, the media isn't there too long."
At the Sheriff's Department, which administers the Los Angeles County jail system, officials were keeping quiet about how Hilton was spending her last hours in jail or what sort of paperwork process she must go through before being released.
"I'm not going to get into that. What I will say is to reiterate that the release date is tomorrow," sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Monday. "We're not going to discuss anything other than that tomorrow is the day."
Hilton spokesman Elliot Mintz declined to comment on what the star of television's "The Simple Life" planned to do after being sprung from the stir. That left Paris watchers everywhere to speculate about such things as:
_Where would the hotel heiress go first, her home, her folks' home or a hotel?
_What would be the first meal for Hilton, who has roundly criticized the quality of jail food? Would it possibly be an In-N-Out burger, which Hilton has said she was on her way to pick up last September when she was stopped for reckless driving, the incident that eventually put her in jail.
"I will definitely get a good meal because the food in here is absolutely inedible and horrible," the 26-year-old celebutante told E! News' Ryan Seacrest by phone last week.
Over the weekend, her mother, Kathy Hilton, paid a visit to the jail and told reporters afterward that her daughter was itching to trade in her orange jail jumpsuit for something a bit more stylish.
"She doesn't like orange anymore," Hilton's mother said. "She can't wait to get that orange suit off."
The hotel heiress presumably will discuss more long-range plans Wednesday when she appears on CNN's "Larry King Live."
Hilton, who is arguably most famous for starring in a homemade sex video and being a permanent fixture on the Hollywood nightclub scene, has said she'd like to begin doing something more important with her life.
"I want to help build a transitional home so that when inmates leave here they don't have to go back to the street," she told Seacrest from jail. "These women just keep coming back because they have no place to go."
Hilton's path to jail began Sept. 7, when she failed a sobriety test after police saw her weaving down a street in her Mercedes-Benz. Hilton, who said she was hungry and on the way to get a hamburger, pleaded no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving and was sentenced to probation for three years.
In the months that followed she was stopped twice by officers who discovered her driving on a suspended license. The second stop landed her in court and then in jail.
"I think she's very, very excited to see the family," Kathy Hilton, 48, accompanied by two assistants, told PEOPLE as she entered the Lynwood, Calif., lockup on Saturday before spending an hour inside.
"Paris is doing really well, she is really looking forward to going home, and she thanks you in the press who supported her," a family spokeswoman said afterwards. "She wants to be with the family and she can't wait to take that orange suit off."
The visitors said Paris pressed her hands against the glass in the visiting area, frustrated she couldn't hug her mother.
Kathy Hilton also told PEOPLE that Paris appears to be in good shape – though she is upset with her situation.
"She's sick of orange," says her mother. But, Kathy Hilton added, her daughter's "health is good. She looks ... like Paris."
On Friday, sheriff's officials announced that the socialite will leave jail on Tuesday after serving 23 days of the original 45-day sentence imposed by a judge for her having violated probation related to driving repeatedly with a suspended license in an alcohol-related case.
Following her sentencing on May 4, Hilton, 26, reported for jail late the night of June 3 after attending the MTV Movie Awards.
King will conduct an hour-long interview with Hilton on Wednesday, Bridget Leininger said.
CNN's announcement followed word from ABC on Friday that it had turned down an interview with Hilton and an announcement from NBC that it was interested in talking to Hilton but only if she did not request payment.
Leininger did not say if CNN was paying for the interview.
Hilton spokesman Elliott Mintz did not immediately return a call for comment.
Hilton is still in jail, serving a 45-day sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. Sheriff's Department officials announced Friday that they expect to release her sometime Tuesday. They have declined to say exactly when.
Although her sentence was for 45 days, authorities have said all along that with time off for good behavior and because of crowded jail conditions Hilton was likely to serve only 23 days.
If she is released on Tuesday, it will mark the 24th day since she surrendered to jailers after an appearance at the MTV Movie Awards.
The total term takes into account 22 days of credit for good behavior.
"There was some confusion as to whether it would be Monday or Tuesday, and we just wanted to let people know what was happening," says sheriff's Sgt. Duane Allen, Jr.
Records specialists calculated her actual release date, based on Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer's orders, and it is June 26. She can be released any time of day or night.
Hilton, 26, was sentenced to jail for driving repeatedly with a suspended license in violation of her probation in an alcohol-related driving case. She reported for jail late the night of June 3 after attending the MTV Movie Awards.
An ABC executive said his network declined interview offers from the multimillionaire socialite after Hilton and her mother, Kathy, personally sought to secure a deal in a flurry of telephone calls to ABC News veteran Barbara Walters.
Meanwhile, rival network NBC issued a statement saying it, too, had informed Hilton's representatives that it was "no longer interested in pursing an interview with her."
Contrary to reports of a $1 million deal in the works, NBC said it was "never going to pay them any money."
CBS News, which had not been deeply involved in the initial tug-of-war for a Hilton interview, likewise said it was not interested.
The unexpected turn of events came as the Los Angeles County sheriff's department announced that Hilton would be freed on Tuesday, 23 days after she began serving time for violating her probation in a drunken driving case.
Fierce maneuvering to be first to get Hilton on national TV after her release came to light on Thursday in the New York Post, which reported that NBC had agreed to pay as much as $1 million for a "Today" show Hilton exclusive.
That report ignited a media frenzy over where the 26-year-old "celebutante" would make her homecoming TV appearance, how much it might cost and the propriety of news outlets paying -- directly or indirectly -- for interviews.
WALTERS SAYS NO
Paid interviews, while routine in some countries, are taboo in U.S. journalism because they might be an incentive for news sources to embellish or fabricate information. But "licensing" deals providing compensation for the rights to personal material such as video footage or photos have grown more common.
Both ABC and NBC News have insisted they do not pay for interviews and that neither had a deal in place with Hilton.
But an ABC executive who spoke on condition of anonymity said the Hiltons informed the network earlier this week that they had opted for NBC because of a more lucrative offer to license accompanying family photos and video for up to $1 million, compared with $100,000 offered by ABC.
After the NBC deal fell through, the ABC official said, Hilton and her family sought to restart talks with ABC by reaching out to Walters in a series of phone calls to her home late on Thursday night.
"Barbara listened and, today, the executive producer of (ABC news magazine) '20/20' called (Hilton's father) Rick Hilton and told him that ABC News was not interested in an interview with Paris," the executive told Reuters.
Each network said its decision to pass on Hilton was ultimately an editorial one, not financial. And by Friday, even Hilton's camp was saying money was not an issue.
"Contrary to media reports, Paris Hilton is not being paid for any television interview," said Michael Sitrick, a Hilton family representative. "Nor is Paris being paid for any collateral, including video and photographs related to any television interview."
Independent network news analyst Andrew Tyndall said paying for a Hilton interview would pose at least two problems.
"One, you're not supposed to pay news sources, and two, you've decided that Paris Hilton is an important enough story to violate that rule. And probably the second sin is even worse than the first."
During the hotel heiress' exclusive phone conversation with E! News' Ryan Seacrest Thursday, Century Regional Detention Center's prisoner 9818783 discussed her post-release plans, which include reaching out to her "sweet" jail mates and focusing more on charitable works.
"I'm just excited to start this new life," she told Seacrest in the collect call. "I appreciate everything now."
Without naming names, Hilton said her first order of business would be to remove herself from the destructive environment and company she was keeping before her in-and-out confinement in the Los Angeles County jail.
"I think there's a lot of bad people that I was around, and I don't want to surround myself with those types of people anymore."
Thanks to credit for good behavior, Hilton is eligible for release after midnight Monday.
The Simple Life star also set straight the record about her interaction with the other prisoners, saying they have helped her change her outlook.
"I was really scared to come here at first, but all the inmates have been really nice and supportive and, I don't know, it was different than I thought it would be," she said. "It's not like what everyone thinks about jail.
"The walls are pretty thin and there are vents, so the girls next door talk to me through the vent, and they say, 'Oh my God, my kids love you,' or, 'My dad, all he wants for Father's Day is your autograph.'
Hilton said that when she is escorted through the jail's hallways and passes by classrooms, the inmates will "all be in there and they'll all wave and blow kisses."
"Everyone is really supportive and sweet," she said. "If I'm crying and upset, they'll say, 'Don't cry' and 'God bless you.' "
Hilton also said that, despite the fact that she was "going a little bit crazy in the beginning," she is "really proud" of her time in lockup and grateful for her increased appreciation of her own privileged existence.
"A lot of these women, some of them didn't even do the crimes that they are here for, and that's why I want to get out of here. I'm lucky enough that when I leave here, I have a home to go to and I have a family that loves me.
"And a lot of these girls in here, they don't have that option. They go back to the street."
The issue is on the top of Hilton's to do list once she checks out of Century Regional. She tells Seacrest she feels great compassion for the women and, as a result, has already spoken with jail doctors and other personnel about setting up a sort of safe house for newly released inmates.
"I want to help build a transitional home so that when inmates leave here, they don't have to go back to the street," she said. "These women just keep coming back because they have no place to go."
Hilton said she hopes her facility will offer "a place for them to go get food, clothes on their back, get them up on their feet. Especially the mothers. It's just a really bad cycle. If we stop it now, we can make our community a better place."
In addition to dishing on her philanthropic future plans, Hilton also addressed reports that she was losing weight because she was not eating jailhouse cuisine: "There are a lot of rumors going around that aren't true."
"I'm the exact same way," she said. "The food is awful, but I'm eating. Someone told me about that [rumor] and that was a lie, that's not true at all. When I come out in the next couple of days, people will see I'm exactly the same."
As for when exactly she'll be sprung, Hilton said she's "not sure," but "this is my last weekend here."
Hilton's mother, Kathy, told E! News Thursday that she was "counting down" to her daughter's release and reiterated that the unfortunate yet crucial learning experience "is what it is."
As for the 26-year-old reality star, in addition to kicking off "a new chapter" of her life, getting down a decent meal and reuniting with family, Hilton has something else to look forward to in her postpokey plans.
Reports are circulating that NBC has offered to shell out $1 million to secure the first televised interview with the freed Hilton. The "get" would be gotten by Meredith Vieira, sources say.
Word of the deal immediately sparked intense backlash that it's the stated policy of NBC's news division, as well as the other broadcast networks', not to pay for interviews. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Peacock is attempting to hide the costs and defer criticism by shunting the interview off to the network's entertainment division, which has no qualms about paying "licensing fees" for personal photographs and home video footage that may be shown during any televised chats or offering additional perks (a TV movie, perhaps?).
NBC News declined comment beyond insisting that the division "has not and will not pay for an interview."
Hilton's camp, too, asserted that no deal had been completed.
"Contrary to media reports, Paris Hilton is not being paid for any television interview. Nor is Paris being paid for any collateral, including video and photographs related to any television interview," a spokesman said in a statement.
Word spread like wildfire Thursday after a New York Post report said that NBC had outbid ABC News for an exclusive sit-down with Hilton, whose jail term has been the subject of breathless cable and some broadcast coverage in the past month.
"NBC News has not and will not pay for interviews," spokeswoman Allison Gollust said. NBC News also denied that NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker had called Hilton's father, Rick, to lobby for "Today."
But rivals who have been vying for the first interview tell a different story. They say that they were told by Hilton's representatives Thursday that NBC had all but sealed the first interview for Meredith Vieira and "Today."
That came as a surprise to ABC master interviewer Barbara Walters, who had been trying to score the Hilton interview. It was Walters who interviewed Hilton while the heiress was in jail, with Hilton using a pay phone to call Walters at her New York office. The account of that interview was splashed all over "Good Morning America."
Although NBC denied that an offer had been made, sources with knowledge of the situation told The Hollywood Reporter that an offer of nearly $1 million had been made to secure the interview, possibly through some sort of deal with NBC Entertainment. A source called the bid "in a completely different galaxy" than what ABC News had been willing to pay for the licensing of video and still images of Hilton, which would have been in the $50,000-$100,000 range.
"We don't have an agreement in place for Paris Hilton," an NBC Entertainment spokeswoman said.
Hilton's spokesman late Thursday also denied the reports.
"Paris Hilton is not being paid for any television interview," the spokesman said. "Nor is Paris being paid for any collateral, including video and photographs related to any television interview."
Licensing of video footage is somewhat standard in the TV news business, as is the payment of travel and hotel costs for interview subjects. The competition is fierce among the networks for exclusives, particularly in the morning, where "Today" and "GMA" are in mortal combat.
ABC News paid a licensing fee for footage of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin when it interviewed his widow, Terri Irwin. Other high-profile deals also have been made, though all the networks say they don't pay for news.
The troubled singer gives insight into his tempestuous relationship with the supermodel in "The Books of Albion: The Collected Writings of Peter Doherty." The extracts were published Thursday in The Times.
He writes that he hopes to marry her this summer, provided he is "smack and needle-free. ... I become (sic) 10 times happier than any given smackhead. Huzzah!"
The entries also detail the fights between the couple, many of which appear to be about Doherty's addiction to heroin and crack cocaine.
"I have been banging up I confess, and yet my use is extremely moderate and controlled. What am I saying? Kate will not tolerate this ... I wouldn't blame her, and alongside the fixing neither of us seem to completely trust each other although I love her and no other and the tiffs and tumults come between magical happy times," he writes. The diaries also feature an entry written by Moss, in which she tells Doherty: "You have touched my heart and soul ... You make me high, my sweet."
In an exclusive phone conversation with E! News' Ryan Seacrest Thursday, the hotel heiress said she was "really proud" of herself for serving out her sentence and even admitted there was a positive aspect to life behind bars.
"In a way, I'm really glad this happened, because it changed my life forever," Hilton said in a nearly 10-minute call from Century Regional Correctional Facility.
According to the newly reformed party girl, her days of serving as a pop-culture punchline are over.
"I just realize that the media used me to make fun of and be mean about," she said. "Frankly, I'm sick of it. I want to use my fame in a good way."
She said her time on the inside has made her far more appreciative of life's little luxuries.
"I'm so much more grateful for everything that I have, even just to have a pillow at night or food or anything," Hilton said.
As someone accustomed to far more commodious digs, Hilton acknowledged that her initial days in jail were difficult, confirming, as first reported by E! Online, that she suffers from claustrophobia.
"I'm claustrophobic, and my cell is really small. It's hard. There's nothing to do but basically sit. A room with a bunkbed and a toilet and a desk," she said.
"I was going a little bit crazy in the beginning. I'm getting used to it now."
Now, with just days left on her sentence, Hilton said she's "really proud" of herself for making it through and is looking forward to what lies ahead.
"I feel like I can't wait to start a new chapter of my life. It feels really great even though I really don't like it here," she said.
As for what she plans to do when she gets out, Hilton has only simple pleasures on her mind.
"I just can't wait to see my family and have a nice meal and be in my own bed and appreciate all the things I took for granted and never really thought much about," she said.
Hilton is expected to be set free on Monday, which will mark the 23rd day of her 45-day sentence for violating her probation on an alcohol-related driving charge.
It's possible that her time behind bars has made the Simple Life star even more popular.
Her manager, Jason Moore, confirmed to E! News that he was contacted by the Lynwood facility about picking up 20 crates of fan mail, adding up to thousands of letters for the jailbird heiress.
Hilton is making use of her free time to read and respond to some of her mail, as evidenced by a handwritten note to a fan that was obtained Tuesday by E! Online.
She said she was amazed and moved by the sheer volume of mail she has received over the court of her jail sentence, and that reading the messages of support was the best part of her day.
"I'll reread the letters, and I literally cry. It fills my heart and my soul," she said. "So much love. I had no idea there were that many people who cared."
Though Hilton is undoubtedly counting down the seconds until her release, her neighbors are evidently less enthusiastic about her homecoming party.
A group of residents in the hotel namesake's Hollywood Hills enclave has been circulating a petition encouraging neighbors to call police and local officials if traffic and noise conditions become problematic due to the swarm of paparazzi that will no doubt converge on the area.
Meanwhile, the big broadcasters have already begun jockeying for a piece of the allegedly spiritually awakened socialite. The New York Post reports that NBC has agreed to pay as much as $1 million for the first postjail sit-down with Hilton, which will reportedly be conducted by Meredith Vieira. (The network had no comment, while Hilton rep Elliot Mintz said he could not "confirm or deny" the report.)
ABC was said to be put out by the decision, having expected Hilton to select her phone pal Barbara Walters for the interview. However, having already given the View denmother an earful via collect call, Hilton was apparently ready to discuss her time served with someone new.
As Hilton's jail sentence winds down, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, the official chiefly responsible for putting her behind bars, has come under fire for staying mum about a 2004 accident in which his wife, Michelle, crashed his city-issued vehicle while driving on a suspended license.
Earlier in the week, Delgadillo admitted he made a mistake and said he had written a check to reimburse the city for the $1,222 repair, saying that it was "the right thing to do."
"I mishandled the situation and I apologize," Delgadillo said at a news conference Monday.
However, he maintained that his wife's violation was not comparable to Hilton's crime.
"Paris Hilton was driving drunk, was on probation…She violated that probation more than once," he said. "My wife had a suspended license and then she received a ticket. She was never driving drunk."
Of course, as Hilton tells it, neither was she.
Immediately following the September traffic stop that marked the start of her troubles, Hilton placed a call to Seacrest on his morning radio show to explain that her DUI arrest was simply the result of driving on an empty stomach after downing a single margarita.
"I was just really hungry and wanted to have an In-N-Out Burger," she said at the time, admitting that she was maybe "speeding a little" as she drove to the nearest fast-food outlet but denying that she had been at all intoxicated.
"Everything I do is blown out of proportion," she complained. "It really hurts my feelings."
Ryan: Hey, how are you?
Paris: I'm hanging in there. I'm doing better than when I got here.
What's the toughest part about it?
Well, you know, it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to experience in my life and, I don't know, it's just so surreal. It's so crazy. I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would've ended up in…At first, I went through so many emotions. You know—anger, upset that all of this happened.
It's a learning experience I'm going to grow from. Just being away from everything…you know, the craziness, the paparazzi. I've had a lot of alone time to think and read and write. Even though it's been horrible and really hard, I think that God makes everything happen for a reason and this is my time to figure out what my purpose is in life. I've really grown from it.
What is that purpose?
I don't know. I just feel that my life was going really fast. And there are so many people that look up to you. And the craziness of it all, sort of living in a superficial world. Now that I've been here and I've been seeing life through different eyes—just getting letters from all around the world—I have a lot of compassion for things that are going on around me that are so much more important than things I ever thought about.
I'm so much more grateful for everything that I have, even just to have a pillow at night or food or anything. My gratitude has gone up so much and I just realize that the media used me to make fun of and be mean about. I'm frankly sick of it. I want to use my fame in a good way.
I don't know—I just want to start using what I've been given by God to bring light to causes that I believe in.
When you get out, which is soon, what will you first want to accomplish and what will you do that day?
I will definitely get a good meal, because the food in here is absolutely inedible and horrible. [Laughs.] But I just can't wait to see my family and actually just give my parents and my sister a hug, because they've been visiting me and I've been behind that bulletproof glass. So I haven't even been able to give my dad a hug for Father's Day.
I just can't wait to see my family and have a nice meal and be in my own bed and appreciate all the things I took for granted and never really thought much about.
Are you sleeping?
In the beginning it was really hard, but I think I can adapt to anything. I'm claustrophobic and my cell is really small. It's hard—there's nothing to do but basically sit in a room with a bunk bed and a toilet and a desk. I was going a little bit crazy in the beginning but I'm getting used to it now.
It's kinda loud at night. They shut the doors really loudly and the guards' keys are jingling. I haven't really gotten much sleep here.
I saw a report about all of the fan mail.
Oh, it's really incredible. I had no idea how many supporters I have. (I've gotten letters) from kids who are four years old saying this is the first letter they've ever written. Letters saying, "I respect you so much, I think you're a brave woman…"
There are obviously some messages about the judge, saying that he abused his power and completely took advantage of the situation.
Which I think is…I think everyone knows that. There's just so much support. I really don't know what I would've done.
I literally just sit in bed and they only give me…you're only allowed 10 letters at a time, so while I'm waiting for the other letters and I'll reread some of them. I literally cry and it fills my heart and soul—so much love. I had no idea there were that many people who cared.
What sort of interaction do you have with the other inmates?
There are girls in all the cells. The walls are pretty thin and there are vents, so the girls next door to me talk to me through the vents and say, "Oh, my God, my kid loves you," "My dad, all he wants for Father's Day is your autograph…"
I just want to be normal when I walk down the halls. There are classrooms here because a lot of the inmates didn't have the opportunity to go to school, so they'll all be in there and all wave and blow kisses.
Everyone is really supportive and sweet. If I'm crying and upset, they'll say, "Don't cry" and "God bless you."
I was really scared to come here at first, but all of the inmates have been really nice and supportive. I don't know…it's different than I thought it would be. It's not like what everyone thinks about jail.
How are you feeling? There are reports you've lost weight.
There are a lot of rumors going around that aren't true. And I feel like people don't have enough to talk about, but I'm the exact same way. The food is awful, but I'm eating. Someone told me about that (rumor), and it's a lie. It's not true at all. When I come out, people will see I'm exactly the same.
I'm just excited to start this new life. I appreciate everything now and I don't want to…I think there're a lot of bad people that I was around and I don't want to surround myself with those types of people anymore.
The letters have really gotten me through this and it really warms my heart. They've made me cry with joy. I haven't received one negative letter. It really, really makes me happy that people care.
When are you getting out?
I'm not sure, but I know in the next couple of days. This is my last weekend here. See you when I get out of here.
The socialite is currently serving time at the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, California for a parole violation. During her time behind bars her weight has decreased dramatically, according to British newspaper The Sun.
An insider at the jail tells the newspaper, "Staff became worried as she seems to be very thin with her bones poking out. She was also very weak and lethargic. They threatened to put her on an intravenous drip to rehydrate her and give her some nourishment unless she started eating. She has since managed to get a little food down, but doctors are closely monitoring her."
Paris is expected to be released for good behaviour on 25 June.
"I read your letter and just wanted to thank you for your kind words of love and support," reads the letter to an unidentified fan. "The fact that you took time out of your day to write me truly means the world. Especially at such a difficult and scary time in my life."
A rep for Hilton confirms the authenticity of the letter saying: "That letter was written by Paris. She's been trying to respond to her fans as they write, personally."
The note, written in print on plain stationery, continues: "But I am being strong and trying to make the best out of the situation. And the letters I'm receiving really do put a smile on my face as I sit here in my cell, sad and alone."
The letter is signed "Love always, Paris Hilton" with hearts dotting the i's and "xoxo" under the signature.
Hilton's mother, Kathy, told FOX News's Greta Van Susteren that her daughter is keeping busy by "reading a lot of her fan mail and family letters" since she began her jail sentence on June 4. (She's due to be released on Monday.)
Earlier this month, Hilton made a Father's Day card for her dad, Rick Hilton.
"She has long legs and chubby little toes exactly like Anna's; it's like a mirror image," Birkhead tells OK! magazine in its latest issue. "It's really incredible. And I think her lips are her mom's lips; especially when she pouts. ... She also gets what she wants exactly like her mom always did as soon as she'd pout."
Smith died in Florida in February. She was 39. The former Playboy Playmate gave birth to Dannielynn in September, a few days before the death of her son, Daniel, 20, in the Bahamas.
Howard K. Stern, her lawyer and companion, initially claimed to be Dannielynn's father, but Smith's ex-boyfriend Birkhead eventually showed he was the father.
The baby could inherit millions from the estate of Smith's late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II.
Birkhead plans to raise Dannielynn in Los Angeles, where he complains about the attention from the paparazzi.
"I was a photographer and I understand they need a picture, but when they're running you off the road and you're in the car with your daughter and they're putting lenses up to the car so that it's like lightning in the car, it gets to be too much," he tells the magazine.
He's hired a nanny to help out with Dannielynn.
"She's just there to assist me, not to take over any parenting. ... I'm really hands-on, like too hands-on with my hand on the baby, a hand on the cell phone, a hand on the diaper," says Birkhead, who jokes that he has "a supersonic sense of smell when it comes to diapers."
Birkhead is also getting help from Stern.
"He's been really supportive, and we're civil for the sake of Dannielynn," Birkhead says.
Both men were in a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday as a commissioner admitted Smith's will to probate and ordered that Birkhead would be guardian of the estate while Stern serves as executor of the will.
The step begins a process in which Smith's assets will be identified and the court will determine how they should be distributed. The will left the entirety of Smith's estimated $710,000 in assets to her now-deceased son.
The men in the late Playmate's life appeared together in court Tuesday, where Superior Court Commissioner Mitchell L. Beckloff ordered Smith's will into probate. Stern was appointed executor of the will, while Birkhead was named guardian of Smith's estate.
The court will now begin the process of identifying Smith's assets and determining how they should be distributed.
At the time of her death, Smith was worth an estimated $710,000. She left everything to her now-deceased son, Daniel, noting that she had "intentionally omitted to provide for my spouse and other heirs, including future spouses and children and other descendants now living and those hereafter born or adopted."
Bruce Ross, an attorney for Stern and the estate, said that Smith was not expecting to have any more children when she drew up the will in 2001, but that she would have wanted Dannielynn, her daughter with Birkhead, to be her beneficiary.
He said the lawyer who drafted the will would testify that he and Smith discussed amending the document in the event of future children.
"She said, 'I probably won't have future children, but if I do I would want them to be the beneficiaries of the trust,'" Ross said outside the courthouse.
As Smith's sole surviving offspring, Dannielynn also potentially stands to inherit millions from the estate of her mother's late husband, Texas oil magnate J. Howard Marshall II, who died in 1995.
Following the hearing, Birkhead and Stern also spoke to reporters, stating that they were on good terms and shared the common goal of looking out for Dannielynn's welfare and future.
"Right now, Dannielynn is the most famous baby in America," Stern said. "Maybe five years from now it won't be that way and she can just be a normal little girl."
Though he plans to return to the Bahamas, where he has been living since last year, he said he would do whatever he could to assist Birkhead in raising the child.
"I'm going to help Larry any way I can," Stern said. "Larry will be a good father."
Stern also indicated that he was pleased with the judge's ruling. "It's a relief to see a judge in America who's not interested in getting his own TV show," he said in a jab at Larry Seidlin, the judge who presided in the dispute over Smith's remains, and who recently announced his resignation amid rumors that he plans to pursue a TV career.
Birkhead was also happy about the outcome of the hearing.
"I have another new title today. In addition to father, I'm guardian. So it's a very good day," he said.
He said he had just celebrated his first Father's Day with his daughter, adding, "It's one I will remember."
The doting dad said he plans to live in Los Angeles with Dannielynn unless the paparazzi attention makes it impossible.
As a former photographer himself, Birkhead said he was considering taking up a new line of work.
"You guys are always taking pictures of me so I can't take pictures anymore," he said. "Maybe I'll go to law school."
Anticipating a horde of media when the socialite is expected to be released next week, some Hollywood Hills residents are circulating a letter advising neighbors to call police and local representatives to complain of the noise and traffic that may overtake the sleepy neighborhood, a city councilman's spokeswoman said.
City Councilman Jack Weiss was coordinating with police and other city departments to "ensure safety and access" on the narrow, winding road leading to Hilton's home just north of the Sunset Strip, his spokeswoman Lisa Hanson said.
"We're working to address the disruption issue," she said.
Hilton began her 45-day jail sentence earlier this month after failing a sobriety test and violating her probation twice by driving on a suspended license.
When Sheriff Lee Baca abruptly released Hilton to home confinement after just three days behind bars, a throng of photographers and reporters huddled outside her home. Helicopters hovered overhead.
Weiss's office received more than 50 calls from residents, most of them complaining about the helicopter noise, traffic and overcrowding because the street doesn't have sidewalks and parking space, Hanson said.
Hilton, who was sent back to jail by a judge, is expected to be released Monday, when she will have served about 23 days of a 45-day sentence.
After crafting her own Father's Day card for dad Rick Hilton over the weekend, the heiress apparently got busy penning letters to the fans who've been writing her since the beginning of the legal hullabaloo that has ended (for now) with Hilton getting locked up for a full 45 days after briefly being transferred to house arrest.
"I read your letter and just wanted to thank you for your kind words of love and support. The fact that you took time out of your day to write me truly means the world. Especially at such a difficult and scary time in my life," Hilton wrote in a letter obtained Tuesday by E! Online. (View the letter.)
"But I am being strong and trying to make the best out of the situation," Hilton continued. "And the letters I'm receiving really do put a smile on my face as I sit here in my cell, sad and alone. Again, thank you so much and may God bless you and your family."
"Love always, Paris Hilton," she signed, dotting her i's with little hearts and adding "xoxo" at the end.
Although writing letters while suited up in an orange jumpsuit can't really compare to nights spent trolling the red carpet in designer cocktail dresses, at least Hilton seems to be feeling better since being released Wednesday from the medical ward at Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles, after which she was returned to the Century Regional Correctional Facility, where she originally started serving her sentence on June 3.
After visiting Hilton on Sunday, along with husband Rick and Paris' sister Nicky, Kathy Hilton told reporters that her daughter was spending the majority of her days on the inside "looking at the four walls and reading some nice fan mail."
Hilton is allowed one hour outside of her cell every day to shower, exercise, watch TV and talk on the phone.
Hilton received a Sunday-night visit from parents Rick and Kathy. The elder Hiltons pulled up to Century Regional Detention Center about 7 p.m. and immediate a throng of reporters and paparazzi surrounded the couple's chauffer-driven silver Chrysler.
The couple were peppered with questions during their walk into the jail. Asked if he was having a happy Father's Day, Rick Hilton responded curtly: "Not one of my best."
Their visit lasted about 45 minutes.
Heading back to the car, Kathy Hilton described the session.
"[Paris] made a beautiful Father's Day card with pretty pictures," she told reporters. Rick Hilton said that it was a "positive" visit.
Kathy reiterated that Paris "is really cold [and] she kept rubbing her arm" for warmth. The Hilton matriarch also said that Paris spends her 23 hours of daily confinement "looking at the four walls and reading some nice fan mail."
"But she's okay," Kathy said before climbing back into the car.
Their visit came a day after sister Nicky stopped by. The younger Hilton was accompanied to the jail by her boyfriend, David Katzenberg, and another woman, but they didn't go in.
Nicky Hilton declined to speak to reporters, but, according to TMZ.com, she left a small package with jailers.
There was one group of visitors Paris didn't receive over the weekend.
Representatives from the Los Angeles Civil Rights Association and Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable tried to hand deliver a letter to Hilton requesting she speak out on the jail system and its treatment of inmates in need of medical and psychological care.
"This will be a time for Paris to step up, and step her game up, and do what's right and represent people who need help in the mental illness area," said Eddie Jones, of the L.A. Civil Rights Association.
"We've seen celebrities now who have made statements they want to get involved in social causes," added Hutchinson of the Urban Policy Roundtable. "This is a challenge to Paris Hilton."
Hilton, who has admitted to being "severely depressed" behind bars, need to become "a poster girl for the mentally challenged," Hutchinson said.
Correction officers promised to forward the letter to Hilton.
There was no comment from Hilton publicist Elliot Mintz, who said he wouldn't speak to reporters on Paris' behalf until she is released.
In other news, Sheriff Lee Baca is putting off a request from the L.A. Board of Supervisors to file a report and appear at a meeting Tuesday to explain his ill-fated transfer of Hilton to home detention. Baca, who is also being targeted by a recall campaign, has instead flown to Turkey for a conference on international security issues.
He promised to attend a meeting on June 26—the day after Paris is due to be discharged.
"Ms. Hilton has been cooperative since her incarceration," says spokesman Steve Whitmore. "Her good time/work time credit is accruing."
The 26-year-old heiress is serving a 45-day sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related driving case. With those good behavior credits, the sentence drops to 23 days, putting her on a schedule to be released June 25.
Hilton has been bounced from facility to facility due to an undisclosed medical problem. Most recently, she was transferred to the medical clinic of the women's jail in Lynwood, Calif., from a downtown Los Angeles jail hospital.
"Her assessment is ongoing," says Whitmore. "Her condition is still stable."
The Lynwood jail clinic has six to eight beds – two of them contained in 12-by-15-foot cells. "They're both currently occupied, one of which by Ms. Hilton," says Whitmore. "She's housed alone in the cell."
"From here," he adds, "it will be determined by medical staff whether an inmate can be moved back into the original module (cell block) where they were before. I don't know when that day will be, it's a day-by-day situation."
In the meantime, Hilton is allowed outside her cell at least one hour a day, depending on her medical condition. The rest of the time she remains in solitary confinement.
Hilton received one visitor Friday – her lawyer.
"It's tough. It is," said Kathy, who saw her daughter on Tuesday. "It's just one hour a week: 30 minutes on Sunday and 30 minutes on Tuesday. We talk through glass."
"And this one" – gesturing to Nicky – "left in hysterics," Kathy added. "Nicky tried to keep the brave face but – I never see Nicky cry."
Nicky and her mother spoke to PEOPLE on Thursday after attending family friend Barbara Walters's ceremony to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Interviewed at a private luncheon, Nicky described her visit to the jail on Sunday as surreal.
"It's sad. It's like right out of the movies," she said. "The glass partition, the orange jumpsuit. Everything."
Nicky spoke of what she saw as the unfairness in Paris's case.
"What's annoying is all these people are going on television saying that she was drinking and driving," said Nicky. "She's not in jail for DUI. That's a big misconception. She's in jail for driving on a suspended license, just like the D.A.'s wife was. ... She got a $186 fine."
(On the day he sought more jail time for Paris Hilton, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo acknowledged his wife got a traffic ticket two years ago while driving with a suspended license. She received the ticket – and the $186 fine – for failing to obey a turn-only sign, but wasn't ticketed for driving with the suspended license).
Kathy Hilton reiterated Paris's statement that she will not fight her sentence, which could end as early as June 25.
"There are no appeals – as Paris said. But the point is that I hope this will shine a light on everybody (in those jails). That's the positive," said Kathy. The jails, she said, "need financial help, and it's very sad to see what's going on in there."
Kathy adds: "I always believe that where there's a negative there's a positive. And I feel that maybe this whole ordeal can shed light on other people, and that really maybe everybody should be treated exactly the same. I don't care who you are. As Paris said, she's just going to do her time and try to make the best of it, and hopefully" – she paused, chocking back emotion – "I always believe there's a reason for everything."
The settlement of the lawsuit by Amanda Brack, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., came to light Thursday when a judge in Manhattan issued a brief order granting dismissal of the case.
The order said only that "the action has settled and been discontinued" according to the lawyers' agreement dated April 27. No settlement terms were disclosed, and lawyers for Brack and Campbell did not return telephone calls Thursday.
Brack, 21, sued Campbell in July 2006 for unspecified money damages, accusing her of assault, battery, false imprisonment and infliction of emotional distress. Brack's papers said the abusive incidents started a month after she began working for Campbell in February 2005.
Brack's lawsuit was filed while Campbell, 36, was in plea negotiations with Manhattan prosecutors about an assault charge. In that case Campbell was accused of throwing a cell phone at an employee in a dispute over a missing pair of jeans.
Brack's attorney, Gerald McCarthy, has said his client and Campbell first met in Paris in a nightclub ladies' room where the model was upset about a "costume malfunction." He said Brack helped and impressed the model, who then asked Brack to work for her.
McCarthy said Campbell subsequently assaulted Brack on several occasions in 2005 in Brazil, Morocco and Campbell's apartment on Park Avenue in Manhattan. He said a July 2005 incident, when Campbell implied Brack was stealing from her, was the last straw and Brack quit a few days later.
The jailbird heiress was transferred Wednesday night from the medical ward at Los Angeles' Twin Towers Correctional Facility back to the Lynwood jail where she began her sentence more than a week ago.
Hilton, 26, had been at the correctional treatment center since she was sent back to jail last week. She was said to be undergoing medical and psychiatric testing to determine which facility she should be placed in to serve out the remainder of her sentence.
Apparently, those tests revealed that the Century Regional Detention Center was the place for her to be, so back she went to where it all began.
At a brief press conference Thursday morning, Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said that the medical staff at Twin Towers had cleared Hilton to return to Lynwood, but that she would continue to be monitored.
He said that Hilton was currently being kept in the Lynwood facility's medical clinic where she was being evaluated to ensure that she was stable enough to return to the same module of the jail where she was incarcerated during her prior stay as an inmate.
It was there that she developed the "severe medical problems" that led a concerned Sheriff Lee Baca to briefly reassign her from her 12-by-8 cell at the facility to house arrest at her spacious Hollywood Hills home.
Of course we all know how that turned out. Just hours after the Simple Life star was fitted with an electronic monitoring bracelet and returned to her home, Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer hauled her into court and sent her directly back to jail to finish serving the sentence he originally imposed.
Though Hilton's legal team initially vowed to appeal the sentence, the jailed celebutante ultimately decided not to bother, stating she intended "to serve my time as ordered by the judge."
This time around, Hilton may be better equipped to handle the conditions at Century Regional Detention Center, as she claims to have reached the realization that her time in the lockup is part of a plan determined by a higher power.
In a phone conversation with Barbara Walters last weekend, the apparently reformed party girl said she had become "much more spiritual" since returning to jail and that she now felt that God was giving her a "new chance."
"My spirit or soul did not like the way I was being seen, and that is why I was sent to jail," she told Walters, who related the conversation on Monday's View. "God has released me."
Hilton vowed to Walters that she was dropping her dumb "act," and said she planned to work on making a difference in the world upon her release.
According to Walters, breast cancer and multiple sclerosis are two of the issues to which the newly awakened heiress is considering devoting her time, while another potential project would be the construction of a Paris Hilton Playhouse, where sick children could come play and toy companies could donate toys.
Then again, that so-called spiritual awakening took place in the comparatively spacious 120-square foot cell at Twin Towers. It remains to be seen whether she will be able to maintain her equanimity when confined to one of the considerably smaller cells Lynwood has to offer.
In her conversation with Walters, Hilton referred to her prior stint as an inmate of Century Regional as a "horrible experience."
"I was not eating or sleeping," she said. "I was severely depressed and felt as if I was in a cage."
Though the exact "medical issues" from which Hilton suffers have not been revealed, the sheriff indicated at a press conference last week that they were psychological in nature. A friend of the heiress told E! Online that she suffers from claustrophobia, while TMZ reported that she has been diagnosed with extreme ADD.
At least she's halfway home. As of Thursday, Hilton has been credited with serving 12 days of her 45-day sentence for violating her probation on a reckless driving charge. She is expected to be released after 23 days due to credit for good behavior.
Even with her sentence sliced in half, Hilton will end up serving more time than 80 percent of the individuals sent to L.A. County Jail for similar offenses, according to an analysis of jail records conducted by the Los Angeles Times.
Of 2 million jail releases researched, the Times found 1,500 cases since July 2002 where the defendant was arrested for DUI and later sentenced to jail after a probation violation or driving on a suspended license. Sixty percent of those inmates were released after serving a brief stint similar in length to Hilton's initial three days behind bars; however few, if any, were released due to medical conditions.
The Times' findings come amid widespread accusations that Hilton was granted preferential treatment by Baca due to her celebrity status.
The L.A. Board of Supervisors has launched an investigation into the circumstances that led to Hilton's reassignment to house arrest, while ever camera-ready attorney Gloria Allred has filed a racial and disability claim against Baca and the County on behalf of a disabled African-American Lynwood inmate whom she claims received "much worse" treatment than Hilton, despite her arguably more serious medical problems.
At issue: Whether the incarcerated heiress could ever become a cohost on the daytime chatfest.
Speaking together on Walters's SIRIUS Satellite Radio show Barbara Live, the veteran journalist fielded a question from a listener who asked if Hilton would ever be allowed to cohost the show.
"She would certainly always give us something to talk about," said Walters, who earlier on that day's episode of The View had told of her phone conversation with Hilton.
But Geddie was less enthusiastic. "Let me answer that," he said. "No." This prompted Walters to respond, "Let me answer that: Yes."
Geddie insisted his reaction to Hilton was nothing personal. "We've been around her," he said, "and she's perfectly pleasant."
By Wednesday, Walters no longer seemed so keen to sign Hilton on. On Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show, Walters was asked if she'd ever try to speak with Hilton again. "I hadn't really thought about it," she said. "I wasn't trying to speak with her [when we did speak]."
Pressed Seacrest, "I would assume that you would be in discussions with her about having that first interview [after she's out of jail]."
"I have not discussed that," replied Walters. "We have not discussed an interview."
After her visit, Kathy Hilton said her daughter wants "just to do her time and get on." She added her daughter has not had much sleep.
The visit angered some others who were waiting to see inmates. Shatani Alverson, 23, said she was hustled out of the visiting room at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility moments after her husband walked in because of the Hiltons. She was told to come back after lunch.
Alvina Floyd waited more than four hours to visit her fiance. It normally takes two, and Floyd, 20, blamed the Hiltons for the delay.
"I have to be at work later," she said. "I can't wait here all day."
Steve Whitmore, a sheriff's spokesman, deflected criticism about the Hiltons' visit. He said it was routine for high-profile inmates to receive visitors during lunch, a time when the visiting room is normally cleared out and closed.
The visit came shortly after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors ordered Sheriff Lee Baca to respond by next week to allegations of favoritism for reassigning Hilton to house arrest after she was sent to jail for violating probation. At the time, Baca cited an undisclosed medical condition as the reason for making the decision.
The 26-year-old celebrity was later ordered back to jail. She was sent to a medical ward, where sheriff's officials said it costs $1,109.78 a day to house a female inmate compared to $99.64 a day in the general population.
County Supervisor Don Knabe said he and his colleagues had received many angry e-mails from people who believed Baca was treating the heiress better than other sick and mentally ill inmates.
Mary Tiedeman, who regularly visits the jails as a monitor for the ACLU, said the area where Hilton was being housed was usually reserved for high-security inmates or those worse off than Hilton has appeared.
"I don't know what her health issue is, but you have got to have a pretty intense medical or mental health problem to be in that part of the jail," she said.
"Paris is no longer a client," says Endeavor Agency rep Michael Donkis, who declined to specify a reason for the move.
According to a source, Hilton was dropped last Friday – the day she was ordered back to jail from home confinement. The move was announced in a company-wide email, the source says.
A spokeswoman from Storm Models confirms the baby was born in Paris on June 1. "They now have a lovely son who they have named George Marsiaj Herzig," says the rep.
"The whole family are well, Eva is delighted, and they will all be leaving on a holiday together shortly."
The Czech-born supermodel, 34, shot to fame in the "Hello Boys" Wonderbra ad campaign that literally stopped traffic back in 1994.
Last month she attended the Cannes Film Festival where she revealed the sex of her baby to PEOPLE and said: "I am so excited. I cannot wait for motherhood."
Before meeting Marsiaj, a Turin businessman whom she has dated for several years, Herzigova was married to Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres for two years.
Despite her career as a model, she has no plans to go on a post-pregnancy diet, she recently told The Sunday Times: "I'm not like one of those celebrity people who would die to get back into shape."
Page Six has learned that the celebutard's doting daddy, Rick Hilton, was recently shopping a "Get Out of Jail" bash for his little girl to the top Las Vegas clubs, including Pure, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and the Palms.
"He was originally asking for a $50,000 cash fee to be paid, as well as accommodations and flights," said our source. "Pure and Hard Rock said 'no' flat out, but George Maloof, who owns the Palms, didn't say yes or no. He's very good pals with Paris and is the one who once hooked her up with Britney Spears."
But following last week's Paris pingpong match - in which the L.A. Sheriff's Dept. sprung her from the slammer because of a "medical condition," only to have a judge order her back inside - Rick's big party-push has been put on hold. Still, insiders say they're positive an out-of-the-slammer soiree remains in the works and will be even more expensive than Rick originally had in mind. "Her cost has gone up," said our informer. Hilton rep Eliot Mintz did not return e-mails.
Meanwhile, Hilton's ex-lover, "Girls Gone Wild" czar Joe Francis - who's cooling his heels in a Reno jail on tax-evasion charges - is sending his sympathies. "My heart goes out to Paris . . . If her name was Jane Doe . . . she would never have served a day in jail," he told Tmz.com. But unlike Hilton, Francis is quite content with his cinder-block digs. "My cell is actually nicer than my USC dorm room. Yes, it doesn't have cable, but it doesn't have the cockroaches, either."
Francis adds he's had "the fortunate privilege of meeting new 'friends' such as car thieves, drug dealers and murderers. It should make for an interesting night at [L.A. club] Hyde when the 'gang' and I get back together for a reunion." That reunion may be a ways off - once he's sprung from Reno, authorities plan to lock him up on charges of conspiracy, prostitution and filming underage girls in sexual situations, stemming from a 2003 bust in Panama City Beach, Fla.
"The staff here is giving her excellent medical care," said attorney Richard Hutton. "She's being treated the same as everyone else in jail. She is receiving no preferential treatment."
Hilton, 26, has spent three nights in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility's unit for treating medical and psychological ailments and has been visited by her psychiatrist. (TMZ.com reports that she suffers Attention Deficit Disorder and claustrophobia, but the exact nature of her problem has not been disclosed.)
Last week, Hilton was reassigned from the women's jail in Lynwood to home confinement due to the undisclosed condition. Later, a judge ordered her back behind bars, and she was placed in the medical ward to serve out the reminder of her 23-day minimum sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related driving case.
Her reassignment prompted outrage from public officials toward Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, whose department runs the jails. Baca, who is elected, received a $1,000 campaign donation from Hilton's grandfather, Barron Hilton, according to election records.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says any political donation "has no bearing on the way she has been treated." A source close to the Hilton family says, Hilton's parents "had nothing to do with her getting out briefly. It came as a surprise to them."
Hilton, meanwhile, called called Barbara Walters of The View over the weekend to say that she'll no longer act dumb, and that she feels, "God has given me this new chance."
In an essay on The Huffington Post titled "Mom, It's Not Right!" (which refers to Hilton's outburst as she was ordered back to jail last week) the 48-year-old actress slams the lack of parental guidance given to Hilton and others of her generation.
"It was a painful episode to watch," Curtis writes. "A young woman, begging her mother, the person who should have taught her right from wrong, to help her, to teach her the rules of life. It was a little too late. And so she wept as the Universe was bringing the teaching and settling the score."
Curtis, who has a daughter, Annie, 20, and a son, Thomas, 11, with husband Christopher Guest, is no stranger to being young in Hollywood: The daughter of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, she made her film debut in 1978's Halloween at age 20. (She's also Jake Gyllenhaal's godmother.)
But she says today's celebs are lacking guidance: "The sad paths of the three most popular young women" – Hilton and, presumably, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears – "have ended in prison, rehab and mental illness. I hope their mothers are worried sick and wondering, 'What could I have done differently?' And our culture should be asking the same question too."
Parents her age, she says, are more concerned with being friends with their kids than teaching them important lessons. "We were the generation who applauded every move they made. Every step they took. 'Good climbing, Brandon' was our hue and cry. We were raised by people who didn't 'understand' us and now we don't 'understand' why our children are so messed up."
She concludes: "Can we take the wrenching sight of Paris asking her mother, 'why?' and ask it of ourselves? ... Wake up, Mothers, and smell the denial."
Twin Towers Correctional Facility's most famous inmate spoke out in an impromptu phone interview with Barbara Walters Sunday, telling the View master that, after less than a week behind bars, she's already a changed woman.
"I used to act dumb," she told Babs. "It was an act. That act is no longer cute. It is not who I am nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who look up to me."
"Now, I would like to make a difference...God has given me this new chance."
Walters, who did not record the interview, said that Hilton "sounded tired, but totally aware of what she was saying."
During the call, 25-year-old heiress also confirmed to Walters how devastating and both physically and emotionally debilitating her first three days in the Century Regional Detention Facility were last week.
"I was not eating or sleeping," she said. "I was severely depressed and felt as if I was in a cage...It was a horrible experience."
Her stay in Twin Towers, where she was placed after a frenzied legal tug-of-war between Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and Judge Michael T. Sauer, is marginally better.
Hilton said that she was "hanging in there," that she was under the guidance of a spiritual adviser, and that the women housed alongside her were "friendly," and the guards "fair."
She couldn't say the same about the media.
Hilton took the opportunity to set the record straight over some of the reports of her lead-up to incarceration. The heiress, who has been wearing the standard issue orange and brown jumpsuits and who says she's been reading the Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal behind bars, said that, despite rumors to the contrary, she was not on antidepressants before entering jail.
As for Hilton's take on how she ended up in the slammer in the first place, she agrees with her spiritual adviser that her soul was crying out.
"My spirit or soul did not like the way I was being seen and that is why I was sent to jail," she said. "God has released me."
She also said that, during her three-day stay in the Century Regional Detention Facility, that she was not "wailing, sobbing or screaming." As for her instantly infamous outburst Friday when Sauer revoked her home detention and ordered her back into the penal system, Hilton told Walters that she did not cry out, "It's not fair, Mom!" in response to her sentence. Rather, she claims, she uttered the phrase when bailiffs prohibited her from hugging her mother goodbye before getting escorted out of the courtroom.
The call, Hilton's first unfiltered non-lawyer vetted words to the media since surrendering following the MTV Movie Awards over a week ago, came about spontaneously on Sunday as she attempted to phone her mother, Kathy Hilton.
When Paris dialed home, the Hilton matriarch was already on the line to Walters, whom Kathy had called herself. (Walters has been among those jockeying for the Paris post-jail "get.") When Paris rang in, Kathy informed her daughter that Walters was on the other line. The locked-up Simple Lifer then asked if she could speak directly with the veteran newswoman; Walters wisely agreed to accept the collect call.
As it is, Paris Hilton had a busy day Sunday. In addition to speaking with Walters, she also had a visit from sister Nicky and on-again, off-again boyfriend Stavros Niarchos. They were the first to come calling to Paris since Sauer sent her to the facility on Friday. Paris has been kept isolated in the Twin Towers' medical ward and Sunday was the first day she was allowed visitors.
On her way out of the facility, Nicky Hilton and Niarchos did their best to avoid a swarm of lurking reporters and paparazzi, though Nicky did say that her sister was "being strong."
On Saturday, Paris released a statement through her lawyer saying she would not appeal her sentence and would serve at least 23 days behind bars for violating probation in connection with an alcohol-related reckless driving charge.
"While I greatly appreciate the sheriff's concern for my health and welfare, after meeting with doctors, I intend to serve my time as ordered by the judge," she said. "This is by far the hardest thing I have ever done. During the past several days, I have had a lot of time to reflect and have already learned a bitter but important lesson from this experience."
According to Sheriff's Department spokesperson Steve Whitmore, Hilton is currently being housed alone in a 120-square-foot room with a toilet, sink and "sliver of a window." She continues to undergo psychological and medical tests and, according to TMZ, has been placed on psychotropic medication.
Baca said on Friday that Hilton had suffered from "severe medical problems" during her brief, initial sojourn into jail last week and that it was her "inexplicable deterioration" that made them concerned. He said his department learned that Hilton had not been taking a certain medication that was prescribed to her while behind bars, but did not reveal the name or nature of the medication.
The sheriff, who has come under fire for his "reassignment" of Hilton last week, has agreed to meet with one of his harshest critics Monday: the Reverend Al Sharpton.
On Tuesday, representatives of the activist group Project Islamic HOPE are set to petition the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, not only asking the politicians to launch an investigation into Baca's unilateral move but also to determine which other inmates may be suffering from emotional or physical problems and request that they, too, receive the same treatment as Hilton.
Also on Tuesday, Hilton will once again be eligible to receive visitors at her cell, and parents Rick and Kathy Hilton are expected to be there.
As for what she may do upon leaving the facility, she told Walters that she wants to parlay her fame and power into helping others, possibly by raising funds and awareness for breast cancer or multiple sclerosis, both diseases that run in her family. She also expressed interest in lending her name to a Ronald McDonald-like home for children, where toy companies could donate products.
Hilton is eligible for release on June 25.
TMZ, citing unnamed sources, also said the 26-year-old hotel heiress was eating again, still having trouble sleeping and had received visits from her sister, Nicky, and her sometime boyfriend, Greek shipping scion Stavros Niarchos.
A spokesman for Hilton declined comment on the report, as did officials for the sheriff's department.
Hilton began her jail term last Sunday night at the sprawling Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, just outside Los Angeles, and served three full days there before the sheriff's department "reassigned" her to home detention under electronic monitoring.
Sheriff Lee Baca cited unspecified psychological problems affecting Hilton's medical condition as reasons for his decision, which drew immediate fire from prosecutors and the judge who presided over Hilton's case.
At a hearing on Friday, the judge, Michael Sauer, ordered the distraught celebrity heiress back to jail to complete her term, originally set for 45 days. But rather than returning to the Lynwood facility, Baca had her sent to the medical unit of another detention site in downtown Los Angeles.
As of Friday, Baca said Hilton was scheduled to serve another 18 days behind bars under a standard credit applied against her term for time served on good behavior.
On Saturday, the star of the reality TV show "The Simple Life" said she had told her attorneys not to appeal the order sending her back to jail.
"Being in jail is by far the hardest thing I have ever done," she said in a written statement issued by her attorney, Richard Hutton. "During the past several days, I have had a lot of time to think and I believe that I am learning and growing from this experience."
She added that she was "shocked" by the attention her case has received.
"I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world," she said.
Hilton's early release to house arrest sparked national outrage and accusations of preferential treatment because of her celebrity status. She was sentenced to jail last month for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless case by driving on a suspended license.
"She's being strong," Nicky told reporters after the 30-minute visit at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility's medical ward.
Nicky's boyfriend David Katzenberg drove the pair to the downtown Los Angeles jail unit that treats inmates for physical and mental ailments. They entered through a crush of photographers, filled out visitation forms, and were whisked upstairs.
Other visitors grumbled that they jumped the line.
"We don't care about no Paris Hilton," said one upset mother. "We're here for our families."
Said another relative, "Why did they get to go up first, that's what I want to know?"
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore denied the pair got special treatment.
Nicky Hilton and Niarchos were the first family or friends admitted as visitors since Hilton was sent to the locked-down ward Friday after a brief reassignment to home confinement because of an unidentified medical condition. Hilton was visited Saturday by her psychiatrist.
Hilton, 26, originally surrendered June 3 to a women's jail in Lynwood, Calif. She says she will not fight her sentence and serve out the remainder of her minimum 23-day term for violating probation in alcohol-related driving case for driving with a suspended license. With time off for good behavior, she could leave in just over two weeks.
After Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer was apparently unmoved by the pleas of Hilton's three lawyers to keep their client under house arrest, the hotel heiress was led from the courtroom crying out for her mother and shouting, "It's not right!"
As Hilton sits in the downtown Twin Towers jail where she will undergo a medical and psychiatric examination, one question lingered: Was celebrity justice served?
There was no shortage of twists and turns throughout the week after Hilton made a surprise visit Sunday to the MTV Movie Awards, where she told a throng of media that she was scared but ready to face her sentence.
Hours after the event, Hilton checked herself into jail and was expected to serve only 23 days because of a state law that requires shorter sentences for good behavior.
The ensuing drama erupted Thursday when sheriff's officials released Hilton because of a medical condition and sent her home under house arrest. She had been in jail for three days.
Friday's hearing was requested by the city attorney's office, which had prosecuted Hilton and wanted Sheriff Lee Baca held in contempt for deciding to reassign Hilton to home detention despite Sauer's express order that she must serve her time in jail.
Sauer gave no explanation of his ruling to return Hilton back to jail, but his comments throughout the hearing indicated he was affronted by Baca's decision to set aside his instructions and release the celebutante to her Hollywood Hills home.
"I at no time condoned the actions of the sheriff and at no time told him I approved the actions," he said. "At no time did I approve the defendant being released from custody to her home on Kings Road."
Hilton's lawyers said the reason for her release was an unspecified medical condition. The judge suggested that could be taken care of at jail medical facilities.
Following the hearing, Baca said he decided to put Hilton under house arrest because he was concerned about a serious medical condition he could not disclose, though his further comments suggested psychological problems.
He said he had learned from one of her doctors that she was not taking a certain medication while she was in custody previously and her "inexplicable deterioration" puzzled county psychiatrists.
Baca charged that Hilton received a more severe sentence than normal, which he said would have been either no time in jail or being directly placed in home confinement with electronic monitoring.
"The only thing I can detect as special treatment is the amount of her sentence," the sheriff said.
Hilton will likely be held at the Twin Towers facility for at least a couple of days before determining what jail she will be held in, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
Despite being reincarcerated, she could still be released early. Inmates are given a day off their terms for every four days of good behavior, and her days in home detention counted as custody days. It appeared that Friday would count as her sixth day. Baca indicated she would serve about 18 more days.
Hilton's path to jail began Sept. 7, when she failed a sobriety test after police saw her weaving down a street in her Mercedes-Benz on what she said was a late-night run to a hamburger stand.
She pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to 36 months' probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.
In the months that followed, she was stopped twice by officers who discovered her driving on a suspended license. The second stop landed her in Sauer's courtroom, where he sentenced her to jail.
Jodie Foster spoke out on Mel Gibson's behalf after his anti-Semitic tirade last summer. The cast of "The View" gave Alec Baldwin a place to explain his custody battle and an angry voicemail message he left for his 11-year-old daughter.
Robert Downey, Jr., was welcomed with understanding and job offers after his multiple drug arrests.
But few Hollywood players have come out in support of Paris Hilton, who was sentenced to 45 days in jail for violating her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. The 26-year-old surrendered to sheriff's deputies June 3 and was booked into a Lynwood jail. She was released to home confinement a few days later, then ordered back behind bars Friday.
A crowd of Hilton fans gathered outside the courthouse Friday where she learned her latest fate. But the hot, young showbiz set that Hilton hangs with has remained mum on the heiress' plight.
Usually "powerful people protect powerful people," said veteran Hollywood publicist Michael Levine.
"But in this case I don't see any rallying around her," he said. "She is a person who got into the famous club for nothing and I think there's some contempt around that."
Howard Bragman, a longtime publicist who runs the public-relations firm Fifteen Minutes, said Hilton doesn't have the "strong foundation of relationships in this town" that would motivate famous folks to stand behind her.
"Paris' career was made in a microwave and not in a crock pot," he said, adding that Hilton lacks the self-awareness that might inspire empathy from her colleagues.
"You've got to understand and accept responsibility for yourself in order for people to rally around you," he said.
Before Hilton was sent back to jail Friday, comedian
George Lopez called her brief stay behind bars "more like a spa treatment than an actual sentence."
"Celebrities get treated lightly by the judicial system," he said. "Wealthy and affluent and famous people get treated differently than anybody else."
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said Hilton did get special treatment because of her celebrity status: "She got more time in jail."
Host Sarah Silverman cracked a crude joke at Hilton's expense to open last Sunday's MTV Movie Awards at which the heiress made a surprise appearance. When the camera panned to Hilton, she was not smiling.
Hugh Hefner has been one of the few celebrities sympathetic to Hilton's situation.
"I feel very badly for her," he said Thursday when asked about the heiress.
But Paris-pity or no, Hollywood seldom misses a promotional opportunity. ABC used the endless publicity surrounding Hilton's case to promote its new TV show, "Dirty Sexy Money." The show focuses on a fictional family, the Darlings — a wealthy clan not unlike the Hiltons.
The network placed full-page ads in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Post that read: "We love Paris. The Darling Family." An airplane towing a banner with the same message flew above the downtown courthouse Friday.
Hilton, in tears and screaming for her mother, was taken to the downtown Twin Towers detention center Friday after a judge ordered her back to jail, ending her brief stint under house arrest at her Hollywood Hills home.
The evaluations will help determine the best jail to keep her in as she serves the rest of her sentence for violating probation in a reckless driving case.
A day earlier, "The Simple Life" star had been escorted from the courtroom shouting "It's not right!"
Hilton's lawyers sought to keep her out of jail on grounds that the 26-year-old was suffering an unspecified medical condition. Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer suggested that could be taken care of at jail medical facilities.
Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore declined to discuss details of Hilton's case Saturday, including the state of her medical evaluations, citing laws against revealing such information on inmates.
"All I can say, as with all the inmates in this facility, they are monitored continuously," Whitmore said.
Although Whitmore wouldn't discuss Hilton's condition, Sheriff Lee Baca indicated at a news conference Friday that it was psychological.
He said she arrived at her original jail with a condition he hadn't been apprised of and that it immediately began to deteriorate to the point that he feared for her safety.
"When you're talking about psychological problems it's far more complex and it does require a more complex medical approach," Baca said. "We didn't have all of our information."
When she went to Twin Towers, Baca said he was placing Hilton in a "better facility for her condition, meaning one that has a more intense form of medical support." He said she'd be kept under close watch to ensure "that there isn't anything harmful done to herself by herself, which is a great concern to me."
Whitmore said she'll be there at least through Sunday.
Twin Towers is equipped to treat acute medical and mental health needs, although inmates in need of more serious attention are moved to a hospital. About 40 inmates are housed per floor, and most of the rooms are designed for one patient at a time.
Hilton is truly living the simple life, in a room Whitmore described as a little more than 100 square feet, with a toilet, sink and "a sliver of a window."
It is roomier than the cell she had at her first lockup, the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, a gritty city south of Los Angeles. That cell measured only 96 square feet.
Between 10 to 20 sheriff's deputies, doctors, nurses and other medical personnel are on each floor to monitor inmates at Twin Towers, Whitmore said. The staff does not use cameras to monitor rooms.
Female inmates are allowed visits on Sundays and Tuesdays.
Sauer sentenced Hilton to 45 days in jail and said she could not serve it at home.
Because she surrendered to authorities late Sunday night after attending the MTV Movie Awards and then fitted with an ankle bracelet before being released to home detention on Thursday, Hilton was credited seven days for her sentence. With time off for good behavior, she could be released in a little more than two weeks.
She could go home even sooner if she can successfully appeal her sentence. Her spokesman, Elliot Mintz, said her lawyers planned to file an appeal Monday.
He declined further comment on Saturday.
Hilton's path to jail began Sept. 7, when she failed a sobriety test after police saw her weaving down a street in her Mercedes-Benz on what she said was a late-night run to a hamburger stand.
She pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to 36 months' probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.
In the months that followed, she was stopped twice by officers who discovered her driving with a suspended license. The second stop landed her in Sauer's courtroom, where he sentenced her to jail.
Nevertheless, the socialite and hotel heiress said late on Saturday afternoon that she had told her attorneys not to appeal the order that sent her back to jail on Friday after a day of house arrest.
"Being in jail is by far the hardest thing I have ever done," Hilton, 26, said in a written statement issued by her attorney, Richard Hutton. "During the past several days, I have had a lot of time to think and I believe that I am learning and growing from this experience."
Hilton was ordered back to jail on Friday after a judge overruled a sheriff's decision to place her under house arrest because of psychological problems. She had spent three days of an expected three-week term behind bars.
The multimillionaire known for her party-going lifestyle was crying a lot and was very withdrawn, TMZ reported.
Hilton was visited by her psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Sophy, for more than two hours on Saturday morning. She was being held in a room by herself with a glass door that is guarded at all times, the report said.
TMZ also said Hilton was taking psychotropic medication, but did not specify which drug. Psychotropic medications affect a person's emotions and behavior and include drugs like lithium, which is taken for depression, and Valium, which eases anxiety.
Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County sheriff, declined to comment on the report. "Anything to do with her medical stuff I can't confirm or deny," he said.
A spokesman for Hilton could not immediately be reached for comment.
In her statement, Hilton thanked her fans for their good wishes and said she missed her family.
Hilton's early release by Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca sparked national outrage and accusations of preferential treatment because of her celebrity status.
On Saturday, however, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer's order to return her to custody was sparking controversy, with television pundits and others debating whether he had overstepped his bounds in overruling Baca.
Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in jail last month for violating probation in a reckless case by driving on a suspended license.
On Friday she trembled and cried quietly throughout the hearing, then broke into loud sobs when the judge ordered her back into custody.
"Mom, Mom. It's not right," she wailed as she was led out of the courtroom. Her mother, Kathy Hilton, also sobbed.
In Saturday's statement, Hilton, whose face has graced the pages of gossip magazines for much of the last four years, said she was "shocked" by the attention her case has received.
"I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world," she said.
The slender 26-year-old celebrity trembled and cried quietly throughout the hearing, then broke into loud sobs when the judge ordered her back into custody.
"Mom, Mom. It's not right," she wailed as she was led out of the courtroom. Her mother, Kathy Hilton, also sobbed.
But rather than return immediately to the sprawling women's detention center where she began serving an expected three-week term for violating probation in a drunken-driving case, Hilton was taken to the medical wing of a Los Angeles jail.
Sheriff Lee Baca said she will be treated there for the unspecified psychological problems that had led him to "reassign" Hilton on Thursday to home confinement with an electronic monitoring device on her ankle.
The sheriff's decision sparked national outrage and accusations of preferential treatment for a celebrity, though Hilton's original 45-day sentence was considered by many to be excessive.
"Her medical condition was deteriorating and we didn't know how to fix it," Baca, who oversees the county's jail system, said at a news conference defending his move to place Hilton under house arrest.
"We have her in the correctional treatment center -- that is a special wing. I am not going to say exactly what her mental problem is," he added.
Hilton was returned to custody after Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer ordered her to complete her sentence in jail, rejecting arguments that Baca had the discretion to "reassign" inmates to house arrest for health reasons without court review.
SYMBOL OF CELEBRITY CULTURE EXCESS
The ruling marked a stunning turn of fortune for the multimillionaire socialite who has become a symbol of privilege and the excesses of America's celebrity culture.
"Let's not make a judicial or criminal justice football out of this woman," Baca said.
Baca said Hilton was scheduled to serve another 18 days behind bars under a standard credit applied against her term for time served on good behavior.
The star of the television reality show "The Simple Life" was sentenced to jail last month for violating probation in a drunken-driving case by driving on a suspended license.
The exact nature of Hilton's condition remained a mystery. Baca said she had not been taking prescribed medication for a psychological problem but declined to elaborate.
The sheriff denied Hilton was given preferential treatment, saying that under an early release program established to ease overcrowded jails she was actually serving more time than other inmates in the same low-level category.
"Under our early release program, she would not have served any time in our jail, or would have been directly put on our home electronic monitoring system," he said. "So the special treatment, in a sense, appears to be ... more time in jail."
Friday's court hearing was delayed two hours due to confusion over whether Hilton would testify by video from her Hollywood Hills home, or in person. Finally, she was handcuffed and placed weeping into a sheriff's car for the trip to court wearing drab gray sweatpants and no make-up.
Judge Sauer said the sheriff's department never gave him any documentation of Hilton's condition. "I at no time condoned the action of the sheriff," Sauer said from the bench.
The City Attorney's Office said Baca overstepped his authority and should be held in contempt of court for violating the judge's sentencing order, which prohibited house arrest or work release.
Celebrity Web site TMZ.com said Hilton's lawyer was planning to appeal her sentence.
When the judge handed down his order, a weeping Hilton screamed "Mom!" as she was led out of the courtroom, report news sources. Hilton was serving a sentence for violating probation in a reckless driving case that involved alcohol.
The heiress was originally sentenced to 45 days, which was reduced to 23 days for various reasons, including good behavior. During the drama that began on Thursday, Sheriff Lee Baca was approached about Hilton's undisclosed medical condition and decided to release her to finish out her sentence, back to 45 days, in her home while wearing an electronic monitoring anklet.
It is unclear how many days Hilton will have to serve now that she's back behind bars.
Earlier on Friday (June 8), Hilton was taken to court crying in a police car. Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer listened to the arguments, mainly the city attorney's complaint that Sheriff Baca did not have the right to release Hilton to serve house detention.
The "medical reasons" were not addressed, nor the possiblity that Baca could be held in contempt of court for his decision.
Hilton's initial release caused controversy when critics claimed that her celebrity earned her preferential treatment. The opponents argued that her removal to her home was standard procedure especially during times of prison overcrowding and that Hilton also had a medical reason for leaving.
The main issue? Whether Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer was correct in overruling Sheriff Lee Baca's decision to transfer Hilton to house arrest after just three full days in jail for what was originally a 45-day sentence.
"It's really bizarre that the most frivolous person in the western world in the most frivolous case in which she didn't know she has a license to drive might end up creating precedent that could affect thousands of prisoners and where they're housed and how they're housed for years to come," said Stan Goldman, professor of criminal law at Loyola University Law School.
Goldman and others agree the showdown creates a legal quandary—i.e., whether the elected sheriff is truly independent of the judiciary and whether Judge Sauer overstepped his bounds.
"The judge attempted to impose control over the sentence," said Jody Armour, professor of law at the University of Southern California. "The sheriff doesn't have discretion to do anything willy-nilly, but once the custody of an inmate has been given over to his department, the sheriff is given a lot of latitude. But with one huge exception."
Armour said that Sauer's sentencing order explicitly forbade Baca from putting her in home confinement. "The judge was trying to limit the discretion of the sheriff, and the sheriff was saying this is our domain," Armour said.
"The Sheriff's Department didn't know that their discretionary decision would be overridden by the judge. But apparently so far they're mistaken, and now, unfortunately, Paris is paying the price of that confusion and that misunderstanding."
The point was seconded by one of Armour's colleagues at USC. "Usually the court is very loath to intervene with how the sheriff runs his jail facilities. He may have reason to move people around because of overcrowding or an emergency arises," observed law professor Jean Rosenbluth. "But I think because the judge said from the very start no home confinement and 23 days, and the sheriff didn't get his permission...the judge was quick to assert his control."
Sauer hauled Hilton back into court early Friday after learning that Baca had authorized Hilton's so-called reassignment. The sheriff's move sparked a monster PR nightmare, with accusations of his department giving special treatment to the hotel heiress.
At a Friday press conference, Baca attempted to deflect criticism by first asserting that Hilton was a "low-level offender" and he was under a federal mandate to reduce inmate overcrowding. He then switched tacks and said she had "severe medical problems" and her condition was "rapidly deteriorating" without proper medication. After consulting with two psychologists, he made his decision.
Goldman said the 23 days Hilton is expected to serve of her sentence (once she's credited for time served and good behavior) is typical for such offenders, and normally she might get released after two weeks. But Goldman thinks that the hoopla over Hilton's early release could work against her.
"Is the sheriff going to be so gun-shy that he's not going to release her in 15 or 16 days but they're going make her do the 23?" Goldman wondered. "The question is, Can a judge in L.A. override that? Up until now, my answer would have been no. I have no doubt [Hilton's lawyer] is going to appeal this to a higher court and decide whether [the sheriff] is independently functioning from the judge."
Which is exactly what Hilton attorney Richard Hutton did Friday. Goldman thinks the appeal has a shot at success.
"I've never seen someone pulled out of house arrest because the judge didn't like it, as opposed to the judge saying that they violated the rules of house of arrest. It may be that the court of appeals may completely agree with the judge," he said.
Sauer has hardly been sympathetic to Hilton. During his original sentencing, he chided her for failing to take responsibility for her errors after prosecutors showed she was twice caught driving with a suspended license within weeks after pleading no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving in January.
Baca said Hilton was being tossed around like a "football" by the criminal justice system. According to the legal experts, she will likely suffer much more than had she never got out of solitary confinement in the first place.
"The sense of deprivation being so close to a release and you have expectations and then to have those firm expectations dashed with such a stark reversal of fortune must be really psychologically traumatic," said Armour. "This has to heap on even more psychological trauma on her."
Added Goldman: "I've never had one defendant say to me that he was glad to be out. They all said [they were] sorry they didn't go straight through because it was just too much for them to come out and have to go back in."
During her previous jail time, Hilton had been at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif. Currently, the heiress is in custody in a special section of the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.
Sheriff Baca also announced that Hilton's sentence, which was originally 45 days, is now back to a minimum 23-day sentence.
Earlier Friday, Hilton was taken from court screaming and crying after Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer ordered her back to jail.
"It's not right!" Hilton, 26, said as deputies approached her in the courtroom. She also called out to her mother in the audience: "Mom!" Kathy Hilton, accompanied by Paris's father Rick, answered: "Honey!"
Hilton's screams echoed in the courtroom's internal hallway as she was escorted out. As the courtroom began to clear, Kathy draped her arms around her husband, who tried to console her.
Sheriff Baca said Friday that while Hilton was imprisoned for three days at the Century Regional Detention Facility, her "medical condition had been deteriorating," though he did not reveal the nature of the ailment. He did say, however, that Hilton had been on medication prior to being jailed, but was not taking any while she was imprisoned.
Holding a one-page medical evaluation, he said: "This is the evidence that this lady has some severe problems."
Friday morning, Hilton entered the courtroom at 11:00 a.m. wearing a gray sweater, gray pinstripe slacks and looking disheveled with her hair in a messy ponytail. Hilton cried and trembled throughout the hearing. She also clasped her hands in prayer several times and turned to her parents seated behind her in the courtroom and mouthed, "I love you."
The judge's decision to send Hilton back to jail came after hearing arguments from both the L.A. City Attorney and Hilton's lawyers. Judge Sauer ruled that because the sheriff's department had not adequately submitted medical records supporting the reasons behind Hilton's transfer, she should be returned to jail.
TMZ.com reports that Hilton's lawyer plans to appeal the ruling, but no paperwork has been filed yet.
Court spokesman Alan Parachini said after the hearing that Judge Sauer hadn't bought the sheriff's "medical condition" rationale for sending Hilton home. "What he said was, on the record, that he'd seen no evidence, no documents to support the contention that there was a medical condition." Details of Hilton's alleged condition were not released in court.
Friday afternoon Sheriff Baca said: "We've been overruled by the judge, I accept that, and we'll keep her in county jail." He also denied giving her preferential treatment, saying that her three-day incarceration was more than what most low-level offenders serve.
"Let's not make a judicial football of this woman," the sheriff concluded. "I'll keep her at the better facility, and we'll will watch her behavior."
Earlier in the day, a sheriff's car picked Hilton up at her home and took her to court for the hearing. As a swarm of media watched, Hilton parted ways with her parents, and her mother told reporters: "It is what it is and it's in God's hands now."
She added: "It's out of our hands. There's nothing we can do."
Asked how her daughter was faring, Kathy said earlier, "She's doing the best she can."
Hilton was seen being handcuffed before getting into a police cruiser and was photographed crying in the backseat.
As the gates of the driveway opened, the scene was pandemonium, with the officers on their bullhorns and Hilton's fans screaming.
Friday's proceeding was granted by Judge Sauer after the Los Angeles City Attorney requested an emergency hearing to demand that the Sheriff's Department put Hilton back in jail.
City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo had accused the department of disobeying the judge's original sentencing orders, which explicitly forbade electronic monitoring.
Yet due to an undisclosed medical condition, Hilton was released from Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., early Thursday and reassigned to home detention after serving just three days of her minimum 23-day sentence.
The heiress was fitted with an ankle bracelet and her original 45-day sentence was reinstated – since she'd enjoy the confines of her Hollywood Hills home instead of a 12-by-8-foot cell – with credit for five days served.
Hilton's reassignment sparked outrage across the nation; the L.A. Board of Supervisors alone received more than 500 angry calls, e-mails and faxes by Thursday afternoon. At least two of the supervisors demanded an investigation.
"Oh no," Hilton supporter "Melrose" Larry Green muttered softly, shaking his head at the news that Hilton would be going back to the slammer for violating her probation on a reckless driving conviction.
"People are just jealous of her because her name is Hilton, and she's part of the Hilton hotels," he had said a couple hours earlier after doing a dance to show his support.
"I love the Hilton hotels," he added, "especially the one in New York."
The ruling by Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer also had its supporters.
"I think justice was served," civil-rights activist Najee Ali said. "It helps restore the public confidence that was eroding nationally with the star-struck judicial system."
At the same time, Ali expressed sympathy for the star of TV's "The Simple Life."
"This is not a time to celebrate. It is a time to pray for her and her family," he said.
Earlier, news helicopters buzzed Hilton's Hollywood Hills home and paparazzi swarmed a sheriff's patrol car as the sobbing, handcuffed heiress was placed inside and driven to the court.
Inside the courtroom, Hilton's hair was askew and she wore no makeup. She cried throughout the hearing.
Outside, Hilton's supporters were outnumbered by TV crews and other journalists who swarmed the courthouse just a day after the Sheriff's Department released Hilton for an undisclosed medical reason.
Still, the supporters were loud and prominent as an airplane towed a banner overhead proclaiming, "We Love Paris."
Several people who appeared with Hilton in episodes of "The Simple Life" also turned out.
Among them was Joey Carmona, who said the heiress inspired him to lose 30 pounds when she paid a visit to a weight-loss camp as part of the show.
"She supported us on that show, and we're here to support her now," he said before the start of the hearing.
Carmona wouldn't say whether he thought Hilton had been treated fairly by the judicial system or should be returned to jail.
"That's really not for me to say," he said.
Another supporter, Arlene Hampton, held a sign with a photograph of herself and the heiress and the words: "Prayn4U. Love, Arlene."
"She was very supportive, very open and very personable," when she visited the weight-loss camp, Hampton said.
Some were at the courthouse were there for other matters, but were ready with an opinion. Moses Baltazar was there to clear up a traffic ticket.
He acknowledged he was not a fan of Hilton, saying he was working as a valet the only time he met her. She tipped him just a dollar after he went to the trouble of keeping paparazzi away from her.
Baltazar felt Hilton should be returned to jail.
"Driving like that, you have to behave," said Baltazar, 20. "If you're rich, you have money, you have to respect yourself."
Hilton, 26, was transferred from jail to house arrest on Thursday for unspecified medical reasons after serving only three days of a 23-day sentence. That decision outraged local politicians and brought charges of celebrity privilege.
Los Angeles city prosecutors filed papers late on Thursday demanding that Hilton be returned to jail.
They also demanded the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, which runs the jail system, be held in contempt for releasing her early and violating the sentencing order, which expressly barred electronic monitoring of Hilton.
Hilton, a hotel heiress and star of the television show "The Simple Life," has become a symbol of America's fawning celebrity culture.
She had been expected to testify on Friday by video conference from her lavish Hollywood Hills home, but Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer told sheriffs to bring her to court.
Citing privacy issues, officials have given no details of Hilton's medical problems but speculation has ranged from a looming nervous breakdown to a rash.
Hilton entered jail on Sunday to serve a sentence -- originally seen by many as excessively harsh -- for violating her probation by driving on a license that had been suspended in an earlier reckless driving case.
Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, whose office prosecuted Hilton, said the sheriff's explanation for her house arrest was "puzzling," noting county jails are "well-equipped to deal with medical situations involving inmates."
Hilton's reassignment to house arrest infuriated national and local politicians, who reported receiving hundreds of angry e-mails.
Civil rights leader Al Sharpton said on Thursday her release from jail gave the appearance "of economic and racial favoritism that is constantly cited by poor people and people of color."
Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich called Hilton a "spoiled brat, acting out to get her way instead of serving her time."
But civil liberties lawyer E. Christopher Murray said her jail term was "an example of a celebrity being treated more harshly than an average person."
While Hilton rested inside, about 40 photographers, TV crews and reporters gathered across the street in hopes of catching a glimpse of the heiress. Three helicopters hovered above and police officers patrolled the perimeter.
And the attention wasn't lost on Hilton.
At about 4 p.m., a male assistant with a video camera came out of the house to film the frenzy, asking the crowd if they loved Paris. He told the media that Hilton herself had requested the footage, noting that she wanted to see what was happening outside her home. Asked if she would make an appearance, the assistant said she "may come out."
Even writer Dominick Dunne took a break from covering the Phil Spector trial to pay the Hilton home a visit. "I wanted to see this," he said. "I think it's completely, utterly fascinating. She's one of the most famous women in the world for going to parties. It's a great career. ... I was surprised that she's out. I don't know why, how she got out."
Those closest to Hilton visited as well. After a somber lunch at La Scala eatery in Beverly Hills, Rick and Kathy Hilton arrived to see their daughter. Asked if they were glad to have her back home, Rick replied, "Yes. Very, very glad."
Hilton's aunt, Kyle Richards, visited later in the day, and told reporters: "I think [the Sheriff] made the right decision. I am worried about [Paris] – of course I'm worried about her and I think we've all lost sight of what the actual crime was – it was driving with a suspended license."
Asked how Hilton is doing, Richards said: "[She's] not well, not great." (Hilton, 26, is due in court at 9 a.m. Friday morning, where prosecutors will ask a judge to force her back behind bars.)
Shortly after 12 p.m., Faye Resnick, a Hilton family friend and best friend of the late Nicole Brown Simpson, entered the house for about 10 minutes. As she exited, Resnick told reporters, "She's sleeping."
While Hilton napped, goodies arrived. Earlier in the day, a representative of Mrs. Beasley's delivered three dozen cupcakes. "These are the flavors that she orders from us: strawberry and mocha. A dozen of each and a dozen assorted," said Anthony Crisafulli, a manager for one of the retail stores. "She's a customer of ours. She comes to our Beverly Hills store, and we decided it would be nice since she's had so much problems the last couple of days."
Around noon, a large fruit basket from Edible Arrangements that included chocolate-covered strawberries, grapes and melons was delivered, along with six cases of Party Animal organic gourmet dog food.
And later in the afternoon, two assistants carried in nine plastic grocery bags of food including cereal, Nature's Own breakfast bars, ice cream and frozen pizza.
As the deliveries poured in, Hilton's parents – along with her lawyer – made their exit. When reporters shouted "Congratulations!" to her parents, Kathy Hilton responded, "Thank you."
Not everyone was celebrating Hilton's reassignment. The frenzy on the narrow street outside her house left many neighbors and drivers irritated, as they had to navigate through the chaos. Many honked at the media to get out of the street. "Tell her to move," said one neighbor as he drove away. At the house behind Hilton's, a person got on the roof and held up a sign that read: "PARIS SUCKS."
But at least one neighbor was giving in. "We love you anyway, Paris," read their homemade sign.
The decision by Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer was announced by court spokesman Allan Parachini shortly before the start of a hearing that could put the 26-year-old hotel heiress behind bars again for violating probation in a reckless driving case.
"Judge Sauer has instructed the Sheriff's Department to go to Ms. Hilton's residence, pick her up and bring her here. That is happening now," Parachini told reporters outside the courthouse.
Hilton was ordered Thursday to report to court at 9 a.m. Friday and the judge signed an order for deputies to bring her in a sheriff's vehicle from her home.
But early Friday, Parachini announced that Hilton would be allowed to take part in the hearing by telephone. He said he understood that was her attorney's desire and it was not unusual for phones to be used in misdemeanor cases.
Outside the courthouse, people on other business stopped to gawk at news cameras. One of them was Moses Baltazar who was attempting to clear up his own traffic ticket. He said he was no fan of Hilton, noting she once tipped him only a dollar when he worked as a valet, even though he helped keep paparazzi away from her.
He also said there was no excuse for her flouting the law. "Driving like that, you have to behave. If you're rich, you have money, you have to respect yourself," he said, adding he thinks she should be returned to jail.
The frenzy began early Thursday when sheriff's officials released Hilton because of an undisclosed medical condition and sent her home under house arrest. She had been in jail since late Sunday.
Hilton was fitted with an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet and was expected to finish her 45-day sentence for a reckless driving probation violation at her four-bedroom, three-bath home.
The decision by Sheriff Lee Baca to move Hilton chafed prosecutors and Sauer, who spelled out during sentencing that Hilton was not allowed to serve house detention.
Late Thursday, Sauer issued the order for Hilton to return to court after the city attorney filed a petition demanding that Hilton be returned to jail and to show cause why Baca shouldn't be held in contempt of court.
Baca does not have to be in court, and it was unclear who would represent the Sheriff's Department.
The move also was met with outrage from the sheriff's deputies union, members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, civil rights leaders, defense attorneys and others.
"What transpired here is outrageous," county Supervisor Don Knabe told The Associated Press, adding he received more than 400 angry e-mails and hundreds more phone calls from around the country.
Hilton's return home "gives the impression of ... celebrity justice being handed out," he said.
Baca dismissed the criticism, saying the decision was made based on medical advice.
"It isn't wise to keep a person in jail with her problem over an extended period of time and let the problem get worse," Baca told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday.
"My message to those who don't like celebrities is that punishing celebrities more than the average American is not justice," Baca said.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown criticized the Sheriff's Department for letting Hilton out of jail, saying he believed she should serve out her sentence.
"It does hold up the system to ridicule when the powerful and the famous get special treatment," Brown told The Associated Press in an interview before testifying at a congressional hearing in Washington.
"I'm sure there's a lot of people who've seen their family members go to jail and have various ailments, physical and psychological, that didn't get them released," he said. "I'd say it's time for a course correction."
The Los Angeles County jail system is so overcrowded that attorneys and jail officials have said it is not unusual for nonviolent offenders such as Hilton to be released after serving as little as 10 percent of their sentences.
In the hours after Hilton's release, it was a madcap scene outside her house in the hills above the Sunset Strip. As word spread that the poster child for bad celebrity behavior was back home, radio helicopter pilots who normally report on traffic conditions were dispatched to hover over her house and describe it to morning commuters. Paparazzi photographers on the ground quickly assembled outside its gates.
Shortly before noon, Hilton issued a statement through her attorney.
"I want to thank the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and staff of the Century Regional Detention Center for treating me fairly and professionally," she said. "I am going to serve the remaining 40 days of my sentence. I have learned a great deal from this ordeal and hope that others have learned from my mistakes."
Hilton's path to jail began Sept. 7, when she failed a sobriety test after police saw her weaving down a street in her Mercedes-Benz on what she said was a late-night run to a hamburger stand.
She pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to 36 months' probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.
In the months that followed she was stopped twice by officers who discovered her driving on a suspended license. The second stop landed her in Sauer's courtroom, where he sentenced her to jail.
Hilton was allowed to leave Century Regional Detention Facility about 2 a.m. Thursday after Sheriff Lee Baca, in consultation with jail officials and Hilton's doctors, agreed that her "medical condition" warranted the change of scenery. She will serve 40 days under house arrest, with an ankle bracelet keeping tabs on her movements.
A sheriff's department spokesman declined to elaborate on the nature of said condition, other than to say it was not a staph infection or related to a jailhouse epidemic. But with Hilton receiving visits from her psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Sophy, on Tuesday and Wednesday, and numerous reports of her crying incessantly in her cell and refusing to eat, speculation has centered on her transfer being for emotional reasons.
Judge Michael T. Sauer, who sentenced Hilton to 45 days in jail for violating her probation for alcohol-related drunken driving, apparently was okay with the transfer. "The way the system works is that the court imposes the sentence and the sheriff incarcerates," said Allan Parachini, a spokesman for the judge.
"The sheriff makes decisions concerning the conditions of confinement and early release. Early release is an everyday occurrence."
However, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, whose office prosecuted the case, said he is "extremely troubled" by the release and has asked his prosecutors to "immediately explore all possible legal options to ensure that the law is being applied equally and justly in this case."
As of this afternoon, the county board of supervisors had received more than 400 phone calls, emails and faxes complaining about Hilton's release. A spokeswoman for the county said her office had received about 600 emails and calls. The city attorney's office declined to cite a specific number of Hilton-related correspondents, but said it had "been inundated" with calls and emails from not only Los Angeles but across the country.
There was no word from the Hilton camp beyond a brief statement issued via her attorney. "I have learned a great deal from this ordeal," Hilton said, "and hope that others have learned from my mistakes."
While Hilton did receive visitors, including parents Rick and Kathy and sister Nicky, she managed to remain out of sight from the camera crews camped outside her 2,700-square-foot abode—even when a delivery of cupcakes arrived at the door.
One of Hilton's longtime friends, Caroline D'Amore, tells E! News that Hilton was planning on having a welcome-home party later Thursday. "You know, [it's] just friends and hanging out and giving her hugs and kisses and stuff like that,...but we'll see."
Almost immediately, news of Hilton's home confinement sparked outrage, especially among African-American activists like the Reverend Al Sharpton, who groused, "This early release gives all of the appearances of economic and racial favoritism that is constantly cited by poor people and people of color.
"There are any number of cases of people who handle being incarcerated badly and even have health conditions that are not released," he continued in a statement from his National Action Network. "This act smacks of the double standards that many of us raise."
Najee Ali, director of the Los Angeles-based Project Islamic Hope, held an afternoon press conference in downtown Los Angeles to protest what he called an act of injustice and call on lawmakers to investigate.
"One rule for the rich and famous and different rules for everyone else," he said.
Even Elisabeth Hasselbeck chimed in on The View, calling the move "disgusting." "If you're rich and you're hot…[then] we'll let you off the hook," she said. And MSNBC legal analyst Susan Filan labeled Baca's decision "a joke."
"She didn't do her time like anybody else," she fumed. "If I were a defense lawyer in L.A., I'd say, 'You know that condition she has, well, my client's got a whole lot worse than she does.' "
Such grousing prompted a quick reply from the county supervisors, who promised to probe the matter. Admitting that the sheriff is an elected official and not beholden to the board, Don Knabe nonetheless said he and his fellow supervisors were pushing for a state bill to ensure lawbreakers complete their sentences.
"This incident with Paris Hilton is just the most recent that highlights the problems our criminal justice system has with making sure sentences stick, whether it is in a county jail or under electronic monitoring," he said.
Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke, meanwhile, said she will ask the sheriff for a full explanation.
"The decision is not inconsistent with current department policy," Burke said.
Baca, meanwhile, declined any comment through his spokesman and bailed on two scheduled press events Thursday morning.
However, not everyone was buying into the notion that favoritism was a factor.
Jean Rosenbluth, a law professor at the University of Southern California, told E! Online that there was nothing wrong with Hilton's transfer "assuming that she was literally about to have a nervous breakdown."
Rosenbluth also noted that "an inmate like Paris Hilton is more trouble for the sheriff's department because of the special circumstances surrounding her celebrity. It makes it more difficult in terms of resources, because she has to have her own cell and more people to watch over what she does."
As for how the events may affect Hilton's pop-culture status, there was more consensus: The future looks bright.
"I think the whole situation is going to positively affect her career. I think right now we're going to see a lot of jokes about it. And a lot of people will say it's not fair even though it's not too inconsistent with what happens with average people in a similar situation," said Rita Tateel, president of the Celebrity Source. "But the fact that she was in jail at all is probably a good PR thing for her because now she's going to have more depth to her."
Professor Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, told E! Online that going to jail is "in Paris' job description" and that's what makes her so interesting for people to watch.
"She gets attention because she's pretty and parties a lot....What she did with that name recognition she does better than everybody else," Thompson said. "If all of the sudden she turned over a new leaf and became a choirgirl, that would be bad for her career."
Todd Boyd, professor of race and popular culture at USC, agreed.
"Paris was always someone famous for being famous anyway, and so any attention is ultimately good attention," he mused.
"Plus, the jail time will also give her a certain amount of street cred. For someone always in need of publicity, this takes it to another level."
Hours after Paris Hilton was sprung from jail and placed under house arrest for an unspecified "medical condition," the Los Angeles City's Attorney's Office wants to send her back.
Prosecutors filed court papers Thursday evening with the judge who originally sentenced the heiress to 45 days in jail requesting that the country sheriff's department return her to custody and that the department show cause as to why it shouldn't be held in contempt of court for letting her go in the first place. (Read the order here.)
In response, the Sheriff's Department has been ordered to bring Hilton to court Friday at 9 a.m. for a hearing on the matter.
With the approval of Sheriff Lee Baca, Hilton was released from the Century Regional Detention Facility shortly after midnight, fitted with a monitoring ankle bracelet and ordered confined to her 2,700-square-foot Hollywood Hills home for the next 40 days.
While she's still technically being punished, the move caused an immediate outcry by everyone from The View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck to L.A. city officials who perceived the sheriff's actions as an affront to the justice system, especially since Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer had specifically ordered that the Simple Life star not be given alternative custody or electronic monitoring.
City attorney spokesman Nick Velasquez said earlier Thursday that the office had been "inundated with calls and emails form people," with "100 percent of them" angry about Hilton's release.
L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo said today that he was "extremely troubled" by the sheriff's decision and had asked his prosecutors to "immediately explore all possible legal options to ensure that the law is being applied equally and justly in this case."
Although the exact terms of her in-house confinement are unknown—who's allowed to visit, whether she can entertain, etc.—most people are figuring that whatever goes on is going to be a pretty posh alternative to spending the next 19 days in a county lockup.
Hilton was supposed to serve 23 days at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California, for violating her probation on a drunken driving charge by driving several times with a suspended license.
"This makes a mockery of due process, and you're dealing with a spoiled brat, acting out to get her way instead of serving her time as was adjudicated by the courts," L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich told reporters. "She should pay the consequences for her actions and what's happened—she's now going home to her estate."
Which, according to a close childhood pal of Hilton's, will be abuzz tonight with friends and family to welcome her home.
"It's just friends and hanging out and giving her hugs and kisses and stuff like that, so I hope that I can be a part of it, but we'll see," Caroline D'Amore told E! News' Samantha Harris, adding that she had been trying to reach Hilton since Wednesday night but that the socialite's text messaging and voicemail inboxes were full.
D'Amore also said that she understood why Hilton reportedly had such a hard time of it behind bars, however brief her stay.
"One of my dearest friends was in jail for 24 hours," she told Harris. "Called me crying hysterically, said it was one of the worst, most vile, disgusting things on the planet…She was a changed person, and she was only there for 24 hours."
A source told People that Hilton, who was visited by her psychiatrist during her short stint in jail, was crying all the time and, unable to sleep, appeared exhausted and unkempt.
Various media outlets reported seeing Kathy and Rick Hilton arrive at their daughter's West Hollywood residence today, with Kathy Hilton telling Extra they were "happy to have her home."
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department released Hilton for unspecified health reasons early on Thursday and sent her home wearing an electronic ankle bracelet to track her movements while she remained confined to her Hollywood Hills house for 40 days.
Hilton, 26, had served just three full days of a 45-day sentence that the sheriff already had reduced to 23 days citing state sentencing guidelines. She was incarcerated for violating her probation on a drunken-driving case by driving on a suspended license.
Her early release drew a swift challenge.
Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo filed a motion in court with the judge in Hilton's case, Michael Sauer, seeking a court order to return her to jail to serve the remainder of her original sentence.
Delgadillo also sought a court order for the sheriff's department "to show cause why it should not be held in contempt for violating" the sentencing order, which expressly barred electronic monitoring.
"House arrest is nothing," said Steve Cron, a criminal defense attorney unconnected to the case. "She can have friends over. She can party all night long."
That might be for one night only if a judge rules in favor of the city attorney's petition to return her to the Century Regional Detention Facility.
If he doesn't, however, Hilton, who was sprung from jail Thursday after serving just over three days of a 45-day sentence, would be able to roam free in her gated 2,700-square-foot home for the duration of the sentence, reduced to 23 days for good behavior.
The monitoring device allows long distance surveillance by probation officials to keep track of the whereabouts of offenders, with a range of about 3,000 to 4,000 square feet.
"House arrest for someone like her who doesn't have to work and doesn't have to worry about picking up her clothes at the dry cleaner is not a problem," Cron said. "She can have all her food sent in."
The early release of the 26-year-old socialite created a stir with questions about special treatment for celebrities and the well-heeled.
Sheriff's officials, however, said it was not unusual for inmates to finish sentences under home confinement.
Hilton spent three nights in a 12-by-8-foot cell at Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, just south of downtown Los Angeles and a world away from her Hollywood Hills home.
It was not known whether special restrictions were placed on "The Simple Life" star. Her publicist Elliot Mintz and attorney Richard Hutton did not return repeated phone calls Thursday. Whitmore said he was unaware of the conditions for home confinement.
Cron said special conditions can be worked out with the sheriff and the court.
Anyone can visit Hilton at home and she can even do a photo shoot or interview if she likes, Cron said. But it's unlikely Hilton will risk leaving home for a night on the town.
"If there's any photos of her out at night, all hell will break loose," Cron said.
Sept. 7: Officers arrest Paris Hilton in Hollywood, Calif., for investigation of driving under the influence after she was spotted "driving erratically."
Sept. 26: Hilton is charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence.
Jan. 9: Hilton's lawyers enter not guilty pleas on her behalf to one count each of driving under the influence and driving with a blood-alcohol level of .08 or above.
Jan. 15: Hilton is pulled over by the California Highway Patrol and informed that her license is suspended. She signs a document acknowledging she is not to drive.
Jan. 22: Hilton pleads no contest to a reduced charge of alcohol-related reckless driving. She is placed on three years' probation, ordered to enroll in alcohol education and pay $1,500 in fines.
Feb. 27: Hilton is ticketed for misdemeanor driving with a suspended license. A copy of the document signed Jan. 15 is found in her glove compartment.
March 29: The city attorney's office says it will ask a judge to revoke Hilton's probation.
May 3: Prosecutors recommend Hilton serve 45 days in jail for a probation violation.
May 4: Judge Michael Sauer sentences Hilton to 45 days in jail.
May 6: Publicist Elliot Mintz says he and Hilton have parted ways over an apparent "misunderstanding she received from me regarding the terms of her probation."
May 8: Hilton rehires Mintz.
May 9: Hilton hires a new attorney, Richard A. Hutton, who specializes in DUI cases.
May 14: Psychiatrist Charles Sophy says in court documents that Hilton is "distraught and traumatized as a consequence of the findings at the May 4 hearing ... and her fear of incarceration."
May 16: Sheriff's officials say Hilton will serve 23 days in a special unit away from the general population.
May 17: Hilton drops an appeal of her jail sentence.
June 3: Hilton reports to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood after attending the MTV Movie Awards and saying she's ready to serve her sentence.
June 4: Hilton's attorney says his client is doing well under the circumstances.
June 7: Hilton is released from jail because of an undisclosed medical problem and is ordered to serve the rest of her sentence in home confinement.
"This early release gives all of the appearances of economic and racial favoritism that is constantly cited by poor people and people of color," the civil-rights leader and president of National Action Network said Thursday, according to the Drudge Report. "There are any number of cases of people who handle being incarcerated badly and even have health conditions that are not released."
Sharpton said he has "nothing but empathy for Ms. Hilton," pointing out that he appeared with her on Saturday Night Live in 2003. But he said the decision to transfer her from a Los Angeles County prison to her own home, where she will be under house arrest, is unconscionable.
"I have served several sentences for civil rights and civil disobedience actions and I even fasted which caused health concerns to prison authorities who paid for a doctor to come see me daily rather than release me," Sharpton said. "This act smacks of the double standards that many of us raise."
Sharpton was not alone in condemning Hilton's transfer, as many pundits took to the cable-news shows Thursday afternoon to voice their outrage over the decision.
Even the ladies on The View weighed in on the move Thursday morning. While Elisabeth Hasselbeck said she found it "disgusting," Barbara Walters said, "I'm happy for Paris and I'm happy for her family" and guest host Lorraine Bracco admitted, "I'm so conflicted."
The studio audience, however, was unanimous. When Walters said, "I ask you very quickly, raise hands or shout out: Are you glad that Paris Hilton is reassigned to her home?" the crowd said in unison, "No!" Asked Walters, "Do you think it was the right thing to do?" Again: "No!"
But one man who did not seem upset in the least, however, was boxing promoter Don King. According to a report on TMZ.com, King called the Web site's offices on Thursday morning to say he was "ecstatic" about the news. "I love Paris Hilton, and I'm just delighted, ecstatic that she's out of jail," King says on the audio message. King said has not met Hilton, but he knows her family, and he said the heiress is "what America is all about – people that stand out from the crowd."
King added that he is looking forward to giving Hilton a hug and "telling her I love her."
The hotel heiress formerly known as inmate 9818783 made an early exit from the Century Regional Detention Facility shortly after midnight Thursday, after serving just three full days of the 45 days to which she was originally sentenced.
At a news conference Thursday morning, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said Hilton had been diagnosed with "medical issues" that resulted in her being "reassigned" to house arrest for the next 40 days.
He said he was prohibited by law from going into specifics about said medical issues, except that it was not due to a staph infection or some kind of jail outbreak.
"After extensive consultation with medical personnel, including doctors here at CRDF, it was determined that Paris Hilton would be reassigned to our community-based alternative to custody electronic-monitoring program," Whitmore said.
"She has been fitted with an ankle bracelet. And she has been sent home. And she will be confined to her home for the next 40 days. Because she has agreed to this through her attorney, her sentence is now back up to 45 days. She has already served five days, so that's 40 days."
By Whitmore's accounting, she got credit for two extra days because she surrendered before midnight on Sunday and was released after 12 a.m. Thursday. She was transferred to the custody of her attorney at 2:09 a.m., Whitmore said.
He described Hilton's demeanor as she left the facility as "focused."
He also said she will have to foot the bill for her home confinement, which amounts to about $100 a day, and that the ankle monitor restricts her movements to between 3,000 and 4,000 square feet.
Hilton, 26, entered the Lynwood, California, jail just hours after making a red carpet appearance at Sunday's MTV Movie Awards. She was placed in the facility's Special Needs Unit, where she spent 23 hours a day in a 12-by-8-foot cell.
Some members of her family and her attorney told E! Online she was "doing well" during her brief sojourn behind bars. However, others in her family admitted that Hilton was not eating, and People magazine quoted one jail source as saying that "she cries all day"; Hilton also received a two-hour visit from her psychiatrist on Tuesday.
The early exit came as news to Paris' sister, Nicky, who was telling friends Wednesday night that she planned to visit her incarcerated sibling over the weekend, according to E! Online senior editor Marc Malkin.
Looks like Nicky will have to change her plans and drop by her sister's home instead.
The Simple Life star was handed her 45-day sentence for violating probation on an alcohol-related driving charge on May 4.
Though the judge initially said Hilton could expect to serve her full sentence, with no provisions for house arrest or monitoring bracelet, it was later sliced in half due to overcrowded jail conditions and a California statute that grants credit for good behavior.
And the house arrest and ankle bracelet turned out to be options after all.
While producers of The Tyra Banks Show confirmed Wednesday that the supermodel's daytime chatfest will be shooting its third season in New York, speculation has begun as to whether the CW's catwalk competition will be setting up shop in the Big Apple, as well.
"I'm thrilled to be moving to New York," said Banks, a native Los Angeleno whose first apartment once she became a model was in NYC. "After spending some time in the city this past spring, I knew the energy and rhythm of the city would be great for the show. I feel connected and completely at home."
Telepictures Productions, which has also renewed Tyra for a fourth season, was said to have been eyeing a change of venue would give a jolt to the program, providing access to a different pool of guests.
"Moving the talk show to New York provides a great opportunity to meet all kinds of people and keep sharing the message of empowerment with everyone everywhere," Banks said. "The excitement of New York City will translate to the show each and every day as we continue to face compelling issues…head on."
Tyra, which is also produced by Bankable Productions and Handprint Entertainment, will tape at Chelsea Television Studios, still under the guidance of its current batch of Los Angeles-based executive producers. The show's third season premeries Sept. 10.
With her show currently nominated for six Daytime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Talk Show and Talk Show Host, Banks' brand of real-woman issues, done Tyra-style—"Tyra Cleans Out Her Closet" day, "Dressing Sexy at Any Size," "Church of Thin," etc.—has helped the former Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated poser further burnish her image as one of those down-to-earth hotties.
Not to mention it helps balance out the ultimately skin-deep judging process on Top Model, which already seems tailor-made for a relocation to the fashion-savvy magazine mecca that is New York.
The CW has declined to comment on the relocation speculation.
The eighth cycle of the hit CW series wrapped up with 20-year-old Jaslene Gonzalez winning the multifaceted grand prize—a Seventeen cover and six-page photo spread, representation from Elite Model Management and a $100,000 CoverGirl contract.
The seventh and eighth seasons of the catty yet utterly addictive Top Model were the top-rated shows on the freshman CW this past season, averaging 5.4 million and 5.5 million viewers apiece, including the 6.4 million who tuned in to see Jaslene's dream come true.
"She is doing much better," Kyle Richards, Paris' aunt, says in an interview. "So much better than the first day! That was tough, sure. But 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!"
Kathy Hilton disputes reports that Paris continues to be upset and crying while in jail. In fact, Paris has even begun telling relatives how impressed she's been with how kind jail staffers have been to her, even supplying her with extra blankets when she mentioned how cold she was in her cell. And though she is alone 23 hours a day, when she does cross paths with other inmates during her times out for exercise or to make calls once a day, nothing bad has happened to her.
Friends say that was Paris' biggest fear, mostly because she heard reports before she entered the facility of some inmates hoping to harm her if they got the chance. But so far, nobody has bothered her.
"When she walks the halls, in fact, they call out to her, 'Hey, Paris! How's it going? Paris! Paris!' They've been really nice to her," says Richards.
In fact, Paris' biggest battle at the moment is not fighting fellow inmates—it's battling boredom.
"She's just sitting in there for 23 hours a day with nothing to do," her aunt says. "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 in with her. They wouldn't let her take anything."
Jail staffers told Paris that due to security concerns, no inmates are allowed to bring personal items into the jail with them. She can, however, order books from stores online and have them sent to her. "So, she's reordered everything she bought before she went in," her aunt says. Those selections include faith-based books and writings on the subject of positive thinking, including The Power of Now and The Secret.
And she's jokingly telling friends and family that she will no doubt come out of the clink in better shape. All the free time is allowing her to practice Pilates moves in her tiny cell. And the terrible food means she consuming fewer calories than ever, she said.
Not that it's all peachy for Paris. It is still jail, she tells relatives. She's having trouble sleeping at night because chattering from other inmates, which usually lasts all night long, can be deafeningly loud. And the lights are never totally out. Her family plans to send her a care package that will include an eye mask, hoping that will help her get some rest at night.
"Who knows if the jail will let her have those things?" Richards says. "But we're going to try. We're doing what we can to help her."
Wednesday marks Hilton's third full day at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California, where she is serving a 23-day sentence for violating her probation for alcohol-related reckless driving.
Aside from her phone calls, she has been allowed to receive daily drop-ins from her lawyer, Richard Hutton, who has said she is "doing well." On Tuesday, her psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Sophy, tagged along with Hutton for a two-hour visit.
Hilton is tentatively slated to be released June 26.
Gisele is idolized by many young women in Brazil, the world's largest Roman Catholic country, where debate over sexual issues has intensified around a visit by Pope Benedict last month.
The Pope stressed the Church's firm opposition to abortion and contraception and railed against sex outside of marriage.
The Brazilian beauty, one of the world's top models, told Folha de S.Paulo newspaper in an interview that when the Church made its laws centuries ago, women were expected to be virgins.
"Today no one is a virgin when they get married ... show me someone who's a virgin!" she said.
Asked about abortion, she said a woman should have the right to choose what is best for her.
"If she thinks she doesn't have the money or the emotional condition to raise a child, why should she give birth?"
Gisele, who had just arrived from New York to take part in Rio de Janeiro's Fashion Week, also defended condom use.
"It's ridiculous to ban contraceptives -- you only have to think of the diseases that are transmitted without them. I think it should be compulsory to use a contraceptive."
The Brazilian government has clashed with the church over anti-AIDS programs in which it distributes millions of free condoms and Health Minister Jose Temporao has called for a national referendum on abortion.
Other Brazilian celebrities have fallen foul of the Vatican over sex issues. Singer Daniela Mercury was banned from performing at a Vatican Christmas concert in 2005 because she took part in a campaign promoting condom use to prevent AIDS.
She denied rumors she was pregnant.
"Of course I want to have a family in the future. But not at this moment.
Dr. Charles Sophy, the Beverly Hills therapist who has been treating her for the past eight months, entered the jail with Hilton's lawyer Tuesday and stayed for about two hours.
Both left without commenting.
Last month, Sophy had told a judge that Hilton was so upset by her jail sentence that she was "not capable of any meaningful participation" in a $10 million slander and libel lawsuit against her.
"She is emotionally distraught and traumatized as a consequence of the findings at the May 4 hearing, the jail sentence imposed upon her by the judge, and her fear of incarceration," Sophy wrote in papers filed by Hilton's lawyers.
Sophy was the second person to see Hilton, 26, since she surrendered late Sunday night to serve at least 23 days for a probation violation in an alcohol-related driving case.
On Monday, her lawyer Richard A. Hutton saw her for several hours and said she was coping as well as possible to 23 hours a day in solitary confinement.
Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which runs the Century Regional Detention Facility in suburban LA, told the Associated Press that "her demeanor was helpful, she was focused, she was cooperative."
Whitmore said Paris, 26, had the usual jail breakfast on Monday: cereal, bread and juice.
Paris's mother, Kathy Hilton, who brought her daughter to the facility on Sunday night, is trying to be resolute, according to Hilton's publicist, Elliot Mintz.
Mintz told the New York Post that "Kathy is very emotional. She wanted to exhibit strength for her daughter."
Mintz added, "She thought it was the most important thing to do. She thinks Paris will emerge from this a better person. It's only been a day."
The hotel heiress is expected to serve at least 23 days for violating her probation stemming from a DUI arrest.
She is in the "special needs" unit of the jail, which contains 12 cells reserved for high-profile inmates. Each cell is 12'x8' with a small window, table, toilet, washbasin and two bunk beds - though Hilton is alone, reportedly to prevent any cellmate from selling a story about the experience of spending time with the heiress.
"Her attitude is: I'm going to come in here, I'm going to do my time, get it over with, and I'm going to show the world who I really am," attorney Richard A. Hutton told reporters outside the women's jail in Lynwood. "She's using this time to reflect on her life, to see what she can do to make the world better."
Hilton, 26, was sentenced to 45 days on May 4 for violating her probation, but with good behavior could serve 23 days.
She reported to jail late Sunday after a weekend of partying and attending the MTV Movie Awards.
"She's doing very well under the circumstances," Hutton said. "The staff here have reported that she has been gracious, polite, and thankful for helping her."
Hilton's celebrity made it impossible for her to serve her sentence in a dorm-like room with dozens of other women where "the time would pass quick," he said. Instead, she's been segregated from the general population and placed in a cell less than 100 square feet for 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, according to Hutton.
"Because of who she is, they had no choice – and believe me, we are more interested in her safety more than anything else – but they had no choice but to place her in administrative segregation," he said. "The one hour of the day she's out, she is allowed to ... take a shower or talk on the phone.
"But she's in isolation for 23 of the 24 hours of the day," he added. "And ask yourself, for what? For driving on a suspended license as a probation violation. This is unjust, unfair, and she really is, unfortunately, a victim of a system that we pride so much on being fair. But for Paris Hilton it is not. Finally, my client's reaction to this has been fantastic. I'm very, very proud of her."
The band claim that their classic song "Kingston Town" features heavily in Paris Hilton's debut single "Stars Are Blind" and are suing her for breaching copyright laws.
The Sparta Music Group are going to use information from the internet and a musicologist, to prove that "Stars Are Blind" used a large amount of the UB40 1990 single.
UB40's "Kingston Town", written by Kendrick Patrick, reached number four in U.K. charts, while "Stars Are Blind" released last year, reached number five.
As Paris Hilton has been dropped from her record label, Warner Bros., she isn't being sued directly. However, she is still in the wrong side of the law as she starts her 23-week sentence in Century Regional Detention Facility in Los Angeles today (June 4).
Around 6:40 p.m., trailed by a female pal and Laguna Beach's Stephen Coletti, Hilton made her way to the outdoor tented green room at Universal Studios' Gibson Amphitheater.
Clutching her black Chanel purse, the heiress and her friend made a beeline for the buffet table, not pausing to greet fellow guests before sampling everything from mini egg salad sandwiches to caprese salad on toast and carrots.
Within seconds, people in the green room had swarmed around her, with MTV staffers snapping pictures on their camera phones and the few photographers allowed backstage jostling for a good view.
After five minutes of noshing, Hilton wiped her mouth and tossed her napkin onto the buffet table. Though she was quiet, she seemed to be in good spirits, smiling and posing and apparently unfazed by the commotion surrounding her.
But her mood changed briefly when Three 6 Mafia's DJ Paul approached and gave her a hug, telling her how sorry he was about everything that was going on. Hilton shook her head, repeating, "I know, I know. Yup."
The two chatted for a few more minutes before Hilton headed to the bar, bopping to John Mayer's "Your Body is a Wonderland." She and her friend then retreated to a corner where they chatted calmly, with Hilton smiling and people-watching before they left just before 7 p.m.
After she was booked later that night at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., she given her first meal as an inmate, the Associated Press reports: cereal, bread and juice.
The 26-year-old heiress worked the red carpet at the MTV Movie Awards Sunday afternoon, then traded her strapless designer gown for a jail-issue jumpsuit and a solitary cell.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which runs the jail, turned mum Monday, but the media crowd outside the jail had grown since the weekend.
Hilton entered the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood just after 11:30 p.m. Sunday. She is due to serve three weeks for violating her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. The sheriff's department online booking site showed a projected release date of June 26.
She surrendered to sheriff's deputies after making a surprise visit to the MTV awards.
"I am trying to be strong right now," she told reporters on the red carpet. "I'm ready to face my sentence. Even though this is a really hard time, I have my family, my friends and my fans to support me, and that's really helpful."
Before he stopped commenting, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Hilton was easy to work with.
"Her demeanor was helpful. She was focused, she was cooperative," he said.
Hilton turned herself in at the Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles just after 10:30 p.m., then was escorted to the all women's facility in Lynwood, where she was booked, fingerprinted, photographed, medically screened and issued an orange top and pants, Whitmore said.
Hilton's booking photo showed the heiress wearing what appeared to be a V-neck shirt, eye makeup and lip gloss that highlighted a slight smile. Her long blond hair was draped over one shoulder.
The "Simple Life" star is being housed in the "special needs" unit of the 13-year-old jail, separate from most of its 2,200 inmates. The unit contains 12 two-person cells reserved for police officers, public officials, celebrities and other high-profile inmates. Hilton's cell has two bunks, a table, a sink, a toilet and a small window. She does not have a cellmate.
Like other inmates in that unit, Hilton will take her meals in her cell and will be allowed outside the 12-by-8-foot space for at least an hour each day to shower, watch TV in the day room, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone. No cell phones or BlackBerrys are permitted in the facility, even for visitors.
The jail, a two-story concrete building next to train tracks and beneath a bustling freeway, has been an all-female facility since March 2006. It's located in an industrial area about 12 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.
"I did have a choice to go to a pay jail," Hilton said Sunday, without giving details. "But I declined because I feel like the media portrays me in a way that I'm not and that's why I wanted to go to county, to show that I can do it and I'm going to be treated like everyone else. I'm going to do the time, I'm going to do it the right way."
When she was sentenced May 4, Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer ruled that she would not be allowed any work release, furloughs or use of an alternative jail or electronic monitoring in lieu of jail.
Sometimes stars are allowed to do their time in a jail of their choosing. In such cases, they pay a daily room-and-board fee to the smaller jails, which afford them more privacy and comfort.
On Sunday, about a dozen photographers and television crews were at the Lynwood facility when she arrived in an unmarked sport utility vehicle. Video captured by celebrity news site TMZ.com showed Hilton inside the vehicle with her mother, Kathy.
Hilton's publicist, Elliot Mintz, said he spoke with Kathy Hilton after she returned from the jail.
"She told me it was very emotional," Mintz said. "She also said that she feels this will be a time when Paris will be able to think and reflect and to spend time alone to learn from the experience because in Paris' life she's never alone — there's always a constant chatter around her."
Officers arrested Hilton in Hollywood on Sept. 7. In January, she pleaded no contest to the reckless-driving charge and was sentenced to 36 months' probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.
She was pulled over by California Highway Patrol on Jan. 15. Officers informed Hilton she was driving on a suspended license and she signed a document acknowledging she was not to drive. She then was pulled over by sheriff's deputies on Feb. 27, at which time she was charged with violating her probation.
"Paris Hilton has turned herself in to begin serving her sentence for violating probation at a Los Angeles County Jail located in Lynwood, California," attorney Richard Hutton said in a statement.
It also quoted the 26-year-old hotels heiress as saying: "This is an important point in my life and I need to take responsibility for my actions. In the future, I plan on taking more of an active role in the decisions I make ... Although I am scared, I am ready to begin my jail sentence."
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Hilton was booked at 11:38 p.m. PDT on Sunday (2:38 a.m. EDT/0638 GMT Monday).
Celebrity news site TMZ.com said the surrender was done out of the glare of photographers staking out the Lynwood facility.
It said Hutton picked up at Hilton at her parents' house at 10:30 p.m. PDT (1:30 EDT/0530 GMT Monday) , and drove to the Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles, where she surrendered to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. From there, she was driven to the jail in Lynwood, about 15 miles away.
TMZ added that her family went with her to the surrender.
Hilton was due to turn herself in by Tuesday to start serving her term, which already has been cut from 45 days to 23 days under state sentencing guidelines.
Earlier in the evening, she attended the MTV Movie Awards near Hollywood, where she was the butt of comedians' jokes.
Hilton was arrested for drunken driving in September, and in January, she pleaded no contest -- the equivalent of a guilty plea -- to a reduced charge of alcohol-related reckless driving. She was sentenced to three years' probation and had her license suspended.
But the heiress was caught driving on a suspended license in February when police stopped her for going over the speed limit with her headlights out at night. A traffic court judge ruled on May 4 that Hilton's latest offense constituted a probation violation and sentenced her to 45 days in jail.
Hilton will be held in a unit for celebrities and high-profile inmates at the jail. The unit is separated from the general prison population, officials have said.
The heiress, who must report to Los Angeles County Jail by midnight Tuesday, flashed her trademark coy smile as she posed for photos and talked with reporters.
"I'm really scared but I'm ready to face my sentence," she said. "Even though this is a really hard time, I have my family, my friends and my fans to support me, and that's really helpful."
MTV Movie Awards host Sarah Silverman cracked a crude joke at Hilton's expense to open the show. When the camera panned to Hilton, she was not smiling.
Then the focus finally turned to movies. MTV's irreverent mix of honors includes prizes for best kiss, best fight and best villain.
Jack Nicholson was the winning villain, capturing the Golden Popcorn trophy for his mobster role in "The Departed." The fight prize went to Gerard Butler, who battled "The Uber Immortal" in the epic "300." Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen won best kiss for their smooch in "Talladega Nights: The Battle of Ricky Bobby." They shared a long, passionate kiss — culminating in a roll-around-on-the-floor makeout session — as they claimed their awards.
Cohen also won a Golden Popcorn for best comedic performance for his role in "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."
"Unfortunately, Borat can't be here tonight," Cohen joked. "He's been feeling the pressures of fame and had to check himself into rehab."
The live program, held at the Gibson Amphitheater, was punctuated by a performance by Rihanna and Jay Z, who paired up on her new song "Umbrella."
Two "Dreamgirls" stars, Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson and Grammy winner Beyonce Knowles, were in the running for best performance. Also nominated were Will Smith for "The Pursuit of Happyness," Keira Knightley for "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and Butler for "300."
Smith's 9-year-old son, Jaden Smith, claimed the breakthrough performance prize for his role opposite his father in "The Pursuit of Happyness." He accepted his award by video from Toronto with his dad by his side and his mom behind the camera.
Films nominated for best movie were "300," "Pirates of the Caribbean," "Blades of Glory," "The Devil Wears Prada," "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Borat."
On Thursday, Hilton – who has until Tuesday to begin serving a minimum of 23 days for violating probation – and sister Nicky hit an L.A. party at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where she was "laughing and living it up," an eyewitness says. Afterward, the siblings made a brief appearance at a pre-MTV party at a Beverly Hills mansion.
The following night, Hilton was spotted at Hollywood hot spot Les Deux, where she arrived, clad in a skin-colored chiffon dress, around 11:45 p.m. with a sizable entourage that included her sister Nicky and Nicky's boyfriend David Katzenberg. "Paris seemed very composed, but certainly was not the crazy party girl from recent nights out," says one clubgoer.
The 26-year-old heiress briefly emerged on Saturday afternoon from her Hollywood Hills home to an awaiting mob of photographers camped outside. Wearing a yellow sunhat and tropical-print sundress with her hair in pigtails, she was chauffeured by a black stretch limo Escalade to a nearby Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, ordered an iced latte, then promptly returned home.
"She looked gorgeous and seemed in high spirits," says an onlooker. "She was smiling and playing coy with the paparazzi."
Early that evening, she picked up mom Kathy and sister Nicky, and together they headed to Kathy's 30-year University High School reunion at the Hotel Sheraton Delfina in Santa Monica, followed by dinner at Mr. Chow.
As the clock struck midnight, the sisters parted ways with Mom and, with a male friend and Katzenberg, hit the Hollywood hot spot Teddy's, where Vince Vaughn and Michael Vartan also made appearances. After about half an hour, they took the party to AREA.
"Paris was in a great mood," says a fellow clubgoer. "It was like a normal night out with friends. You wouldn't know she's about to go to the slammer."
Meanwhile, media have begun staking out the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., where Hilton is to do her time.
But Sheriff Lee Baca, whose department oversees the jail, told the Los Angeles Times on Saturday that authorities will not allow Hilton to "be seen in handcuffs ... or in the back of a police car, forlorn and in handcuffs."
"Jails are not circuses and not places where 'fun' is the priority," Baca said. "Jail should be a corrective learning experience."
Susannah Johnson, who was released Saturday after a one-day stay at the jail, said inmates were angry at Hilton, believing officials were making room for the starlet at the expense of other inmates already coping with crowded conditions in the 2,200-bed jail.
"The only advice I could give her when she comes is to shut her mouth and do the time," said Johnson, 35, of Claremont.
Hilton has been ordered to turn herself in by Tuesday to begin her sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.
Some 15 photographers, reporters and television crews staked out positions at three entrances to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood. Authorities had also cordoned off a grassy area outside the jail for members of the media.
"Today, Paris is the story," said Robert Penfold, a TV reporter with Australia's Nine Network.
As of Saturday night, however, the hotel heiress had yet to appear. By then, most of the media had packed up their folding chairs and tripods, though a handful of remaining reporters bundled up in the cooling temperatures.
Adrian Sanchez, a photographer with Agencia Efe, a Spanish language wire service, said he was "bored, hungry and cold."
The 13-year-old jail, five miles south of downtown Los Angeles, has been an all-female facility since March 2006. The two-story concrete building sits in an industrial neighborhood, beside train tracks and beneath a bustling freeway.
Though a judge sentenced her to 45 days behind bars, Hilton is expected to serve only 23 days because of a state law that requires shorter sentences for good behavior, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
Once she arrives, the "Simple Life" star will be housed in the jail's "special needs" unit.
Like other inmates in the special-needs area, Hilton will take her meals in her cell and will be allowed outside the 12-foot-by-8-foot space for at least an hour each day to shower, watch TV in the day room, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone.
Inmates are not allowed to bring cell phones into the jail.
Besides a decidedly unglamorous orange jumpsuit, inmates are issued a standard-issue kit that includes: a toothbrush, tube of toothpaste, soap, a comb, deodorant, shampoo and shaving implements, along with a jail-issued pencil, stationery, envelopes and stamps.
Officers arrested Hilton in Hollywood on Sept. 7. In January, she pleaded no contest to the reckless-driving charge and was sentenced to 36 months' probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.
She was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol on Jan. 15. Officers informed Hilton she was driving on a suspended license and she signed a document acknowledging she was not to drive. She was pulled over again by sheriff's deputies Feb. 27 and was charged with violating her probation.
Hilton was ordered to begin her sentence by Tuesday at a county jail in Lynwood, about five miles south of Los Angeles.
Baca told the Los Angeles Times that deputies and jail employees have been told to treat the 26-year-old heiress like any other inmate.
"Paying a debt to society should not be an element of her celebrity," Baca said. "Her occupation is publicity, but no one should profit in jail."
Hilton could report to jail before Tuesday, but as of Friday afternoon had not done so, said sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore. She may report at any time of day, said Whitmore.
Hollywood photo agencies expect a photo of Hilton in jail would be worth big money.
"The reality is why don't they just let her walk down the concrete carpet," said Frank Griffin, co-owner of the Bauer-Griffin paparazzi agency, told the paper. "This is going to be turned into an event like the Oscars."
Hilton was sentenced last month to 45 days for violating the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless-driving case after repeatedly driving her car while her license was suspended.
Sheriff's officials have said she will serve about 23 days behind bars because of state rules allowing shorter sentences for good behavior.
Baca said it was unclear whether Hilton will surrender at the court where she was sentenced or report straight to jail. He said authorities will not allow her to "be seen in handcuffs ... or in the back of a police car, forlorn and in handcuffs."
Once there, Hilton will go through the normal intake process, said Baca. That involves undergoing an interview by jail staff and evaluations for any medical or other needs.
"Jails are not circuses and not places where `fun' is the priority," Baca said. "Jail should be a corrective learning experience."
The jail houses about 2,200 women, but officials have said Hilton will be kept away from the general population. Baca said no decision has been made about whether she'll share a cell with anyone.
Hilton will "experience her incarceration as all other women will experience it," said Baca. "She won't get better food, she won't get different lockup time or a different environment."
The countdown to Paris Hilton's incarceration next week has sent the tabloid press into overdrive with stories alternately portraying her as a newly tearful, spiritual socialite or an unrepentant party girl kicking up her heels with the likes of Lindsay Lohan at Hollywood nightspots.
Either way, Hilton is in for a change of pace during the jail time she was ordered to serve after police caught her behind the wheel of her Bentley without a valid license earlier this year, violating probation for a prior drunken-driving offense.
The 26-year-old "celebutante" has been ordered to report to the Century Regional Detention Facility near Los Angeles by Tuesday to start serving her term, which already has been cut from 45 days to 23 days under state sentencing guidelines.
Once she reports, Hilton will forsake her designer clothes, cell phone and other accessories -- along with her freedom and privacy -- for an orange jumpsuit and a small, Spartan cell with twin bunks and metal toilet (no seat, no lid).
County Sheriff Lee Baca told the Los Angeles Times that steps have been taken to ensure no one smuggles in a camera to get pictures of the jailed Hilton, which would be of immense value to the tabloid media.
But a shortage of cameras behind bars doesn't necessarily mean Hilton is ready to surrender her vanity or fashion sense.
Under the headline: "Before the slammer, Paris planning some glamour," the New York Daily News reported that designers were ordered to Hilton's home on Monday to give her a pre-jail makeover.
PERP WALK ON THE CATWALK
"It's understood that the glamorous inmate-to-be plans to turn the perp walk into a catwalk and she wants the media to see her looking her best," Daily News columnists George Rush & Joanna Malloy wrote.
Hilton, who lampoons her public persona as a clueless, child of privilege on the reality TV show "The Simple Life," has succeeded in parlaying faux pas into greater fame since a sex video of her surfaced on the Internet some years ago. Several media outlets have suggested she is laying the groundwork to cash in on her incarceration.
Rush & Malloy reported Hilton plans to keep a jailhouse diary to be published after her release.
There were other indications that Hilton was turning to a higher power to pull her through. Her mother, Kathy, told celebrity Web site TMZ.com that her daughter was "preparing and praying" and last week Hilton was widely photographed toting copies of the Bible and "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment."
Days later Us Weekly magazine reported she was spotted living it up in Hollywood with troubled actress Lindsay Lohan the night Lohan was busted for drunken driving.
People magazine, meanwhile, reported Hilton has been spending time with close friends, including her "Simple Life" co-star Nicole Richie, and has grown increasingly fretful about her upcoming jail term.
"She breaks down crying a lot because she just can't deal with the reality and pressure of everything that is happening," People quoted one unnamed source as saying.
Hilton's publicist, Elliot Mintz, who she famously blamed in court for misinforming her about the status of her own driver's license, was not immediately available for comment.
"I think she should definitely be punished, but going to jail for a traffic violation is pretty absurd," Hilton, 23, told PEOPLE Thursday at the BlackBerry Curve launch party in Los Angeles, which she attended with Paris.
Though a source told PEOPLE Paris is dreading jail time, the 26-year-old heiress wasn't showing it. Wearing a flirty pink dress, Paris was giddy and giggly as she chatted with her sister and a female pal. (She declined to speak to PEOPLE, saying: "I'm not doing interviews.")
A longtime Paris friend says the laughter is her way of coping. "She's the eternal optimist," the pal – who spoke with Paris at the party – told PEOPLE. "She's been through so much, but that's always her disposition.
Paris has until June 5 to turn herself in to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., where she will serve at least 23 days for violating probation by driving with a suspended license.
After serving time, Hilton can look forward to a party – in St Tropez. She's the face of a canned sparkling wine called Rich Prosecco and, according to the company, will appear at their summer party. When's the party? Depends on when she gets out.
"We have to wait and see what happens on June 5," Gunther Aloys, the Austria-based head of Rich Prosecco, tells PEOPLE. "Her family is very anxious about what will happen. When it [the jail sentence] is over, she was planning to go on vacation at the end of June. We expect to have a party day then with her in St. Tropez."
The heiress – who came to Zurich in April for the brand – will also have a photo shoot on the Matterhorn in July or August, plus a market launch in England this summer. Her three-to-five year contract with the brand also includes a share of the business, though Aloys wouldn't specify how much.
A judge sentenced Hilton to 45 days behind bars, but Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said "she will do about 23 days," regardless of when she reports. She may choose to report early, or at an odd hour, to try to avoid media attention.
"It's the state law," he said, explaining the "good time/work time" requirement in which "you get days off for every day that you serve."
He said there's no chance Hilton will be released early due to overcrowding, as actress Michelle Rodriguez was in May 2006, when she served less than one day of a 60-day sentence at the same county jail.
"The situation in the jail will not determine (Hilton's) release," Whitmore said. "She has been given a full sentence. She will do her full sentence."
The 13-year-old Lynwood jail, located five miles south of downtown Los Angeles, has been an all-female facility since March 2006. The two-story concrete building sits in an industrial neighborhood, beside train tracks and beneath a bustling freeway.
Hilton will be housed in the facility's "special needs" unit, where she "very well may not" have a roommate, Whitmore said.
Like other inmates in the special-needs area, she will take her meals in her cell and will be allowed outside the 12-foot-by-8-foot space for at least an hour each day to shower, watch TV in the day room, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone. She will have to use a public pay phone — cell phones and BlackBerrys aren't allowed.
Hilton must come empty-handed to the jail, Whitmore said. Once she's booked into custody, she'll have to surrender her clothing and jewelry in exchange for the requisite orange jumpsuit.
She will also get the same standard-issue kit all incoming inmates at the 2,200-bed facility receive: a toothbrush, tube of toothpaste, soap, a comb, deodorant, shampoo and shaving implements, along with a jail-issued pencil, stationery, envelopes and stamps.
If Hilton wants to prettify herself in her cell's polished-metal mirror, she can buy a compact, eye shadow, an eyebrow pencil and package of hair coloring from the jail commissary, where she can draw from a prepaid account.
Inmates are also allowed to have up to three books and magazines each week and a maximum of five photographs — no larger than 4-by-6 inches.
No special arrangements have been made to accommodate the heiress, Whitmore said.
"The sheriff treats all inmates alike," he said.
But Nicole Richie, Hilton's on-again friend and reality-show co-star, had a different opinion when she spoke to Ryan Seacrest on his morning radio show Wednesday.
"The way that Paris' whole entire case was dealt with was, A, out of her control but B, really unfair," Richie said. "Sometimes people just get exploited so I can only hope that doesn't happen to me."
Richie was charged with driving under the influence and pleaded not guilty in February, and is awaiting the resolution of that case. She was previously convicted of DUI in June 2003.
Besides starring in "The Simple Life," Hilton is an aspiring pop singer who released her debut CD in August. She also has a namesake perfume and handbag collection.
Her spokesman, Elliot Mintz, had no comment Thursday.
"We had a little party at her house the other night so we were all around her to be there for her," childhood friend Caroline D'Amore told PEOPLE at Wednesday's Los Angeles opening of the flagship Diesel store on Melrose Place.
D'Amore added that, at the Memorial Day barbecue hosted by pal Nicole Richie, "We all watched the first episode of the new season of The Simple Life, which was really cute."
Still, another Hilton pal says the heiress is dreading jail time. "She breaks down crying a lot because she just can't deal with the reality and pressure of everything that is happening," the source told PEOPLE, adding that some friends have not been so supportive: "She really can't take how most people around her have scattered and distanced themselves."
Hilton has until June 5 to turn herself in to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., where she will serve a at least 23 days for violating probation by driving with a suspended license.
Still, D'Amore said Hilton "has high hopes" for the future. Added pal Kim Kardashian: "[Paris] is a smart girl and will be okay. It's all about learning from her experiences."
"Paris hasn't been eating at all and her parents and friends are beyond worried about her," the source says. "She breaks down crying a lot because she just can't deal with the reality and the pressure of everything that is happening."
Hilton, 26, was sentenced to 45 days in jail for violating probation by driving with a suspended license, and a police rep recently said she will serve at least 23 days of that sentence.
Hilton had said in a statement shortly after her sentencing: "I am ready to face the consequences of violating probation," and that seems to be the case – she dropped her appeal less than two weeks later.
But the fact is, "She's been having such a tough time with it all despite her going out with friends and going shopping," the source says. "She just does that to keep her mind off things and to try and stay as normal as possible right now." Some others, however, have not been as helpful. "As for her friends, that's been another spot of stress for Paris," the source says. "She really can't take how most people around her have scattered and distanced themselves."
"Before I got into that relationship, I had a good head on my shoulders and walked with my head up high," Gonzalez, 21, says in the July issue of Seventeen. "But during that relationship, things went down little by little. It was such a dark moment in my life. It was horrible!" Because of her situation, "I wasn't having my rest or eating the food I wanted to eat. So I mentally gave up, but I still did what I had to do. I think perseverance is the key to success. There were so many roadblocks for me, but I overcame them all." Gonzalez appears on the cover and in a six-page fashion and beauty layout in the magazine - part of her winnings, which also included a contract with Elite modeling agency and a $100,000 deal with CoverGirl. Should others find themselves in an abusive relationship, she says, "I can give so much advice, but it starts within yourself. You need to get help. Talk to somebody, because once you talk about it, you hear it, and then you understand what you're going through. That's what it took for me to let go." Gonzalez, who last week attended The CW's upfronts in New York City, says she gained self-worth from her sometimes challenging experience on Top Model: "I couldn't believe how mature, strong, and confident I've grown. I definitely broke down along the way though."
Donna Hogan, a 40-something Texas housewife, is set to dye her hair, get her breasts surgically enhanced and then approach Hugh Hefner about becoming a Playboy centerfold - like Anna Nicole did. "A few years ago, Playboy approached me and I almost agreed to do it. But I was too chicken. My boobs weren't big enough," Hogan tells Steppin' Out's Chaunce Hayden. "But now, if Playboy called, I would probably do it. I just had a birthday and I'm going to treat myself to new boobs. I just want to get my body to where I want it and I'll be ready to step in and do it . . . You'll definitely see a transformation in the next year." But Hogan won't likely make her breasts as gargantuan as Anna Nicole made hers. As she revealed in her recent tell-all, "Train Wreck," her half-sister had a "double breast enhancement" that made her so top heavy, she had to have her bras custom-made and suffered from back-pain that forced her to turn to prescription drugs. In her interview with Hayden, the nude-model wannabe also has harsh words for Anna Nicole's onetime boyfriend, lawyer Howard K. Stern, who originally claimed he was the father of baby Dannielynn, before a DNA test confirmed it was actually Larry Birkhead. "He's a creepy little weasel-looking thing. He was just Anna's gofer, like a little girlfriend or something," Hogan tells the magazine. "I could just slap the [bleep] out of him. I'd love to just beat the [bleep] out of him. But instead I think I'll just torture him . . . hug and kiss on him and act like I like him, then just walk away and leave him like that, all sexually frustrated." Stern did not return Page Six's calls. Hogan, who might be overestimating her sex appeal, also doubts anybody will ever see the millions Anna Nicole supposedly inherited from late husband J. Howard Marshall, adding, "I don't even believe Anna thought she would ever see any of that money. It was just a tool she used for keeping the media interested in her."
The diamond heiress and sometime actress is lashing out at Paris Hilton's claim that she is too "emotionally distraught and traumatized" in the wake of her jail sentence to participate in a $10 million slander trial that was due to start this month. Graff filed suit against Hilton back in July 2005 alleging the celebutante spread lies about Graff to the New York Post. Now, Graff is taking issue with the Simple Life star's successful motion to postpone the trial to August, saying that if Hilton is of sound enough mind to continue clubbing despite her encroaching incarceration, she should be more than ready to head to court. "If Ms. Hilton was nightclubbing on Saturday night, she should not have been representing to the court on Monday morning that she was unable to participate in the trial," Graff said in a statement issued through her lawyers. "Ms. Hilton should be required to explain her actions and account for them. Under the law, even Ms. Hilton is supposed to be held accountable for her actions." On Monday, Dr. Charles Sophy, a psychiatrist who has treated Hilton on and off for the past six months, testified in Los Angeles Superior Court that the 26-year-old was not quite ready for the rigors of a trial. Sophy claimed that Hilton's May 4 sentencing to 45 days in jail left her too upset "to respond to examination as a witness or provide any significant input into her defense." (View Sophy's declaration.) Furthermore, Sophy asserted, forcing Hilton to take the stand could "exacerbate her current mental condition." Judge Linda Lefkowitz ruled in favor of postponement, saying that Hilton would not be compelled to give testimony May 21 as originally scheduled and that the trial would instead be pushed back to Aug. 22, well after Hilton completed her sentence. Graff is suing her fellow socialite for allegedly spreading "vicious lies" to the Post about an altercation at London's Kabaret nightclub in the summer of 2005. According to a gossip item in the newspaper, Graff, Hilton and Hilton's then fiancé Paris Latsis, who had previously dated Graff for two years before taking up with Hilton, all showed up at the club. Graff, the item continued, went "berserk" after seeing her rival and attempted to strangle Hilton and the steal her $4 million diamond necklace. In a final blow, the Post reported that the necklace had been on loan from the jeweler Graff, owned by the heiress' ex-husband, François. Graff has denied the entire report. Instead, she claims that after arriving at the club she was approached by Hilton, who reportedly said, "I'm going to destroy you," before attempting to have Graff thrown out of the hotspot. Former Hilton publicist Rob Shuter has backed up Graff's side of the tale, saying in a deposition that Hilton asked him to help plant the story and that all quotes from the article, which were attributed to several people, had all been dictated to him by Hilton. There was no comment Friday from Hilton's current publicist, Elliot Mintz. Graff's letter to the court came as Hilton dropped her appeal of her jail sentence, effectively guaranteeing that she will spend just over three weeks in "special needs housing" at the Century Regional Detention Facility, isolated from the general inmate population. Hilton must turn herself in to start serving the 23-day sentence by June 5.
"Illegal Aliens" casts the silicone blonde as one of a "Charlie's Angel"-style trio formed "when three aliens morph into super-hot babes and arrive to protect the earth from the intergalactic forces of evil." The film, which is being shown by producers in special market screenings away from the main festival, is unlikely ever to win prizes like the Palme d'Or awarded for top film in the Cannes competition. But it is in keeping with a tumultuous career that took Smith from small-town Texas via a strip club to marriage at 26 with an 89-year-old oil billionaire, Playboy magazine and endless tabloid television appearances. The tone is set from the outset, when a cartoon spaceship shoots by with the inscription "My other ride is Uranus" on the back and the film is light years away from the highbrow fare on show further along the Croisette. Whether or not the producers can be accused of cashing in on her untimely death, they certainly make no attempt to minimize her role and at one point the three heroines recline on a sofa, watching the real Anna Nicole Smith on television. Smith died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs in February, triggering a media frenzy over her burial, custody of her 6-month-old daughter and the future of her estate.
The Simple Life star has dropped her appeal of a 45-day jail sentence handed down earlier this month after she was found in violation of her probation for alcohol-related reckless driving. Attorney Richard Hutton filed the abandonment of appeal Thursday on the heiress' request, according to court documents obtained by E! News. (View the new court filing as a PDF file.) The decision to take her punishment without a fight is an abrupt about-face from Team Hilton's initial reaction but is in keeping with the socialite and her camp's newfound contriteness. Just hours after she was sentenced on May 4 for driving with a suspended license, Hilton's original lawyer, Howard Weitzman, filed the appeal, calling Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer's 45-day sentence imposition "inappropriate" and "ludicrous." Her mother, Kathy Hilton, termed the order "pathetic and disgusting," "a waste of taxpayer money" and "a joke." Speaking to photographers camped outside her home the following day, Paris Hilton railed against the perceived injustice, claiming she was targeted because of her celebrity and that her court-ordered jail stay, to be served in the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California, was "both cruel and unwarranted." Hilton even went so far as to urge supporters of her plight to sign a petition seeking a pardon by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. But by last week, she had hired Hutton to take over the case and immediately toned down the woe-is-me rhetoric. In a statement released through Hutton on May 9, Hilton said that "no one is above the law. I surely am not." "I am ready to face the consequences of violating probation." Perhaps making the judgment easier to swallow is the fact that she will only serve about half the time. On Wednesday, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore announced that Hilton, 26, would serve just 23 days, owing to the heiress' good behavior in advance of her incarceration. Whitmore credited Hilton with showing up for her court date as one of the reasons for officials to dock her jail time. Whitmore made the announcement to clarify concerns that the Simple Life star might serve just hours of her sentence or even be turned away entirely due to an overcrowded facility. Whitmore said that Hilton had been earmarked for a "special needs housing unit" at the detention center, for which inmate overcrowding is not a concern. The socialite will be kept in a 12-cell unit that is separated from the general population and is reserved for celebrities, public officials and other high-profile figures. Apparently, the new accommodations were enough for Hilton to accept. With no more appeals pending and Schwarzenegger saying he was "too busy" to consider any pardon, Hilton must turn herself in to the detention center by June 5 to begin serving her time.
"We are having a boy!" the supermodel-actress, 34, said at a Chopard dinner at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday evening. "I am so excited. I cannot wait for motherhood." With Italian boyfriend Gregorio Marsiaj at her side, the Czech-born Herzigova says that although they have thought of some names for their first-born, they want to wait until the big day to make the final decision. "We haven't chosen one name but we have a little list of names we like," she says. "I think you have to wait until that moment and see what names suits. I don't think you can say before hand." Herzigova – who recently told the UK's Sunday Times she has no intention of following a strict, post-pregnancy diet – walked the red carpet for the premiere of the Jude Law-Norah Jones movie My Blueberry Nights in her bespoke, sunset orange full length Valentino gown, before attending the Chopard dinner at the exclusive Nikki Beach. "I was nervous on the red carpet because I am obviously pregnant," she said, "and I only have two more weeks to go!" Dad-to-be Marsiaj had just one thing on his mind. "I wanted to be here for Eva and for our child," he said, placing a hand on his girlfriend's round stomach. "I am here to support her."
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has decided it will cut the 26-year-old's sentence after reviewing the case and giving her credit for good behavior. Spokesman Steve Whitmore said she would also be kept in a special needs housing unit. "This was decided because of her high profile," Whitmore told Reuters. "She will do fine if she follows the rules." Hilton's troubles began in September when the socialite and reality TV star was arrested for drunken driving. In January, she pleaded no contest -- the equivalent of a guilty plea -- and was sentenced to three years' probation and had her license suspended. But in February she was pulled over for driving without headlights and was found to be driving on a suspended license. Earlier this month, a shocked and tearful Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in jail for violating her probation by driving on a suspended license. Hilton, who has been ordered to report to prison by June 5, has said the punishment was too harsh and vowed to appeal, with her backers asking California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon her.
Christensen says, "Whenever we see each other, we have a heartfelt hug. It's always good to see her, we both dated a wonderful person so we will always have that in common. The whole speculation about my relationship with Michael was out of control. We were never going to get married and I certainly never bought a wedding dress."
The hotel heiress will spend about 23 days in a "special needs housing unit" at the Century Regional Detention Center in suburban Lynwood, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said. Her sentence was shortened after jail officials gave her credit for good behavior, Whitmore said. Officials considered several factors in calculating the credit, including that she appeared for her latest court date, he said. Hilton will stay in a unit that contains 12 two-person cells reserved for police officers, public officials, celebrities and other high-profile inmates, he said. Like everyone else in the 2,200-inmate facility, Hilton will get at least an hour outside her cell each day to shower, watch television, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone, he said. The 26-year-old socialite was sentenced to jail this month for violating the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. A judge ordered her to report to jail by June 5. A call to her lawyer, DUI specialist Richard Hutton, was not immediately returned. Her publicist, Elliot Mintz, declined to comment.
Saying she had talked to Kathy Hilton the night before and describing her as a friend for "many years" and "a very caring mother," Walters said, "This is something, obviously, as a mother it's horrendous when your child, no matter what, has to go to jail for 45 days." Hilton's statement, as read by Walters, said: "We can only hope that something positive will come from this. Hopefully, young people who look up to people like Paris can learn from this." Walters, applauding Kathy Hilton's refusal to declare her daughter's innocence, called it "a strong and very good statement." Others at the View table did not necessarily concur, suggesting, as did guest host Kathy Griffin, that possibly the tables had turned, and Paris Hilton was not being seen as a role model by young people. "Whether they're looking up or looking down, they are looking at Paris," said Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who added, "You want to discipline your child before the criminal justice system does." On May 4, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer sentenced the 26-year-old hotel heiress to 45 days in jail for violating her probation by driving with a suspended license. After the general public had cleared the courtroom, Kathy Hilton angrily burst from the seating area toward the attorneys' table, saying loudly, "I can't believe this, I can't believe this." Then she approached one of the prosecutors and said, "You're pathetic," before asking sarcastically, "Can I have your autograph?" This week, Paris Hilton's psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Sophy, declared that the Simple Life star is "distraught and traumatized" and "fears incarceration."
The public now can discover that she was delighted by rough sex, ecstatic over the prospect of plastic surgery for her breasts, and fearful of a jealous boyfriend. She was careless with spelling, punctuation, and, too often, with her own well-being. Complaining about her then-lover's carousing, Smith writes that she'll break it off with him if he doesn't stop. Then she amends her stand, according to new diary excerpts released exclusively to The Associated Press. "We discussed it and he said he wouldn't go out and get drunk no more unless it was with me," Smith wrote in the diaries, which span about a year from early 1991 to 1992. On an evening out a few weeks later with the same man (identified only by first name), Smith wrote that she got drunk and "asked a guy for his #." Her boyfriend "came unglued. threw me out of his house & broke up with me it was awlful he hit me and my mother," she said. The model and former Playboy Playmate, who was born Vickie Lynn Smith, was found dead on Feb. 8 in Hollywood, Fla., of a toxic mix of prescription drugs. Copies of 60 diary pages were provided to the AP by Universal Rarities, a Corona-based auction house. The diaries were purchased from a memorabilia shop by a group of investors, who sold two of them to a German businessman for more than $500,000. Those diaries were from 1992 and 1994 and included references to elderly Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, whom Smith married in 1994 and who died the next year. The newly released handwritten diary pages are from a different diary and will be posted online at urauctions.com, said Thomas Riccio, a partner in Universal Rarities. Smith's tone in the entries veers between simple joy and deep-seated unhappiness. One entry begins, "I'm a very sad person," and is illustrated by a weeping face. Smith goes on to write that "my mom hates me so much. She is so jealous of me. ... I love my mom but I cant handle it anymore." She posts intimate details of an active sex life in often-graphic language. She rails against her boyfriend and, in the same scrawled entry, celebrates her upcoming breast surgery. "I'm so excited I could scream. Ahhhhh I just feel so happy," Smith writes, although she later expresses worry about the imminent operation and how she'll look. One of the more poignant passages deals with her shock at finding she's pregnant. "I'm so scared! How can this happen to me," she writes, adding that her boyfriend "will hate me. he don't want kid. Can't do it!" She underlined the last phrase. Smith later had two children. Son Daniel died last September at age 20 of a lethal combination of drugs, three days after Smith gave birth to a daughter, Dannielynn. Larry Birkhead was found to be the baby's father.
That's the ominous word from Natalia McLennan, the former $2,000-an-hour hooker who was splashed on the cover of New York Magazine as "New York's No. 1 Escort" and spent 26 days at Rikers Island. "It's the worst experience of your life - you're locked up, the food is disgusting and everybody wants to be your friend, but in the end they just want to [bleep] you," McLennan, who is now a stylist at a top Montreal spa, told Page Six. First, McLennan says, Hilton must brace herself for an embarrassing physical that includes a full-body cavity search. She should also get used to being eyeballed by horny lesbian inmates. "She'll want to make at least one good friend, like a Nicole Richie, to watch her back for her when she takes a shower . . . And I'd tell her, 'Drop the attitude.' " She says Hilton can also use a psychological trick to survive, remembering that, "it doesn't get any worse than this - it can only get better." Meanwhile, a tongue-in-cheek profile for Hilton has been posted on the popular pen-pal Web site for jailbirds, HotPrisonPals.com, so fans can stay in touch: "I will answer all who write me, EXCEPT if your first name is 'Lindsay' who I bet is laughing her freckled butt off right now as we speak!!!" The imaginary Paris relates how Tinkerbell tried to visit and, "security checked her for 'contraband' . . . it was embarrassing to see her stand up against the wall, her little legs spread eagle, then seeing the guards put on the rubber gloves . . . Ewwww!" In other Paris developments, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who runs Arizona's infamous "Tent City" jail, in which inmates are humiliated by having to wear striped uniforms and pink underwear, says he's offered to house the celebutard heiress to ease overcrowding in the L.A. lockups. In the She'll-Never-Learn Dept., London's Daily Mail yesterday published photos purporting to show Hilton puffing on a joint at last month's Coachella music festival a few weeks before her sentencing. And a national poll of 789 Americans by HCD Research shows a clear majority (69 percent) believe Hilton's 45-day jail sentence is an appropriate punishment.
Dr. Charles Sophy has been seeing Hilton, 26, for the past eight months and has talked with her several times since her May 4 hearing for violating the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case, according to court papers. Sophy said Hilton needs time to recover from the shock of receiving jail time before testifying in a civil case brought against her by actress and diamond heiress Zeta Graff. Messages left with Hilton's spokesman and lawyer weren't immediately returned early Tuesday. In court papers filed Monday, Sophy said Hilton is "distraught and traumatized as a consequence of the findings at the May 4 hearing ... and her fear of incarceration." "At this point in time," he continued, "Ms. Hilton cannot effectively respond to examination as a witness or provide any significant input into her defense." Graff filed a $10 million lawsuit against Hilton in 2005, claiming the reality TV star spread "vicious lies" about her. Hilton has denied that she was behind a report alleging Graff once tried to grab a necklace worth $4 million from her throat. Superior Court Judge Linda K. Lefkowitz postponed the trial to August. It had been scheduled to begin this month. Hilton and her pal Nicole Richie star on "The Simple Life," which throws them into everyday situations. After famously feuding and filming their parts separately last season, the celebutantes have reunited as camp counselors for the show's upcoming installment on the Comcast Corp.-operated E! network.
Dr. Charles Sophy gave those findings in a Los Angeles Superior Court document filed Monday in an ongoing $10 million slander and libel suit against Hilton by actress Zeta Graff. Hilton is facing an order to testify in the civil trial beginning May 21, but the psychiatrist argues that "given (Hilton's) current psychological, and emotional state ... (she's) not capable of any meaningful participation in a trial." Sophy says Hilton, 26, needs to recover from the outcome of the jail sentence. Hilton was given jail time for violating her probation for driving with a suspended license. The documents, filed by Hilton's lawyers in the slander suit, show that Dr. Sophy has been treating Hilton for the past eight months, and had met with her several times since her probation violation hearing. "She is emotionally distraught and traumatized as a consequence of the findings at the May 4 hearing, the jail sentence imposed upon her by the judge, and her fear of incarceration," Sophy wrote. Graff has accused Hilton of fabricating lies against her which appeared in a July 2005 edition of the New York Post. Graff alleges that she was falsely described as stalking Hilton and her ex, Paris Latsis (whom Graff had dated). Hilton's rep declined to comment on the psychiatric report.
In an open letter obtained by E! News, Candy Spelling chided the hotel heiress for her recent actions and urged her to "get real" as her jail sentence for violating her probation approaches. "As someone who has known you for most of your life, I pay special attention to your press coverage," Spelling wrote. "Paris, I'm very worried about you." The Spelling matriarch specifically took issue with the way Hilton presented herself in the courtroom, criticizing her for "blaming employees" and offering "silly excuses" for her legal problems. She also addressed her concerns about Hilton's friends "stag[ing] embarrassing protests (three people?)" and "wast[ing] taxpayer funds" by petitioning Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for a pardon. "It's time to find a Paris somewhere between 'heiress' and a character on The Simple Life," Spelling advised. "I know she's there, and I know she can be a good citizen and maturely face consequences other people would have to face under the same circumstances." Hilton had yet to publicly respond to Spelling's missive, which was first published by TMZ. However, she issued a statement last week claiming she was "ready to face the consequences of violating probation." "No one is above the law. I surely am not. I do not expect to be treated better than anyone else who violated probation," the heiress said. "However, my hope is that I will not be treated worse." Hilton has been ordered to turn herself in by June 5 to begin serving a 45-day sentence for violating her probation on an alcohol-related reckless driving charge. Though the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department initially said she could expect to serve her full sentence without any hope of getting out earlier, it was revealed last week that Hilton would probably wind up spending three weeks or less behind bars due to overcrowded prison conditions. Which is good for her, because it doesn't look like she'll be getting much sympathy from the Gubernator. "I have never gotten a [pardon] request," Schwarzenegger told reporters Friday, "but I have many more important things to think about." In the meantime, Hilton has been spotted working out with a trainer, presumably to bulk up in preparation for any violent prison encounters. She was also photographed toting an enormous homemade get-well card to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where her father, Rick Hilton, underwent an operation last week. But despite her well-documented ability to make paparazzi-ready appearances around Los Angeles, Hilton's mental state is apparently too fragile to permit her to return to the courtroom to face trial in a $10 million slander suit filed against her by diamond heiress Zeta Graff. According to a court declaration filed by Hilton's psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Sophy, and obtained by TMZ, the hotel heiress is so "emotionally distraught and traumatized" by her May 4 sentencing that she is "not capable of any meaningful participation" in the civil trial, which was due to begin this month. Graff, a former girlfriend of Hilton's ex-fiancé, Paris Latsis, sued her rival in summer 2005, accusing the Simple Life star of planting "vicious lies" about her in the New York Post. Sophy claimed that Hilton would be unable to "respond to examination as a witness or provide any significant input into her defense," and that putting her on the stand could "exacerbate her current mental condition." As a result, the trial judge has pushed the court date back to Aug. 22.
Stern has put in a request to be the special administrator of Anna Nicole Smith's estate, according to a will and probate petition filed Monday on Stern's behalf in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by E! News. The 14-page filing values Smith's Studio City, California, home at $1.8 million and lists her personal property in the amount of $10,000. However, the former Playboy Playmate still owed $1.1 million in mortgage on the property, per the petition, reducing her total assets to $710,000. (View the documents in PDF format.) Smith's daughter, 8-month-old Dannielynn Hope Marshall Birkhead; the baby's biological father, Larry Birkhead; Stern; and attorneys Ron Rale and Eric Lund (included as first and second successor executors) are the individuals listed as having an interest in Smith's estate. Wells Fargo Bank was listed as successor executor. Missing was the reality-TV star's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, who is currently fighting Birkhead for at least partial custody or visitation rights with Dannielynn. The opposing parties are due back in court in the Bahamas June 8 for a final custody hearing. Arthur also battled Stern for custody over Smith's remains, wanting her to be buried in Houston, despite Stern's insistence that his longtime client turned companion would have wanted to be laid to rest in the Bahamas, next to her son Daniel. The prerogative was eventually turned over to Dannielynn's guardian ad litem, who helped secure a Bahamian burial. Smith died Feb. 8 of an accidental overdose of prescription medication. Stern's attorney, Vivian Thoreen, requested that her client, who's currently still in the Bahamas and has waived any right to compensation for acting as executor, be appointed special administrator "to immediately marshal and preserve the assets of the estate." She stated that there's currently no one else available to step up, a job that will include, among other things, dealing with any pending litigation that could affect Smith's assets. A probate hearing has been scheduled for June 19. When she died, Smith had been sparring with the family of her late octogenarian oil-tycoon husband, J. Howard Marshall II—who died in August 1995, just a little more than a year after they tied the knot—for more than a decade over what she viewed as her rightful inheritance, which at one time totaled as much as $474 million. The case is currently standing by in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. If Smith's estate succeeds in securing even a morsel of that inheritance, Dannielynn—as Smith's only heir—stands to inherit millions.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Thursday that Paris Hilton's proposed 45-day stint behind bars will likely be cut in half due to the chronic overcrowding in the county jail system. Despite the fact that a spokesman for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's office said this week that the Governator himself could only intervene in Hilton's case once all other legal channels are exhausted (and there are many), it turns out that the heiress might receive a boost from Sacramento after all, if not a full pardon. Because of the lack of cell space, the state of California allows inmates who supposedly pose a lower-level security risk to get time off for good behavior. This is the same loophole that allowed ex-Lost actress Michelle Rodriguez to serve less than a day of her 60-day sentence for probation violation last year. The former Tailie, like Hilton, had previously been busted for driving under the influence. (Several times, actually, in Rodriguez's case.) While Hilton will still be treated like any other inmate while she's in jail, sheriff's department spokesman Steve Whitmore said, it's possible that she'll only be there for three weeks or so, but the theoretically exact time won't be determined until she's booked at the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood. Her sentence might also be trimmed if she stays on her best behavoir behind bars. Whitmore's statement comes a week after department sources indicated that Hilton would serve her entire sentence and would not be eligible for an early checkout due to an overbooked jail. She's expected to turn herself in by June 5. After Hilton was sentenced last week, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo proclaimed that her punishment for driving with a suspended license was a testament to the fact that "nobody is above the law" in the city, and the Simple Life star herself issued a statement Wednesday that she was "ready to face the consequences of violating probation." Well, almost ready. Her appeal is pending.
It turns out that, despite her jail sentence for violating probation by driving with a suspended license, that California card in her designer purse is now perfectly valid. According to the Department of Motor Vehicles, her license was suspended in November – and reinstated in March. "If her license was reinstated, she's perfectly okay to drive despite her probation violation. There's no problem with that," explains veteran DUI attorney Lawrence Taylor. Meanwhile, Hilton's lawyer issued a statement Wednesday afternoon saying she is "ready to face the consequences" for her actions. "After reading the media's coverage of my court hearing, I feel the need to correct what I believe are misperceptions about me. I absolutely realize how serious driving under the influence is. I could not live with myself if anyone was injured or killed while I was driving while impaired. Clearly, no one should – no matter how slightly. I am ready to face the consequences of violating probation. "No one is above the law. I surely am not. I do not expect to be treated better than anyone else who violated probation. However, my hope is that I will not be treated worse." As for her her fans' petition asking Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon her, it won't likely have any effect. According to a source at the California Board of Prisons, the governor has jurisdiction only in felony cases, and only after time has been served. "Pardons don't generally keep people out of jail – they're used after the fact to expunge the criminal record to allow the offender to get a job, vote and other things non-felons can do," the source says. Governor's spokesman Aaron McLear tells PEOPLE that no official documents or requests for a pardon have been received, and that the governor would only act in extraordinary circumstances. Legal experts say Hilton stands little chance of winning an appeal, although it may delay her surrender deadline date of June 5. But if she's well-behaved behind bars, she may be get an early release due to jail overcrowding policies. "It's possible that Paris will do less than the 45 days," sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore tells PEOPLE. "She may very well be eligible for an early release, but I can't go into what the variables are."
"I am ready to face the consequences of violating probation," Hilton said in a statement released Wednesday by her new attorney, DUI specialist Richard Hutton. "I do not expect to be treated better than anyone else who violated probation. However, my hope is that I will not be treated worse." The 26-year-old socialite was represented by attorney Howard Weitzman during her probation-violation hearing Friday. A receptionist at Hutton's Pasadena office declined to say when Hilton retained his services. Hutton did not return repeated calls for comment. Hilton said she released the statement because "I feel the need to correct what I believe are misperceptions about me." "I absolutely realize how serious driving under the influence is," she said. "I could not live with myself if anyone was injured or killed while I was driving while impaired. Clearly, no one should — no matter how slightly." The notorious party girl, who parlayed her pampered lifestyle into a reality TV show and a pop CD, was sentenced to 45 days in county jail for violating the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. A judge ordered her to report to the women's jail in suburban Lynwood by June 5, adding that she will not be allowed any work release, furloughs, use of an alternative jail or electronic monitoring instead of time behind bars. Hilton's original legal team, headed by Weitzman, filed a notice with the court on Friday indicating their intent to appeal the decision.
The artist has created a sculpture of the 26-year-old hotel heiress and socialite naked and dead, with cell phone in hand, legs spread and crowned with a tiara. "The Paris Hilton Autopsy" is a statement about the dangers of drunk driving just as high school prom season rolls around, said Edwards, who also sculpted a giant head of Cuban President Fidel Castro and created a life-size nude of Britney Spears giving birth on a bearskin rug. Hilton pleaded no contest in January to alcohol-related reckless driving. On Friday, she was sentenced to 45 days in jail for violating her probation on that offense by driving on a suspended license. "It's really kind of a wake-up call for anybody who really pays attention to Paris Hilton, close enough that they might end up emulating her," the Connecticut artist said. The sculpture was to go on display Friday in Brooklyn. On Wednesday, Hilton issued a statement through an attorney saying she was "ready to face the consequences of violating probation." "No one is above the law. I surely am not," she said. "I do not expect to be treated better than anyone else who violated probation. However, my hope is that I will not be treated worse." Hilton's lawyers have said she was singled out for especially harsh treatment by prosecutors because of her celebrity, and they have filed a notice of their intention to appeal the sentence.
Four days after a Los Angeles judge sentenced Hilton to 45 days in jail for violating her probation by driving on a suspended license, the competing petitions provided a rallying point for a lively debate over whether the celebrity socialite and reality TV star deserves her punishment. "We think 45 days in jail is a cruel punishment for the caliber of what she did," said Kyle Vincent, an artist who launched the FreeParis.org Web site and is trying to collect one million signatures on a petition seeking clemency by June 5, the date the hotel heiress was ordered to report to jail. Vincent, 27, described himself as a longtime Hilton fan who believes her story that she was unaware her license had been suspended when she was caught driving 70 mph, or 45 mph over the speed limit after dark without headlights in February. But Vincent's campaign involves more than sympathy for a celebutante. He also was using his site to hawk "Free Paris" T-shirts for $18.99 a piece, along with similarly themed buttons, bumper stickers and coffee mugs. Vincent told Reuters he had collected over 500 signatures on his petition so far and had sold about 200 pieces of merchandise, with proceeds going to support "the petition drive, myself and the organizers." His is one of at least two pro-pardon petitions to surface this week on the Internet. A no-pardon petition urges Schwarzenegger to "ignore other petitions asking for clemency and show the people of California that no one is above the law." Hilton herself appeared to embrace the clemency effort with a short note posted on what was identified as her personal page on the popular social networking hub MySpace.com: "My friend Joshua started his petition, please help and sihn it (sic). I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!" Hilton's publicist, Elliot Mintz, who she blamed in court last week for misinforming her about her license status, said the petition drive "appears to be legitimate." But Mintz said he could not immediately verify whether the message attributed to Hilton on MySpace was authentic. The message referred to a letter on the site iPetitions.com that argues Hilton deserves a break because "She didn't hurt or kill anyone, and she has learned her lesson." It goes on to invoke one of the most famous executive pardons in history. "If the late former President Gerald Ford could find it in his heart to pardon the late former President Richard Nixon after his mistake(s), we undeniably support Paris Hilton being pardoned for her honest mistake as well," the petition said. Schwarzenegger's press secretary, Aaron McLear, said the governor had received no formal request to consider a pardon but added, "It would be premature for the governor to become involved in any case until the individual has exhausted their judicial remedies." Hilton's lawyers filed a notice in court last Friday of their intention to appeal her sentence. She was on probation from a previous traffic offense.
Kathy Hilton, mother of the notorious party girl, became a media magnet herself at her daughter's probation-violation hearing Friday. She laughed when a city prosecutor argued that Paris deserved jail time. When a judge ordered the 26-year-old Paris to serve 45 days in county jail, Kathy Hilton blurted out: "May I have your autograph?" She also shared her feelings with reporters outside: "This is pathetic and disgusting, a waste of taxpayer money with all this nonsense. This is a joke." While her media exposure doesn't rival that of her famous daughter, Hilton is no stranger to the spotlight. She was a guest star on "Happy Days" in 1977 and appeared on "The Rockford Files" in 1978. She hosted a program on QVC and starred in her own NBC reality show in 2005, "I Want to Be a Hilton," in which contestants competed for a chance to live like a socialite for a year. Accompanying Paris to court made Kathy Hilton a public face again. She came as a concerned parent, said Dorian Traube, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California. "Anytime your kids stumble, you question yourself as a parent," she said. "She has one daughter that's done really well and another that keeps stumbling in the public eye. For a family that's very prominent, it's probably quite humiliating." It's common for families to come and show support in high-profile court cases, Traube said, but Hilton's outspoken behavior is a little unusual. "Kathy Hilton acted as if her daughter was a minor in the way she had to give a statement," Traube said. "Not only is she enabling Paris' behavior, she's perpetuating it." Kathy Hilton's spokeswoman did not return calls for comment. Hilton was 19 when she gave birth to Paris in 1981, just two years after marrying Rick Hilton, a real-estate developer and an heir to the Hilton Hotel fortune. The couple have another daughter, Nicky, and two teenage sons, Barron and Conrad. She has publicly defended Paris before, calling her "vulnerable." "She's eccentric, she's herself and she never hurts anybody," she told the London newspaper The Guardian in December 2005. "It upsets me that she gets taken advantage of, but I think we've all learned to deal with it."
The actor got on one knee with a 12-carat diamond ring immediately after they left the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Gala, when they were chauffeured in a Rolls Royce to Times Square, according to the rep. Projected on a giant MTV jumbotron were the words, "Selita will you marry me?" "They got engaged last night," Ebanks's agent, Chris Gay of Women Model Management told PEOPLE Tuesday. "He took her to Times Square last night and did it in the center of Times Square. Then they had a party after the Met Gala to celebrate. The two of them flew to L.A. late last night because both are working." The couple celebrated at the New York nightclub Butter, with Cannon surprising Ebanks by flying in his mother, both her parents and best friends into town. As the couple made their way through the crowd holding hands, Ebanks was smiling from ear to ear. Upon coming up to one man, she exclaimed, "Nick! Have you met my brother?" The couple left the party at 3 a.m. and caught a private plane back to L.A., where Cannon is working on his new film, American Son, the rep said. In February, Cannon, 26, gushed to PEOPLE about his romance with Ebanks, 24, calling her "amazing." "She changed me – I'm no longer a player. She changed everything."
In a message that went up Monday on her MySpace page and reported in the New York Post, the hotel heiress writes (in her own spelling): "My friend Joshua started this petition, please help and sihn it. i LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!" The petition, directed to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, asks that Hilton be pardoned from her sentence of 45 days in jail for violating the terms of her probation by driving with a suspended license. The punishment was handed down in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday. An appeal has been filed. "I urge all fans and supporters and all that are outraged by injustice to sign this petition," writes Hilton. Not that everyone is hopping the Hilton bandwagon – entirely. One posting on Paris's page, from a "Raven," reads, "It's so frustrating to me when famous people get off lightly for crimes that a regular person would be held full responsibility for. I don't think she should get a full 45 days though. She didn't hurt anybody and she seems very sorry. I can see letting her go without jail time if she takes some kind of classes about alcohol abuse." Someone who is a great booster of Hilton is her publicist, Elliot Mintz, who was relieved of his duties – then was rehired Monday night. (Mintz had wrongly informed Hilton of the status of her license, he admitted.) "Paris and I met last night," Mintz told PEOPLE on Tuesday. "I am still her media rep. She is still my client. She is also a dear friend." The duo were spotted Monday night in Los Angeles riding a golf cart at Paramount Studio's New York lot, arriving for the Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness celebration of its annual Sober Day. Although many guests at the party were dismayed at the sentence Hilton received, one voiced agreement with her doing real time. "I do think she should go to lockdown rehab – but not a nice one. I think it should be chosen by the judge," Tom Arnold told PEOPLE. "I've got some ideas – there's a place in Alabama that worked for Robert Downey Jr."
"I represent Paris and I'm proud to," Elliot Mintz told Reuters early on Tuesday after a night out with his client. "We had a wonderful evening, we talked, and our media relationship resumes uninterrupted." The relationship was, in fact, briefly interrupted in the immediate aftermath of Hilton's Friday court appearance, when a judge sentenced her to a 45-day jail term for a probation violation stemming from an alcohol-related reckless driving offense last year. Hilton told the judge that Mintz had informed her it was all right to drive on a suspended license for work obligations. Mintz also took the stand in her defense, but the judge said his testimony was worthless. Mintz, 62, released a statement on Sunday, saying he no longer represented the 26-year-old hotels heiress, and he apologized for giving her dubious legal advice. By late Monday, Mintz was back in Hilton's good graces. But he declined to explain what had caused the turnaround. "Whatever there was is no more," said Mintz, whose clients have included John Lennon and Bob Dylan. "I don't choose to revisit that which is divisive. I'm only interested in that which is healing." Hilton's attorneys on Monday filed a formal notice of appeal. Unless the appeal succeeds, she must report to the 2,200-inmate Century Regional Detention Facility south of downtown Los Angeles by June 5. "She's a very strong woman," Mintz said. "Obviously, she's taking all of this with great seriousness."
The 26-year-old socialite, a symbol of privilege and the excesses of America's celebrity culture, was ordered last week to report on June 5 to the Century Regional Detention Facility south of downtown Los Angeles, to serve a 45-day sentence for driving while her license was suspended. Hilton was visibly shocked and tearful when a judge imposed the sentence, later calling it "cruel and unwarranted." Unless her lawyers win an appeal, she will forsake her designer clothes, cell phone and other accouterments -- along with her freedom and privacy -- for an orange jumpsuit and a small, spartan cell with twin bunks. "She's going to be assigned a two-person cell, and most likely have another inmate in the cell with her," Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said on Monday, adding Hilton, like all inmates, would be confined to her quarters 23 hours a day. She will be allowed out of her cell once a day for an hour to shower, stretch her legs, use the telephone or watch television in a jailhouse day room, he said. The cell -- 8 feet wide by 12 feet deep, with an 8-foot (2.4 meter) ceiling -- contains "two bunks, a table, a sink, a toilet and a sliver of a window." Hilton's cellmate, if she gets one, will be another individual serving time for a serious driving infraction or other nonviolent offense, he said. While the facility houses roughly 2,200 women, Hilton will be segregated from the general population in a "special-needs" unit designed for such high-profile prisoners as celebrities, former police officers and public officials, Whitmore said. Hilton will get three meals a day, all taken in her cell, but like the jail's furnishings, nothing fancy -- cereal or yogurt with fruit for breakfast, a sandwich or hamburger for lunch, and a hot meal such as chicken for dinner. "She'll be given the same food that is served to every inmate in the jail, he said. The jail's schedule also will make it hard for Hilton to keep the late hours she is accustomed to. Breakfast is served between 6 and 7:30 a.m., and lights are turned out at 10 p.m. Hilton landed in hot water for driving her car without a valid license earlier this year while on probation for an alcohol-related reckless driving offense. Whether Hilton will serve all 45 days of her sentence is unclear. Under state sentencing guidelines, inmates receive one day credit against their sentence for each day they serve. This means Hilton would effectively complete her term after 22.5 days in jail, unless the judge's order stipulates otherwise. She also could get out early due to overcrowding, as was the case with actress Michelle Rodriguez of the TV show "Lost," who was reported to have served just four hours and 20 minutes of a 60-day sentence for a probation violation last May.
In a diary, Campbell said she found solace in sweeping during the five-day community service sentence imposed after she pleaded guilty to reckless assault for throwing a mobile phone at her maid during a dispute over a pair of jeans. "I have no other responsibility. I have no phone. I have the time to think. Just have, you know, peace," wrote the London-born model in diary excerpts published by the New York Post on Monday. The Post cited W Magazine as the source for the excerpts. The magazine is to publish the diaries next week. Campbell, 36, who showed up daily for duty in a range post of designer outfits, wrote of bonding with her fellow workers, one of whom told her that alcohol had caused his downfall. "I bond with him and I tell him I'm in recovery," wrote Campbell, who laments that she started taking drugs when she was 23. "I first sought treatment for my addictions in 1999 and then went in and out of recovery. I'd be OK for a couple years and think I had things under control but then I would relapse. "Some people can handle a drink or a line of cocaine but I've finally come to realize that, for me, it's all or nothing -- and it has to be nothing. And my life has changed since." Campbell had admitted to drug use in the past. In 2004 she won a British court battle with a tabloid newspaper that was found to have invaded her privacy by running a story saying, correctly, that she had visited Narcotics Anonymous. Over the years Campbell has been accused by at least three employees of assault. She has blamed her temper on lingering resentment of her father who abandoned her as a child. In her New York diary. Campbell said her mother had now agreed to go to therapy with her. "It's something I've wanted for a long time but haven't started because now I need to get myself on the right path first," she said. By the final day of her week's community service, Campbell says she has taken pride in her work and felt "like I've paid my debt to society." Campbell was the second celebrity sentenced to clean-up duty in New York. Singer Boy George, also British-born, was ordered to sweep streets for five days as punishment for drug possession and falsely reporting a burglary. "I'm not proud of what I did, but it's something I definitely learned from. Now I have to get on with my life, keep working on my problems and go to meetings every day," wrote Campbell.
"I have people who do that for me," she told a judge. Legal documents and traffic citations elude her. "I just sign what people tell me to sign," she testified. And based on statements from Hilton and publicist Elliot Mintz — who announced Sunday that he will no longer be working for her — she apparently took legal advice from Mintz but not her lawyers. Facing a 45-day jail sentence — and perhaps her first brush with accountability — could be a reality check for Hilton. But regardless of how she handles it, it may make her more popular than ever. "It will actually increase her star appeal in a very sick and demented way," said longtime publicist Michael Levine. "There's a segment of our society that's somehow engaged in the soap opera that is Paris Hilton, and this a very compelling plot line in the soap opera." A judge ordered the socialite to report to a county jail in suburban L.A. by June 5 to serve 45 days for violating the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. Her attorney has said he will appeal. Mintz said in a statement Sunday that he and Hilton had parted ways over an apparent "misunderstanding she received from me regarding the terms of her probation." He said Hilton was being truthful when she told a judge she believed — incorrectly, it turned out — that "it was O.K. for her to drive under certain circumstances" under the terms. The 26-year-old hotel heiress, who parlayed her party lifestyle into worldwide fame, told the judge Friday that she didn't have time to talk with her attorneys about her probation. That dismissive attitude is part of her appeal, said veteran publicist David Brokaw. "The premise of her fame is being naughty," he said. "This is a career move for her. It simply fuels the fascination. She can only win with this." Hilton made her first public comments on the sentence to photographers assembled outside her home on Saturday night. "I feel that I was treated unfairly and that the sentence is both cruel and unwarranted and I don't deserve this," she said as she left for a shopping trip with her mother. Some celebrities have fared well after a stay in the graybar hotel. Martha Stewart started a TV show after her stint behind bars. Robert Downey Jr. rebounded with a recurring TV role that led back to the big screen. Others, including Bobby Brown, Heidi Fleiss and Fatty Arbuckle, weren't as fortunate. Bad behavior means big publicity for Hilton, Levine said, noting that she wasn't maligned when her homemade sex tape surfaced on the Internet. Instead she became more famous than before. "This is a girl who has total disregard for the rules of our society," Levine said. "And she's been rewarded for it." Time behind bars isn't likely to impart any lessons for Hilton, said West Hollywood psychologist Jeremy Ritzlin. Jail time doesn't equal rehabilitation and the club-hopping Hilton would need extensive therapy to make lasting changes in her life, he said. "It's going to make her very unhappy because she's not used to this. She couldn't buy her way out of it," he said. "But one 45-day trip to jail is not going to change her behavior." Hilton's plethora of professional pursuits — which include a namesake perfume and handbag line, a fledgling music career and a starring role in the reality show "The Simple Life" — can probably survive 45 days without her. "Production for `The Simple Life Goes to Camp' wrapped in early April and will premiere Memorial Day," as planned, the E! network said in a statement. "We wish Paris all the best as she deals with this difficult time." Hilton's fans filled her MySpace page with words of support over the weekend.
Described as visibly shaken and tearful, the heiress, 26, who must serve time for violating her probation after she drove with a suspended license, made her feelings clear to photographers waiting outside her Los Angeles home on Saturday night. "I told the truth," said Hilton, according to Reuters (and as was first reported by TMZ.) "I feel that I was treated unfairly, and that the sentence is both cruel and unwarranted. I don't deserve this." Hilton, however, did foretell of her punishment in an interview she gave beforehand to Harper's Bazaar, for its June issue. "I think I get in more trouble just because of who I am," she says, as reported in Monday's New York Daily News. "The cops do it all the time," she is quoted as saying. "They'll just pull me over to hit on me. It's really annoying. They're like, 'What's your phone number? Want to go to dinner?' " Despite her current legal woes, Hilton says that police rarely write her up. "They just pull me over, and the paparazzi, of course, take a picture," she complains. "All the time. I have so many cops' business cards." The Simple Life star must report to jail by June 5. Hilton's attorney, Howard Weitzman, said after Friday's verdict that he plans to appeal. "I'm shocked and disappointed at the sentence by the judge," Weitzman said. "To sentence Paris Hilton to jail is uncalled for, inappropriate and ludicrous. She was singled out for who she is." In all, it was a tumultuous weekend for Hilton. In a further bit of personal upheaval, she split with her longtime rep, Elliot Mintz. At her hearing, Hilton had told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer that Mintz had repeatedly informed her that her license had been suspended for only 30 days and that she could still drive for work-related matters. In an e-mail to PEOPLE on Sunday, Mintz said: "I believe when Paris stated in court that she believed it was o.k. for her to drive under certain circumstances she was being absolutely truthful." He added, "Due to this misunderstanding, I am no longer representing Paris."
The dissolution of their partnership comes two days after Hilton, 26, was sentenced to 45 days in jail for violation of her probation by driving with a suspended driver's license. (She is to report for jail by June 5.) According to Mintz's message, "The day after the hearing, I sent Paris an e-mail expressing my sadness over the ruling of the judge and the irrational sentence he imposed." At her hearing Friday, Hilton told Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer that Mintz had repeatedly informed her that her license had been suspended for only 30 days and that she could still drive for work-related matters. "In that e-mail [to Paris]," Mintz said in his message to PEOPLE, "I also offered my sincerest apology for any misunderstanding she received from me regarding the terms of her probation. To the extent that I have mIscommunicated information I received from her attorneys ? I am deeply and profoundly sorry." He added, "I told her that I assume personal responsibility for my part in this matter." The message continues: "I believe when Paris stated in court that she believed it was o.k. for her to drive under certain circumstances she was being absolutely truthful. "Due to this misunderstanding, I am no longer representing Paris." He concludes, "For the record, I have nothing but love and respect for Paris and her family. Paris is a wonderful person and does not deserve the punishment that was handed down by the court. I only wish her my best." Something of a legendary figure in the annals of press representation, Mintz, 62, whose current client roster includes Christie Brinkley, got his foothold in the business in the 1970s as a confidante of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. In a 2006 New York Times profile of Mintz, which said that he and Hilton were in contact either by chatting or e-mailing as many as 12 times a day, the hotel heiress said of him, "'I speak to him more than anyone else in my life." "He really gets me, the whole Paris thing," Hilton told the paper. "He knows it's all a game." When told that Mintz contemplated thoughts of retirement in 2007, Hilton shrieked a response of "Noooo," and said, "I trust him with my life." For his part, when asked by The Times how he could go from John Lennon to Paris Hilton, Mintz said it was a matter of staying current. "Young people don't believe in politicians," he said. "They don't believe in their leaders. They look to celebrities to represent them."
Observing the Hilton family's reaction before and after Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer sentenced the 26-year-old hotel heiress to 45 days in jail for violating the terms of her probation, Edwards tells PEOPLE that while prosecutors were delivering their final statements, Hilton looked down discreetly into her purse at a compact and checked her makeup. Minutes before the sentence was handed down, according to Edwards, Hilton made the sign of the cross with her right hand, then kissed her fingers. Judge Sauer was particularly stern with his comments to Hilton, whom, he said, "disregarded everything" by repeatedly driving with a suspended license. After the general public had cleared the courtroom, Hilton began to tear up. Sheriffs brought her a box of Kleenex, and she held a wad of tissues to her face as she placed her head down. Then, said Edwards, Hilton's mother, Kathy Hilton, angrily burst from the courtroom seating area toward the attorneys' table, saying loudly, "I can't believe this, I can't believe this." She went over to her daughter's side, standing over her and putting her arm around Paris as others crowded around her. Eventually, Paris stood and was hugged by her father, Rick Hilton, who said, "I can't believe this, either." "I don't know what happened," said Paris. "I did what they said." Kathy Hilton, red in the face, then walked up to one of the prosecutors and screamed, "You're pathetic." She then asked sarcastically, "Can I have your autograph?" The prosecutor to whom Hilton had delivered her outburst completely ignored her, said Edwards. About half a dozen sheriffs' deputies then approached Kathy Hilton, who screamed at them, "Don't you touch me, don't you touch me." As the family was about to exit the courtroom, said Edwards, Kathy Hilton declared for all to hear, "[The judge] made up his mind before he even came in today. If it were anyone else, this would've never had happened." She then exclaimed, "And after all the money we spent!" Hilton's attorney, Howard Weitzman, vows to appeal the sentence, while Judge Sauer has ordered The Simple Life star to begin serving her time at the Century Regional Detention Center before June 5. On Saturday, a despondent-looking Hilton was seen leaving a chauffeur-driven SUV and stepping into the Beverly Hills restaurant Prego for lunch, reports the New York Post. Like other celebrity Los Angeles County inmates who have been incarcerated in the jail, Hilton will be separated from the general population for her own safety, the Associated Press reports. (Among previous names to have served there is former Lost star Michelle Rodriguez, whose 60-day sentence for violating probation terms after her drunken driving arrest in Hawaii ended after barely more than four hours, due to the jail's being overcrowded.) Each day, the incarcerated are permitted outside their cells for an hour to shower, watch TV in the day room, participate in outdoor activities or talk on the phone. (Cell phones are not allowed in the jail cells.) As for food, inmates are offered three-poultry-based low-sodium meals a day. The jail's overseer calls it "a very nice place."
"I have people who do that for me," she told a judge. Legal documents and traffic citations elude her. "I just sign what people tell me to sign," she testified. Facing a 45-day jail sentence — and perhaps her first brush with accountability — could be a reality check for Hilton. But regardless of how she handles it, it may make her more popular than ever. "It will actually increase her star appeal in a very sick and demented way," said longtime publicist Michael Levine. "There's a segment of our society that's somehow engaged in the soap opera that is Paris Hilton, and this a very compelling plot line in the soap opera." A judge ordered the socialite to report to a county jail in suburban L.A. by June 5 to serve 45 days for violating the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. Her attorney has said he will appeal. That only prolongs the publicity, said Roger Gillott, whose public relations firm, Gillott Communications, specializes in crisis management. "If she wants to put this behind her and come off looking remorseful or repentant, then she should just serve her time as quietly as possible," he said. "The more she protests, the more she claims she was innocent and doesn't know what she's doing, that she never reads her legal papers, the more she portrays an image of someone who doesn't pay close attention and thinks they are above being held accountable." The 26-year-old hotel heiress, who parlayed her party lifestyle into worldwide fame, told the judge Friday that she didn't have time to talk with her attorneys about her probation. That dismissive attitude is part of her appeal, said veteran publicist David Brokaw. "The premise of her fame is being naughty," he said. "This is a career move for her. It simply fuels the fascination. She can only win with this." Some celebrities have fared well after a stay in the graybar hotel. Martha Stewart started a TV show after her stint behind bars. Robert Downey Jr. rebounded with a recurring TV role that led back to the big screen. Others, including Bobby Brown, Heidi Fleiss and Fatty Arbuckle, weren't as fortunate. Bad behavior means big publicity for Hilton, Levine said, noting that she wasn't maligned when her homemade sex tape surfaced on the Internet. Instead she became more famous than before. "This is a girl who has total disregard for the rules of our society," Levine said. "And she's been rewarded for it." Time behind bars isn't likely to impart any lessons for Hilton, said West Hollywood psychologist Jeremy Ritzlin. Jail time doesn't equal rehabilitation and the club-hopping Hilton would need extensive therapy to make lasting changes in her life, he said. "It's going to make her very unhappy because she's not used to this. She couldn't buy her way out of it," he said. "But one 45-day trip to jail is not going to change her behavior." Hilton's plethora of professional pursuits — which include a namesake perfume and handbag line, a fledgling music career and a starring role in the reality show "The Simple Life" — can probably survive 45 days without her. "Production for `The Simple Life Goes to Camp' wrapped in early April and will premiere Memorial Day," as planned, the E! network said in a statement. "We wish Paris all the best as she deals with this difficult time." Hilton's fans filled her MySpace page with words of support over the weekend. Her spokesman, Elliot Mintz, declined to comment.
Inmates get three low-sodium meals a day, with dinner the only hot meal. Beef and pork aren't permitted — "it's all poultry-based," said Capt. Alice Scott, who oversees the 2,200-inmate facility she describes as "a very nice place." Like other high-profile Los Angeles County inmates — O.J. Simpson, Robert Blake, Robert Mitchum, Sirhan Sirhan and Charles Manson — Hilton will be segregated from the general population for her own safety, living in a one- or two-person cell. Her cell will be Spartan: 12-by-8 feet with a toilet, sink and a window 6 inches wide. She'll comb her blonde locks in a mirror made of polished metal. Breakfast is served between 6 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., hours when Hilton sometimes gets in after a night of partying. Inmates in segregation are allowed outside their cells for at least an hour each day to shower, watch television in the day room, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone, Scott said. There are a bank of phones that use prepaid phone cards — cellular telephones and Blackberries aren't allowed. There have been other celebrities at the women's jail. Actress Daryl Hannah, arrested last year for failing to leave a 14-acre inner-city garden where farmers were being evicted, spent a few hours there. A year ago, former "Lost" actress Michelle Rodriguez showed up to serve a 60-day jail sentence for violating probation terms after her drunken driving arrest in Hawaii. She was released in hours because of overcrowding. Sometimes stars are allowed to do their time in a jail of their choosing. In such cases celebrities pay a daily room-and-board fee to the smaller jails, which afford them more privacy and comfort. Sean Penn found a jail in Bridgeport, a remote town on the eastern flank of the Sierra, to serve a 60-day sentence in 1987 for fighting with a photographer in violation of his probation for a barroom brawl. Cop-slapping actress Zsa Zsa Gabor served three days behind bars in 1990 at the El Segundo jail near the Los Angeles International Airport. She paid $85 a day. But the judge in Hilton's case wouldn't allow such an arrangement, so she'll head to Lynwood on June 5.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered the 26-year-old celebrity socialite jailed for driving on a suspended license in February. He ordered her to report to jail on June 5.
The heiress arrived in the back of a black Cadillac Escalade and swept into the Metropolitan Courthouse with several men in suits, ignoring screams of photographers lining the route into a rear entrance. Her parents, Rick and Kathy Hilton, also came with her. Wearing a gray jacket and white shirt over black slacks and with a black headband on, she said nothing and appeared serious. Prosecutors announced earlier they were asking the judge to sentence Hilton to 45 days in jail for allegedly violating the terms of her probation for an alcohol-related reckless driving conviction. Prosecutors also were seeking to have Hilton ordered to avoid alcohol for 90 days, wear a monitoring device that would chart whether she complies, and have the suspension of her drivers license extended for an additional four months. The celebrity case brought an unusual scene to the austere courthouse south of downtown in a commercial area. As if at a red carpet event, dozens of photographers and reporters lined up at the rear entrance. Yellow police tape substituted for velvet ropes. TV trucks were parked nearby to beam the news worldwide and a helicopter hovered overhead. Extra sheriff's deputies stood guard. Hilton, 26, pleaded no contest in January to reckless driving stemming from a Sept. 7 arrest in Hollywood. Police said she appeared intoxicated and failed a field sobriety test. She had a blood-alcohol level of .08 percent, the level at which an adult driver is in violation of the law. She was sentenced to 36 months probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines. Two other traffic stops and failure to enroll in a mandated alcohol education program, are what landed the socialite back in court. On Jan. 15, Hilton was pulled over by California Highway Patrol. Officers informed her that she was driving on a suspended license and she signed a document acknowledging that she was not to drive, according to papers filed in Superior Court. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies stopped Hilton on Feb. 27 and charged her with violating her probation. Police said she was pulled over at about 11 p.m. after authorities saw the car speeding with its headlights off. Hilton's spokesman, Elliot Mintz, said at the time Hilton wasn't aware her license was suspended. A copy of the document Hilton signed on Jan. 15 was found in the car's glove compartment, court papers say. Mintz had no comment Thursday. Hilton was also required to enroll in an alcohol education program by Feb. 12. As of April 17, she had not enrolled, prosecutors said. Hilton, heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, first gained notoriety for her hard partying as a teen. She attracted worldwide attention when a sex tape she made with a boyfriend was released on the Internet. She stars in the reality-TV series, "The Simple Life," now in its fifth season, with Nicole Richie. She appeared in the 2005 film, "House of Wax" and recently finished filming "The Hottie and the Nottie." She also is a handbag designer and has a namesake perfume.
In documents filed Monday in Superior Court, prosecutors said they also want Hilton to stay away from alcohol for 90 days and wear a monitoring device that will chart whether she complies. And they are seeking to have her license suspended for an additional four months. The recommendation will be reviewed by a judge when Hilton appears for a probation violation hearing on Friday. The judge can accept it or impose a different penalty. The maximum penalty is 90 days in jail. Hilton, 26, pleaded no contest in January to reckless driving stemming from a Sept. 7 arrest in Hollywood. She was sentenced to 36 months probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines. She was pulled over by California Highway Patrol on Jan. 15. Officers informed Hilton she was driving on a suspended license and she signed a document acknowledging she was not to drive, according to court papers. She was pulled over by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies on Feb. 27 for speeding and driving without her headlights, at which time she was charged with violating her probation. Hilton's spokesman, Elliot Mintz, said at the time she wasn't aware her license was suspended. A call placed Thursday to Mintz was not immediately returned. Prosecutors say by signing the document after the first incident Hilton knew she was not allowed to drive. They also note that as of April 17 she had yet to enroll in the alcohol education program. "These violations demonstrate Hilton's disregard for the vehicle laws of this state as well as for the conditions of her probation," the court filing said. "This court should ... include imprisonment as a condition of reinstating her probation." Hilton, heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, first gained notoriety for her hard partying as a teen. She attracted worldwide attention when a sex tape she made with a boyfriend was released on the Internet. She stars in the Fox reality-TV series, "The Simple Life," now in its fifth season, with Nicole Richie. She appeared in the 2005 film, "House of Wax" and recently finished filming "The Hottie and the Nottie." She also is a handbag designer and has a namesake perfume.
The list of 100 most influential, on newsstands Friday, also includes Queen Elizabeth II, presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record), YouTube founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, director Martin Scorsese and model Kate Moss. It does not include President Bush. In a piece she wrote for the magazine, Barbara Walters, the creator of "The View," had kind words to say about O'Donnell, who announced last week she was leaving the ABC talk show in June because she and the network couldn't agree on a new contract. "And so, last September, we began a thrilling roller-coaster ride," Walters wrote. "We followed Rosie's passion and compassion, her feuds and fearlessness, her humanity and humor." Walters said she and O'Donnell "remain respectful and affectionate friends." Roseanne Barr weighed in on Baron Cohen, also known as Borat. "He does offend some people's sensibilities, but the youth of today are offended if they're not offended," she wrote. Scorsese, who often casts DiCaprio in his films, praised the 32-year-old screen idol/activist as a "true actor." "DiCaprio is another guy a lot of us underestimated as a pretty-boy type," Adi Ignatius, a deputy managing editor at Time, told AP Television News. The list includes 71 men and 29 women from 27 countries. Other entertainers making the cut were Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Justin Timberlake, Tyra Banks, Cate Blanchett, America Ferrera, Tina Fey, John Mayer, Brian Williams, Michael J. Fox, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and "American Idol" creator Simon Fuller. Separately, Time named 14 "power givers" such as Bill and Melinda Gates, Angelina Jolie and Queen Rania al-Abdullah of Jordan.
"It just feels good to be home," the L.A.-based photographer, 35, said Tuesday after stepping off a private jet and greeting journalists and fellow photographers who'd been waiting for him alongside a fence at the Louisville airport, the Associated Press reports. The trip on Tuesday marked the first time Dannielynn, whose mother is the late Anna Nicole Smith, had been out of the Bahamas. Besides introducing the infant to his folks, Birkhead said he anticipated that he'd "relax and horse around."Among his plans, he said, were to attend Friday's Barnstable Brown party, an exclusive, star-studded gala on the eve of his hometown's Kentucky Derby. It was at this gathering that he and Smith first met in 2004, while he was working as a freelance photographer. (Birkhead, a Kentucky native, graduated from the University of Louisville in 1999.) Upon landing, the proud papa – dressed in a dark T-shirt and jeans, and shielding his daughter from view with a jacket – said Dannielynn had had an easy flight. "She did great," Birkhead said. As he spoke to the press, others were seen unloading various baby gear off the plane and into the back of an SUV, though Birkhead stated that he's unsure if he and Dannielynn will remain in Louisville. Birkhead's plane was actually chartered by TV's Access Hollywood, to transport its reporting team back out of the Bahamas, the AP reports. "We were excited to take them to a happy homecoming in Louisville," the show said in a statement. Meanwhile, as Birkhead's social plans take shape in Louisville, legal maneuvering continues over the $500 estate of Smith's late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, who died in 1995. It remains unclear how much, if any, Dannielynn might inherit and whether her guardian would have access to the fortune.
After much speculation as to whether Bundchen, 26, would extend her multi-million dollar contract, her agent tells PEOPLE, "Gisele's contract is finished." On Tuesday the New York Post's Page Six reported that Bundchen was splitting with the lingerie company because it wouldn't raise her $5 million-a-year salary. Reps for Victoria's Secret and Bundchen did not immediately return PEOPLE's calls for comment about that report. But Bundchen had shown signs of wanting to move on as early as last year. At November's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in Los Angeles, she told PEOPLE, "They're really nice clients. I've been working with them for seven years, so it's kind of like they become part of your family." Nevertheless, she said she was in the mood for a change: "I would like to have different chapters in my life. I mean let's be honest – I do this because it's my job." And perhaps now people will get to glimpse another side of her. "I'm not this girl all the time," she said. "People have a perception of me because of Victoria's Secret that I'm sexy, but I'm not a sexy girl. I'm very tomboyish."
The plane carrying Larry Birkhead and baby Dannielynn stopped briefly in Fort Lauderdale before departing for Louisville, Ky., the syndicated program "Access Hollywood" reported on its Web site. Birkhead, a 34-year-old photographer based in Los Angeles, was authorized by a judge last week to take the girl out of the country. The ruling followed legal battles by Birkhead to prove his paternity claim and gain custody following the former Playboy playmate's death in February from an accidental drug overdose. A new Bahamian birth certificate listing Birkhead as the father was issued in line with a court order last week, removing the name of Smith's last companion, Howard K. Stern. Stern had been caring for the girl in the oceanfront home in the Bahamas he shared with Smith. Birkhead, a Kentucky native, has family in Louisville and reportedly met the former Playboy playmate there at a Kentucky Derby party in 2003. A publicist for "Access Hollywood," which is owned by NBC Universal, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Further underlining her popularity in Britain, buyers unwilling to join scrums at Topshop stores nationwide when the range went on sale were logging on to online auctioneer eBay to snap up their favorite items. Fashion experts were quick to point out that the collection of about 50 designs, ranging in price from 12 to 195 pounds ($24-$390), may well have been inspired by Moss more than actually designed by her. "She has fulfilled every teenage girl's dream by letting them loose in her wardrobe," wrote Jess Cartner-Morley, fashion editor for the Guardian newspaper. "Instead of aiming for a high-concept album, she has simply issued the Greatest Hits of Kate." Hilary Alexander of the Telegraph said those who questioned Moss's input were missing the point. "What the public want to buy into is a little of the magic and allure that is Kate Moss's individual style. That is exactly what she is giving them," she said. In the United States, where the Topshop range goes on sale soon, the reception has been cooler. The New York Post ran a recent story under the headline "Duplikate" and added: "The line she's delivered for the British chain Topshop ... looks like Kate copying a lot of other people's stuff Kate's worn before." New York magazine, which wrote scathingly about Moss and her sometimes controversial private life, summed up the collection which it viewed online in a single word: "snore." 3 MILLION POUND GAMBLE Philip Green, Topshop's billionaire owner, has paid Moss a reported 3 million pounds ($6 million) to design clothes for his stores, which have won a reputation for putting high fashion on the high street but at affordable prices. A crowd of several hundred people, and dozens of cameramen and photographers, outside the flagship store in London late on Monday for the Moss launch was evidence of her popularity. One of the world's most photographed women, she has been credited with inspiring fashion crazes like skinny jeans. Scandals involving allegations of drug abuse and her relationship with troubled rock singer Pete Doherty appear to have helped her career rather than hindered it. At the Topshop store in London's business district of Canary Wharf almost the entire stock had sold out within just over an hour of opening time on Tuesday. "I think Kate Moss is a style icon," said Kylie McGregor from the online department of the Daily Mirror newspaper, who bought two dresses and a top. "I know the range has been slated, but I think it's wearable stuff. It's not just a collection that reflects her but it's stuff that people are actually going to wear." For the less motivated shopper, eBay offers an alternative. On Tuesday dozens of items from Moss's new range were on sale, including a pansy print dress which had attracted 21 bids of up to 101.50 pounds, more than twice its retail price.
The 33-year-old, who has inspired fashion trends from skinny jeans to sawn-off shorts, was at retailer Topshop's central London flagship store wearing one of her new creations -- a long red dress costing 195 pounds ($390). She was chaperoned around a small area of the store dedicated to her collection by Topshop owner and billionaire Philip Green, who is paying Moss three million pounds to put some celebrity panache into his business. The range, consisting of about 50 pieces including tight jeans, waistcoats and hotpants, went on sale at one store late on Monday ahead of the nationwide opening on Tuesday. During the next two weeks, the collection will launch in another 21 countries, including at upmarket U.S. store Barney's. Green was cautious about prospects for the range. "Let's see how it looks and get a couple of days under our belt," he told Reuters, as dozens of shoppers busily hunted for bargains behind him. Keen to avoid chaotic scenes that have marred other retail launches, the queue of mainly teenaged girls and young women was allowed in only in small groups, given 20 minutes in the shop and limited to five items. Initial reaction from the shoppers was mixed. "I didn't think it was all that good," said Cindy Wirk, who was among the first to get to the tills. "The dresses were a bit mini and I've seen them everywhere else. I didn't think her shoe collection was very good." Overall she said she was a "satisfied customer," although she and several others noticed that a leather jacket that featured prominently in pre-launch publicity was not on sale. "DISPOSABLE" CHIC Melodie Parker, another buyer near the front of the line, called it "disposable fashion," while Mary Durmond, a 26-year-old from France who queued for eight hours, praised Moss for "always dressing in the right thing." Mother-of-one Moss wore heavy black eye makeup and her hair long and blonde for the launch. She posed with mannequins in the store window for cameras outside, but did not speak to reporters allowed inside. She is the latest celebrity hired by a retailer to help win an increasingly competitive battle for fashion-savvy mid-market shoppers, following Madonna, who stars at H&M and will soon be followed at the Swedish chain by Kylie Minogue. Up-and-coming singer Lily Allen has also struck a deal with Britain's New Look. Moss's range caps a remarkable comeback for a woman who was ditched by several luxury houses after pictures appeared of her allegedly snorting large quantities of cocaine. "Cocaine Kate," as she was dubbed in 2005, went into rehab in the United States and, helped by celebrity friends, returned to the pinnacle of her profession, picking up a slew of awards, lucrative contracts and prominent magazine covers. Not everyone is convinced by the clothes she has put her name to, however. Some question what input Moss actually had in designing the clothes. "The line she's delivered for the British chain Topshop ... looks like Kate copying a lot of other people's stuff Kate's worn before," wrote Maureen Callahan in the New York Post in an article entitled "Duplikate."
The first foray into design by one of the world's most photographed women and the trigger for fashion trends from skinny jeans to sawn off shorts has gained blanket coverage in Britain since announced last September. "We expected the publicity to be big, but not this big," Mary Homer, one of Topshop's managing directors told Reuters. Topshop has 2,000 umbrellas ready for queuing shoppers should it rain on Monday when the range goes on sale at its flagship Oxford Circus store before opening nationwide on May 1. During the next two weeks, the collection will launch in another 21 countries, including at upmarket U.S. store Barney's. The 50 piece range stretching from 12 pounds ($24) for a tight-fitting vest to a leather jacket for 150 pounds. To try prevent fights among shoppers when the doors open, each person will be able to buy only five items. Moss, who cut a 3 million pound deal with Topshop, is the latest celebrity hired by a retailer to help win an increasingly competitive battle for fashion-savvy mid-market shoppers. Madonna is now starring at H&M and will soon be followed at the Swedish chain by Kylie Minogue, while up and coming singer Lily Allen has struck a deal with Britain's New Look. While H&M saw its March sales surge 17 percent thanks to Madonna, Moss, whose every fashion move is followed by the British press, is expected to be a bigger hit because of her history of inspiring millions of women's wardrobe choices. TATTY GIRL The look she pulls together for herself -- skinny jeans and waistcoats, floral mini dresses and sawn off denim shorts -- continues to drive global fashion trends. "Kate Moss is a 'down-up' brand -- this tatty girl who is completely unapproachable because of her beauty and wears totally approachable fashion," said Marian Salzman, trendspotter and executive vice president at advertising agency JWT. Her latest incarnation caps a notable resurgence since Moss was ditched by a slew of luxury houses and nicknamed "Cocaine Kate" by British tabloids two years ago after front-page photos showed her snorting a white powder. The fashion press see the deal -- which is a long-term project, not a one-off range -- as much as an opportunity for Moss to found a career beyond modeling as she gets older. Topshop is successful in Britain by selling its own brand clothes that are cheap enough for teenagers and fashionable enough that A-listers want to buy them as well, but Moss's extra cachet is expected to be vital in breaking the U.S. market. "With Madonna, H&M has been able to raise its game in the United States as a much hotter brand. Kate Moss could do the same thing for Topshop," said Bernstein Research's Luca Solca. Rita Clifton, chairman of agency Interbrand, adds Topshop owner Philip Green, has made a smart move hiring a star who appears impervious to scandal to spearhead his quest to make the 700 million pound ($1.4 billion) business into a global brand.
.On Saturday, the supermodel ate at the Brooklyn Diner with music mogul Russell Simmons and his children – but the party left without paying, according to Alexis Reyes, who runs the Diner. "Everybody waved goodbye and there was nothing in the billfold," Reyes tells PEOPLE. "We kind of figured it was okay. It was so chaotic, she thought someone must have paid the bill." As Banks explained on The View Thursday morning, she had offered to pick up the check, then Simmons insisted he would, but ultimately neither did in a misunderstanding. On Wednesday New York's Daily News reported that Banks and Simmons "dined and dashed," which made her realize the mistake. ."I read the [newspaper] and they're saying I'm cheap and I didn't pay the bill," Banks said on The View Thursday. "So I'm on my way after this with my $120 and I'm going to give it to them." Indeed, Banks showed up to make good on the check, says Reyes. "She was really apologetic and also she was really embarrassed," he says. "She was great. She was very much a lady." As for the gratuity, Reyes says, "She left a wonderful tip. She was quite generous."
A source close to the hearing, which was held behind closed-doors, said Larry Birkhead, a Los Angeles photographer and former boyfriend of Anna Nicole, won approval to travel to the United States with 7-month-old Dannielynn. Court-ordered DNA tests earlier this month proved Birkhead to be the father of the baby, who could one day be worth a fortune if Smith's estate wins a decades-long battle to inherit from her late oil tycoon husband J. Howard Marshall. Despite the tests, Birkhead has been locked in a custody battle with Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur. Smith's death from an accidental drug overdose on February 8 in Florida sparked a media frenzy, as well as a fight over her remains and then over rights to the guardianship of Dannielynn. The only condition set by the court, in exchange for granting Birkhead freedom to travel with Dannielynn, was that he return to Nassau with the baby for another formal custody hearing on June 8, the source said. Birkhead declined to comment on the specifics of Wednesday's 30-minute hearing, due to limitations imposed by Bahamian court rules. He told reporters outside the court that he hoped to be leaving with Dannielynn soon, however. "I guess all I can say really is that it was a good day for me in court," he said.
The purchase came after the diaries failed to sell at a recent auction, said Doug Norwine, director of music and entertainment memorabilia at Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas. They were put up for sale at a minimum bid of $25,000 each, and two people expressed interest in buying them, he said. "We had two collectors who wanted to buy them, and the Dallas man took time from his busy recording schedule to be the first to send the money," Norwine said. The auction house obtained the journals and other items from an anonymous German businessman who purchased the items on the eBay Web site for more than $500,000 several weeks ago. The German businessman decided to auction the diaries after securing the publishing rights, Norwine said. Smith's lawyer-turned-partner, Howard K. Stern, has alleged that the diaries had been stolen and should be returned to Smith's estate. Smith, 39, died Feb. 8 from a lethal combination of drugs. Norwine said he had vetted the history of the journals and believed they were legitimately obtained by a celebrity memorabilia dealer in Los Angeles before going up for sale on eBay. The diaries, from 1992 and 1994, cover a range of topics, from Smith's love of octogenarian oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II to concerns about her eating.
The order was signed Monday. Opri was hired last year by Larry Birkhead as part of his effort to prove paternity of now 7-month-old Dannielynn. Smith's boyfriend-attorney Howard K. Stern was listed as the father on the girl's birth certificate. After months of legal wrangling on Birkhead's behalf, Opri suddenly withdrew from the case in March. Earlier this month, the paternity issue was resolved when DNA tests in the Bahamas showed Birkhead was the girl's father. Smith, 39, died Feb. 8 from a lethal combination of drugs. A legal dispute continues over the estate of Smith's late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, who died in 1995. It remains unclear how much, if any, of the $500 million Marshall estate Dannielynn might inherit and whether her guardian would have access to the money.
"This woman is simply desperate for press and attention," Hilton's rep, Elliot Mintz, tells PEOPLE. "Shanna deliberately posted Paris's phone number and e-mail address on her Web site. It was an unprovoked invasion upon Paris's privacy, which immediately caused her to change her contact information. It was a childish, mean-spirited thing to do. And we are not going to dignify such an action with any additional comment." The drama started over the weekend, when Moakler wrote a blog post (titled, "Put This In Your Pipe and Smoke It") on her MySpace page: "I posted this blog back in January to let you all know that my accounts were hacked. ... and since there are 2 little girls with to much time on their hands and no one to love them....id like to share my 'hacked' info as well. ive tried to disassociate myself from both these parties for some time now and like a fungus they wont go away." The posting then listed what she claimed were the e-mail address and phone number for Hilton and e-mail addresses for Lohan. A rep for Lohan denied that the actress's information was correct, saying, "She and Shanna are not friends." Both Lohan and Hilton's camps also denied Moakler's "hacking" claims. By Sunday, the post had been pulled from Moakler's page, however she put up another missive saying, "There are numerous reasons why i posted my last blog and I stand behind every single one of them." Calls to Moakler's rep were not immediately returned.
Referring to comments her soon-to-be ex-husband made recently to Rolling Stone, Von Teese, 34, tells Britain's Sunday Telegraph: "I get the impression he thinks I was unsupportive. But the truth is I wasn't supportive of his lifestyle, and someone else came along who was." Neither she nor Manson, in the Rolling Stone interview, refers to that someone else by name, but Manson is currently dating 19-year-old actress Evan Rachel Wood, who stars in his upcoming horror film Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll. Von Teese filed for divorce in December, a year after she and Manson, 38, wed in Ireland. "Everything went downhill after we got married," she tells the Telegraph. "I started working a lot to escape my home life." Manson, she says, had a party lifestyle she couldn't live with. "It was difficult, because I was trying to get him help for his problems, and eventually I realized that he didn't want help. I wasn't supportive about his partying or his relationship with another girl and as much as I loved him I wasn't going to be part of that." She issued an ultimatum, but, she says, "It didn't work. Instead it made me the enemy." So she moved out on Christmas Eve, almost empty-handed. "I left with nothing. I knew that there was an inappropriate relationship going on in [the home], and I didn't want any part of it around to remind me. I didn't want that sofa. I didn't want that bed." Recently, Von Teese has let her friends set her up on blind dates. "I figure I have a better chance being introduced to somebody through a friend than I do meeting someone in a bar or on the Internet," she says. And while she "isn't ready for another relationship yet," she's not without hope. "I know I'll fall in love again," she says. "And I know that I loved [Manson] enough to try and help."
Yet the low-budget B-movie comedy "Illegal Aliens" does show an intriguing side of Smith — a person aware of the silliness surrounding her persona and someone willing to go to extremes to make fun of it. Early on in the movie_ which comes out May 1 on DVD, three months after Smith's death — there's a clip from Smith's reality-TV show, in which she devours a life-size cake made in her own image. "Eating her own image, that's what she does in the movie," said David Giancola, director of "Illegal Aliens," on which Smith was a producer and her late son, Daniel Smith, was associate producer. "She really wanted people to laugh. Anna and Daniel wanted to make a movie that satirized Hollywood and ourselves to a great extent." Smith, whose movie credits include "Naked Gun 33 1/3" and "The Hudsucker Proxy," plays Lucy, who teams with fellow aliens Cameron (Lenise Soren) and Drew (Gladise Jimenez) to battle an extraterrestrial madwoman (pro wrestler Joanie Laurer) bent on destroying Earth. The movie is meant as a spoof of action flicks, with one of the gags being that the heroes are named after "Charlie's Angels" stars Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore (Smith's character wakes from a nap and says she dreamed Cameron was dating Justin Timberlake, Diaz's ex-boyfriend, and that Drew was running around screaming "E.T.! E.T.!", a reference to Barrymore's role in the 1982 sci-fi blockbuster). "Illegal Aliens" presents the heroes — particularly Soren and Jimenez — in ever more revealing shorts and halters and Laurer as an outrageously over-the-top foe whose detailed explanation of her dastardly plot comes with an on-screen "super-villain monologue timer." An opening scene shows the trio of shape-shifting visitors coming to Earth, Soren and Jimenez's characters shaped like alien blobs and Smith's shaped like a hog, accompanied by her little-girl voice squealing, "I'm a pig in space!" They later transform into hot women and get jobs as stunt experts in Hollywood. In one scene, Smith's Lucy is scolded by Cameron to put on more clothes, a reference to the revealing outfits for which the Playboy Playmate of the Year was known. Smith plays Lucy as an extreme parody of her own ditzy-blonde image, providing the movie's bumbling comic relief while Soren and Jimenez do the heavy-lifting on the action scenes. "She was always wanting to go the extra mile to do the spit-takes, do the falls, be silly. She really let her child self out. That little kid in everyone," Soren said. "It gave us permission to have more fun and be silly, because the movie's silly. ... "She just had an innocence about her. Some people may call it ditzy, but I tend to call it an innocence. Even through all of her life's ups and downs she experienced, she tended to keep this innocence and this big spirit. That's part of who she was and what her charm was." Lucy passes the time by coloring with crayons, has puzzling moments trying to figure out what a sexual aid is for and mistakenly refers to Syntax, the aliens' computer overseer, as Charlie, another "Angels" gag. Smith is shown snoring loudly on a couch while her colleagues keep their nemesis under surveillance. Her character gets carsick during a chase. Lucy's so dopey she holds her breath to get rid of the hiccups until she nearly passes out. Her grossest scene comes off-camera, when Lucy goes to the bathroom while Cameron and Drew discuss their plan of action. Lucy's sounds of flatulence and other bathroom noises are so loud, the others have to raise their voices. The unflattering depictions were not in the original script, Giancola said. Smith and her son added them to liven up the humor of her character, he said. "All the shots at her personality come from her draft of the script," Giancola said. "Nobody told her what to do, that's for sure," said co-star Jimenez. "Everything you see is her choice." "Illegal Aliens" includes a prima-donna moment or two for Smith, when she veers out of character, argues with the director and draws one of the movie's biggest laughs after demanding to know who she has to have sex with to get out of the picture. Male co-stars rush in with their hands raised. In reality, Smith was anything but a prima donna, coming to the set focused and ready to work, Jimenez said. "Based on her history that everyone knows, that is common knowledge, we weren't sure what we were going to come across," Jimenez said. "So we were very surprised in a nice way." Smith and her son were among the top investors in the movie, which cost a bit under $3 million to make, Giancola said. Plans to release the movie were delayed after Daniel Smith died from a drug overdose last year. After Smith herself died in February, screenings of "Illegal Aliens" were canceled, but the filmmakers eventually went ahead with plans to release the movie through MTI Home Video, which already had negotiated for the rights, Giancola said. Smith's share of the profits will go to her infant daughter, Dannielynn, Giancola said. "My intention was to distance the movie as much as possible from her death so people could laugh," Giancola said. "That was her intention. That was Daniel's intention. To get people to laugh. Some people are making the wrong assumption that we are trying to capitalize off her death. But she and Daniel were investors in the movie, and we're basically just fulfilling hers and Daniel's wishes."
The former reality TV star died while embroiled in legal battles in two countries in which hundreds of millions of dollars might ultimately be the prize for the winner. Meanwhile, the latest episode in the real-life reality show that was Smith's life and death unfolded Friday at a custody hearing in the Bahamas involving Smith's daughter, Dannielynn; her mother, Virgie Arthur; and her former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead. It ended with no resolution; a follow-up hearing was set for Wednesday. The eventual winner of that dispute not only takes over the care of 7-month-old Dannielynn but will likely also win the right to carry on a legal fight for a share of the billion-dollar estate of Smith's late husband, the colorful Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall. The couple, who seemingly had nothing in common except strip bars, met in one in 1991 while Smith, still a couple years away from becoming a Playboy Playmate of the Year, was working as a topless dancer. They married three years later when the oil baron was 89 and Smith, by then a model for Guess jeans, was 26. Before Marshall's death the following year, Smith sued his son E. Pierce Marshall, claiming he was cheating her out of money her husband wanted her to have. One of the Marshall estate's attorneys, Yale law school professor G. Eric Brunstad Jr., said this week that Smith had already blown through $8 million of the old man's money at that point and that was all he intended her to have. After Marshall's August 1990 death, a Texas probate court jury ruled that Smith deserved nothing. But a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in Los Angeles awarded her $450 million from an estate then estimated to be worth $1.6 billion. A U.S. district court in Los Angeles later took over the case and cut the award to $88 million, plus $42 million in punitive damages. A federal appeals court in San Francisco dismissed that judgment, saying the case was out of the Los Angeles court's jurisdiction. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously last year that the case did fall within a federal court's jurisdiction and ordered the appeals court to decide the case on its merits. That was such an important victory for the rights of the nation's federal courts, said professor Charles W. "Rocky" Rhodes, that he teaches it in his South Texas College of Law classes. What happens next in the inheritance battle was put on hold after Smith was found Feb. 8 in a room at a hotel-casino on a Florida Indian reservation. Authorities said she had at least nine prescription drugs in her body and had died of an accidental overdose. "After she passed away, the court of appeals entered an order staying all of the proceedings," Brunstad said. Neither he nor attorney Kent Richland, who argued Smith's case before the Supreme Court, would even guess when proceedings might resume. "Given the history of this case so far, I don't think anyone can predict what is going to happen next," Richland said. In the meantime, he said, he has files from the case stacked ceiling to floor against two walls of his Los Angeles office. Nothing more can happen, the attorneys agreed, until someone is appointed to represent Smith's estate in court. Which is what makes the events unfolding in the Bahamas in the weeks ahead so important — not to mention so fascinating to seemingly anyone sitting in front of a TV. "You know what is most amazing about this case? How riveting this is to the world," said Alexandra Leichter, a Beverly Hills attorney and family law expert who has been called on frequently to provide her take on the case. "Here is a woman and what did she do? Did she fight against AIDS? Did she save children from a holocaust? Did she go and fight against land mines? Nothing. Just a pretty face with gum showing when she smiled." Then Leichter offered her prediction on the outcome of the custody case. She said Birkhead, the 34-year-old Los Angeles photographer who met Smith at a Kentucky Derby party in 2003, will be the eventual winner. "He is now in total, 100 percent control," she said, adding the fact that the DNA proof revealed two weeks ago that he is Dannielynn's father will trump anyone else's custody claim. Not that he doesn't have a few other little legal matters to straighten out before he can head home to California and fight on his daughter's behalf for a share of Smith's disputed inheritance. First among them is getting his name added to Dannielynn's birth certificate. After Smith dumped Birkhead last year for her lawyer, Howard K. Stern, she put Stern's name on the girl's birth certificate. Stern, who is still living with Dannielynn in the Bahamas mansion he and Smith shared in the months before her death, has formed a partnership of sorts with Birkhead since the DNA results were released. He says he now supports him in the custody case. Meanwhile, Arthur's attorneys said this week they were still negotiating a possible custody sharing arrangement with Birkhead. Also to be resolved is the status of a will Smith had drawn up in 2001 that named Stern executor of her estate. It leaves Smith's assets to her son, Daniel, who died last year of a drug overdose. That means, said New York attorney Laurie S. Ruckel, an expert on estates and trusts, that whatever Smith left will almost certainly go to Dannielynn, her only surviving child. But just what Smith left behind hasn't been revealed. "I couldn't give you an eyeball figure," Smith's attorney, Ron Rale, said this week. "But it's going to be determined."
Former boyfriend Larry Birkhead, the baby's father, said he hoped to be leaving the Bahamas "soon," though the court set another hearing in the case for Wednesday. All participants are prohibited by Bahamian legal rules from discussing details of the case. "On my behalf, everything went well," Birkhead told reporters after the hour-long hearing. "I'm moving toward starting a life with my daughter outside of the Bahamas." Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, left the courthouse in downtown Nassau without speaking to reporters. Before the session began, she said simply: "I'm holding on." Birkhead and Arthur have tried in recent days to reach a visitation agreement that would end her legal bid for custody of Dannielynn, who could inherit a fortune from the estate of her mother. Smith, 39, collapsed and died from an accidental drug overdose in February. A DNA expert revealed earlier this month that Birkhead was Dannielynn's father. Smith's companion, Howard K. Stern, has said he supports the former boyfriend's custody bid. Stern, who also attended Friday's court hearing, said the case "should have been over today," before he left with Birkhead in a black Cadillac sport utility vehicle with tinted windows. Smith gave birth to Dannielynn in September in a Bahamas hospital, days before her 20-year-old son, Daniel, died from a lethal combination of drugs at her bedside. The baby has been living in an oceanfront home with Stern, who was listed on the birth certificate as her father, but Birkhead has been visiting her in recent days to get acquainted with her. When Smith died, legal wrangling was still continuing over the estate of her late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, who died in 1995. It remains unclear how much, if any, Dannielynn would get from the estate, estimated to be worth more than $1 billion.
"People blame him a lot, but Anna had her own mind too," Birkhead, the father of Smith's baby daughter, tells OK! magazine. "She had a choice and we were arguing and that's what happens. I'm thankful that everyone can get along for Dannielynn. How could you not?" Birkhead, 34, a Los Angeles photographer and ex-boyfriend of the late Playboy Playmate, had feuded with Stern, her longtime lawyer-companion, over the paternity of now 7-month-old Dannielynn. A court in the Bahamas ruled last week that DNA tests proved Birkhead is the father. Stern said he would not fight to retain custody of the baby. Father and daughter are featured on the cover and inside the magazine's latest issue, on newsstands Friday. A representative for OK! — which pays for its exclusive interviews — wouldn't disclose the terms of its deal with Birkhead to The Associated Press. The magazine also has photos of Birkhead and Dannielynn. Stern has been helpful, Birkhead says. "It seems unlikely, but he's been a great help. He's been with Dannielynn the last several months. He knows her likes and dislikes and things that could help me. He gives me credit when I'm doing good things and gives me tips on things I should do a little different." Birkhead says Stern, who was listed on the birth certificate as Dannielynn's father, invited him to meet the baby about a month ago. Dannielynn has been living in an oceanfront home in the Bahamas with Stern. Birkhead isn't as generous with his comments on Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, who is seeking visitation rights. "It's puzzling for her to display affection to me and then for the attorneys to say she's going for custody and Larry was just a sperm donor and a one-night stand," he says. "Then they all come and shake my hand. You've gotta scratch your head and say, `What's going on here?'" "I'm willing to listen to see what people want, but that doesn't mean I'm going to agree," he says. "I hope I don't have to fight for the baby." Smith gave birth to Dannielynn in September in a Bahamas hospital, days before her 20-year-old son, Daniel, died from a lethal combination of drugs at her bedside. Smith died in Florida in February at 39, also from a lethal combination of drugs. Is Dannielynn healthy? "The doctors say she's fine and has met all of her developmental milestones," Birkhead says. "She's a really curious, alert baby."
In January, Hilton pleaded no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving stemming from a Sept. 7 arrest in Hollywood and was sentenced to 36 months' probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines. .On Feb. 28, she was ticketed for misdemeanor driving with a suspended license after her car was pulled over on Sunset Boulevard. Police said they saw her car speeding with its headlights off. Hilton, 26, wasn't present for Tuesday's hearing before Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer. The hearing was conducted almost entirely with lawyers at the bench speaking in hushed tones with the judge. Outside court, Hilton's attorney, Howard Weitzman, was asked whether the matter was close to being resolved. "It is," he said without elaboration. The prosecutor didn't comment to reporters. Hilton's spokesman, Elliot Mintz, has said that at the time, Hilton wasn't aware that her license had been suspended. Hilton co-stars with Nicole Richie in "The Simple Life" reality TV show.
Seven months pregnant with her first child (the father is her Italian entrepreneur boyfriend Gregorio Marsiaj), Herzigova, 34, tells the UK's The Sunday Times: "I'm just so happy. I want to be pregnant for the next 10 years." Pregnancy has changed her life, says the model, who is the face of Gap's maternity line. "I feel so powerful. You have no idea. But it's an inner power. You are so content with just being. That’s how it is. I feel so confident about my body. I feel so potent. You feel like you have your mission, and it’s empowering." Herzigova announced her pregnancy with a Demi-Moore-style appearance – semi-nude – on the cover of Italian Vanity Fair. "Many times women disappear when they become pregnant," says Herzigova, 34. "They start to hide and feel like they don't want to be seen. I think that's wrong." During her pregnancy so far Herzigova says she has put on nearly 25 lbs., thanks to her new cravings. "I have developed a taste for sweets," she says. "I never liked chocolate before." The weight gain hasn't made her give up miniskirts. "I haven't gained weight in my legs, so I show them off," she says. But she has had to ditch the heels. "Before, I could run in high heels," she says. "I never had problems. But suddenly your balance changes. I keep falling off them." Herzigova says she's focused on doing everything for her baby: "I'm not thinking, 'Oh, I'm getting fat.'" Nor does she have plans to whip herself back into her skinny jeans. "I'm not thinking about getting back into shape," she says. "I just want to enjoy this. I'm not like one of those celebrity people who would die to get back into shape. If people want to take pictures of me being round, they will take pictures of me being round. I think it's important to show your true self and how you are – you don't have to be in perfect shape or skinny shape." Nor does she have any plans to marry Marsiaj. "I told Greg I'd marry him for the children, one day. But for me, our love is written in my heart. I don't need to have it on a piece of paper."
The photos will be auctioned May 31, Christie's auctioneers said Monday. Two nude portraits, a 1996 print by Irving Penn and a 6-by-6-foot square image by Albert Watson, are expected to sell for about $44,000 and $30,000 respectively, the auction house said. A set of six prints of Moss without makeup, taken by Chuck Close, could sell for up to $40,000, Christie's said. An unpublished photo, being sold by one of the 33-year-old's friends, is expected to sell for about $12,000. The portrait, taken by photographer Corinne Day in 1990, was shot in London two years after Moss was discovered at a New York airport at age 14. Another shot taken by Day in 1993 for Vogue magazine, which features a 19-year-old Moss, is expected to sell for $14,000. The Vogue shoot helped propel the grunge movement into the mainstream and launch the "heroin chic" look in the 1990s. Yuka Yamaji, head of photography for the auction house, called Moss "a cultural icon and arguably the most influential model of our day."
"We have a buy-it-now situation," said Doug Norwine, the director of music and entertainment memorabilia at Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas. There were at least two bidders on the diaries, but both pulled out of the auction that ended Saturday. Among their concerns were allegations by Smith's lawyer-turned-partner, Howard K. Stern, that the diaries had been stolen and should be returned to her estate, Norwine said. "They just got cold feet," he said. The auction house obtained the journals and other items from an anonymous German businessman who purchased the items on eBay for more than $500,000 several weeks ago. The German businessman decided to auction the diaries after securing the publishing rights, Norwine said. Norwine said he had vetted the history of the journals and believed they were legitimately obtained by a celebrity memorabilia dealer in Los Angeles before going up for sale on eBay. The diaries from 1992 and 1994 cover a range of topics, from Smith's love of octogenarian oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II to concerns about her eating.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach, also accuses attorney John O'Quinn of invasion of privacy and seeks unspecified damages. A telephone message left by The Associated Press on Friday afternoon for O'Quinn was not immediately returned. O'Quinn is representing Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, in a custody battle over Smith's baby. Smith died in February at age 39 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. The medical examiner in the case ruled her death an accidental drug overdose. According to the lawsuit, O'Quinn appeared on several national television shows in which he suggested Stern murdered Smith. During an interview in Fort Lauderdale, O'Quinn told Fox News Show's Greta Van Susteren that Arthur believed Stern had murdered her daughter and that O'Quinn agreed with her. O'Quinn also suggested on MSNBC that Stern had ulterior motives for wanting to see Smith's will days before Smith died. "The public airwaves should never be used to promote personal agendas or vendettas," Stern's attorneys L. Lin Wood said in a statement issued Friday. The lawsuit came days after a DNA expert revealed Smith's former boyfriend, Los Angeles photographer Larry Birkhead, was the father of Smith's baby, not Stern. Stern has said he would not fight to retain custody of 7-month-old Dannielynn. But Arthur is seeking visitation rights. Smith gave birth to Dannielynn in September in a Bahamas hospital, days before her 20-year-old son, Daniel, died from a lethal combination of drugs at her bedside. Meanwhile, legal wrangling continues over the estate of Smith's late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, who died in 1995. It remains unclear how much, if any, of the $500 million Marshall estate Dannielynn might inherit and whether her guardian would have access to the money.
An agreement on joint visitation could avert a closed hearing scheduled for Friday afternoon to decide custody of 7-month-old Dannielynn, who could inherit a fortune from her mother's estate. Lawyers for Larry Birkhead, who is the baby's father, and Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, met privately on Thursday. Birkhead, a California photographer who discovered he was the girl's father when DNA test results were disclosed on Tuesday, said he would not share custody of the baby girl, but hoped to avoid a court dispute. Arthur's lawyer said she would fight for joint custody if talks fail. "We intend to proceed on that application unless something else comes along that causes us not to have to take that course of action," attorney Debra Rose said. Arthur says wants access to her granddaughter and believes an agreement was possible with Birkhead, whom she called "a good guy." The baby has been living in an oceanfront home with Smith's former companion, Howard K. Stern, who was listed on the birth certificate as the father but gave up his custody claim after the DNA results were released. Smith gave birth to Dannielynn in September in a Bahamas hospital, days before her 20-year-old son, Daniel, died from a lethal combination of drugs at her bedside. Smith died in Florida in February at age 39, also from a lethal combination of drugs. Legal wrangling continues over the estate of Smith's late husband, the Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, who died in 1995. It remains unclear how much, if any, of the $500 million estate Dannielynn could obtain and whether her guardian would have access to the money.
Rizer's Trashgate began when Travis Richmond - owner of the Pizza Shack in upstate Sackets Harbor, where the beauty owns a $300,000 cottage - noticed his two Dumpsters mysteriously filling up with household trash last weekend, he told Page Six. Playing detective, he had his staff begin surveillance of the area. They spotted a reed-thin blonde and a dark-haired man sneaking up to the receptacles and stuffing them with bags of refuse. "I went out and jumped in the Dumpster and started digging through the trash and found several documents with Maggie Rizer's name on them. I took them over to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department," said Richmond, who planned to prosecute because residents are required to arrange for their own waste removal. Cops quizzed Rizer and her pal, Alexander Mehren, who fessed up, but insisted they didn't know they were doing anything illegal, according to ABC affiliate WWTI-TV. Rizer, hoping to avoid a summons and court date, showed up at the Pizza Shack and made a personal plea to Richmond for forgiveness. He agreed not to press charges after Rizer told him she'd pay the extra cost of hauling her trash away. "I have no hard feelings towards Maggie," Richmond said. "She came in by herself like an upstanding citizen - she didn't call her lawyer or anything - and said, 'What can I do?' and she took care of it. This girl's gone through enough crap in her life." That's for sure. A few years back, Rizer lost as much as $7 million thanks to her stepfather John Breen, who looted her bank account to feed his booze and gambling habits. He's serving up to four years in the slammer. She lost her real father, Kevin, to AIDS when she was just 14. Rizer's upstate phone was not in service and her rep didn't answer our e-mail.
"He's a very smart boy with a lot of energy – sometimes he's hard to control," Melania, 36, told PEOPLE Thursday at a Best & Co. fashion show and breakfast to benefit the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Even though he just celebrated his first birthday last month, little Barron is "very smart and very serious," Melania said. "He's walking and talking: He says Dadada and Mama. He's throwing a lot of stuff and he's just an amazing, amazing boy." And the Slovenian model is basking in the joys of being a mom: "Motherhood is amazing – there's really nothing like it." Still, Melania, who said shortly after Barron was born that giving birth was "very, very easy," admits that it can be challenging to make time for marriage, motherhood and herself. "It's combining the whole thing together," she said. "It's another person that we have to take care of. It's exciting, but it's responsibility too." How did she and The Donald celebrate Barron's March 20th birthday? Melania says they went to Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Palm Beach, Fla., resort where they wed in 2005, and gave their son special – and top secret – present. "I don't want to talk about it, but it was a very special gift."
Tentatively titled "Kimora," the series chronicles the professional life of the former model, who juggles a business team of publicists, managers, creative directors and fashion designers while dealing with her two daughters at their home in New Jersey, where they are surrounded by nannies, chefs, drivers and stylists. The St. Louis native began modeling as a teenager and has since written a book, "Fabulosity: What It Is and How to Get It," and developed a successful clothing line, Baby Phat. Her former husband is rap mogul Russell Simmons.
"I am having a great time!" the model, 27, told PEOPLE Tuesday in New York City at the Br!ck Awards, which honor young people working toward social change. She and the "You're Beautiful" singer met in December 2005 and started dating the following year. Last month, a source close to Blunt told PEOPLE the breakup was "very amicable – they remain good friends." Since the split, Blunt, 33, has hit the Hollywood club scene, and was recently spotted partying at Les Deux with Robbie Williams and at Teddy's with Lindsay Lohan, Kelly Osbourne and Amy Winehouse. For her part, Nemcova has been busy with her philanthropic effort, the Happy Hearts Fund, which was honored at the Br!ck Awards for helping children affected by natural disasters and other hardships. (The Czech model's longtime boyfriend, photographer Simon Atlee, was killed in Thailand in the 2004 tsunami, and Nemcova herself was badly injured.) "We opened up a school and a computer center in Thailand just three weeks ago," she said. "Fifty [children] were trying to hold me and bring me to show me the classrooms. They were so excited – when we got there, we were jumping around. It was amazing to see that it really touches their lives and makes them really happy."
Stern wants the diaries returned to her estate. In a letter to Doug Norwine, the director of music and entertainment memorabilia at Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas, an attorney for Stern wrote that the diaries were stolen and therefore belong to him. "On behalf of the estate, Mr. Stern hereby requests that the diaries be returned to him immediately," the attorney, L. Lin Wood, wrote in the letter Wednesday. The auction house obtained the journals, as well as a $16,954.66 receipt from a Bloomingdale's shopping spree in 1992, a signed bank check from Smith and her 1994 Texas photo ID card, from an anonymous German businessman who purchased the items on eBay for more than $500,000 several weeks ago. Norwine said he had vetted the history of the journals and believed they were legitimately obtained by a celebrity memorabilia dealer in Los Angeles before they went up for sale on eBay. "In the absence of a judge stopping this auction, this auction will go forward," Norwine said Thursday. "After the auction we'll determine what happens. We will continue to take the high road." The diaries, from 1992 and 1994, cover a range of topics, from Smith's love of octogenarian oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II to concerns about her eating. Norwine said the German businessman decided to auction the diaries after securing the publishing rights. Opening bids will start at $20,000, Norwine said, and he expects both to fetch as much as $100,000.
Ford, 26, is best known for her hit single "I Wanna Be Bad," from her 2001 album, "Willa Was Here." Like Smith, she was a Playboy model. Smith, 39, died in February from a mix of prescription drugs, leaving behind a baby daughter and a possible fortune from her marriage to the late J. Howard Marshall II, the Texas oil tycoon. A court in the Bahamas announced Tuesday that DNA tests proved former boyfriend Larry Birkhead was the baby's father. The previously announced independent movie "Anna Nicole" will cover her life from age 17 to her death. A call by The Associated Press to a representative for Ford wasn't immediately returned Wednesday. Ford, whose real name is Amanda Lee Williford, appeared as a "celebrity dancer" last year on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" and has hosted several reality television shows.
By Tuesday, when he finally proved his claim through a DNA paternity test, it quickly became evident that little was known about the 34-year-old Kentucky native with the surfer-dude good looks. He has a Web site that says nothing about his personal life and his profile on the networking site MySpace.com is private. Public records show he was born in Kentucky in January 1973. He is reported to have a twin brother, but a publicist for his former attorney, Debra Opri, declined to confirm that Tuesday or say how many brothers and sisters Birkhead has. Publicist James Levesque did say Birkhead has no other children. Although fatherhood will be a new role for Birkhead, he has said it is one he is prepared for. "Most definitely. I'm capable of it. I have nieces and nephews," he told CNN's Larry King in January, adding his siblings have named him as the guardian who would care for their children if anything happened to them. Birkhead has said he met Smith, a former Playboy Playmate of the Year, at a Kentucky Derby party in 2003 but that they didn't start dating until he saw her at the same event the following year. She had lost weight, was much friendlier than she had been the year before and invited him to accompany her to other events to take photos "and one thing led to another," he told Fox's Greta Van Susteren in January. "We had, you know, even though it sounds like we battled and battled, but we had a great time in our relationship," he told Van Susteren. He has said he and Smith remained together until May 2006 when she was five months pregnant with Dannielynn. Howard K. Stern, Smith's former attorney and companion at the time of her death in February, is listed on Dannielynn's birth certificate as her father. Birkhead has said Stern was jealous of his relationship with Smith and deliberately broke them up. Smith, 39, was found unresponsive on Feb. 8 in a Hollywood, Fla. hotel room, and was pronounced dead shortly afterward. For months, Birkhead has appeared before the TV cameras as the friendly, often exuberant figure in the paternity case, reiterating again and again that he would eventually prevail in his efforts to prove he was Dannielynn's father. Before his MySpace profile was set to private he would sometimes post a smiley face next to messages on his blog that said he was remaining upbeat. On Tuesday in the Bahamas, he appeared nervous in front of the cameras, but not so much that he couldn't resort to another moment of playfulness. "I hate to be the one to tell you this," he began as he addressed the cameras somberly after leaving a closed-door court hearing where his paternity was announced. Then he grinned, raised his arms in triumph and added, "But I told you so!"
A day after being declared the biological father of seven-month-old Dannielynn, Birkhead took to the airwaves to share his joy and prove his single parenting mettle. While the 34-year-old photographer had a major victory in the courts of both the Bahamas and public opinion Tuesday, he has yet to be awarded custody of his child with Anna Nicole Smith, something he says he is willing, yet again, to fight for and something which he will not share. "We might go from one fight to another, but I'm hoping that's not the case because, you know, there's only one dad, and I have no problem with anyone that has good intentions being allowed to visit the baby and see the baby and be a part of the baby's life," he told the Today show Wednesday. Birkhead added that it was great to no longer be known as "the man who claimed he's the father of Dannielynn. I'm actually the father." That honor seems to have passed to another candidate, who has surprisingly come out strong in support of his former rival: Howard K. Stern. Stern has already made himself a vocal member of Team Birkhead, giving his legal adversary of the past year a hug outside the courtroom yesterday and telling reporters that he will "do everything I can to make sure he gets sole custody." Legal custody of the child has yet to be resolved, however, a judge will likely determine the matter at a hearing Friday. Birkhead told Today that he did not want to share custody with another party, be it Stern or Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, as "it would imply that I'm unfit as a parent, which I'm not." What he is is taking his legal battles one victory at a time, taking time out Wednesday to enjoy the spoils of his vindication. "[It was] a long fight," he told Today, adding that, when proclaiming "I told you so!" to the throngs of reporters and tourists outside the Bahamian courtroom Tuesday, he was feeling "just a sense of relief that this was on its way to being over." "We don't know what's ahead, but just to be named the father...to have that heavy weight off your shoulders was just incredible, it was just a magical moment." While Arthur filed paperwork in the Bahamas last week, prior to the DNA reveal, to attempt to obtain custody of Dannielynn, Birkhead is nonetheless hedging his guardianship bets. "She's got lots of toys and a nursery ready for her and she's got everything that she's gonna need," he said on the morning show. "All I have to do is just give her the love and that's just what I'm ready and prepared to do." As it is, he's already had the opportunity. According to TMZ, Birkhead took Stern up on his offer to "spend as much time with [Dannielynn] as he wants to right now," logging several quality father-daughter hours at Horizons, Stern's Bahamian home, Tuesday night. Like Birkhead, Stern appears to be operating under the assumption that the Kentucky-born photographer will be granted custody, telling reporters that transitioning the daughter between the men will likely take between two and four weeks. While Birkhead has so far not made, or at least announced, a decision as to where he would like to raise Dannielynn, he has set up his boast-worthy nursery in his Burbank townhouse. However, according to People, he is also weighing a move to the far less media-centric Kentucky.
The revelation brought to an appropriately dramatic climax a tabloid maelstrom that was kicked off by the abrupt death of the buxom widow of a billionaire from an accidental drug overdose in a Florida hotel casino on February 8. Her baby, Dannielynn, could one day be worth a fortune if Smith's estate wins a decade-long battle to inherit from former oil tycoon husband J. Howard Marshall. "I hate to be the one to tell you this but, I told you so," Birkhead, a Los Angeles photographer, said outside the court in Nassau. "Nothing's really determined except parentage and I'm the father." "I'm going to the toy store," he said. Smith's death at age 39 with nine different prescription medicines flowing through her veins touched off a battle among her mother, Virgie Arthur, longtime companion Howard K. Stern and Birkhead, not only for her body, but also over the former topless dancer's baby. Stern was listed as the father on Dannielynn's Bahamian birth certificate. Smith shot into the headlines in September when her 20-year-old son, Daniel, died suddenly while sleeping in a chair near his mother in a Bahamas hospital room just three days after she had given birth to Dannielynn. An inquest into Daniel's death is under way in the Bahamas but a private pathologist hired by Smith and Stern found he most likely died of a dangerous mix of prescription drugs, including the heroin substitute methadone. Stern, who had lived in the Bahamas with Smith since the middle of last year and was previously her attorney, said he was disappointed when U.S. DNA expert Michael Baird told Bahamas Supreme Court Justice Stephen Isaacs that Dannielynn's DNA was a more than 99.9 percent match with Birkhead's. But he said he was no longer going to fight his rival. "I'm going to do everything I can to make sure he (Birkhead) gets sole custody," Stern said. "This whole process, everything, has been very difficult." Stern has vowed to ensure that Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, does not gain custody of Dannielynn. Arthur, who fought to have Smith buried in her native Texas, said she was relieved that her granddaughter "will now know who her father is." "This has been a roller coaster," she said. "We've lost a grandson. Please don't forget that." Court hearings over custody were to begin on Friday.
The world first met them in photos from exclusive parties. Now dedicated packs of paparazzi track their every move, capturing each festive (and sometimes bizarre or law-breaking) moment. Hilton, 26, and Richie, 25, say the fun continues on "The Simple Life," the reality show that throws the privileged pals into everyday situations. After famously feuding and filming their parts separately last season, the celebutantes reunite as camp counselors for the show's fifth installment, which premieres May 28 on E! Their task? Leading campers through fitness sessions, couples counseling, drama lessons and beauty-pageant preparations — and surviving without cell phones. Hilton, in a lemon-yellow minidress, and Richie, wearing black jeans and a bustier, talked with The Associated Press Monday about their latest on-camera adventures, their friendship and what they've learned from "The Simple Life." AP: How did you prepare for camp? Richie: We actually didn't prepare, which I guess was a problem because we were wearing heels and just not camp-appropriate things. But during the fitness camp we wore sweats a lot which was a nice break. Hilton: We had fun with everyone who came in. All the camps were completely different. We would have to do all the challenges that they would have to do. We had to stay with them in the same rooms, so basically we were living the camp life. It was hard, you know, not having cell phone service, being away from our friends and our family, but we had each other, so that was a lot of fun. AP: Neither of you had been to camp as kids. What did you think of the whole experience? Richie: It was interesting. It's definitely not for me. I'm not a camper. But I'm glad that I did it once. I'm always up to try anything. Hilton: I think just being the camp counselors is being a lot different from actually having to go to camp as a kid. But I don't know. I didn't really like the camp life either. I'd rather go to Europe for the summer. AP: You two have had some ups and downs in your friendship. Where do you stand now? P: We've been best friends since we were two years old. I've don't have any friend I've had as long as Nicole. She's my sister. Everyone has a fight, you know, it's just not going to be publicized, you know, and have things construed and changed around. You know, we're friends. We know the truth. The media made up a lot of silly stories and you just have to not pay attention to it. AP: What was the worst media incident and how did you get through it? Richie: I don't know if there's something that stood out as being the worst, but I mean, people really banked off of it. There were Team Paris and Team Nicole shirts. We didn't make them, you know? And it was really awkward when people would ask me to sign them because I'm not going to sign them. (Hilton giggles.) It's true! Like, I'm not going to sign a Team Nicole shirt that says, Yeah, I'm against Paris or anything like that, you know? Even though it's public, it's not my choice for it to be public, you know? We just had a falling out and it happened to be public. It wasn't my choice at all. And the fact that we're friends again, the fact that that's public isn't my choice at all. I mean, we're human beings and we get into fights, and, it happens. Well, we had one fight in 23 years, so I guess that's a good thing. AP: What is it about "The Simple Life" that fans have connected to? Hilton: Just that it's about two best friends who are together and I think people can relate to that, because everyone has a best friend. We have our secret languages and our secret looks to each other and we just have fun together. I don't know. It's hard to find a group who can be like that together. Richie: I think that originally people thought "Oh, this is going to be about two spoiled blond girls that don't know how to do anything and make fun of people," and that's not what it's about. If anything, we're making fun of ourselves. We're very different. We're very opposite, so it's a good balance, you know, between the two... She has strengths where I have weaknesses and I have strengths where she has weaknesses and it really creates a good dynamic. AP: What has doing the show taught you about life and about each other? Hilton: I've just been doing the show now five seasons so I've definitely, you know, learned a lot. I've traveled the world and met all these different families and different people and, I don't know, just learning about other people. With Nicole, I've been best friends with her my whole life so I already knew everything about her. I don't know, just that we can survive any situation and we can have fun no matter where we are as long as we're together. Richie: It's funny because a lot of people, as close as they are, when you spend so much time with someone, it's like you see habits that you know, you're just like ugh, I can't spend this much time with someone. But I love spending time with her and we have so much fun and, you know, I really just look at it as nothing but fun. AP: How are your pending legal problems affecting your projects? (Hilton and Richie were each arrested for driving under the influence in the past year.) Richie: We're not talking about that.
"We're in touch," Von Teese, 34, told PEOPLE Thursday at the julib.com party for the musical Wicked at Hollywood hot spot Social Hollywood. "We're still married. We're going through the [divorce] process but we are not friends." "When I say 'friends,' I mean friends," she explained, making air-quotes with her fingers. "But we don't hate each other or anything." Von Teese filed for divorce from Manson, 38, in December after a year of marriage. Since then, she says, she's been keeping busy with work – which includes performing as a burlesque dancer and promoting safe sex as a spokesperson for Viva Glam and the MAC AIDS fund. "I live for adventure and experience and I'm having a really wonderful time in my life," she said. "It's a new renewal for me and a new chapter in my life and I'm excited about what happens next." At Social Hollywood, she performed at the Wicked Witch-themed soiree before a standing-room-only crowd that included actresses Tatayana Ali and Dominique Swain and Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough. Asked about whether she could relate to the theme of the evening, she said: "I don't really have much of a wicked streak in me. My wicked moments I usually leave for times when I'm on stage, [but] I have a bit of a naughty streak in me. I've got a little bit of the good witch and a little bit of the bad witch in me."
"I can make clear at this time," he says, "that I am not the father of the child." The Playboy magnate enjoys his laugh about the paternity uncertainties still swirling around Anna Nicole Smith, but his feelings about the former Playmate turned pop icon are no joke. In serious fashion, his bunny empire will offer three upcoming Smith tributes: a 10-page pictorial in the magazine's May issue, an hourlong retrospective on Playboy TV and an online memorial on Playboy.com. Smith, who first appeared on the magazine's cover in March 1992 and was named Playmate of the Year in 1993, was 39 when she died of an accidental drug overdose in February. So what was it about the buxom blonde Texan that Hefner found so alluring? "It was her presence in front of the camera," he told The Associated Press Thursday, chatting in the library of his famed Playboy Mansion. "She was one of those who loved being in front of the camera and came alive in front of the camera. There was very clearly a Marilyn Monroe quality about her and that aspiration was clear from the very beginning. She talked about Marilyn Monroe all the time." Smith often posed like Monroe, he said. At a Halloween party in 2004, she came dressed in a "Marilyn Monroe-type outfit" accompanied by three men in tuxedos: her attorney Howard K. Stern, boyfriend Larry Birkhead and son Daniel. "The irony in terms of Anna Nicole's fascination with Marilyn Monroe is how successful she was in building a similar kind of career, not through acting but simply through celebrity itself," said Hefner, in his usual silk pajamas and smoking jacket. "The tragedy is she lived large as Marilyn did and died in a very similar way." She was still Vickie Smith when she first caught the eye of Playboy editors, who argued over whether to include her in the magazine. "She came here and she weighed about 160 pounds," Hefner recalled. "We like the voluptuous ladies but not that voluptuous. It was a wonderful statement for the simple fact that beauty has no limitation in terms of size. You can be a big lady and a beautiful lady, and she was." With three tributes, might Playboy be opening itself to criticism for profiting from Smith's death? Not the case, Hefner quickly replied. "It's quite frankly celebrating her in a way that she would appreciate." The publishing titan turns 81 on Monday, but makes little concession to the calendar. He just celebrated his birthday with a bash in Las Vegas, and recently started work on the third season of "The Girls Next Door," an E! reality show about life with his girlfriends Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson. Their upcoming adventures include an appearance at the Toyota Grand Prix, where Hefner will serve as grand marshal (and Wilkinson will drive a race car), and a trip to Monte Carlo at the invitation of Prince Albert, Hefner said. And the chatter about Hef getting engaged? Just rumors, he said. "I am in a very serious relationship with Holly," he explained. "I love all three of the girls, but the relationship with Holly will last, certainly, for the rest of my life. Whether it leads to marriage, we will see. I've tried marriage twice before without great success, and at this moment, I don't want to spoil the relationship."
"I've been really stressed out lately and depressed and I can't quit eating. I feel like a pig," the former Playboy Playmate, who died Feb. 8 in a Florida hotel from a drug overdose, wrote in an entry dated Aug. 16, 1992. The starlet's journals, made available exclusively to The Associated Press on Thursday, are among several pieces of Smith memorabilia going up for public auction in a few weeks by Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas. One diary is a purple and green Hallmark hardbound book that includes a handwritten message on the inside cover: "This diary belongs to Vickie Smith. Do Not Read!" Smith, whose real name is Vickie Lynn Smith, noted — in a very freeform style — the beginning of her relationship with Paul Marciano, CEO of Guess Inc., where she eventually replaced Claudia Schiffer in the company's jeans advertisements. "O my Gosh!! Paul Marsiano called today to see if I got his books also I'm gonna go to San Antonio to do photo shoot," she wrote on June 23, 1992. "I'm so excited!! I can't believe this. This could be it." The entry ends with five hand-drawn smiley faces. Two days later she details a trip to a Nieman Marcus store where she bought $3,000 worth of clothing. "I'm so happy they look great," she wrote. "I hope it empresses Paul Marsiano. ... I'm starving!! I've been starving myself." By August, Smith revealed a disdain for eating and sex, and growing frustration with Marshall, who was 63 years older than Smith. The two married in 1994. "I've been really stressed out lately and depressed and I can't quit eating. I feel like a pig. Howard has been buying me som jewelry but he call me 15 or 20 times a day it drives me crazy. I love him but he aggravates me somtimes," she wrote. "I don't no what to do about Paul hes strange guy. I hate for men to want sex all the time." The entry ends with a large underlined "Chow!" On June 13, 1992, she wrote that she was hung over and stayed home to watch a movie, adding that she "Took a Zandrex!" An autopsy report showed Smith died at age 39 on from an accidental overdose of at least nine prescription drugs — including a powerful sleep aid — and that there was no foul play. Her second diary is a much smaller spiral-bound paperback Guess Kids calendar from 1994. The individual entries are not dated but describe her relationship with Marshall, who was ill and died in 1995. "Hes so very weak and fragile When I touch him Im afraid he might break," she wrote. "If Jesus desides to take him I dont no what I'll do. I love him so much it hurts me to site and watch him when hes hurting I just want to hold him touch him let him no how much I care." After Marshall's death, the Texas high-school dropout who became a topless dancer took her fight for his estimated $500 million fortune as far as the Supreme Court. That ongoing battle could make her infant daughter, Dannielynn, very wealthy. Howard K. Stern, her lawyer-turned-companion, and two other men have claimed to be the baby's father. The auction house obtained the journals from an anonymous German businessman who purchased them and other items on eBay for more than $500,000 several weeks ago. Doug Norwine, director of music and entertainment memorabilia at Heritage, said the man decided to auction the diaries after securing the publishing rights. Opening bids will start a $20,000, Norwine said, and he expects the diaries to fetch as much as $100,000.
Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, who prescribed more than 1,800 pills and a bottle of the powerful sedative chloral hydrate for Smith in the five weeks before she died of a drug overdose, could lose her medical license if the board finds misconduct on her part. Most of the drugs were prescribed to Smith's companion, Howard K. Stern, but medical examiners have said that they were intended for the 39-year-old Playboy Playmate turned billionaire's widow. "I can only tell you that she (Eroshevich) is being investigated in connection with the Anna Nicole Smith matter," board spokeswoman Candis Cohen said. Eroshevich, a Los Angeles-based psychiatrist, did not return a phone call from Reuters seeking comment. Smith was found unresponsive in her Hollywood, Florida, hotel room on February 8 and pronounced dead within hours at a nearby hospital. Nine drugs were found in her system, including toxic levels of chloral hydrate. The Broward County Medical Examiner's office on Thursday released a list of medications found in the room and prescribed by Eroshevich between Jan 2 and March 6. They include chloral hydrate, anti-anxiety drugs, muscle relaxants, anti-seizure drugs, diuretics and antibiotics. Eight prescriptions, including the chloral hydrate, were prescribed to Stern. Two drugs, antibiotic Cipro and flu medicine Tamiflu, were prescribed by Eroshevich to someone named Alex Katz, who was not identified by the medical examiner's office. One of the drugs found in the room, potassium chloride, was prescribed by Eroshevich to herself. More than 600 pills were missing from the various bottles, though it wasn't clear if Smith took them all. The chloral hydrate was a liquid and about a third of the bottle's contents remained. Cohen said the California medical board, which is responsible for licensing the state's physicians, assigns peace officers to investigate any accusation of misconduct by a doctor. The officers can file a formal charge of wrongdoing against the doctor with an administrative law judge, who would make a recommendation to the medical board. Short of revoking a doctor's license, the board could also impose a lesser penalty, including suspension or probation. "These investigations are not (typically) public record," Cohen said. "We are making an exception in this case because we want to assure the public that we are doing our job." The medical board has previously said that it was investigating another physician in connection with Smith, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor.
Writing on his Web site, Birkhead, who says he's the father of Smith's daughter Dannielynn, objects to, among other things, stories that he's a poker high-roller and is collecting donations for his legal fees. "It was reported that I was playing $1500.00 a hand at the high stakes poker table in the Bahamas," writes Birkhead, 34. "FALSE. I do not even know how to play poker and I wouldn't be playing with money like that in any event." He also denies that he's commented about his attorney's fees or tried to trademark the phrase "Goodnight my sweet Anna baby" from an online tribute he posted after Smith's Feb. 8 death. "The [paperwork] was filled out by another individual on my behalf. The form was not reviewed or approved by me," he writes. "I am far too busy working on my fight for my daughter Dannielynn to worry about things like trademarking sayings for use in movies, etc." Finally, he says he has not been accepting donations toward legal fees in his paternity battle. "Please do not send any donations to me for a legal defense fund," he writes. "Previously, someone set up a 'Save Dannielynn' defense fund for me (again without my authorization) and some individuals sent in donations before the 'fund' was discovered by me." On April 2 it was announced that Birkhead's main rival in the paternity fight, Smith's partner Howard K. Stern, 38, had dropped his attempt to block the release of DNA test results that could reveal the identity of Dannielynn's father.
While it is not known what quantities of these drugs had been taken by Smith, more than 600 pills – among them, approximately 450 muscle relaxants – were missing from prescriptions that were filled no more than five weeks before her death in Hollywood, Fla., the Associated Press reports. Dr. Khristine Eroshevich – a psychiatrist and friend of Smith's who had traveled with her to Florida – authorized all the prescriptions in the hotel room where the former Playmate was found unresponsive shortly before she died, says the medical examiner's office of Dr. Joshua Perper, who also cited two other doctors who prescribed drugs to Smith. Eroshevich is being investigated being investigated by the California Medical Board, TMZ.com reported Thursday. However, Candis Cohen, a spokeswoman for the California Medical Board, declined comment on any investigation involving Eroshevich, saying that such matters are not public record. Calls by the AP to Eroshevich in Los Angeles were not returned. In autopsy report released by Florida officials last week, the type of drugs in Smith's system were disclosed but not broken down into specifics – or revealed as to their remarkable quantity. This became evident with Wednesday's release of the additional records. The potent sleeping aid chloral hydrate, named the catalyst in the toxic drug cocktail that caused Smith's death was prescribed Jan. 2. About two-thirds of the bottle was gone, according to Perper's records. Also shown are 62 tablets of the anti-anxiety drug Valium missing from a prescription filled less than two weeks before Smith's death. Eight drugs were prescribed in the name of Smith's companion, Howard K. Stern, while none were prescribed in Smith's own name, the documents show. Perper has said all the medications were intended for Smith. Two attorneys for Stern did not return the AP's calls seeking comment. Also shown, according to records, were three prescriptions for muscle relaxants found in Smith's hotel room: two for carisoprodol (prescribed Jan. 2 and Jan. 26), and one for methocarbamol, under the brand name Robaxin (prescribed Jan. 2). About 415 of the carisoprodol pills were gone from their containers, as were 33 of the Robaxin pills, according to the documents. Also missing were 79 tablets of the anti-seizure medications Topomax and Klonopin;, along with at least two dozen diuretics, antibiotics, antivirals and potassium supplements. Not mentioned in the newly disclosed documents were the powerful painkiller methadone or the anti-anxiety pill Ativan, both of which were found in Smith's system. Similarly missing from the report was information on who prescribed human growth hormone, the muscle-building, weight-reducing agent Smith was said to have been taking around the time of her death.
"They are indeed dating, but it's still the early days," says her rep, Peter Damgaard, of 2pm Model Management in Denmark. "She thinks he's really sweet." Rock, 36 (real name: Robert Ritchie), and Andersen, 24, stepped out together at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on March 12 and were spotted strolling in New York City less than two weeks later. The following night, they arrived hand-in-hand at Elton John's 60th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden, where they spent the three-hour-plus show happily sitting side-by-side. The pair were introduced by two of Andersen's fellow Danes: Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and actress Connie Nielsen, a source tells PEOPLE. Rock finalized his divorce from Pamela Anderson, 39, in January. They split in November after four months of marriage.
More than 130,000 people have so far viewed the three-minute clip of the couple, who are both smoking, on video-sharing website YouTube.com. Babyshambles frontman Doherty is playing his guitar and singing along while Moss - wearing nothing under a see-through dress except panties - kicks her bare legs in the air. At one point, the beauty says, "Sonny And Cher we ain't." Elsewhere, British newspaper The Sun has today reported that Doherty and Moss are making a video diary of their life together. A source tells the publication, "They think it's cool and romantic, like something John Lennon and Yoko Ono would have done."
More than 600 pills — including about 450 muscle relaxants — were missing from prescriptions that were no more than five weeks old, according to information obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request. It was unclear if Smith took all of them. Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, a psychiatrist and friend of the starlet's, authorized all the prescription medications in the Hollywood, Fla., hotel room where Smith was found unresponsive shortly before her death Feb. 8, the medical examiner's office said. Eroshevich had traveled with Smith to Florida. Calls to Eroshevich in Los Angeles were not immediately returned Wednesday. Candace Cohen, a spokeswoman for the California Medical Board, would not comment on any probe into Eroshevich; she said investigations of doctors are not public record. Dr. Joshua Perper, Broward County's medical examiner, said two other doctors also prescribed Smith drugs, but those medications were not found in her hotel room. The type of drugs found in Smith's system were disclosed with the release of her autopsy report last week, but the remarkable quantity of drugs she had was unclear until Wednesday's release of additional records. The powerful sleeping aid chloral hydrate, the medication blamed with tipping the balance in the toxic mix of drugs and causing her death, was prescribed Jan. 2. About two-thirds of the bottle was gone, according to the medical examiner's records. The records also show 62 tablets of the anti-anxiety drug Valium were missing from a prescription less than two weeks old at the time of Smith's death. A probe by the Seminole Police Department agreed with Perper's assessment that Smith's death at 39 was an accidental overdose and that there was no foul play. Most of the drugs were prescribed in the name of Howard K. Stern, her lawyer-turned-companion, and none were prescribed in Smith's own name, according to documents. Perper has said all the drugs were meant for Smith. Information released by Perper's office shows eight of the prescriptions were issued under Stern's name; one under Eroshevich's name; and two were under the name of Alex Katz. It was unclear if Katz was an alias or the name of someone connected to Smith. The records show Smith had three prescriptions for muscle relaxants in her hotel room: two for carisoprodol, prescribed Jan. 2 and Jan. 26, and one for methocarbamol, under the brand name Robaxin, prescribed Jan. 2. Some 415 of the carisoprodol pills were missing from their containers as well as 33 of the Robaxin pills, according to the documents. Also missing were 79 tablets of the anti-seizure medications Topomax and Klonopin; and at least two dozen diuretics, antibiotics, antivirals and potassium supplements. The newly disclosed documents did not mention the strong painkiller methadone or the anti-anxiety pill Ativan, both of which were found in Smith's system. Also missing from the report was disclosure on who prescribed human growth hormone, the muscle-building, weight-reducing agent Smith was said to have been taking around the time of her death. Two attorneys for Stern did not immediately return calls seeking comment. Smith had a stomach flu and a temperature that rose as high as 105 degrees in the days before her death, and she had an infection on her buttocks from repeated injections. Both the flu and the infection were considered contributing causes of her death, according to the autopsy report. Smith, a Texas high school dropout who became a topless dancer, married 89-year-old oilman J. Howard Marshall II. After his death, she took her fight for Marshall's estimated $500 million fortune as far as the Supreme Court. That ongoing battle could make her infant daughter, Dannielynn, very wealthy. Stern and two other men have claimed to be the baby's father.
The tests results, from a DNA swab of the child, had been widely expected to be revealed during Tuesday's proceedings in a Nassau court. But the closed-door session ended about 1-1/2 hours after it began without shedding any light on the paternity issue. Damian Gomez, an attorney representing Smith's longtime companion and lawyer Howard K. Stern, said the Nassau court proceedings would resume next Tuesday. Participants, citing a gag order, said they were unable to comment on matters raised in the courtroom. Bahamian courts operating under British legal guidelines prohibit the identification of minors in court proceedings. Court TV quoted an unidentified source as saying the DNA test results were not revealed in open court. Smith's death in a Florida casino hotel on February 8 touched off a storm as various people fought over her body and also over her baby, who could one day be worth a fortune if the buxom blond's estate wins a decade-long battle to inherit millions from her late oil tycoon husband. Smith was buried in the Bahamas on March 2 after a funeral where mourners included Stern, listed as Dannielynn's father on her birth certificate, and Los Angeles photographer Larry Birkhead, who also claims paternity. Birkhead has sued for paternity in courts from Los Angeles to Miami to Nassau but some other men have also claimed they could be Dannielynn's father. Florida officials said last week that an accidental overdose of prescription drugs including a potent sedative killed Smith, ending weeks of uncertainty over the former topless dancer's sudden death.
"My friends always joke that I'm going to marry a 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner," Trump, 25, told PEOPLE backstage at Dressed to Kilt, an annual fashion show benefiting the Friends of Scotland charity in New York. "I love smart, intelligent men. That's the No. 1 one thing that keeps me interested, in the long term." Still, she says, "I mean, it's great to go on a few dates with somebody who's gorgeous and maybe doesn't have anything else to say, but [intelligence] is the most important thing to me in the long-run – and a sense of humor doesn't hurt." Though she's been linked at various times to both Topher Grace (last November) and Lance Armstrong (last October) – Ivanka's father, Donald Trump, advised her to date a jock. "He loves the athletes because he's always wanted to be an athlete." But at the moment, "I'm not dating anyone exclusively," she says. As for Grace, they remain "very good friends," she says, but they are not dating – which is fine, because, she adds, "It's amazing being single. I actually think I like nothing more." Not that this is necessarily a permanent condition, either. "When the right guy comes along, he comes along," she says. "But until then, I'm happy."
The baby, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, could inherit millions from the estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall II. Smith, who collapsed and died Feb. 8 in Florida from an accidental overdose, had been fighting the Texas oil tycoon's family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995. Howard K. Stern, Smith's partner, dropped his bid Monday to halt the use of DNA to prove the paternity of the former Playboy Playmate's daughter when it appeared a Bahamas court was going to reject his appeal. An attorney for Stern withdrew the challenge in the face of skeptical questioning by a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeal. All three judges said Stern filed his challenge too late and should have raised his objections before the Supreme Court ordered DNA testing in the paternity challenge filed by Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend of Smith's who claims to be Dannielynn's father. Justice Emmanuel E. Osadebay noted that Stern himself had agreed to DNA testing — and even suggested an expert to do the analysis — but waited until a week after the sample was taken to file the a challenge to the court's decision. "His problem is that the person he wanted to do the testing was not the one selected by the court," Osadebay said. In withdrawing the appeal, Stern agreed to pay $10,000 in legal costs incurred by Birkhead and the Bahamian government department in charge of birth certificates. Stern is listed on the birth certificate as the father of Dannielynn, who was born in the Bahamas in September. The child's DNA was tested March 21 but the results have not been revealed.
An attorney for Howard K. Stern withdrew the challenge in the face of skeptical questioning by a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeal. All three judges said Stern filed his challenge too late and should have raised his objections before the Supreme Court ordered DNA testing in the paternity challenge filed by Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend of Smith's who claims to be the father of the infant, Dannielynn. Justice Emmanuel E. Osadebay noted that Stern himself had agreed to DNA testing — and even suggested an expert to do the analysis — but waited until a week after the sample was taken to file the a challenge to the court's decision. "His problem is that the person he wanted to do the testing was not the one selected by the court," Osadebay said. In withdrawing the appeal, Stern agreed to pay $10,000 in legal costs incurred by Birkhead and the Bahamian government department in charge of birth certificates. Stern is listed on the birth certificate as the father of Dannielynn, who was born in the Bahamas in September. The child's DNA was tested on March 21 but the results have not been revealed. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hold a hearing in the paternity case but the lawyers and officials are prohibited by Bahamian legal rules from discussing the case, even to reveal the nature of the hearing. The baby, whose full name is Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, could inherit millions from the estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall II. Smith had been fighting the Texas oil tycoon's family over his estimated US$500 million fortune since his death in 1995. Anna Nicole Smith collapsed and died Feb. 8 in Florida from an accidental overdose.
A hearing has been set for April 17 for prosecutors to argue that Hilton, 26, violated the terms of her probation by knowingly driving with a suspended license, said Nick Velasquez, a spokesman for the city attorney, Rocky Delgadillo. The hotel heiress and star of the reality TV show "The Simple Life" was sentenced to three years probation in January after pleading no contest -- the equivalent of a guilty plea -- to alcohol-related reckless driving. Five weeks later, police pulled Hilton over again in the city of West Hollywood for driving without headlights and impounded her car, a $190,000 Bentley, when they discovered her license had been suspended, authorities said. The case was then referred to the City Attorney's Office. At the time, Hilton's spokesman, Elliot Mintz, said his client was not aware that her driving privileges had been curtailed. But prosecutors have since concluded otherwise. "We are confident that we have sufficient evidence to prove that her license was suspended, and that she had knowledge of that suspension," Velasquez said. If found to have breached the terms of her probation, Hilton could be sentenced to up to 90 days in jail, he added.
"I feel like the kid on the playground made by the parents to go home when they're not ready yet," the 41-year-old beauty said, adding that she was "predictably bummed" about the decision. Before the results were announced, she looked like she was about to cry. She and Mazo collected 40 points for their two dances, outscoring the last-place couples — Billy Ray Cyrus and Karina Smirnoff and Clyde Drexler and Elena Grinenko — who tied with 34 points each. Judge Bruno Tonioli told Porizkova she had "class oozing from every pore." Judges' scores are combined with viewer votes to determine which couple is eliminated each week. "I guess my fan base was my family and they were not extensive enough," Porizkova said. Besides Drexler and Cyrus, remaining contenders include former "Beverly Hills 90210" star Ian Ziering, former 'N Sync member Joey Fatone, boxer Laila Ali, Miss USA 2004 Shandi Finnessey, actor John Ratzenberger, former "Entertainment Tonight" host Leeza Gibbons, activist Heather Mills and Olympic skater Apolo Anton Ohno. When asked which couple will win the competition, Porizkova purred: "They're all winners to me."
After announcing Smith's autopsy results on Monday, Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper said Smith had been suffering from a stomach flu, a 105-degree fever and an infection from repeated drug injections. At the same time, she was using a long list of medications, including the powerful sleeping drug chloral hydrate, methadone, valium, several antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs, longevity medications, vitamin B12 and growth hormone, the Associated Press reports. She died from an accidental drug overdose. If Smith, 39, had sought treatment for her flu, she might have been saved, Perper said, if only because her drug use could have been controlled: "If she would have gone to the hospital she wouldn't have died because she wouldn't have had the opportunity to take the excessive amount of chloral hydrate." But according to a statement from lawyers for Stern, she refused emergency care in the days before her death because "she did not want the media frenzy that follows her." Both Stern and Smith's physician implored her to seek emergency treatment, but Smith “refused to go to the hospital because she wanted to avoid media," attorney Lilly Ann Sanchez said in a news release, the AP reports. "Anna called the shots in Anna's life and everyone close to her knows that." Chloral hydrate, a rarely prescribed sedative, is known to be fatal if combined with certain other drugs – including the sedative Lorazepam, which the autopsy showed Smith was taking, Dr. Chip Walls, a forensic toxicologist for the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, told the AP. "It's very toxic if you mix it with any other central nervous system depressant drugs," Walls said. "You could get profound sedation leading up to coma and respiratory arrest." The AP reported Tuesday that Stern’s lawyer said the chloral hydrate was prescribed for Smith by her friend and psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, who also traveled with her to Florida. "She was having nightmares. She was having hallucinations. She was unable to sleep," Sanchez said, adding that Eroshevich turned to "an older, tried and true drug" because it was more effective for Smith than newer sleeping medicines.
"They split in February. It's very amicable," a source close to Blunt tells PEOPLE. A rep for Nemcova had no comment. The model, 27, and the "You're Beautiful" singer, 32, were last seen together over Oscar week in February, when they hit a slew of parties. They celebrated his birthday and also went to Elton's John's Oscar bash, where Blunt performed and Nemcova looked on. But in recent weeks, Blunt has become a regular fixture in the Hollywood nightlife scene, hitting the town solo. He was spotted on the same night – March 21 – at both Les Deux, where he hung with pal Robbie Williams, and later at Teddy's, where he partied with Lindsay Lohan, Kelly Osbourne and Amy Winehouse. According to a clubgoer at Teddy's, "Lindsay and James were never affectionate, but they did seem flirty, standing right next to each other, and constantly talking." Lohan and Blunt were part of a group of people who left together at 2:15 a.m. Nemcova and Blunt met in December 2005 and started dating the following year. In November 2006, rumors circulated that they'd split, but the couple denied the stories. "We never got separated," Nemcova told PEOPLE at the time. "There was some stuff going on in the press, but it didn't come from a right source – obviously. We're very much in love." Blunt was the Czech model's first serious relationship since her longtime beau, photographer Simon Atlee, died in Thailand in the 2004 tsunami. (Nemcova survived by clinging to a palm tree for eight hours, and suffered a broken pelvis.) Blunt was recently in the news when police said he was involved in a car accident outside a pre-Oscar party in which a man's foot was run over. Blunt's rep says the singer was steering through a crowd of paparazzi.
"I haven't really been looking at all because I'm not at that place right now," Von Teese, 34, said Friday at the Roxy in Los Angeles at a birthday party for blogger Perez Hilton. "I'm just really concentrating on work." Work for the burlesque dancer includes promoting her new book, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese, which was released on Valentine's Day, and being a spokesperson for MAC cosmetics' Viva Glam line. "I'm not seeing anyone in particular," she said. "I'm open to the adventure – whatever happens, happens." At the Roxy, Von Teese hung out with pals Amy Winehouse and Kelly Osbourne before giving the crowd one of her famous stripteases. Von Teese and Manson wed in December 2005 and split a year later. Since then, Manson has been spotted out with 19-year-old actress Evan Rachel Wood.
Rock, 36, arrived hand-in-hand with Andersen on Sunday to Elton John's birthday concert in New York City. The pair spent the three-hour-plus show sitting side-by-side, looking happy and comfortable together. After John closed the show with "Your Song," Rock and Andersen said goodbye to Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne and headed out, still holding hands and smiling. The pair also strolled hand-in-hand in New York City on Saturday and attended the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on March 12. "They are dating," a source tells PEOPLE. "They're having a lot of fun together. May dated Steve-O – she likes rocker guys. And I hear he's really caring, really sweet." Rock finalized his divorce from Pamela Anderson, 39, in January. The pair split in November after four months of marriage. Andersen, a Sports Illustrated and Victoria's Secret model, had her own troubles last year. She was arrested in April after allegedly hitting a flight attendant on a flight from Amsterdam to Miami. She was charged with misdemeanor simple battery and disorderly intoxication; in July, prosecutors agreed to drop the charges if she underwent an anger management program. A rep for Rock was not immediately available for comment; Andersen's rep told PEOPLE: "We do not comment on our clients' personal lives."
The death of the flamboyant billionaire's widow at a Florida casino-hotel on February 8 triggered a media frenzy and bitter legal feud over her remains and the custody of her 6-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, who could one day inherit millions. "We are convinced, based on an extensive view of the evidence, that this case is an accidental overdose with no other criminal elements present," said Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger. There was no evidence of illegal drugs in her body, said Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper, who gave a detailed account of the events leading up to her death that included her temperature at various times and the medication she took. Smith was buried in the Bahamas on March 2 after a colorful funeral whose guests included her longtime companion and lawyer Howard K. Stern, who is listed as Dannielynn's father, and Los Angeles photographer Larry Birkhead, who also claims paternity. Several other men also claimed to be the father of Dannielynn. The results of a DNA swab of the child have been placed under seal by a judge in the Bahamas, pending an appeal against the DNA test by Stern.
Smith's companion and longtime lawyer, Howard K. Stern, will be the star witness when the inquest convenes to review Daniel's death in September in a room where Smith and Stern were present, say officials familiar with the case. Visiting his mother three days after she gave birth to a baby girl, Daniel, 20, was found dead in her hospital room on Sept. 10, just 11 hours after his arrival in the Bahamas. An autopsy identified the cause of death as respiratory depression brought on by a lethal combination of drugs – including enough methadone to kill someone eight times over. One question sure to be on observers' minds is whether Daniel’s death parallels that of Smith, who died suddenly on Feb. 8 during a trip with Stern to South Florida. Doctors in the Bahamas have acknowledged that Smith used methadone, even during her pregnancy. Speaking of Stern, Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez, who plans to preside over the inquest, tells PEOPLE: "He's the only one who's still alive now of the three people who were in the room [where Daniel died]. He's the only one left who can help us with our investigation." Says Michael Von Zamft, an assistant state attorney in Miami familiar with the investigations into Daniel's and Smith's deaths: "There is a lot here that is questionable. The son dies; she dies. ... And Stern was around at both times." Stern has denied supplying Daniel with methadone, and his sister Bonnie has rejected allegations from Smith's family that Stern made drugs too easily available to Smith. "Howard only wanted the best for Daniel and Anna," she says. "He did not provide drugs or have anything to do with it. Anna did what she wanted to do." The inquest could last three weeks and will determine whether any criminal acts contributed to Daniel's death. Among the key questions that are likely to pursued: When and how did methadone end up in his system? Gaither Ben Thompson, who knew Daniel and was one of the last to see him alive the night before he died, says Daniel was in great spirits after seeing his newborn sister for the first time. "I don't think Daniel took his own life," says Thompson, rejecting one theory in the case. Thompson, who dated Smith in 2005 and spent time with her, Stern and Daniel in the private room of Nassau's Doctors Hospital on the evening of Sept. 9, adds: "If someone else gave him drugs – either before he left California or after he arrived – I don't think it was intentionally to hurt him at all." Police records show that the morning Daniel died, a nurse found a partially dissolved and scored methadone tablet in the bed Stern had slept in. According to the reports, Stern said Daniel had also slept in that bed, but nurses who entered Room 201 recalled no one but Stern in that bed. The records also show that Stern left the room a few hours before Daniel died. A nurse places him out of the room at 4 a.m. Nurse Odumade Adenike noted that sometime after 2 a.m. Stern went to the nursing station and asked what restaurants were open – despite having already purchased soda, sandwiches and chicken strips at a 24-hour mini-mart an hour earlier. "He left and returned back about 4:00 a.m., but he had nothing in his hand and went straight to the room," Adenike told police. The inquest may also seek to understand what happened to the jeans Daniel wore when he died. Police collected the other items Daniel had been wearing: a brown t-shirt, white undershirt and blue underwear. Thompson's son-in-law, Ford Shelley, told police that the day Daniel died, he went to Stern's home in the Bahamas and saw Stern pick up two white tablets that had fallen from Daniel's jeans pocket and take them into a bathroom. Ford then heard the toilet flush. (Ron Rale, one of Smith's attorneys and a former law partner of Stern's, says all of Shelley's assertions are false. "We deny everything," says Rale. "It's ridiculous.") Photos also surfaced last month showing bottles of liquid methadone that were allegedly found a few weeks ago in a small refrigerator in Smith's bedroom; Stern has claimed the photos were staged. Rumors that Daniel suffered from a heart condition are put to rest by his medical records. His California doctors found Daniel had a "regular rhythm" and "no murmur [or] gallop." Instead, says Bruce Goldberger, director of toxicology at the University of Florida College of Medicine, "The potent drugs attacked his central nervous system and led to a shutdown of his respiratory system – essentially he fell asleep and died."
Jeff Woolf, co-partner and auction director at Universal Rarities in Corona, California, said the diaries, from 1992 and 1994, were found a few years ago by a man cleaning out a house in Los Angeles where Smith stayed during a filming project. He sold the diaries to a memorabilia collector who runs a shop on Hollywood Boulevard who came forward with the diaries after the mystery death of the former Playmate in a Florida hotel on February 8 at the age of 39. In the 1992 diary, which has the words "I follow my own star" on the cover, Woolf said Smith confesses: "I hate for men to want sex all the time. I hate sex." This diary sold for about $285,000. In the second diary Smith writes about the illness of her billionaire husband Howard Marshall, who died in 1995 at the age of 90, with a religious awakening with lots of references to Jesus. This sold for about $230,000. Woolf said the demand for Smith memorabilia had been overwhelming following her death so the price realized for these diaries was not that surprising. "I don't think I've had the luck of being in such a situation, where the timing was really that perfect as far as the peak of someone's popularity in the news," he told Reuters. "The gentleman who bought them required to be anonymous but I can tell you he is from Germany and has the intention of making a book out of them and doing some things in the publishing world." The long-awaited results of an autopsy on Smith will be made public on Monday by a Florida medical examiner. Her death triggered a bitter and highly publicized legal feud over her remains and the custody of her 6-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, who might one day inherit millions. Smith was buried in the Bahamas on March 2. Her longtime companion and lawyer, Howard K. Stern, is listed as the father on her daughter's birth certificate but several other men, including Los Angeles photographer Larry Birkhead, also claim to be the father and the paternity issue is still being fought in the courts.
"I'm almost sure the baby's mine, almost sure," von Anhalt, 59, said after having a cotton swab brushed along the inside of his mouth. He added he hopes to gain custody as soon as possible. "Oh yeah, if it's my baby, it belongs in my home," von Anhalt said. "I'm going to take good care of it. I will be a good father." A judge in the Bahamas on Tuesday ordered a DNA test on the girl at the request of Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead, who has also claimed paternity. Howard K. Stern, Smith's companion, is listed as the father on the baby's birth certificate. Immediately after von Anhalt gave his sample at the Identigene Lab, his lawyer, Edward Lee, called on Stern, to do the same. Stern's lawyer, James Neavitt, did not immediately return a call for comment. Smith, 39, died Feb. 8 in a hotel room in Hollywood, Fla., but no cause has been given. Authorities plan to release autopsy results Monday. Stern has been caring for the girl in the gated, waterfront home where he lived with Smith in the months before she died. The Bahamian courts have ordered Stern not to leave the country with the girl before a custody ruling. The baby, whose full name is Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, could inherit millions from the estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall II. Smith had been fighting the Texas oil tycoon's family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995. Von Anhalt acknowledged that his 90-year-old wife was angry after he announced last month that he could be Dannielynn's father, but added that she has since forgiven him. "If it's my daughter, it's my daughter and Zsa Zsa can't help but love her," said von Anhalt, who uses the royal title prince, which he says was given to him by a German princess who adopted him.
The suspects, who also included two U.S. Transportation Security Administration screeners charged with taking a $7,000 watch belonging to R&B singer Keyshia Cole, were arrested as part of a crackdown on crime at the airport. Prosecutors say George Penaranda, a 27-year-old TSA screener, was spotted by a co-worker taking a Paris Hilton Limited Edition watch from the hotel heiress's bag, slipping it into his glove and then his pocket in May of 2006. Penaranda replaced the watch, which was valued at $100,000, after he realized that he had been observed, City Attorney's spokesman Frank Mateljan said. He was charged with grand theft and faces a maximum sentence of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine if he is convicted. Screeners Qualonda Matthews, 32, and Millicent Pounds, 49, were charged with one count of grand theft, one count of misappropriation of property and one count of conspiracy. Prosecutors say that after Cole left her $7,000 watch behind at a security checkpoint, Matthews and Pounds took it from the airport's lost property section and ultimately sold it in Las Vegas. The eight other people charged included five TSA screeners, two employees of an airport subcontractor and a transient. The crackdown is the result of a task force involving nearly a dozen law enforcement agencies, including the city attorney's office, Los Angeles Police Department, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the TSA.
The pavement and chain-linked fence might as well have been a catwalk: With a subtle smile, she strutted through in a bare-shouldered, ankle-length shimmering gown and stiletto sandals, then stepped into her silver Rolls Royce and sped away as paparazzi snapped photographs. Neighborhood residents came running to catch a glimpse of her, laughing and cheering a woman the media has often painted as a hothead. "From what I understand, she was pleasant the entire time," her boss for the week, sanitation department Deputy Chief Albert Durrell said. He said she successfully completed her service. Her duties included sweeping garage floors, mopping and sweeping hallways, and scrubbing toilets, Durrell said. He said Campbell showed up on time each of the five days, at 8 a.m., and worked till 4 p.m. During lunch break, she and co-workers ordered pizza. The 36-year-old supermodel had pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for throwing the phone at her maid about a year ago in Campbell's Park Avenue apartment over a missing pair of jeans. Her maid, Ana Scolavino, required four stitches to her head, since the phone apparently was crystal-encrusted. Campbell said it was an accident because she did not intend to hit her. Misdemeanor assault is punishable by up to a year in jail. In an agreement negotiated with prosecutors, a Manhattan Criminal Court judge sentenced Campbell to the five days of community service, to take anger management classes and to pay $363.32 in restitution to Scolavino, as well as covering her hospital bills. A chauffeured Cadillac Escalade sport utility vehicle picked her up the other days.
The death of the billionaire's widow at a Florida casino-hotel on February 8 triggered a bitter and highly publicized legal feud over her remains and the custody of her 6-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, who might one day inherit millions. The autopsy results were delayed by an ongoing investigation into her death by the Seminole Police Department, run by Florida's Seminole Indian tribe. Smith died at a hotel on the tribe's reservation in Hollywood, Florida. Broward County medical examiner, Dr. Joshua Perper, will reveal the cause of death at a news conference scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Monday, an official said. Smith's body was buried in the Bahamas on March 2. Her longtime companion and lawyer, Howard K. Stern, is listed as the father on her daughter's birth certificate. But several other men, including Los Angeles photographer Larry Birkhead, also claim to be the father of Dannielynn. The results of a DNA swab of the child have been placed under seal by a judge in the Bahamas, pending an appeal against the DNA test by Stern.
They include three series that debuted this season: the surprise hit "Ugly Betty," the drama "Brothers & Sisters" and Anne Heche's Alaskan sojourn "Men in Trees."Most of the other returnees are no surprises. "Grey's Anatomy," "Desperate Housewives," "Lost" and "Boston Legal" will all be back. ABC is also committed to several of its successful reality shows, including "The Bachelor," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "Dancing With the Stars," "America's Funniest Home Videos," "Supernanny" and "Wife Swap." The late-night "Jimmy Kimmel Live" will also be back in the fall, said ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson. None of the network's comedies, including long-running series like "According to Jim" or " George Lopez," received an early commitment for next fall. The broadcast networks all announce their fall schedule to advertisers in May. ABC is averaging just under 10 million prime-time viewers, down from 11.4 million a year ago. The network argues that some erosion was expected with the departure of "Monday Night Football," but it has also been hurt by the unexpected decline of "Lost" in its third season. The network's biggest move, shifting "Grey's Anatomy" to Thursdays, has been a big success.
After last season's twain-never-meeting setup, the show's producers will bring Richie and Hilton together once more for "The Simple Life Goes to Camp," in which the two roll out their sleeping bags for stints as counselors at Camp Shawnee in the mountains above Malibu, which E! assures us is remote and rugged and perfect for semi-scripted fish-out-of-water hijinks. "The fact that Paris and Nicole are friends again and will have to survive without their luxuries at a family-run camp in the middle of nowhere, takes us back full circle to the original concept that makes this show so much fun," says Lisa Berger, who oversees original programming for E! Networks. "For this season, we are putting the girls into completely unfamiliar situations, sitting back, and watching them in action, which is what made this show a hit right out of the gate." Hilton and Richie will work with people attending a wellness camp -- which, given Richie's recent treatment for her own eating issues, is at least a little ironic -- survival camp, pageant camp, drama camp and a couples camp. Susan "Stop the Madness" Powter will serve as their mentor at the wellness camp, with other experts guiding them through their respective tasks at the other camps. And, of course, they'll have to eat camp food and get up early and all those things that are apparently so hard to do when you're a tabloid mainstay. "The Simple Life Goes to Camp" is scheduled to premiere in May.
"She has been ready to start and complete her service, and will do it to the best of her ability," says Campbell's spokesman, Jeff Raymond. "Upon finishing, she's due to begin her next assignment for British GQ, where she serves as contributing editor for the magazine." Campbell arrived at a downtown New York City Department of Sanitation building for her first day of work on Monday. Her tasks include sweeping and mopping locker room floors. "I saw her lots of times. She's a very nice girl," Beverly Pearce, who worked alongside the supermodel, told PEOPLE after Campbell's second day."I thought she would be snooty but she was very nice." Campbell's five-day cleanup duty is part of the sentence she received after pleading guilty in January to assaulting a maid with a cell phone. Albert Durrell, deputy chief of the sanitation department, tells PEOPLE the 36-year-old catwalker appeared to have bonded with two of her fellow workers – a man and a woman. "They had lunch together," says Durrell, adding that he thought she ordered out from a sandwich shop. The novelty of Campbell's presence has worn off, he says. "Everyone is familiar with the community service program and at this point, I feel everyone's already used to it by now," he says. "We've had celebrities before and everyone's busy. We're out there working. Maybe a glance or two here or a double take here or there, but that's about it." Still, when Campbell finished her work day on Monday, a crowd of paparazzi had gathered outside the building – and fashion photographer Steven Klein jumped on the hood of her awaiting SUV to get a good shot of her fashionable farewell. Why the documentation? "Naomi and Steven are good friends and they collaborate often on all sorts of projects, personal and professional," rep Raymond tells PEOPLE.
Larry Birkhead, an ex-boyfriend of the former Playboy playmate who asked the judge to order the test on 6-month-old Dannielynn, pumped his fists in the air and jumped up and down as he emerged from the private court hearing. "It's been a good day in court for me," he told reporters. Asked if he thought he would see the girl soon, he only smiled and winked. Deborah Rose, an attorney for Smith's mother Virgie Arthur, confirmed that the judge ordered the test but she and others who attended the hearing declined to describe the proceedings. Authorities left the building after the hearing and could not immediately be reached for comment. Smith's most recent companion Howard K. Stern, who is listed as the father on the girl's birth certificate, left the courthouse in a black sport utility vehicle as Birkhead greeted a crowd of cheering tourists. Smith, 39, died Feb. 8 after collapsing in a Florida hotel. Authorities have not disclosed the cause. Stern has been caring for the girl in the gated, waterfront home where he lived with Smith in the months before she died. The Bahamian courts have ordered Stern not to leave the country with the girl before a custody ruling. Arthur wants to take Dannielynn from Stern, arguing she could provide a more stable home. She did not speak as she exited the courthouse and left in a white limousine. Birkhead, a Los Angeles photographer, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles in October seeking a court order to demand Smith bring the baby to California for a test. A judge ruled in his favor in December, but efforts by his legal team to secure a DNA sample have not been successful. The girl, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, could inherit millions from the estate of Smith's late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. Smith had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995. Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, also says he may be Dannielynn's father. Last month, he too filed legal documents seeking a DNA test to determine if he is the father.
The supermodel, 36, showed up for her second day of work in a New York City garage around 7:40 Tuesday morning, decked out in a fedora, oversized sunglasses, tight jeans and a fur coat – with her work boots slung over her shoulder. Monday had been her first day of court-ordered community service in the Department of Sanitation facility. She worked side by side with three others, also doing their community service, while a sanitation officer kept away curious onlookers. "She started at 8 a.m.," DOS spokesman Matthew Li Pani tells PEOPLE. "She's got various tasks she's going to be doing during the week. She's going to be mopping, sweeping, cleaning offices, bathrooms, locker rooms if necessary. There's plenty of work for her to do in the garage." Pani says Campbell gets two brief breaks and a one-hour lunch before her work day ends at 4 p.m. While she can leave the garage to take her lunch, on Monday she opted to order in. (She must pay for her own meal.) "She's treated just like any other community service worker that's come through the garage," he adds. "She's got work to do, but she's treated with respect and she's treated fairly like everyone else." "I'm not going to say she enjoyed herself, but it definitely went very well," Keith Mellis, deputy chief of the DOS, said after Campbell finished her first day of the five-day sentence for assaulting her maid. One DOS employee who worked alongside Campbell on Monday told PEOPLE, "I was helping her out with something. She's a very nice lady. She's normal. She was just cleaning up the place like everybody else. She talked to us." At the end of her work day Monday, Campbell – who'd changed from her work boots back into her Christian Louboutin stilettos – left the garage and made her way through the crowd of photographers to an awaiting Cadillac Escalade.
The supermodel, sporting black stilettos, a short fitted coat and a newsboy cap (and with work boots slung over her shoulder), began her five days of community service at a New York City sanitation garage on Monday – her sentence for throwing a cell phone at her maid over a pair of missing jeans. Campbell, 36, showed up at the Manhattan District 3 Garage at Pier 36 on the Hudson River in a black SUV and was met by a garage official who escorted her through the building's grimy steel doors, the Associated Press reports. "Miss Campbell arrived on time to work. She came ready to work," Albert Durrell, deputy chief of the Department of Sanitation, told reporters outside the facility. In addition to her work boots, she'll be wearing protective gloves, a dust mask and a reflective orange vest – all issued by the sanitation department. The depot is the same place Boy George did his five days of sanitation duty in August after pleading guilty to falsely reporting a burglary at his Manhattan apartment – where responding officers found cocaine. Unlike George, however, Campbell will be doing her chores behind closed doors, with sanitation police officers stationed at each entrance to protect her privacy, Durrell said. "We have plenty of work for her to do over the next five days," he added. In January, Campbell pleaded guilty to hitting maid Ana Scolavino in the head with a phone. She was ordered to pay Scolavino's $363 in medical expenses and attend a two-day anger-management program in addition to the community service. Earlier this month, Campbell told PEOPLE about her sentence: "I'm happy to do it. I never spoke about what I wouldn't do and what I would do – I'm just doing what I'm told to do and that's it." And once it's over, Campbell promised, "I'll get on with my life, and it's over."
The 36-year-old supermodel arrived at the Manhattan District 3 Garage at Pier 36 on the Hudson in a black sport utility vehicle. She'll be pushing a broom or mop at the garage for her guilty plea to misdemeanor assault for throwing a cell phone at her maid over a pair of missing jeans. Campbell was met by a garage official who escorted her through the building's dirty, steel double doors. She also wore chocolate brown pants, a short fitted coat with a flared bottom, dark sunglasses and a newsboy-type cap over a short hairdo. She didn't acknowledge the horde of assembled media. "Miss Campbell arrived on time to work. She came ready to work," Albert Durrell, deputy chief of the Department of Sanitation, told reporters at a briefing outside the facility. It's the same sanitation depot where former Culture Club frontman Boy George performed his five-day community service stint in August. He pleaded guilty for falsely reporting a burglary at his lower Manhattan apartment. The responding officers found cocaine instead. Unlike George, who performed his duties outdoors in full view of TV cameras, Campbell will work inside the garage. She was issued protective gloves, dust mask and reflective orange vest. "We have plenty of work for her to do over the next five days," Durrell said. Because of her celebrity status, sanitation police officers will be stationed at each entrance of the facility, Durrell said. Campbell, who has a reputation for angry outbursts, pleaded guilty in January for hitting Ana Scolavino in the back of the head with the phone last March. Scolavino was treated for a head injury. In exchange for her guilty plea, Campbell was ordered to pay Scolavino's medical expenses of $363, do five days of community service and attend a two-day anger-management program.
Larry Birkhead, a California-based photographer seeking custody of Smith's baby girl, Dannielynn, said he was "in a happy mood" after the hearing but others were not as pleased with developments inside the courtroom. "There were different moods for different people. I'm in a happy mood but I can't speak for anyone else," Birkhead said. Virgie Arthur, mother of the 39-year-old reality TV star and former Playboy Playmate, and her attorneys left the Superior Court building without speaking. She wants to take the girl from Smith's live-in companion, Howard K. Stern, arguing she could provide a more stable home. Stern, who is listed as Dannielynn's father on the Bahamian birth certificate, did not attend the hearing. The court clerk's office closed near the hearing's end and nobody was available to answer questions about the proceedings in the three-way custody dispute. The fight for custody of the infant, who could potentially inherit millions of dollars from her late mother's estate, began after Smith, 39, died of unknown causes Feb. 8 in Florida. Meanwhile, a hearing on an ownership dispute concerning the house where Smith lived in the Bahamas was adjourned until April, according to an attorney for South Carolina developer G. Ben Thompson. Thompson, who briefly dated Smith, says he advanced her money for the $900,000 house but she did not honor an agreement to repay the debt. Smith, who lived there with Stern in the months before her death, claimed the house was a gift. Stern, has remained at the gated house known as "Horizons" with Smith's daughter.
Kristy Swanson ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Skating with Celebrities") will play Lorelei Mailer, a character not unlike Smith -- a former stripper and model who was married to a much older, very wealthy man -- in an episode scheduled for Tuesday, May 8. The Major Case Squad is called in when she's found dead, just a few days after the mysterious demise of her 90-year-old husband. "I've been a huge fan of the 'Law & Order' shows for many years, and I'm delighted to have the opportunity to work with such a wonderful cast on 'Criminal Intent,'" Swanson says. David Cross ("Arrested Development") will play Lorelei's manager and possibly the father of her newborn child. Actor-director Peter Bogdanovich ("The Sopranos") will also guest-star in the episode, reprising a role from a couple seasons back as the publisher of a Playboy-like magazine. On May 1, "Criminal Intent" will feature Tate Donovan ("The O.C.," "Shooter") as an astronaut whose affair with a colleague ends with the woman murdered in their hotel. Amy Ryan ("The Wire," "Capote") will play Donovan's wife. The episode is a twist on the case of Lisa Nowak, a NASA astronaut who in February was arrested after accosting a woman she reportedly believed was a romantic rival for a fellow astronaut. She was initially charged with attempted murder, though prosecutors dropped that count earlier this month. Nowak will face charges of attempted kidnapping and assault.
The lead contender for paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's six-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, has parted ways with longtime attorney Debra Opri in what's being billed as an amicable split but which may soon prove to be otherwise. "Larry Birkhead and I have terminated our attorney-client relationship effective immediately," Opri said in a statement released Friday. "I wish Larry the very best of luck in his continuing efforts to prove that he is Dannielynn's biological father. "My prayers will be with Larry and Dannielynn always." The news of a split comes as a surprise to followers of the saga, as Opri and Birkhead have appeared as a united front ever since the photographer hired the legal eagle last summer, before Smith's death, to prove his paternity. Opri has served as Birkhead's lead counsel in all legal battles, ranging from paternity suits in Los Angeles, custody suits in the Bahamas, DNA requests in Florida, and, of course, the next of kin case in Broward County, in which he testified as to where Smith should be buried. As recently as Tuesday, the twosome seemed tight as ever, returning to Los Angeles Superior Court to attempt to once and for all settle the matter of which man, be it Birkhead, Howard K. Stern, or even the litigious late entry, Prince Frederic Von Anhalt, can lay claim to being Dannielynn's baby daddy. Opri requested on Birkhead's behalf that Judge Robert Schnider order Stern back to the state of California to submit to a DNA test and afterwards said that it was time for Stern to "put up or shut up." She also was so bold as to theorize that Birkhead would be granted custody of Dannielynn within the next month. Which still may happen, just not with her help. No reason was initially given for severing their legal ties, though Opri subsequently took her case to Extra, blaming their split on encroaching undue influence from Stern, though in what way she wouldn't say. "I just had enough," she said. "I can't represent a client who has a middle man by the name of Howard K. Stern. I feel very comfortable in my decision, and I wish Larry the best. But I am worried about him." "I couldn't continue with the way things were going...I don't want anyone to think that I'm jumping ship. He's close enough...I didn't abandon Larry." Opri's version of the split is slightly different than the one TMZ is telling. The site claims that Birkhead, not Opri, was the one who pulled the plug, doing so in an email to the lawyer on Tuesday. And while TMZ also reports that Birkhead has not yet found new representation in the States, it's something he might not want to waste too much time on. According to Court TV's Jean Casarez, Smith's estranged and litigation-loving mother, Virgie Arthur, is due to appear in Bahamian court later today to demand custody of Dannielynn, while the men battle out who the girl's father, and ultimate guardian, is. Arthur has long claimed that Stern, who is currently caring for Dannielynn in the Bahamas, is providing a less stable home than the one she has to offer. However, Casarez told TMZ that the Supreme Court of the Bahamas has already taken the precaution of directing their Social Services department to carry out background checks on all three major players—Arthur, Stern and Birkhead—before ruling on any pending case. The results of the checks are expected to be revealed in court later today.
Sarai Givati was at the centre of Minogue's split from Martinez earlier this year and is trying to launch her own recording career. The 24-year-old has yet to be signed by a record label, but fans can listen to her debut single, 'Insane Imagination', on her website. The tune appears to be inspired by her illicit love affair with the French actor. In the song, Givati speaks of her longing for her lover and of her growing anger and impatience as she waits for them to finally be together. The lyrics are thought to be a veiled reference to Martinez continuing his relationship with Minogue for several months after the pair were first romantically linked in November. Martinez's father Robert recently confirmed his son was dating Givati saying, "Yes, he (Olivier) is still seeing her."
Royal Bahamas Police Commissioner Paul Farquharson and some detectives were in Florida meeting with the Seminoles, Assistant Commissioner Reginald Ferguson confirmed. He declined to elaborate. A spokesman for the Seminole tribe did not return phone calls seeking comment. The Broward County state attorney's office denied news reports that prosecutors had met with Seminole police to discuss Smith's death. "There was no meeting today; there was no meeting yesterday," spokesman Ron Ishoy said. "We are continuing to help law enforcement agencies and the medical examiner as they try and figure out the nature of this death," Ishoy said, adding: "This is not a homicide investigation." Smith was found unresponsive in her South Florida hotel room Feb. 8. An initial autopsy report showed no immediate indication of a drug overdose and no sign of major external injuries on the 39-year-old former Playboy playmate and reality TV star. The release of the full autopsy was delayed last week after the Seminoles gave additional evidence to Dr. Joshua Perper, the chief medical examiner for Broward County. Perper hasn't said what the additional evidence is. He said Wednesday that he had not been told of any criminal probe, and that his findings would be released in about a week. Meanwhile, attorneys for Smith's estate and a man who claims to own the waterfront home where she lived in the Bahamas met with a judge there Wednesday, but said the session did not resolve their dispute. G. Ben Thompson, a South Carolina developer who briefly dated Smith, says he advanced her money for the $900,000 house but she did not honor an agreement to repay the debt. Smith, who lived there in the months before her death Feb. 8, claimed the house was a gift. The former Playboy Playmate's companion, Howard K. Stern, has remained at the gated house known as "Horizons" with Smith's 6-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. Another meeting was scheduled for Friday. Smith was buried in the Bahamas last month next to her son, Daniel, whose death Sept. 10 there is also still under investigation.
Ten days after a separate legal fight finally resulted in Smith's burial in the Bahamas, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider left open the possibility that Stern may be asked for a DNA sample later. Photographer Larry Birkhead, a former Smith boyfriend, had asked that Stern be ordered to come to California for a paternity test but Schnider said Birkhead's attorneys did not follow proper procedure in presenting their motion. Schnider will hold another hearing on the issue at the end of March. Stern is listed as the father on baby Dannielynn's birth certificate but Birkhead was optimistic about his own claim of paternity. "I've been putting a nursery together so I'm smiling," he told reporters. "I'm in a good mood. "There's one way to end it. I'm prepared to take the test. I've always been prepared to take the test. If everybody wants to take the test and get it over with and then we have no problem." Stern and the baby are both in the Bahamas, where they had been living with Smith before her death last month. Birkhead has been fighting Stern for paternity since Dannielynn was born in September. The child stands to become a multimillionaire if Smith's estate wins a long-running battle to inherit from her late oil tycoon husband. .After Smith's surprising and still unexplained death at a Florida casino hotel on February 8, Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, also filed legal papers claiming he is the father. Smith's lawyer, Ronald Rale, who is representing her interests in the case, said the lawyers should bow out and let Birkhead and Stern come to an agreement. "I think these guys can talk," Rale told reporters after Tuesday's hearing. "I think they can get along." Stern, Birkhead and Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, fought for three weeks in the Florida courts over the right to decide where the tabloid star should be buried. Smith was finally buried on March 2 in the Bahamas, next to her son Daniel, who also died an unexpected death in September, days after Dannielynn was born.
"I've been putting a nursery together, so I'm smiling," Birkhead said Tuesday after the latest hearing in Los Angeles in a paternity battle over the 6-month-old little girl. "I'm in a good mood." In a private session, a judge refused to grant Birkhead's request that Smith's companion at the time of her death, Howard K. Stern, take a paternity test. But Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider said he would review the matter and scheduled a follow-up hearing for March 27. Birkhead's lawyer, Debra Opri, said after the hearing, "Put up or shut up, that's what we're asking for." Smith died at age 39 on Feb. 8 of unknown causes and was finally buried on March 2 in the Bahamas. A number of men have claimed paternity of Dannielynn, who stands to inherit potentially tens of millions of dollars from the estate of Smith's late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshal II. At a press conference Tuesday, attorneys in the paternity dispute between Birkhead and Stern confirmed that there had been private talks in the Bahamas, but Birkhead insisted: "My daughter is not for sale. The only discussions were over whether there will be a DNA test." He added that he was happy to have spent time with Dannielynn recently in the Bahamas, where the courts have ordered that she remain until various legal issues are resolved. "It was one of the greatest things in my life," he said. "It was magic." Stern, who is listed on the baby's birth certificate as the father, argued that he didn't have to take a paternity test. "Howard K. Stern is the presumed father until one of the 12 or whatever people claiming to be Dannielynn's father can come in and prove it," said his attorney, James Neavitt. Paternity may ultimately be decided by a court in the Bahamas, and the issue could be put on hold while the courts sort out Smith's will, lawyers said. "This is going to take months," Neavitt said.
Attorney Debra Opri, who represents Smith's former boyfriend Larry Birkhead, said after a closed hearing that she wants the DNA to determine if Stern is the baby's father. His name is on the little girl's birth certificate. "Put up or shut up, that's what we're asking for," Opri said outside court. Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider refused to make Stern a part of the paternity court action but said he would review the matter in two weeks after he considers the law more closely, Opri said. Stern was living with Smith at the time of her death. He and the baby, Dannielynn, currently reside in the Bahamas. Opri said Birkhead needs a paternity ruling from California to present in the Bahamas to strengthen his case for claiming paternity of the child. "Without it, we have a weak argument," she said. A lawyer for Stern argued against the DNA request, saying Stern is already officially listed as the baby's father. "Howard Stern doesn't have to go to Larry Birkhead for anything," attorney Ron Rale said. Schnider originally asserted jurisdiction in the paternity lawsuit in California because Smith had connections in Los Angeles and Birkhead claimed the baby was conceived in California. Smith, 39, died of unknown causes Feb. 8 after collapsing at a Florida hotel. A court in the Bahamas is currently dealing with custody issues involving the child. A judge has barred Stern from taking the girl out of that country until a custody ruling is made. Birkhead attended the hearing in Los Angeles and said he was confident he would be declared the father. "I've been putting a nursery together so I'm smiling. I'm in a good mood," Birkhead said outside court. Meeting the child in the Bahamas, where Smith was buried, "was one of the greatest things in my life," he said. "That was my delivery room just to get to meet her." Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, also says he may be the father. Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. The reality TV star and Playboy playmate had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995.
When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime," Moss tells the British edition of Vogue in its April issue. "I'm never going to have to be on my own again." And she really reads her a story every night? "'Course, absolutely every night." (She also notes that Lila's father, publisher Jefferson Hack, is "a great dad – somehow that was Mother Nature's intervention.") "She's a Mini-Me," says Moss, who's currently dating Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty. "I think she looks like her dad, but there are some bits of me. Pete said the other day, 'Jefferson really looks like you, I'm thinking of asking him out.' " Moss, 33, recently designed a clothing line for Topshop, and Lila has clearly picked up the fashion bug from her mother. "She comes in at bedtime and says, 'Mummy, do you think this is a good look?' and then she has a fashion crisis," Moss tells the magazine. "I say, 'You will wear what I tell you,' but she says she's the adult of the bedroom. Now we lay the clothes out before she goes to bed but then she goes, 'Mum, I need options.' "When we were doing Versace [the recent ad campaign], we all had kids and they came along, like Christy [Turlington]'s little baby and Carolyn [Murphy]'s little boy, and Lila and Donatella struck up a friendship. They put a weave in her hair and she had this long blonde hair down to her waist, and she was going like" – Moss tosses her hair back, vamp-style – "and I was like, oh ... my ... god." Lila also provides a bit of entertainment for Moss – albeit sometimes unintentionally. Moss cackles when she tells a story of Lila talking to the British princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. According to Moss, her daughter asked, "How come if you are princesses you don't have tiaras and a pink dress?"
The 32-year-old Hollywood actor and Refaeli, 21, have been romantically linked for about a year, and Israeli newspapers regularly run updates on their relationship. They apparently hoped to slip into the country unnoticed on a night flight from Frankfurt, Germany, on Sunday, but the plane was also carrying a group of Israeli entertainment reporters on their way back from a press junket in Ireland. By the time DiCaprio and Refaeli headed for her family's home in an upscale Tel Aviv suburb, it had been besieged by dozens of photographers. Guy Pines, host of an Israeli entertainment news show, rented a helicopter to survey the scene from the air, standard paparazzi procedure abroad but a first for Israel, he said. But Refaeli and DiCaprio remained inside, and by Monday morning, all the cameramen had to show for their efforts was a blurry shot of the couple being driven to the home of Refaeli's parents, their faces obscured. DiCaprio has received Oscar nominations for his roles in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," "The Aviator" and "Blood Diamond." Refaeli is featured in Sports Illustrated magazine's recent swimsuit issue alongside Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler. Pines told The Associated Press the high-profile success both celebrities have enjoyed "turns them into a power couple that grabs a lot of media attention." But more than anything, Israelis are happy for a diversion, Pines said. "The fact that most of the headlines here recently haven't been pleasant turns the interest in this beautiful fairy tale couple into something the media can revel in," he said.
Even before her death last month, Smith was a case study for students of estate law. Her lengthy, widely publicized court feud with the family of her late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, over his estate landed them in at least one widely used textbook, "Wills, Trusts and Estates." Now, because of a poorly drafted will and the courtroom fights over her burial and custody of her infant daughter, law professors are finding her troubles can again serve as an example to students. Professors say that over the past month they have answered questions about court proceedings in the case or have used Smith to illustrate an issue in class. Some have even distributed and discussed copies of her will. "The students were asking right away — 'When are we going to talk about Anna Nicole Smith?'" said Susan French, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She assigned Smith's will as reading material and discussed it in class. French and other professors said Smith's case brings up good points for discussion and touches on issues covered by their classes. For example, what happens if children are born after a will is written, as Smith's infant daughter was? What happens if a beneficiary dies before the will's creator, as Smith's son did? One clause, in which Smith appears to disinherit future spouses and children, is particularly intriguing for law classes. It's something a man would write if he might have illegitimate children, professors said. Why would it be in Smith's will? Was she an egg donor? Did she give a baby up for adoption? Or, was it just language carelessly copied from a template? Smith's will also illustrates one common flaw, that many wills don't including a contingency plan, said Stephen Urice, a professor of trusts and estates at the University of Miami. Urice's students also read Smith's will and discussed its flaws in class. "It was enormously helpful," student Lou Mandarini of the classroom critiquing of Smith's will. Unlike Smith's case, fresh from the headlines, most classroom examples seem divorced from daily events, said Sean Carney, a law student at the University of California, Davis. "Even though the cases we read about come from the real world they come bound in a big fat book," Carney said. Two professors who expect to confront Smith's case again are New York University's Robert Sitkoff and Northwestern University's James Lindgren, editors of "Wills, Trusts and Estates," in which Smith previously served as an example. Sitkoff is teaching the subject at Harvard this semester, and received e-mails from students asking questions about Smith even before he brought her up in class. Lindgren was surprised when a class of international students also expressed interest. Smith will likely remain in their book's next edition, both said, partly because students enjoy cases with recognizable participants. "There can be contracts cases with Elvis. It does make it easier to teach," Lindgren said.
Set to begin mopping floors for five days at New York's Sanitation Department on March 19 as her court-determined community service for throwing her mobile phone at her housekeeper, the supermodel – who has had previously acknowledged issues with her temper – tells PEOPLE, "I'm happy to do it." Says Campbell: "I never spoke about what I wouldn't do, and what I would do – I'm just doing what I'm told to do and that's it." And once it's over, Campbell promises, "I'll get on with my life, and it's over." Exhibiting a kindler, gentler nature all around, Campbell, 36, also says that after the fall fashion shows in New York she intends to clean out her closets, sell her clothes and then donate the money to charity. "I have so much storage full of clothes – it's a waste. I could be helping, benefiting – and that's what I want to do," Campbell said as she had her hair done before the Fashion Week Live show in Houston. "I need to clean out – it's also cleansing for me." The past few weeks, Campbell says she was in Los Angeles hashing out TV-show ideas. Rather than a reality show that would expose her life, the way Newlyweds did for Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey, Campbell would prefer to do something more like American Idol, where she could help change people's lives. "I don't want to put my life out there for no reason, I want someone to get some sort of job," she says.
The medical examiner, Dr. Joshua Perper, said the autopsy tests have been completed and were supposed to be released later this week. But the Seminole Police provided him with new evidence, he said. Gary Bitner, a spokesman for the Seminole Tribe and its police department, said the evidence provided by the tribe was turned over promptly. Neither Bitner nor Perper would say what the evidence was. "This is not delayed evidence this is just additional evidence that has come to light during the course of the investigation," Bitner said. Perper's secretary said the autopsy would be released in the next week or two. Smith died Feb. 8 after being found unresponsive at a Florida hotel. A day later, Perper released a preliminary autopsy that showed no immediate indication of a drug overdose and no sign of major external injuries on the 39-year-old former Playboy playmate and reality TV star. Her death sparked several legal proceedings, including one over the custody of her infant daughter. Three men have stepped forward and say they are the baby's father. A lengthy legal fight also ensued over who controlled her remains. She was ultimately buried in the Bahamas last week. Telephone calls made by The Associated Press to attorneys for Smith's boyfriend Howard K. Stern, mother Virgie Arthur and Larry Birkhead, who claims to be the father of Smith's baby, were not immediately returned.
The New York Daily News reported last month that the actor and Campbell were an item, but Howard, who turns 38 on Sunday and stars in the upcoming movie Pride, tells PEOPLE: "You gotta remember now, I'm still married." Howard and Lori, 35 – who have two daughters, Aubrey and Heavenly, and one son, Hunter – have been off and on since they married in 1989. "I'm still trying to get my wife back," Howard says. I'm always gonna, you know, till she puts the last nail that coffin, and I'm hoping she don't. "[She] filed for divorce but I'm still trying to campaign. My three kids are campaigning for me, too. They'll make sure that anybody who comes sniffing around gets a bloody nose." So what is his relationship with Campbell, then? "I'm linked to Naomi Campbell in a sense that we both have a mentor in Quincy Jones. We've shared a lot of great moments and ideas," he says. "That's the truth of it. I've only known her two weeks!" Howard says he's mentoring the troubled catwalker. His advice? "Maintain your majestic composure at all times." To find out how Terrence got in shape for his role as a swim coach in Pride and more, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
But Campbell, who was sentenced to community service as punishment for throwing her mobile phone at her housekeeper, will serve her five-day sentence indoors. Singer Boy George attracted a media throng when he swept streets in a court-ordered punishment in August. The New York Post reported Tuesday that Campbell had been assigned to mop floors with other community service workers at a Sanitation Department warehouse in Manhattan. A court official confirmed the story but declined further comment. Campbell, 36, has been accused by at least three employees of hitting or otherwise assaulting them. She has blamed her temper on lingering resentment toward her father for abandoning her as a child.
In a posting on her website, the former 'Hole' singer has spoken out about the "white powder" she discovered in the toilet at Hilton's 24th February party. And now the head of Foundations For Jewish Camping is worried about the pair's stint as camp counsellors in the upcoming fifth season of their reality show 'The Simple Life.' Jerry Silverman tells the New York Daily News, "Counsellors are trained, recruited and tested. We take (it) very seriously." The latest season of the show has already made headlines after Richie was taken to hospital on Friday suffering from dehydration on set.
Gibson, who estimates that the nearly 6-month-old Dannielynn weighs 10 to 12 lbs., says that when she looks in the child's face she sees Smith looking back. "Only thing I can see in her is Anna's smile," Gibson says. "She has her mother's mouth and I think she has her mother's eyes as well." Gibson, herself the mother of Shane Gibson (who stepped down as Bahamian Immigration Minister in February, after a photo was published of him and Anna Nicole hugging – fully clothed – in her bed), has been taking care of Dannielynn from the time the baby was six weeks old, and was the person watching after her when Smith died on Feb. 8. The circumstances of Dannielynn's life are far from ordinary: A custody battle in the Bahamas between Howard K. Stern, Larry Birkhead and Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, has been adjourned until later this month. Meanwhile, reports have circulated that Stern, who is listed as the baby's father on her birth certificate, is in negotiations with Birkhead, who also claims to be Dannielynn's dad, over a settlement in the paternity case. However, TMZ reported Monday that, Birkhead's lawyer, Debra Opri, said, "There were never any deals. It was a one-sided discussion." Still, baby Dannielynn is merely doing all the things babies her age normally do. "She's rolling over, and she's trying to pull herself up. She plays peek-a-boo," Gibson says. "She likes all her toys. She has a bouncy seat. She has something that looks like a merry-go-round that has toys all around." When it comes to meals, Dannielynn is still on formula. Last December, a maid who had been fired stated on an affidavit that Smith deliberately cut back on the baby's formula because she wanted a "sexy baby." Gibson dismisses the claim. "That's all nonsense, something they just want for attention," she says. "She's a good baby who sleeps through the night. She goes to sleep sometime between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. She would sleep right through up to 7 in the morning," Gibson says. "Once I give her her bath she sleeps." The baby was sleeping in the house last week when her grandmother, Virgie Arthur, finally came to the Bahamas with her lawyer and saw her for the first time. They let her sleep as Arthur looked on. "When [Arthur] came she was very much asleep," Gibson says, referring to Dannielynn. "She looked at her in the crib and that was it." As for Smith's funeral last Friday, Dannielynn was kept out of sight. Gibson says she was asked not to bring the baby. "All I was told is, she wouldn't go to the funeral." Before jetting off to Hollywood, Fla., last month for a vacation she would never return from, Smith's last words to Gibson regarding Dannielynn were: "She asked me to take care of her. ...to make sure to just take care of her."
Marc Chamblin, who had two children with hip-hop stylist June Ambrose before he met Ebanks, handled Ebanks for more than a year until she fired him several months ago, telling him, "I don't want to date you and have you be my manager. I just want to date you." Chamblin, who had gotten Ebanks an agent and a publicist, was "disappointed," his friends claim, but "OK with it." What he was not OK with, his friends say, was Ebanks' trip to Las Vegas two weeks ago with Nick Cannon, the "Bobby" and "Shall We Dance" actor who "could get her more press," they sniped. Chamblin says he was still dating Ebanks, and had spent Valentine's Day with her and given her $15,000 worth of gifts from Cartier and Tiffany just days before she left for Vegas with Cannon. He also claims she was two-timing them both with a third man, Tad Kornegay of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Canadian Football League team. "She told me over the phone that she is doing this for press and she is sorry," Chamblin e-mailed us. "I met her on the set of a Kanye West video through my ex, June. She is a home wrecker, as far as June is concerned. She pretended to be June's friend to get to me. "She wanted to be more than a model," Chamblin continued. "She wanted to sing at first, so I put her in the studio. But she can't sing. Then she wanted to be an actress so I got her a publicist and an agent . . . but she can't act, either." Ebanks' lawyer, Marty Singer, fumed, "She broke up with him in December. He's been pursuing her. He's obsessed with her. He has no credibility by claiming he was with her on Valentine's Day when there are e-mails from him desperate to have her come meet him - and she denied him." Ebanks is now in L.A. setting up auditions for pilot season.
The reality TV star was mourned at a lavish memorial service on Friday, with her companion Howard K. Stern, her mother Virgie Arthur and her former boyfriend Larry Birkhead — all battling for custody of her 5-month-old Dannielynn — in attendance. Smith's mahogany coffin, topped by the pink blanket with rhinestones spelling out her name, was carried into Mount Horeb Baptist Church as hundreds of tourists and fans watched from behind steel barricades guarded by police. Some in the crowd cried out "Anna! Anna! We love you!" Inside the church, Smith's favorite color was on display. Pink roses and flower arrangements lined the aisle and adorned the altar, where organizers placed two photos of the blonde bombshell — including one showing her in a shimmering white gown and striking a Marilyn Monroe-like pose. There were fewer than 100 guests at the service, even though an organizer said about 300, including an "Entertainment Tonight" camera crew, had been invited. Rock guitarist Slash, formerly of Guns N' Roses, was among the guests, and country singer Joe Nichols performed two songs, guests said. Arthur, Birkhead and Stern took turns eulogizing the 39-year-old Smith, who died last month in a Florida hotel. "It was pretty tough. The funeral itself was a mixture of emotions, there was a lot of crying and laughing," Birkhead, wearing a pink tie, told MSNBC after the service. He also referred to comments Stern reportedly made at the service about the legal fight over custody of Smith's daughter. "We were all given equal amount of time and that's how he chose to spend his time. I wouldn't have used my time that way. ... It doesn't make anything better," Birkhead said. Kathryn Beranich, a supervising producer on Smith's reality TV show, said she thought Smith would have been happy with the ceremony. "I think she wouldn't have been pleased with the division between her biological family and the extended family she created and loved," she told The Associated Press. Smith was later buried next to her 20-year-old son, Daniel, who died in September of an apparent drug overdose while visiting Smith in the hospital after she gave birth. "Entertainment Tonight" said she was buried with an urn containing some of the ashes of her late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. Onlookers, a mixture of Bahamians and tourists, spontaneously broke into the hymn "When Peace Like a River" as the white hearse and the rest of the funeral cortege reached the cemetery. Some in the crowd booed Smith's mother when she arrived, though she had been cheered earlier by the crowd outside the memorial service. In a last-minute bid to halt the burial, Arthur, who wanted her daughter buried in her native Texas, sought to have Supreme Court Justice Anita Adams grant her custody of Smith's body, but the Bahamian judge denied the request just before the service began, according to Lilliemae MacDonald, the judge's secretary. Smith was buried in a custom-made gown, said organizer Patrik Simpson of Beverly Hills, Calif. Some tourists were amazed at all the security and media. "I'm just incredulous at all the fuss," said Christie Rathgaber, a 59-year-old nurse from Columbus, Ohio. "She was not a world figure. She was not a queen. She was not a president." The legal wrangling that began with Smith's death won't end with the funeral: There is pending legal action over custody of her daughter, who stands to inherit a fortune, and over ownership of a Bahamas mansion Smith used to establish residency in the islands last year. An official inquest into the death of Daniel Smith in the Bahamas is also pending. Dr. Joshua Perper, the Broward Country medical examiner, said he will announce Anna Nicole Smith's cause of death next week. She died on Feb. 8 in a Florida hotel room. "This was a complex case," Perper said. "It was an unusual case from a medical point of view." Smith married Marshall in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. She had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995. In May, the Supreme Court ruled that Smith could pursue her claim in federal court.
The Babyshambles star and his supermodel girlfriend are understood to have departed the event long before it finished following a series of brushes with security. Moss departed without presenting her friends Primal Scream with their "Godlike Genius" Award, as scheduled, but not before being named Sexiest Female at London's Hammersmith Palais. Apparently, the pair were caught in the toilets together and then in an alleyway getting up to no good and left at around 8.30pm. A "source" explained: "Pete and Kate were trying to get into the premises' toilets but they were removed by the bouncers and told to go back to their table. Later they were both caught in a dark alleyway at the back of the building. So we got their own security guards to put them in a car and take them home." Meanwhile, another source'revealed: "We were looking for Kate so she could present the award and found her in the toilets looking absolutely slaughtered." Clash star Mick Jones, who performed with Primal Scream at the show, commented: "Kate didn't make it. She was there until the last minute, then she flaked out."
The principals waging a three-way custody battle over 5-month-old Dannielynn — Smith's companion Howard K. Stern, her mother Virgie Arthur and former boyfriend Larry Birkhead_ walked into the white-columned church, and for at least a moment their bickering was put aside for the lavish closed-casket service. Smith was then taken to her final resting place in a mahogany coffin draped in a rhinestone-studded pink blanket as police, smartly dressed in white belted tunics and pith helmets, maintained order. Onlookers, mostly Bahamians, spontaneously broke out into the hymn "When Peace Like a River" as the white hearse carrying the 39-year-old blonde bombshell and the rest of the funeral cortege arrived at Lakeview Memorial Gardens. In a last-minute bid to halt the burial, Arthur sought to have Supreme Court Justice Anita Adams grant her client custody of Smith's body, but the Bahamian judge denied it, according to Lilliemae MacDonald, the justice's secretary. That cleared the way for Smith to be buried next to her 20-year-old son Daniel, who died of apparent drug use in September. When the onlookers saw Arthur arrive at the cemetery, they booed. They cheered when Birkhead stepped out of his limo. The guests disappeared under a green tent that covered the gravesite amid tight security. Smith was being buried in a tiara and custom-made, beaded gown, said organizer Patrik Simpson of Beverly Hills, Calif. "Her soul is at rest now. I am satisfied," said Tanisha Grant, a local restaurant owner who was friends with Smith. For the funeral, Grant wore a short black cocktail dress that Smith had given her a few months ago, telling Grant it no longer fit her. Some tourists were amazed at all the security and media. "She's got a presidential kind of media frenzy going on," said Christie Rathgaber, a 59-year-old nurse from Columbus, Ohio who happened by the Mount Horeb Baptist Church, where services were held. "I'm just incredulous at all the fuss," she added. "She was not a world figure. She was not a queen. She was not a president. She was not anything ... It's just way over the top." Hundreds of islanders and tourists crowded behind steel barricades outside the church. Rock guitarist Slash, formerly of Guns N' Roses, was spotted going inside. "Today we share our grief with all of you," said Richard Milstein, the court-appointed advocate for Dannielynn. "Today we come to you to carry out the final, most sacred, solemn act provided to any individual." There appeared to be fewer than 100 guests overall at the church service, which was closed to all media but Entertainment Tonight. An organizer said about 300 had been invited to the private ceremony. The legal wrangling that began with Smith's unexpected death at age 39 won't end with the funeral: There is pending legal action on the custody of Dannielynn, who stands to inherit a fortune, and on ownership of a Bahamas mansion Smith used to establish residency in the islands last year. Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. The reality TV star and had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995. In May the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Smith could continue to pursue her claim in federal courts in California An official inquest into Daniel Smith's death is scheduled in Nassau for March 27. He died in his mother's hospital room days after she gave birth to Dannielynn. Dr. Joshua Perper, the Broward medical examiner, said he will announce Anna Nicole Smith's cause of death next week. She died on Feb. 8 in Florida. "This was a complex case," Perper said. "It was an unusual case from a medical point of view."
The memorial service at Mount Horeb Baptist Church, next to a shopping mall west of downtown Nassau, will be "over the top," with up to 300 guests, a singer and copious amounts of pink flowers, organizer Patrik Simpson told The Associated Press. "It will be something very beautiful, very private, very over the top and very pink," said Simpson, of Beverly Hills, Calif. The burial will be much more intimate, with about 30 people, he said. The casket will most likely be closed during the service, Simpson said. But he and other close friends of Smith's would arrange to put their pictures inside her casket before the burial, he added. Both the funeral and burial will be closed to the public. On Thursday, dozens of steel barricades were readied by Bahamian police. "We have the services of the police officers in the Bahamas and they are very competent," said Pedro Ferguson, managing director of the funeral home handling the arrangements. Simpson's partner, Pol Atteu, has designed more than a dozen gowns for Smith, including the one in which she is to be buried in a "very elegant" casket. Simpson declined to describe the dress, but said the ceremony will reflect Smith's buoyant personality. "It will be a very beautiful Anna Nicole send-off," he said. "Of course it will be over the top because it's Anna Nicole." Smith, 39, died in Florida on Feb. 8, setting off a battle between her partner, Howard K. Stern; her mother, Virgie Arthur; and her ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead over the burial and custody of her 5-month-old daughter Dannielynn, who could potentially inherit millions. A Bahamian court has scheduled a custody hearing for later this month. Arthur had wanted to bury Smith in her native Texas. Birkhead lobbied for California. But Stern insisted the former reality TV star wanted to be buried next to her son, Daniel, who died at age 20 with drugs in his system while visiting Smith just after she gave birth in the Bahamas in September. A Florida appeals court resolved that dispute Wednesday. Smith's body will be flown to the Bahamas by private plane early Friday, said attorney Richard Milstein, the court-appointed advocate for Smith's daughter. "Anna is coming home, where she wanted to be," Stern attorney Ron Rale told AP Television News. "Everybody knows that Anna's intent was to be buried in the Bahamas." Simpson said Stern, Arthur and Birkhead had to submit a guest list in advance and each would be limited to 100 people at the church service. According to Entertainment Tonight, country music singer Joe Nichols will also perform. Simpson, 38, a talent scout who had been friends with Smith for five years, said he and his partner planned to place photos of themselves with their 15-year-old daughter, who sang at Daniel's funeral, inside her casket. Other friends will likely do the same, he said. Despite the choice of a Baptist church for the service, Simpson said Smith wasn't particularly religious but was "spiritual." He recalled her as a warm and generous person. "She was just a good friend, a good mother, a great person," Simpson said. "She had a heart of gold and would give you the shirt off her own back." Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. She had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995.
The memorial service, with about 300 guests at an undisclosed church, will feature many pink flowers, her favorite color, and songs from a well-known performer whose name organizers aren't ready to disclose, said the friend, Patrik Simpson of Beverly Hills, Calif. "It will be a very beautiful, Anna Nicole send-off," Simpson told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday night in the Bahamian capital of Nassau. "Of course it will be over the top because it's Anna Nicole." Simpson's partner, Pol Atteu, has designed more than a dozen gowns for Smith, including the one in which she was to be buried in a "very elegant" casket that will most likely be closed, he said. He declined to describe the dress. Smith's body will be flown to the Bahamas by private plane early Friday and the funeral will take place hours later, said lawyer Richard Milstein, the court-appointed advocate for Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. Smith, 39, died in a Florida hotel on Feb. 8 — setting off a battle over her burial and for custody of Dannielynn between her partner, Howard K. Stern, her mother, Virgie Arthur, and ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead. Arthur had wanted to bury Smith in her native Texas. But Stern insisted the former Playboy Playmate wanted to be buried next to her son, Daniel, who died of apparent drug-related causes as he visited his mother three days after she gave birth to Dannielynn in the Bahamas. The wrangling over Smith's body ended Wednesday when a Florida appeals court upheld a judge's ruling that allowed Smith to be buried in the Bahamas and Arthur decided not to appeal that decision. Wayne Munroe, the Bahamian attorney for Smith's estate, said the Florida court ruling was "common sense." "Everyone in this whole saga knows what her wishes were about every aspect of her affairs — custody, property, everything," Munroe told the AP. "But people are steadfastly trying to get their wishes met and not hers. Nobody seems to care about this woman's wishes." A Bahamian court has scheduled a hearing in the custody dispute for mid-March. Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. She had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995, and her baby daughter could inherit millions. Simpson said each "faction" — Stern, Arthur and Birkhead — had to submit a guest list in advance and each would be limited to 100 people at the church service. "It will be something very beautiful, very private, very over the top and very pink," he said. The burial at Lakeview Memorial Gardens & Mausoleums will be much more intimate, with about 30 people, he said. At Daniel's funeral, Smith and Stern erected a large green tent that blocked the media and other spectators from the service. Organizers of the former pinup's service are expected to do the same. Simpson, a 38-year-old model talent scout who was friends with Smith for the past five years, said he and his partner plan to place photos of themselves with their 15-year-old daughter, who sang at Daniel's funeral, inside her casket, and other close friends also will likely add photos. He recalled Smith as a warm and generous person who always remembered their daughter's birthday and other special events. "She was just a good friend, a good mother, a great person," Simpson said. "She had a heart of gold and would give you the shirt off her own back."
Brinkley hurt her back during a ski trip in Aspen, Colo., in December "and (it) worsened in the past few days," Horowitz said. She is expected to be released Friday, said Horowitz, who didn't identity the hospital. Last year, Brinkley was the subject of tabloid fodder after reports surfaced that her fourth husband, Peter Cook, had an affair with an 18-year-old woman he employed. Brinkley filed for divorce in September. The 53-year-old supermodel, who has frequently appeared in Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue, was previously married to developer Richard Taubman, Frenchman Jean-Francois Allaux and singer Billy Joel. She has three children.
The Fourth District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach, Florida, turned down Virgie Arthur's request to overturn a lower court ruling that gave custody of Smith's body to a court-appointed guardian of her 5-month-old daughter. The decision appeared to end three weeks of legal wrangling over the corpse of the former topless dancer and billionaire's widow, who died suddenly at age 39 on February 8 at a Florida casino hotel. A funeral has been scheduled in the Bahamas for Friday. Arthur had wanted to bury her daughter in their native Texas, even though the two had been estranged for a decade. The West Palm Beach ruling followed one earlier in the day from a court in Fort Lauderdale, which rejected a bid by a former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, to have a Florida court decide a paternity fight over Smith's daughter, Dannielynn. Broward County Judge Lawrence Korda tossed the case back to California, where Birkhead first filed a paternity action. "They have jurisdiction for a number of reasons, apparently the act of conception being what the petition requires in terms of jurisdiction for California," Korda said. He did grant Birkhead the right to get a DNA sample from Smith's body. Howard K. Stern, Smith's longtime companion, is listed as Dannielynn's father on the birth certificate. He has insisted that Smith be buried in Nassau's Lake View cemetery, alongside the unmarked grave where her 20-year-old son Daniel is buried. He died at Doctors' Hospital in Nassau in September, just days after Smith gave birth to Dannielynn. Broward Medical Examiner Joshua Perper said on Wednesday he still did not know what killed Smith. Toxicology reports were not expected back for another 10 days or so, Perper told the WSVN television station. Smith's estate could ultimately be worth millions if it wins a legal battle over the estate of her late husband, billionaire oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall. Smith's body remains at a medical examiner's office in Dania Beach, Florida. Authorities there could not be reached for comment on plans for removal of the body and its transportation to the Bahamas.
"Selita's amazing," the Roll Bounce star told PEOPLE at the Vanity Fair Oscar party on Sunday. "She changed me – I'm no longer a player. She changed everything." Cannon, 26, and Ebanks, 24 (and a PEOPLE.com video diarist!), met "a while back," Ebanks says, but a source close to Cannon says things only heated up between them in late January, when they ran into each other at a Super Bowl pre-party in Miami. Though Ebanks jokes that she had to "clean up" Cannon's act, he's "made me the happiest I've ever been," she told PEOPLE at the launch of the Secret Embrace bra in New York City on Wednesday. Still, she's quick to clear up rumors that they got married in a quickie Las Vegas ceremony last month. "I'm not married," she said. "We're just two young people and we're happy. I laugh a lot and he laughs a lot and I think that's what's important. I support him and he supports me." He may soon be able to offer support in the form of acting advice: Ebanks is in talks to star in the HBO comedy pilot Whitney, about a clique of female friends in Miami.
Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend of the topless dancer and billionaire's widow, says he is the father of the child while Smith's longtime companion, Howard K. Stern, is listed as such on the birth certificate. Broward County Judge Lawrence Korda rejected jurisdiction and tossed the case back to California, where Birkhead first filed a paternity action. "They have jurisdiction for a number of reasons, apparently the act of conception being what the petition requires in terms of jurisdiction for California," Korda said. He did grant Birkhead the right to get a DNA sample from Smith. Smith died suddenly at age 39 on February 8 at a Florida casino hotel. Her decomposing body remains at a medical examiner's office in Dania Beach, Florida. Her estate could ultimately be worth millions if it wins a legal battle over the estate of her late husband, billionaire oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall. Earlier on Wednesday, a Florida appeals court heard arguments from attorneys for Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, and Stern in the protracted legal dispute over custody of her body and whether it should be buried in the Bahamas or her native Texas. The Fourth District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach has not yet ruled on Arthur's request that it overturn a lower court ruling that gave custody of Smith's body to a court-appointed guardian for Dannielynn. The guardian is arranging a funeral in the Bahamas, with Friday morning tentatively penciled in as the likely time, while Arthur wants to bury her daughter in Texas.
The 26-year-old socialite and reality TV star was pulled over on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood at 11 p.m. on Tuesday for driving without headlights, said Deputy Sheriff Oscar Butao from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The incident comes about five weeks after Hilton was sentenced to three years probation after pleading no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving stemming from a September arrest in Hollywood. "Miss Paris Hilton was driving the vehicle. After investigating her license status it was determined that she was driving on a suspended license," said Butao. "Miss Hilton was cited for a suspended license violation and released in the field. Her 2007 blue Bentley Continental GTC was impounded." He said Hilton would appear in court for driving on a suspended license but could not say when.
The judges ended the hearing without indicating when they would rule. Two members of the panel, however, said Smith's purchase of burial plots in the Bahamas suggested a desire to be taken there. "Why wouldn't that be written evidence?" Judge Mark Polen asked the attorney for Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur. Arthur had challenged a circuit judge's decision last week to give control of Smith's burial to the court-appointed advocate for Smith's infant daughter, Dannielynn. Arthur's lawyer, Roberta Mandel, argued to the appeals court that the mother is the legal next of kin. Appeals Judge Barry Stone asked the advocate's attorney, Christopher Carver, how his client could figure out what a 5-month-old baby wanted. "You would need a crystal ball," Stone said. Carver said the advocate, Richard Milstein, considered Smith's wishes to be buried in the Bahamas next to her 20-year-old son Daniel, who died there last year. "Anna Nicole Smith buried the person she loved most of all in the Bahamas," Carver said. Carver said if the court rules against Arthur, Smith's funeral would take place Friday in the Bahamas. But Mandel has said she would appeal to the state Supreme Court. Attorneys for Stern argued in court papers that Arthur was trying to "place her in death where she never wanted to be in life" — Texas. Smith, 39, died in a Florida hotel Feb. 8, but her body has remained at a medical examiner's office because of the dispute. Her baby daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, is living in a gated, waterfront home in the Bahamas, where a judge is hearing the child custody dispute between Stern and Arthur. On Tuesday, Arthur saw the little girl for the first time and left the home in tears. "She's in mourning having lost her daughter and grandson both within the last five months," said her attorney, Deborah Rose. Smith's son died last fall in the Bahamas just a few days after Dannielynn's birth. Smith and Stern were living in the Bahamas at the time, and Daniel is buried there. Rose said Arthur's permission for the visit with Dannielynn did not come from the court, but she declined to say who had authorized it. Arthur was in the Bahamas for a hearing Tuesday that Rose described as a "small technical procedure." "Our objective is really to assist our client in having access to her granddaughter and foremost to ensure the best interests and welfare of the child are secured," Rose said. The baby's paternity is also in dispute, and another Florida judge was expected to rule Wednesday on a request for DNA. Stern is listed on her birth certificate, but two other men also claim to be the father. Los Angeles photographer Larry Birkhead, Smith's ex-boyfriend, wants a Fort Lauderdale court to enforce a California judge's orders so he can get DNA samples from Smith's body and the baby. Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, also says he may be the father. A medical examiner has yet to determine Smith's cause of death. Toxicology results could take up to two more weeks. Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. The reality TV star and Playboy Playmate had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995, and her baby daughter could inherit millions.
The Los Angeles County health department recommended on Tuesday that anyone who ate uncooked food at the U.S. sports magazine's party on February 14 get treatment by Wednesday to avoid developing the serious liver disease. Health officials said the risk was "quite low" and that no Wolfgang Puck pre-packaged foods or restaurants were affected. Hepatitis A is caused by a virus spread by ingesting something contaminated with the feces of an infected person. Symptoms can include fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, abdominal pain and jaundice. Carl Shuster, president of Wolfgang Puck Catering, said the company was working closely with health officials to contact anyone who ate food prepared in its Hollywood kitchen between February 1 and 20. Shuster said the worker was placed on medical leave and the company has "applied exceptional procedures" to disinfect the kitchens and food processing areas. "Our catering efforts continue and we remain confident that our guests will receive the highest standards of excellence for which Wolfgang Puck is known," the statement said. This year's swimsuit issue features singer-actress Beyonce Knowles as the cover model, with rapper Kanye West, country star Kenny Chesney and members of the bands Aerosmith and Gnarls Barkley posing with scantily clad models.
"They're saying my boobs are fake, and I know that you've gone through this before," McPhee told Banks. "It really bothers me, because it's something that's yours and people are saying it's not yours." To prove that she's a woman of all-natural assets, McPhee did a little shoulder shake and said, "They jiggle!" But leave it to Banks to put an end to the speculation once and for all – by giving the pop star a squeeze (a McPheeler?). After asking for permission to touch them, the supermodel went in for the two-handed squeeze test. The verdict? "They are real!" Banks exclaimed. Watch the exchange for yourself, whose clip was originally shown on TMZ.com.
What made her do it? It was "tiredness, lack of sleep (and) just so many things," she says. "I was being really destructive to myself. ... I didn't know how to reach out," she says. "It was a really scary time." Campbell, who has a reputation for angry outbursts, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault last month for hitting Ana Scolavino in the back of the head with the phone last March. Scolavino was treated for a head injury. "I threw a cell phone in the apartment. The cell phone hit Ana," Campbell said at her court appearance. "This was an accident because I did not intend to hit her." In exchange for her guilty plea, she was ordered to pay Scolavino's medical expenses of $363, do five days of community service and attend a two-day anger-management program. "I do therapy every day," Campbell tells "Extra," adding that she's also partaking in the healing powers of crystals: "I think they bring great energy. ... You should see how many I travel with."
Virgie Arthur, who had received permission for the visit only hours earlier, could be seen crying and hugging a woman in the back seat of a sports utility vehicle as they left the gated, waterfront home where Smith had lived with her partner, Howard K. Stern. Earlier, a lawyer for Arthur, Deborah Rose, said Arthur had gotten permission to visit the baby before returning to Florida to attend a hearing in her effort to have her daughter buried in Texas instead of the Bahamas. Smith, 39, died in a Florida hotel on Feb. 8. Arthur was in the Bahamas to attend court hearings in her bid to gain custody of Smith's daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, from Stern, who is listed on the birth certificate as the father. On Monday, one of the mother's other lawyers, John O'Quinn, said Stern had denied her permission to visit the infant. Larry Birkhead, a former Smith boyfriend who claims he is Dannielynn's father and is also seeking custody, met the baby for the first time Sunday night, the syndicated television show "The Insider" reported. Rose and Arthur were in court Tuesday for a brief hearing, but the lawyer said it was only for a "small technical procedure." The lawyer said permission for the visit with Dannielynn did not come from the court, but she declined to say who authorized it. "She's in mourning having lost her daughter and grandson both within the last five months," Rose said. Smith's son, Daniel, died while visiting her last year three days after she gave birth to Dannielynn. "Our objective is really to assist our client in having access to her granddaughter and foremost to ensure the best interests and welfare of the child are secured." Arthur, who appealed a decision to bring her daughter's body to the Bahamas for burial, still wants her interred in her native Texas, her attorney said. "That's her daughter, and that's family," Rose said. The dispute over where to bury Smith's body has dragged on for more than two weeks since Smith died. Stern wants her buried in a Nassau cemetery beside the unmarked grave of her son. An appeals court was set to hear arguments Wednesday about whether Smith should be buried in the Bahamas or Texas. In filings Tuesday with the Florida 4th District Court of Appeal, attorneys for Smith's partner and her infant daughter claimed Smith's estranged mother was trying to "place her in death where she never wanted to be in life" — Texas. The three judges assigned to the case have not said when they will rule.
In their time together, Birkhead fed the baby, burped her – and she threw up on him, according to an Access Hollywood interview and profile, part of which was aired on the the Today show Tuesday. All Birkhead wants, according to the report, is "to be a good father." As for his memories about Anna Nicole, the Los Angeles-based celebrity photographer says that he most cherished his private time with her. "Every moment that we got together was kind of ... that's what everything's about. To me, it wasn't about the money. [Being with her] that was like gold to me, you know?" Birkhead says in the interview, which was conducted by Tony Potts and was taped before Birkhead met Dannielynn. When he was with Smith, he said, "I enjoyed just sitting back and watching her success, and watchin' the fact that she just loved being in front of the camera. And it wasn't important for me to jump up and say, 'Hey, I'm her boyfriend!' " When the couple found out she was pregnant, he recalled, "She just had this different look about her. It was really weird, because her skin, everything looked different. Everything was weird. And as soon as she went to sleep, I took my hand and I went – you know, I kind of felt over and I just laid my hand there [on her stomach], because I just knew at that moment that she was pregnant." Asked if he knew Smith was going to have a baby just by his touching her, Birkhead answered, "I knew. I just knew then. I said, 'Look, what if something were happening to you? I know you know – you better tell me... And she said, she said, 'Yes, we're having a baby.' " Except that soon Smith and her lawyer-companion, Howard K. Stern, moved to the Bahamas, where in September she gave birth to Dannielynn – three days before Smith's older child, 20-year-old Daniel, died. Birkhead said he was surprised that Stern, and not himself, was listed as the father on Dannielynn's birth certificate. As for how he got his first glimpse of the child that he claims is his, Birkhead said, "They were kind of low-res pictures that [Smith and Stern] sent out to different outlets to see if they were interested in them, and they were so small that I couldn't see. But even in that small form, I knew when I looked at them, I knew. I said, 'She's mine. That's my baby. She looks like me – she is mine.' And there was not a doubt." When the news broke on Feb. 8 that Smith had collapsed in a Hollywood, Fla., casino, "I was sitting in the dentist's chair with half of my mouth numb," says Birkhead. "And at the dentist's they had televisions in front of you, and the headline said, 'Anna Nicole Collapses.' And my phone was in my pocket, and it was just going crazy. And I knew something was going wrong. "I got to a friend of mine, and he said, 'We don't want you to hear about this on television, but it doesn't look good.' And I just kept saying, 'No.' I said, 'No. Save her, somebody save her.'... I said, 'I'll go save her. If they can't, I will.' " Last week, during the court battle for custody of Smith's remains, Birkhead was permitted to visit the mortuary and offer his final goodbye. He said his words to her were "something she made me say every night before she went to sleep... I said, 'Good night, my sweet Anna baby.' " Of Stern, who claims he is Dannielynn's father and is seeking legal custody of the child, Birkhead says, "I think he is doing what he thinks is best. And I think what I am doing is best." As for what he one day hopes to tell Danniellyn about her famous mother, Birkhead says, "I just want her to know the good stuff. I want her to know she was a good person, a loving person. She loved kids." The full report will air on Access Hollywood and Bravo TV.
The Florida 4th District Court of Appeal is considering a petition filed Monday by the centerfold's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, who challenged the trial court's decision last week that gave control of Smith's body to a court-appointed advocate for her infant daughter, Dannielynn. The advocate, Richard Milstein, and the attorney for Smith's boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, have until 2 p.m. Tuesday to respond. Milstein had said he would bury Smith in the Bahamas beside her 20-year-old son, who died last year. Arthur wants Smith buried in her native Texas. She claimed in the petition that Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin had no authority under Florida law to grant custody to the advocate, and that the mother is the "legally recognized person" to take Smith's remains. In an earlier filing, Milstein said that "every witness including Arthur testified that Anna Nicole Smith expressed an interest in being buried in either California or the Bahamas" and as "a matter of undisputable law, Dannielynn is her mother's 'next of kin'; Arthur is not." Arthur's lawyer, Roberta G. Mandel, said her client was willing to take the fight to the state Supreme Court. "This mother is a mother who deserves the right to bury her child," Mandel said. Telephone messages left for Mandel and Milstein were not returned after the appeals court decision. Seidlin declined to comment. Stern attorney Ron Rale said his client was continuing the fight. "We've obviously been preparing just in case," Rale said. "But this is just sad that Virgie is pursuing her appeal." Smith, 39, died in a Florida hotel Feb. 8, sparking legal disputes in Florida, California and the Bahamas. In the Bahamas, a judge scheduled a hearing for next month in Dannielynn's guardianship dispute between Arthur and Stern, who is listed as the father on the birth certificate. The judge has barred Stern from taking the girl out of the Bahamas until a custody ruling. Stern and two other men claim they are Dannielynn's father. Los Angeles-based photographer Larry Birkhead wants a Fort Lauderdale court to enforce a California judge's orders so he can get DNA samples from Smith's body and the baby. Birkhead attorney Debra Opri indicated after Monday's hearing that DNA tests were expected, but she would not elaborate. In an interview aired Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show, Birkhead talked about his plans and hopes for the outcome. "I see just me and my daughter. Me taking her to school and just playing," Birkhead sad. "My daughter has become my life. That's what I am fighting for. What kind of dad would I be if I didn't fight for my daughter?" A medical examiner has yet to determine Smith's cause of death. Toxicology results could take up to two more weeks. Smith was married to Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. She had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995 and her baby daughter could stand to inherit millions.
On Monday, Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, and Smith's former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, both fought for custody of the little girl, but the judge made no ruling, leaving Dannielynn with Stern, who is listed as the baby's father on her birth certificate, the Associated Press reports, A lawyer for Birkhead told reporters after the hearing: "We anticipate DNA testing" to be done, but would not comment further. Before going inside the Supreme Court building in Nassau, Birkhead, , who also claims to be the baby's father, said about Dannielynn, "I hope to get to see her and have her soon." (TMZ.com reports that Birkhead has already met the baby and is in negotiations with Stern over a custody deal.) John O'Quinn, a lawyer for Arthur said that Smith's mother asked to see her granddaughter, but the judge said she will need permission from Stern first. "We want a visit with the baby and Stern won't let us," Quinn said. In a related development on Monday, an appeals court in Florida granted Arthur's request to stay last week's decision on the disposition of Smith's body. The petition argued that Stern had no standing in the matter and that Smith's remains cannot be moved to the Bahamas for burial until the court hears a challenge from Arthur. Smith, 39, died Feb. 8.
The Fourth District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach granted an emergency petition by Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, to stop a court-appointed guardian for Smith's 5-month-old daughter Dannielynn from taking the body to the islands, where Smith lived the final months of her life. The legal maneuvering further delayed a funeral for Smith, the buxom tabloid star who died suddenly at age 39 on February 8 at a Florida casino hotel. Her decomposing body remained at a medical examiner's office in Dania Beach, Florida. Arthur wants Smith buried in her native Texas. The estate of the former topless dancer and billionaire's widow could ultimately be worth millions if it wins a legal battle over the estate of her late husband, billionaire oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall. Miami lawyer Richard Milstein, who was appointed as Dannielynn's guardian, said he was arranging to bury Smith beside her son Daniel, who died last year, in the Bahamas. In Nassau, lawyers for Arthur and Smith's former boyfriend Larry Birkhead, who says he is the baby's biological father, went to court for a hearing in the custody fight. Smith's longtime lawyer and companion, Howard K. Stern, is listed as the child's father on her birth certificate and also says he is her biological father. Birkhead, who was mobbed by reporters when he emerged from a closed hearing in Nassau, is seeking a DNA test to prove his paternity. His lawyer, Debra Opri, said she was challenging the legitimacy of the birth certificate. "All the pending actions have been consolidated under Mr. Birkhead's fraud action on the birth certificate and we anticipate DNA testing," said Opri after the hearing. The case was adjourned until mid-March when the court will deal with more procedural issues before a date for a main hearing is set, said Wayne Munroe, an attorney for Smith's estate. A separate case on disputed ownership of the Nassau house where Smith lived with Stern was adjourned until March 14, according to attorney Godfrey Pinder, whose client is pressing to reclaim the property.
A lawyer for Virgie Arthur filed an emergency petition with the Fourth District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach to stop a court-appointed guardian for Smith's 5-month-old daughter from taking Smith's remains to the islands, where Smith lived in the final months of her life. Arthur wants Smith buried in her native Texas. "It is an emergency because once that body is moved, that's it," said Arthur's attorney, Roberta Mandel. "Even if the court were to decide to hear it at that point, there's no body." The appeal seeks to overturn a ruling issued by Broward County Judge Larry Seidlin on Thursday following an emotional week-long hearing to determine who had the right to bury the former topless dancer and billionaire's widow. Smith's sudden death on February 8 at a Florida casino hotel touched off a legal firestorm over the body and custody of her baby, Dannielynn. Seidlin ruled that Smith's daughter was her legal next-of-kin and ordered her remains turned over to Miami lawyer Richard Milstein, who was appointed as Dannielynn's guardian to protect the rights of the baby during legal proceedings. Milstein said he was arranging to bury Smith beside her son Daniel, who died last year, in the Bahamas. A hearing was scheduled later on Monday in the Bahamas on a claim by Smith's former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, who says he is the baby's biological father. Smith's longtime lawyer and companion, Howard K. Stern, is listed as the child's father on her birth certificate. Smith's estate could ultimately be worth millions if it wins a legal battle over the estate of her late husband, billionaire J. Howard Marshall.
"I hope to get to see her and have her soon," Larry Birkhead told reporters outside the Supreme Court building. Others expected to seek custody in the closed session are Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, and Smith's companion, Howard K. Stern, who is listed as the baby's father on the birth certificate. Arthur arrived after Birkhead in a white limousine. Asked why Arthur deserved custody, her attorney Deborah Rose said simply: "She's the grandmother." Dannielynn Smith, who was born in the Bahamas in September, is staying at a gated, waterfront mansion in Nassau where Smith lived with Stern until the former Playboy Playmate died of unknown causes in Florida on Feb. 8. Arthur has said she could provide a more stable home than Stern and should therefore be awarded custody of the baby, who could inherit a fortune. Smith had been fighting for a share of the estimated $500 million estate of her husband, the Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, since his death in 1995. Stern returned to Nassau from Florida over the weekend but was not seen outside the courthouse. Thomas Evans, a prominent Bahamas attorney, said there is no specific provision in Bahamian law for a paternity claim based on DNA. The court could determine that any of those seeking to be the guardian of Dannielynn — or even another party, including the country's Department of Social Services — should have custody, based on the best interests of the child, he said. In another Nassau courtroom Monday, a separate hearing was scheduled in a dispute over the waterfront mansion, known as "Horizons." G. Ben Thompson, a South Carolina developer who briefly dated Smith, says he advanced her money for the $900,000 house but she did not honor an agreement to pay the mortgage. She had claimed the house was a gift. An attorney for Thompson, Godrey Pinder, said regardless of any court decision, he would not try to immediately evict Stern out of concern for Dannielynn. "We want to be concerned about the baby," he said. "We don't want to hurt her, so whatever is reasonable." A court-appointed advocate for Dannielynn decided last week that Anna Nicole Smith should be buried in the Bahamas, beside the unmarked grave of her 20-year-old son Daniel, who died while visiting her in the island chain last year. But Arthur wants Smith buried in her native Texas. She asked an appeals court in Florida on Monday to overturn a judge's decision that authorized the advocate to decide where to bury Smith. Broward County Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin had declined to reconsider his ruling Monday morning, saying he wanted to preserve Smith's dignity by having the funeral occur as quickly as possible.
Richard C. Milstein said in a statement he was working as quickly as possible on the funeral details for the former Playboy centerfold, who died in a Florida hotel Feb. 8 at age 39. Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin ruled Thursday to let Milstein decide where to bury Smith. Milstein agreed with Smith's longtime companion, Howard K. Stern, to bury her in the Bahamas next to her son. Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, filed an emergency motion Friday asking Seidlin to reconsider his decision. It was not immediately known when Seidlin would rule on the emergency motion. Arthur, who wants to bury her daughter near her home in Texas, will likely appeal in West Palm Beach if Seidlin refuses her emergency stay. A medical examiner has yet to determine the cause of Smith's death. It also was unclear Saturday when another Florida judge would rule on whether he has jurisdiction in the paternity dispute over 5-month-old Dannielynn. She was born and lives in the Bahamas with Stern. He was Smith's boyfriend and the father listed on the baby's birth certificate. Stern, Los Angeles-based photographer Larry Birkhead and Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, all claim to be the infant's father. A private hearing in the Bahamas to determine the girl's guardianship was expected to resume Monday between Stern and Arthur. The judge in that case has barred Stern from taking the girl out of the Bahamas until a custody ruling. Debra Opri, Birkhead's attorney, has said that Arthur and Birkhead were united in their desire to see Smith buried quickly.
A judge in Florida, where Smith died this month, awarded custody of her remains to a court-appointed lawyer for Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, and urged that burial be in the Bahamas. The lawyer then announced that the Bahamas would be Smith's final resting place. "I think she was a dear person," Hefner, the founder of Playboy, told reporters Thursday at an event to announce the lineup of the annual Playboy Jazz Festival. His comments were broadcast by KCBS-TV. "We miss her and I think probably that decision was the right one. I think she wanted to be there with her boy, with her son," the 80-year-old Hefner said. A hearing in Fort Lauderdale ended Thursday with a decision to bury Smith at a Nassau cemetery beside her son, who died last year while visiting her days after she gave birth to Dannielynn. Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, wanted to bury Smith in her native Texas.
Some are accusing the brash former New York cab driver of showboating for the cameras, or worse, auditioning for his own courtroom TV show, with his one-liners, his personal asides, and his smart-alecky Bronx delivery during the six-day hearing. They say that he let the hearing drag on way too long, that he made inappropriate jokes for a dispute over a body, that he acted as if it were all about him. "He's like Judge Judy's wacky little brother," legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin quipped on CNN. The New York Post called him a "Weepy Wacko," while the Daily News asked, "How Low Can This Judge Go?" and referred to him as "Blubbering Seidlin." One of the Miami's most celebrated defense attorneys, Roy Black, said of the circus-like scene in Seidlin's courtroom: "I sort of think it gives circuses a bad name." Black said he was torn between being entertained as a spectator and being horrified as a legal professional. "I thought he was one of the most entertaining things I had ever seen. He could be a TV judge. He could be a stand-up comic. However, I think he makes a horrible judge," Black said. "He doesn't follow any of the rules or procedures." In court, the 56-year-old Seidlin talked about his wife and divulged the minutiae of his days, mentioning his morning swim and the tuna sandwich he was having when assigned the case. He called Dr. Joshua Perper, the medical examiner, "Dr. Pepper." Lawyers became known by their home states of "Texas" or "California." The hearing often became a free-for-all, with the various parties talking at the same time. On the last day of the hearing, Seidlin cut witnesses off altogether. From the bench, he freely aired his thoughts, including "I feel for you, Mama" to Smith's mother. And just when everyone was ready for testimony to spill into one final day, he issued his ruling. In the end, though, Black said he agreed with Seidlin's tearful ruling that custody of Smith's body go to the court-appointed lawyer representing her 5-month-old baby, Dannielynn, and he said he thought the judge's emotions were genuine. "I believe that he sincerely tried to do the right thing," he said. "But while the end result is correct, it made a mockery of the system of justice." The baby's lawyer ultimately decided to have Smith buried in the Bahamas, which was what Seidlin had fervently wished for from the bench. That decision represented a defeat for Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, who wanted to bury the starlet in her native Texas. One of Arthur's attorneys, John O'Quinn, said of the judge: "The entire nation was watching him and so he wanted to do the most bizarre thing he could." John Thompson, a Coral Gables lawyer, agreed that Seidlin made a mockery of the judicial process. "If this is how a Circuit Court judge is supposed to act," he said, "then the Florida Supreme Court should issue an order directing that henceforth sitting judges can wear not just robes but rather opt for the clownish outfit of a carnival barker." Seidlin declined to comment Friday, saying it wouldn't be appropriate. His only hope might be that the whole thing will eventually go away. "You're all done with me," he said as he prepared to make his ruling Thursday. "I'm not going to talk about this case ever again." At one point earlier this week, Seidlin rejected some of the characterizations of his courtroom: "There's no circus here, my friend." Seidlin does have his admirers, too, including the attorneys for Larry Birkhead, one of at least two men who claim to be the father of Smith's baby. "Sometimes lightening up a little helps everyone relax," said one, Susan Brown. Eve Preminger, a former New York judge, said Seidlin could have curtailed his comments and held back his feelings, but he shouldn't be criticized so intensely for it. "I just don't think it's the worst sin a judge could commit," she said. "I'd rather have an overemotional judge who cares than a mean judge who doesn't. We judges are so concerned with our dignity that sometimes we lose sight of the human issues." Anthony Titone, an attorney who has known Seidlin for 35 years and whose wedding was officiated by the judge, acknowledged that Seidlin "could have chosen his words more carefully." "But that's not Larry," he said.
A private hearing to determine guardianship of the girl, Dannielynn, is expected to resume Monday with appearances by Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, and the former Playboy Playmate's boyfriend Howard K. Stern. Arthur is seeking to take custody of Dannielynn from Stern, who is listed as her father on the birth certificate. Arthur's attorneys in the Bahamas said they would argue in court that she can provide a more stable home than Stern. Arthur and Stern missed the opening hearing Thursday because they were in court in Florida, where Smith's body was ordered to the Bahamas for burial. A gag order prevented attorneys from the two sides from publicly discussing the proceedings. The judge in the case has barred Stern from taking the infant out of the island nation until a custody ruling. A separate hearing Monday, also at the Supreme Court, is to consider a claim from G. Ben Thompson, a South Carolina developer who once dated Smith, who says he owns the gated mansion where she was living, according to Thompson's Bahamian attorney, Godfrey Pinder. Pinder said Stern would have to vacate the house immediately if his client wins the verdict. "He's occupying the house illegally," he said. .Thompson says he lent Smith money for the house, known as "Horizons," but she did not honor an agreement to pay the debt. Smith's camp has said the house was a gift. A nanny has been caring for Dannielynn at the mansion during Stern's time in Florida. The hearing in Fort Lauderdale ended Thursday with a decision to bury Smith at a Nassau cemetery beside her son, Daniel, who died last year while visiting her days after she gave birth to Dannielynn. Arthur wanted to bury Smith in her native Texas. A dispute over who is the girl's father also has yet to be resolved. Smith's ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, says he fathered the girl. A California judge is handling the paternity case. In an apparent bid to cover two possible jurisdictions, Birkhead also brought his case to the Bahamas on Thursday. His local attorney, Emerick Knowles, filed a motion in the Supreme Court claiming paternity, even though Birkhead has not sought custody of the baby. Smith, who moved to the Bahamas during her pregnancy last year, died Feb. 8 at a Florida hotel. The cause of death is under investigation. An inquest in the Bahamas into the death Daniel Smith, 20, is scheduled to begin March 26 in Nassau. A private pathologist concluded he died from a combination of methadone and antidepressants.
Broward County Family Court Judge Lawrence Korda said the Bahamas, where the former Playboy Playmate's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, was born, was probably the proper venue for deciding who fathered the child and who should have custody. The hearing came a day after the melodramatic end of televised hearings after which another judge handed over Smith's remains for burial to the court-appointed guardian of her baby. The guardian decided she should be buried in the Bahamas. Korda did not issue any ruling after hearing pleas from lawyers for Larry Birkhead, an ex-boyfriend of Anna Nicole's who claims to be Dannielynn's biological father, to take charge of the case and order a DNA test on the baby. "I have a big question about whether I have jurisdiction," Korda said at the end of a hearing in his chambers in Fort Lauderdale. "I don't think that I have jurisdiction." Korda did not say when he would rule. Earlier, he said: "This is clear. The Bahamas appears to have substantial jurisdiction," noting that the child was born and lives in the Atlantic island chain, parts of which are just off Florida's east coast. The identity of Dannielynn's father has been in question since before Smith, the blond and buxom former topless dancer who parlayed an appearance in Playboy into tabloid fame and possible fortune, died on February 8 at a Florida casino hotel. Smith's estate could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars one day if it prevails in a decade-long court battle to inherit the wealth of her late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall. The baby's guardian, Miami attorney Richard Milstein, decided Smith should be buried in the Bahamas, next to her dead son, Daniel. But as preparations for the funeral proceeded, lawyers turned to Korda to clarify a muddled paternity battle. Birkhead attended the hearing, but Howard K. Stern, Smith's longtime partner who is listed on the child's birth certificate as the father, and Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, the other prominent figures in the legal tug-of-war, were absent. Attorneys for Birkhead, a photographer who sued in California to have himself declared Dannielynn's father, asked Korda to bring the paternity case to Florida and to order DNA testing on Dannielynn. "The reason we're here today is because Anna Nicole's remains are here and her DNA is here," Debra Opri, Birkhead's lawyer, told Korda. Birkhead's lawyers say Smith moved to the Bahamas to evade the paternity fight, which could also determine who will one day control Smith's estate. "This is about Anna Nicole Smith running from Larry Birkhead," Birkhead lawyer Susan Brown said. "She was avoiding this test in her life and unfortunately they are still avoiding it."
The revelation is one of many contained in a police report obtained by PEOPLE. In a formal inquest scheduled for March 26, Bahamian officials will attempt to decide whether anyone intentionally or accidentally contributed to the sudden death of Daniel, 20, last September. Among the disclosures recorded in the police report: • Ford Shelley, whose father-in-law Ben Thompson, a South Carolina developer who had a brief relationship with Smith and who claims to own the Bahamian house where Smith resided with Stern, told police that Stern found drugs in Daniel's possessions. The day Daniel died, Shelley told police, Stern returned to the house and checked Daniel's clothing. Shelley said two white tablets fell out of Daniel's jeans pocket and that Stern then "went immediately to the bathroom" and "seconds after, I heard the toilet flush." Stern, he says, told him "that he had taken care of a problem." • The report also recounts Shelley saying that he saw Stern remove a brown pouch from under the mattress in the master bedroom, after which Stern explained, "He had to keep the pouch out of Anna's reach." According to Shelley, Stern added, "Methadone is also kept in the fridge in Anna's room." • Shelley also talked about how Stern told him about assisting Anna with her drugs. "He informed me that he would administer medication to Anna but would not allow her to medicate herself, in fear that she would overdose," Shelley stated. "All of the medications are prescribed under fictitious names, so as to deceive the pharmacist as to who is the real recipient." (Ron Rale, one of Smith's attorneys and a former law partner of Stern's, says all of Shelley's assertions are false. "We deny everything," says Rale. "It's ridiculous.") • Jack Harding, a private investigator based in California, told police that last year Daniel expressed to him "his concern about the kind of persons his mother was associating with." Daniel also said "he did not like the idea that she was moving to the Bahamans" and that he "felt that her associates were taking advantage of her." When Daniel entered Valley College in Los Angeles a year ago, Smith herself told authorities, her son's attitude changed and he became abusive. "At first I thought it was drugs," she says, "but I later found out that he was seeing a girl." His behavior changed when he was going through a break-up with her, she said. She also said, "As far as I am aware I don't know that Daniel was using drugs of any kind, than the one prescribed by Dr. (Sandeep) Kapoor." After Daniel had stayed out all night, Smith put him out of the house. He went to live with family friend Ray Martino. (A representative of Dr. Kapoor says that the doctor never prescribed medications to Daniel.) • Daniel landed in the hospital twice – shortly before Smith moved to the Bahamas and on the same day she arrived, according to the report. Martino told police he "noticed that Daniel was losing weight," and when Daniel complained of stomach cramps and back pains in July Martino took him to the hospital. Later in the month, on July 18, Daniel complained of the same symptoms and Martino rushed him to the hospital, where he spent three days. At some point, Martino found in Daniel's school bag a bottle of the antidepressant Zoloft, which had been prescribed to one of Smith's former employees. • On the morning Daniel died, a nurse found two white tablets in a bed that Stern had slept in. Stern, in his statement to police, maintains Daniel slept there, too, but the nurses only recall seeing Stern in the bed. The drugs found in the bed were the muscle relaxant Carisoprodol and Methadone, according to the report. (PEOPLE has previously learned Smith had a prescription for Carisoprodol.) • Photographs of Daniel's body reveal abrasions under his right arm. There were also "abrasions to the left pelvis and hip areas," as well as the "right pelvis and hip areas." A doctor questioned about the abrasions told police said he didn't "know how they got there, and it was nothing done while trying to resuscitate Daniel."
It's been two weeks since the aspiring heiress, reality star and just plain famous-for-being-famous Smith died in the aptly named town of Hollywood, Fla. But her strange tale has far from died with her. Instead, the messy, convoluted aftermath of her death seems to have eclipsed even her wackiest moments on earth. Turns out all those references to Smith's "train wreck" life were premature. The real wreck has been unfolding this week with the unseemly dispute on one coast over paternity of her baby, and, on the opposite coast, the bizarre hearing over where her body will ultimately rest. That six-day proceeding ended Thursday with the judge, already compared to a reality show host for his oddly jocular behavior, breaking down and weeping as he granted custody of Smith's remains to a guardian for her baby daughter. And all the while, Smith's body has been decomposing in a morgue — more rapidly than expected, according to the medical examiner. It's as if even the publicity-friendly Smith was tiring of the attention and wanted to get it over with. Meanwhile, the blanket coverage continues, particularly on cable news channels, leading to that chicken-or-egg question: Are people really so interested in this story? Or, is it the media that's telling them they're interested, with its nonstop coverage? CNN host Jack Cafferty couldn't seem to hide his skepticism when, handing off recently to Wolf Blitzer, he asked, "Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead yet?" But the story has its genuine newsworthy elements: a fight over a defenseless baby, the race for millions in potential inheritance, the tug-of-war between a mother and a (maybe) lover. "We're covering this story because we think people care about it," says Larry Hackett, managing editor of People magazine, which put Smith on last week's cover. "On the one hand, the story on so many levels is depressing and sordid," he says. "It's difficult to find somebody to root for" — except, of course, the baby. But on the other hand, he says, "this is someone you know. You saw her as that Guess jeans model, as the woman who married the rich husband, the woman who slurred her words on TV. So you're repelled by it, but still, it was someone you knew." From the moment news of Smith's death broke, it was clear this was going to be a death like few others. A hint was those frantic moments when medical workers tried to revive her by massaging her heart; the tape is still viewable on YouTube. Immediately there were questions about her 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, who could inherit millions. There were the dueling paternity claims by Howard K. Stern, her longtime companion, and ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead, the boyish photographer — and then the strangest one, from none other than Zsa Zsa Gabor's 59-year-old husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt. With the paternity case continuing in California, there was Smith's tearful mother, Virgie Arthur, facing off against Stern in that Florida courtroom in a hearing sprinkled with details of Smith's active sex life and insinuations from sparring attorneys that all sides were profiting from the deaths of Smith and her son. And there was the heartbreaking detail that Smith wanted, according to her mother and Birkhead, to be interred near Marilyn Monroe, whom she emulated in life. And that, according to Stern, she was afraid that bugs might get into her grave. Even Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin was a larger-than-life character in this made-for-cable passion play. A former cab driver, he peppered the proceedings with jocular comments that made one analyst, Dan Abrams of MSNBC, compare the hearing to an episode of "Seinfeld," and others predict that he'd be the next judge to host a reality show. "Money is the root of all evil, am I right?" the judge commented at one point. At another, he discussed the outfit he used to wear to play tennis. He called the lawyers "Texas" and "Los Angeles" and Smith's mother simply "Mama." He called the medical examiner, Dr. Joshua Perper, "Dr. Pepper." How breathless has the media coverage been? A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism showed that on the day Smith died and the following day, she consumed fully 50 percent of cable news coverage. And even though the story broke at the end of the week, it was the number 3 story for the week in all media combined — newspapers, online, network TV, cable and radio. If it had broken earlier in the week, it might have edged out the Iraq war. "The numbers were phenomenal," says Mark Jurkowitz, associate director of the project. he compared them to celebrity deaths of past years like John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Princess Diana. "I don't think her life was ever considered that newsworthy or impactful," he says. But he can't come up with any deeper meaning in what draws people to the story. "I'm not sure it's anything more than raw voyeurism," he says. For another news analyst, it's not particularly discouraging that people are watching — only that they're watching so much, pushing out more meaningful stories. And clearly, they're watching: "If people weren't, somebody at these cable networks would say, 'let's dial it back,'" says Bob Steele of the Poynter Institute in Florida. Hackett, of People magazine, doesn't see the story generating huge interest once the paternity and burial are resolved. "I'm not sure how much further it goes," he says. People sold 1.6 million copies with its cover on Smith — a good number, but nothing like the 2 million-plus it sold with the Pitt-Jolie baby or the death of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin. And now, he says, there's something else that's eclipsing Smith, at least for the moment: the newly shaven Britney Spears, who's on the magazine's current cover. "Right now," he says, "that's blotting everything else out."
Choking back tears, Broward Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin had earlier placed Smith's body -- rapidly decomposing two weeks after her unexplained death at age 39 in a Florida hotel casino -- into the custody of a court-appointed guardian of her 5-month-old daughter Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern. The guardian, Miami lawyer Richard Milstein, decided on the Bahamas after Seidlin stopped short of issuing the order himself at the end of six days of theatrical and melodramatic court hearings, and then persuaded at least two of the three warring factions to agree to it. "I'm very grateful that Anna Nicole's wishes are going to be carried out," said Smith's longtime lawyer and companion, Howard K. Stern, who wanted to have her buried next to her son, Daniel, in the Bahamas, where he died five months ago. Speaking to reporters outside the Fort Lauderdale court where Stern, Smith's former boyfriend Larry Birkhead and Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, fought over the corpse, lawyers for Stern and Birkhead said they could not give any details about the funeral, but hoped it would be private. The decision appeared to mean the legal tussle over the former topless dancer, famous in life for her bountiful bust, was all but over. But Milstein and Arthur's attorney said Smith's estranged mother would appeal, likely delaying the release of the body. The sudden death of the tabloid queen and billionaire's widow, and the legal battle over her body, have brought swarms of television crews and tabloid journalists to Fort Lauderdale and to the Bahamas, where Smith most recently lived. During the proceedings, an animated and emotional Seidlin berated shouting lawyers, took over their questioning of witnesses and fired off jokes and off-the-cuff remarks. The saga is about more than the location of a tombstone. Smith's estate could be worth a fortune one day if a decade-long court battle to inherit the wealth of her late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall, prevails. NEXT OF KIN And much of the focus has been on who fathered Dannielynn -- her legal next of kin. Birkhead says he is her father and has launched a paternity suit in California, while Stern is listed on Dannielynn's birth certificate as the child's father. A hearing was scheduled for a Fort Lauderdale family court on Friday. Birkhead's lawyers said they would attempt to persuade Judge Lawrence Korda to move the entire California paternity case to Florida and have Dannielynn subjected to a DNA test. ."At this point, I think everyone wants to know who the father is," said Nancy Hass, one of Birkhead's lawyers. "Our client has said at all times that he is willing to undergo paternity testing. He is 110 percent certain that he is the biological father of Dannielynn." Seidlin, a former Bronx taxi driver whose chambers are decorated with old movie posters, spent the last day of his hearings asking questions about those vying for the remains: Did Smith's mother, Arthur, provide strong support for her daughter?; Was Stern "an enabler" who aided and abetted her prescription drug problem? He wondered whether Smith would have been better able to handle fame if she had had a stronger support network. "This beautiful woman gets thrown into the spotlight. But unfortunately ... she's not prepared for this hurricane."
According to Usmagazine.com, the actor allegedly married Victoria's Secret model Selita Ebanks. The nuptials took place at the Palms Casino Resort Hotel, where they enjoyed an NBA All-Star weekend. The couple has only been dating three weeks after having met at a Super Bowl weekend in Miami. The unnamed source claims that the newlyweds will hold a wedding reception party in Los Angeles this coming weekend. Cannon's publicist wouldn't comment. Cannon last appeared in Emilio Estevez's ensemble film "Bobby." His other film credits include "Drumline," "Roll Bounce" and "Underclassman." The actor got his start on Nickelodeon's "All That" and then his own self-titled show. He's also the host of MTV's improv comedy show "Wild 'N Out."
Richard C. Milstein said in a statement he was working as quickly as possible on the funeral details for the former Playboy centerfold, who died in a Florida hotel Feb. 8 at age 39. Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin ruled Thursday to let Milstein decide where to bury Smith. Milstein agreed with Smith's longtime companion, Howard K. Stern, to bury her in the Bahamas next to her son. Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, filed an emergency motion Friday asking Seidlin to reconsider his decision. It was not immediately known when Seidlin would rule on the emergency motion. Arthur, who wants to bury her daughter near her home in Texas, will likely appeal in West Palm Beach if Seidlin refuses her emergency stay. A medical examiner has yet to determine the cause of Smith's death. It also was unclear Saturday when another Florida judge would rule on whether he has jurisdiction in the paternity dispute over 5-month-old Dannielynn. She was born and lives in the Bahamas with Stern. He was Smith's boyfriend and the father listed on the baby's birth certificate. Stern, Los Angeles-based photographer Larry Birkhead and Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, all claim to be the infant's father. A private hearing in the Bahamas to determine the girl's guardianship was expected to resume Monday between Stern and Arthur. The judge in that case has barred Stern from taking the girl out of the Bahamas until a custody ruling. Debra Opri, Birkhead's attorney, has said that Arthur and Birkhead were united in their desire to see Smith buried quickly.
A judge in Florida, where Smith died this month, awarded custody of her remains to a court-appointed lawyer for Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, and urged that burial be in the Bahamas. The lawyer then announced that the Bahamas would be Smith's final resting place. "I think she was a dear person," Hefner, the founder of Playboy, told reporters Thursday at an event to announce the lineup of the annual Playboy Jazz Festival. His comments were broadcast by KCBS-TV. "We miss her and I think probably that decision was the right one. I think she wanted to be there with her boy, with her son," the 80-year-old Hefner said. A hearing in Fort Lauderdale ended Thursday with a decision to bury Smith at a Nassau cemetery beside her son, who died last year while visiting her days after she gave birth to Dannielynn. Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, wanted to bury Smith in her native Texas.
Some are accusing the brash former New York cab driver of showboating for the cameras, or worse, auditioning for his own courtroom TV show, with his one-liners, his personal asides, and his smart-alecky Bronx delivery during the six-day hearing. They say that he let the hearing drag on way too long, that he made inappropriate jokes for a dispute over a body, that he acted as if it were all about him. "He's like Judge Judy's wacky little brother," legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin quipped on CNN. The New York Post called him a "Weepy Wacko," while the Daily News asked, "How Low Can This Judge Go?" and referred to him as "Blubbering Seidlin." One of the Miami's most celebrated defense attorneys, Roy Black, said of the circus-like scene in Seidlin's courtroom: "I sort of think it gives circuses a bad name." Black said he was torn between being entertained as a spectator and being horrified as a legal professional. "I thought he was one of the most entertaining things I had ever seen. He could be a TV judge. He could be a stand-up comic. However, I think he makes a horrible judge," Black said. "He doesn't follow any of the rules or procedures." In court, the 56-year-old Seidlin talked about his wife and divulged the minutiae of his days, mentioning his morning swim and the tuna sandwich he was having when assigned the case. He called Dr. Joshua Perper, the medical examiner, "Dr. Pepper." Lawyers became known by their home states of "Texas" or "California." The hearing often became a free-for-all, with the various parties talking at the same time. On the last day of the hearing, Seidlin cut witnesses off altogether. From the bench, he freely aired his thoughts, including "I feel for you, Mama" to Smith's mother. And just when everyone was ready for testimony to spill into one final day, he issued his ruling. In the end, though, Black said he agreed with Seidlin's tearful ruling that custody of Smith's body go to the court-appointed lawyer representing her 5-month-old baby, Dannielynn, and he said he thought the judge's emotions were genuine. "I believe that he sincerely tried to do the right thing," he said. "But while the end result is correct, it made a mockery of the system of justice." The baby's lawyer ultimately decided to have Smith buried in the Bahamas, which was what Seidlin had fervently wished for from the bench. That decision represented a defeat for Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, who wanted to bury the starlet in her native Texas. One of Arthur's attorneys, John O'Quinn, said of the judge: "The entire nation was watching him and so he wanted to do the most bizarre thing he could." John Thompson, a Coral Gables lawyer, agreed that Seidlin made a mockery of the judicial process. "If this is how a Circuit Court judge is supposed to act," he said, "then the Florida Supreme Court should issue an order directing that henceforth sitting judges can wear not just robes but rather opt for the clownish outfit of a carnival barker." Seidlin declined to comment Friday, saying it wouldn't be appropriate. His only hope might be that the whole thing will eventually go away. "You're all done with me," he said as he prepared to make his ruling Thursday. "I'm not going to talk about this case ever again." At one point earlier this week, Seidlin rejected some of the characterizations of his courtroom: "There's no circus here, my friend." Seidlin does have his admirers, too, including the attorneys for Larry Birkhead, one of at least two men who claim to be the father of Smith's baby. "Sometimes lightening up a little helps everyone relax," said one, Susan Brown. Eve Preminger, a former New York judge, said Seidlin could have curtailed his comments and held back his feelings, but he shouldn't be criticized so intensely for it. "I just don't think it's the worst sin a judge could commit," she said. "I'd rather have an overemotional judge who cares than a mean judge who doesn't. We judges are so concerned with our dignity that sometimes we lose sight of the human issues." Anthony Titone, an attorney who has known Seidlin for 35 years and whose wedding was officiated by the judge, acknowledged that Seidlin "could have chosen his words more carefully." "But that's not Larry," he said.
The Los Angeles-based photographer testified that Smith told him they were having a baby together – and he also claims to have witnessed Smith's attorney, Howard K. Stern, giving drugs to the former Playmate while she was hospitalized. According to Birkhead, he and Smith lived together from August 2004 to April 2005 – and in January 2005 Smith told him she was pregnant, but a month later suffered a miscarriage. "She thought I blamed her for the miscarriage so we had a little tension," said Birkhead, who claimed that Stern was actually the cause of the awkwardness. Stern, who often slept on the sofa in Smith's Studio City home, according to Birkhead, created "interference internally in the home." After the miscarriage Birkhead says he and Smith separated, but reunited again on New Year's Eve 2005. Around Valentine's Day 2006, "Anna Nicole informed me that we were expecting another child," said Birkhead, who at first wasn't sure the baby was his. "We were trying to figure out the timeframes, and she smacked me and said, 'I'm not a whore, you dummy." Together, Smith and Birkhead planned for the impending birth – and even discussed getting married, he said. "We picked out baby names for the child...She said she didn't want to be a single mother, she had done that once before and didn't want to do it again...She said, let's talk about marriage." Asked if they were planning to wed, Birkhead said, "I was considering it but I didn't want to do it for the wrong reasons." Birkhead also described visiting a pregnant Smith in the hospital in April 2006, when, he says, "she was trying to get off medications," and he says he witnessed Stern taking pills out of a duffle bag and giving them to Smith. "She was taking medication before and during her pregnancy," Birkhead testified. "I was very concerned...We had a couple of clashes in the hospital because she and Mr. Stern brought in a duffle bag...They would take [these drugs] on top of the drugs they gave her at the hospital." On another occasion during Smith's stay in the hospital, she had Birkhead put his thumbprint in a baby book that listed him as the father. Birkhead said he "felt sorry for Mr. Stern," who also claims to be the baby's father. According to Birkhead, Smith added Stern's name the baby book, as "Uncle Howard."
The visitation came on the fifth day of hearings before south Florida Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin, who has said he will decide by Friday whether to let Smith's body be released to her companion Howard K. Stern and buried in the Bahamas, or to her estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, and buried in Texas. The body of Smith -- famous in life for her abundant curves -- has lain in cold storage for nearly two weeks at the Broward Medical Examiner's Office since she died on February 8 at a Florida casino hotel of unexplained causes, aged 39. It was finally embalmed on Saturday, after a struggle to find a funeral home willing to sign a confidentiality agreement. But Seidlin got a call from Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper on Tuesday and again on Wednesday saying the corpse was decomposing quickly and would soon be unsuitable for a family viewing. Arthur, Stern and Larry Birkhead, a former Smith boyfriend who claims to be the father of her 5-month-old daughter, were ferried in black sport utility vehicles from the court to the morgue for a viewing of the former Playboy centerfold model. Birkhead is due to testify in the case on behalf of Smith's mother, arguing for her burial in Texas. The hearings before Seidlin, who again on Wednesday swatted aside complaints from lawyers that the proceedings had become a circus, were dominated by accusations that all involved were trying to profit from Smith's corpse. Lawyers for Stern said Arthur wanted her daughter buried in Texas because it would help her sell the rights to her story and also accused her of selling a video of a visit to her dead grandson's grave to the Splash news agency for $12,500. Smith's son Daniel, died in the Bahamas, aged 20, just three days after his mother gave birth to the baby girl, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern. "The only one that ever made money off my daughter is that man right there," Arthur said, pointing to Stern, whom she accused of agreeing to sell video of Smith's corpse. "That's why he wants her body, for a million bucks." Aside from the prospect of turning Smith's colorful life and death into profit, Smith's estate could also one day be worth half a billion dollars if a separate, decade-long courtroom battle to inherit the fortune of her dead husband, oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall, prevails. So the question of who fathered Dannielynn looms large. Birkhead says he is the father while Stern is listed on the birth certificate as the child's father. Seeking to capitalize on the case, a convenience store outside the courthouse on Wednesday put T-shirts on sale for $15 each with the slogan, "I'm the Baby's Daddy."
"I knew she would be next. My grandson did not overdose. Howard was there when he died, and Howard was there when my daughter died. And he has my granddaughter now and it is not even his child. I'm afraid for her life as well," a crying Vergie Arthur said. "Please, help us." Stern shook his head. Earlier in Arthur's testimony, he angrily rose from his seat, but Judge Larry Seidlin interrupted him before he could complete a sentence. "You have no podium here, Mr. Stern," the judge said. "Appreciate you being here, though." Since taking the stand Tuesday afternoon, Arthur had answered most questions directly, but when attorneys asked her if she had profited from her daughter's death, her demeanor changed. She frequently said no to questions about arrangements with specific media outlets, but also often said she didn't understand or sidestepped inquiries altogether. "Have you in any fashion profited at all from the death of your daughter?" asked Krista Barth, an attorney for Stern. Arthur stared for a moment. "I'm trying to process that question," she said. Then Arthur pointed at Stern. "He has," she said. It was a refrain Arthur repeated several times. Arthur tearfully acknowledged that her daughter last told her she wanted to be buried in California, testimony that could hurt the woman's fight to put the starlet in a family plot in Texas. Arthur said her last conversation with her daughter about her burial came more than 10 years ago, when Smith said she wanted to be interred near her idol Marilyn Monroe. "Wherever the stars are buried, that's where she wanted to be buried," said Arthur, who had to stop several times on the stand when she was overcome with emotion. Seidlin indicated earlier Wednesday that he wanted to broker a compromise between Arthur and Stern, the lawyer who had been Smith's companion for many years and wants her buried in the Bahamas next to her son. Arthur said she believed any mother would want to be buried with her children. But she said Smith's 20-year-old son Daniel, who died of apparent drug-related causes last year, would be accommodated too "I'm going to go get his body and bring him back home" to Texas, she said. The Florida hearing is just one part of the legal battle surrounding Smith. At issue in a California court is who fathered her 5-month-old daughter Dannielynn, who could inherit millions of dollars depending on how Smith's estate is broken up. Stern is listed as the father on the birth certificate but photographer Larry Birkhead, who once dated Smith, says the girl is his. Seidlin was issued yet another warning from Broward County's chief medical examiner, Dr. Joshua Perper, who said little time remains before Smith's body is too decomposed for a public viewing. Seidlin promised a ruling by Friday morning. Deterioration begins at the moment of death, and embalming only slows the process, so the body could have unsightly marks. As lawyers and spectators alike have grown to expect, there were comical moments, too. Seidlin mistakenly referred to Perper as "Dr. Pepper." Arthur asked if she could "plead the fifth" on her age. And when the judge asked the mother about her experience in law enforcement, he counseled, "You got your pension already, you can tell me a little bit." Smith died Feb. 8 in a Florida hotel, but the cause is still unknown. She was the widow of Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. The two married in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. She had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995.
"I was brought in as a trainer, to get her to drop the weight and get her motivated," Little recalls. But, as others who tried to help Smith found, the bombshell wasn't particularly interested in helping herself. "She was a very tough case." Little helped install a home gym and tried to get Smith to begin a regimen, in the hopes that she'd lose weight in a healthy way. "I'm a high-energy motivating guy," he explains. "If you could get her to smile and joke it was cool, but all of a sudden she would zone off. She was so depressed and so medicated, it was an impossibility for me to conquer." Smith's lack of motivation may have been due to the fact that Stern "was already trying to negotiate a TrimSpa deal, because they were going to pay him a lot of money," Little says. Little did his best to convince Smith that as a trainer, he was certain she could lose the weight and keep it off through dieting and exercise. "'Pills wouldn't give you the results,'" he recalls telling her, "but she said she needed the money, and it was a good endorsement deal." With Smith's lack of interest and motivation — combined with "Howard Stern in the house, there every second, and [son] Daniel, who seemed to be just as depressed as his mom" — Little found it a beyond-daunting task. Daniel "was very sad," the trainer remembers. "I can't remember him saying two words or lifting his eyes from the carpet." The entire situation was "sad," Little says with a sigh. "There's nothing worse that can happen than losing your child, and she no doubt felt terribly sad. She had such a hard time in her life. If she was depressed before, after Daniel died she had to be beyond depressed." Little concurs with many of those on the periphery of Smith's life, saying, "She was on medication to handle it." He then shrugs, "I don't know the Howard K. Stern angle. It's a very strange thing, how he was there every second of every minute of every day in every area. It was a very hard situation." Anna Nicole "was truly sweet, but beyond loss," Little says in conclusion. "If you add depression and you add medication.... It wasn't a good environment. She did beat [early] adversity, but she seemed to be making the wrong decisions."
"When you walked into the court, you hope to get everything," Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin said as the dispute marked a full week before him. "We will try to fashion a remedy where not everyone gets everything they want." Seidlin said his decision would come by Friday morning, more than two weeks after Smith died. His comments came as the medical examiner again warned Smith's body was further decomposing and as the Playboy Playmate's mother, Virgie Arthur, tearfully fought to not only bury her daughter in her native Texas but to exhume her grandson and bring him there as well. Boyfriend Howard K. Stern wants Smith to be buried next to her son Daniel in the Bahamas, where he died from apparent drug-related causes last year. Smith and Stern lived at a mansion in the island chain. Without written proof of Smith's wishes, Seidlin was forced to hear testimony from those who claim to know what she wanted. In her second day on the stand, Arthur testified that although she had not seen her daughter since about 1996, they spoke on the phone more frequently. She cried as she spoke about her relationship with Smith and her grandson's death. She also disputed Stern's testimony that Smith always spoke about death. "You can't make me believe that. She was too full of life. She loved life," she said. Also at issue in a California court is who fathered Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, who could inherit millions of dollars depending on how Smith's estate is broken up. Stern is listed as the father on the birth certificate, but a photographer who once dated Smith says the girl is his. On Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Stern testified Smith never recovered from her son's death. He said a grief-stricken Smith threw herself over his body as he lay in a coffin in the Bahamas, wailing, "If Daniel has to be buried, I want to buried with him." Stern attorney Krista Barth said she had bank documentation proving Smith had agreed to pay for two cemetery plots in Nassau. She showed an "Entertainment Tonight" interview in which Smith expressed hatred for her estranged mother. Arthur's lawyer said Smith's son was buried illegally in the Bahamas, and he blamed Stern. Stern testified the couple considered each other husband and wife and had celebrated a commitment ceremony, though it was not legal. Stern said they had planned to legally wed this week. He conceded, however, that Smith had other lovers. He also said he isn't looking for any money from her estate and would waive his fee as the executor of her will. "I do not intend to get one penny," Stern said. Still, the issue of who is Dannielynn's father was inescapable. A California judge on Tuesday refused to give up the paternity case involving the girl but suggested there were still questions to be resolved before the courts can determine which state has jurisdiction. Attorneys for Arthur and the other man who claims to be the father, Larry Birkhead, sought to discredit Stern. Outside the courtroom, Debra Opri, who represents Birkhead, said Stern's claim of a romantic relationship with Smith wasn't even true. Smith was the widow of Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. The two married in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. She had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995.
"She was my best friend, lover, the mother of my daughter – literally everything to me," he said on the stand when asked about the nature of his relationship with Smith, Fox News reports. During Stern's testimony in the battle over where Smith's body will be buried, he said that Smith, who died on Feb. 8, purchased a double-plot for herself and her deceased son Daniel in the Bahamas. Stern said that Smith was extremely distraught after Daniel died and told Stern: "If Daniel has to be buried, I want to be buried near him." He also said that the pair began an intimate relationship in 2000. "It was not exclusive... It was something we did not disclose to other people. And she had other boyfriends in between." Also in the Florida courtroom is one of Smith's ex-boyfriends, Larry Birkhead, who also claims to be the father of Smith's daughter, Dannielynn, as well as Smith's estranged mother Virgie Arthur, who is fighting to have custody of daughter's body in order to have her buried in Texas. Before entering the courtroom, Birkhead told Access Hollywood that the thought of Dannielynn's happiness was keeping him going. "I just look at a picture of my daughter and that's all I really need to see, to keep me strong." Meanwhile in a California court, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider ruled on Tuesday that the Florida coroner must allow Birkhead's experts to test the DNA samples that were already taken from Smith's body to determine paternity of Dannielynn. Birkhead's attorney Debra Opri has also filed papers asking Schnider to order Stern to submit Danielynn's DNA. Birkhead had originally asked Smith to submit herself and her baby. Now that Smith is dead, Birkhead is asking that Stern arrange for the baby's testing. A hearing on the matter is set for next month.
Smith's boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, and her estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, were in a Florida court arguing what to do with her remains, while another hearing in California dealt with questions about the paternity of the former centerfold's infant daughter. Stern testified Smith was adamant about burying her 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith, in the Bahamas, where died just days after Smith's daughter was born there in September. "Anna and Daniel were inseparable. Daniel was without question the most important person in Anna's life," Stern told Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin. At Daniel's funeral, "she said 'if Daniel has to be buried, I want to be buried with him,' " Stern said. Without written proof of Smith's own wishes, Seidlin is forced to hear testimony from those who claim to know what Smith wanted. Arthur wants Smith brought home to her native Texas, insisting that despite their estrangement, she has the right to bury her own daughter, not a man to whom Smith wasn't even married. Stern, who was ordered to be in court, testified Smith "was my best friend, lover, the mother of my daughter — everything to me." She always thought she was going to die young, Stern said. "She thought she was going to be like Marilyn Monroe." In Los Angeles, Stern's lawyers argued the paternity issue Tuesday with attorneys for Smith's ex-companion, Larry Birkhead, who says he fathered the girl. That hearing was closed to the public, but James Neavitt, a lawyer for Stern, said afterward that Superior Court Judge Robert A. Schnider declined to relinquish control over the paternity case but suggested there were still questions pending about which state has jurisdiction. Attorney Debra Opri, who represents Birkhead, asked the judge to take emergency jurisdiction of the baby and bring her to California, Neavitt said. The judge denied that request and "questioned whether he has jurisdiction," Neavitt said. Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, has filed a separate paternity challenge to Stern's claim. At the Florida hearing, Seidlin first suggested to lawyers that he needed to know who the father was in order to decide the burial issue. Ron Rale, an attorney for Smith who also is representing Stern in his paternity case, said that paternity is irrelevant to the burial question. "You want to have your cake and eat it," Seidlin shot back. But after a brief private conference with all sides, he said he was going to try to answer the burial question without knowing that. "It would help the court if I knew who the natural father is to speak on behalf of Dannielynn," Seidlin said. "Right now, the moment's not right." Since Smith's death Feb. 8 in Florida, the baby has been living with Stern in the Bahamas. The cause of Smith's death is under investigation. She was 39. Smith was the widow of Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, whom she married in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. She had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995.
The long-distance battles over what to do with Smith's body — and the paternity of her infant daughter — were taking place Tuesday in courtrooms in Florida and California. Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, squared off here. Lawyers for Stern were also set to argue in Los Angeles with those for Smith's ex-companion over who is the father of her infant daughter, Dannielynn. No immediate ruling on the burial question was expected from Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin, who had ordered Stern to appear in court Tuesday. "We're trying to balance the rights and respect of a body that wants peace and tranquility," Seidlin said last week. Without written proof of Smith's own wishes, Seidlin will be forced to hear testimony from those who claim to know what Smith wanted. Stern wants Smith buried in the Bahamas in a plot that was purchased next to her son, Daniel, who died in September. Arthur wants her brought home to her native Texas. "This is very important to me to carry out what Anna Nicole wanted," Stern said. Stern had been in seclusion until he emerged from a waterfront Bahamas mansion earlier Tuesday, but did not speak to reporters as he left for the airport for the trip to Florida. Smith died in Florida on Feb. 8 at age 39. The cause of death is under investigation. The mother had a perhaps unlikely ally in Larry Birkhead, Smith's ex-boyfriend, who delayed a decision on the star's burial by fighting for another DNA sample he hopes will prove he is his baby's father. But Stern has allies of his own. A bodyguard, doctor, neighbor and friend all have submitted affidavits claiming Smith told them she wanted to be buried next to her son. And Stern has provided invoices showing the purchase of burial plots in the Bahamas. Arthur insists, despite her estrangement, she has the right to bury her own daughter, not a man to whom Smith wasn't even married. "Since the dawn of civilization, the next of kin has been given the rights and responsibility of their dead," says her lawyer, Stephen Tunstall. In Los Angeles, the dispute over who is the father of 5-month-old Dannielynn was scheduled to be taken up in a closed-door hearing. Stern is named father on the girl's birth certificate but Birkhead and Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, have filed a separate paternity challenges. Smith was the widow of Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, whom she married in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. She had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995.
Stewart jokingly called the segment “Death of a Person,” and poked fun at a news channel that devoted time to Smith’s “Death Fridge?” (Stewart loved the question mark). Smith’s refrigerator, noted an expert, said a lot about her personality. That same expert went on to analyze the news anchor’s fridge and its contents. It seemed that no matter how remote or trivial or tenuous, if there was a connection to Smith, the media leaped on it. Even the TV Guide Channel aired a live five-hour program (Anna Nicole: An Unfinished Life) examining each aspect of Smith’s life, bringing on a parade of experts and acquaintances. Smith, with her proverbial rags-to-riches “fairy tale," invoked “tsks” and raised eyebrows with her questionable antics, over-the-top behavior and glamorous (and ever-changing) looks. From her 2002 E! reality series The Anna Nicole Show to her final television interview with ET’s Mark Steines, Smith offered the best/worst in train-wreck television, slurring and sleeping her way through tapings. She was a beauty, but her actions and transformations could make her appear beastly. Her beginnings were classically rural, even down to the Mexia, Texas, trailer-park upbringing. Her mother, Virgie Arthur, worked in law enforcement, and when her busy schedule took away from her ability to control her increasingly wild daughter, Smith was sent to live with relatives. As producer Robert Bentley (E! True Hollywood Story, Anna Nicole: A Life Unfinished) points out, the imposed “restrictions” didn’t work — Smith ended up pregnant, at 17. She married Billy Smith, whom she met at Jim’s Crispy Fried Chicken, where they both worked, and then gave birth to Daniel. But within two years she was divorced. Blonde and almost 6 feet tall, Smith stood literally and figuratively above her more “ordinary” relatives and seemed destined to do something beyond, as Bentley says, working at “Kmart or Red Lobster.” Smith became a stripper and eventually moved to Houston, where she soon became one of the area’s most popular exotic dancers. Bentley notes that Smith tried to be a good mother and tried to keep Daniel with her as much as she could, but he was shuttled between Smith and relatives. Smith’s fortunes changed, says Bentley, when she met a low-key billionaire named J. Howard Marshall, a twice-married retired oil executive who was already a veteran of senior/stripper romances. Though Marshall "was very proud” of his relationship with Smith, Bentley says, because of his age and limitations, he often could only take his buxom girlfriend to the early dinners at his country club, and didn’t “wine and dine her." Even after the couple wed — amid a good deal of controversy — Bentley says that Marshall tried his best to “set up” Smith in a business, wanting to give her a clothing and/or perfume line so that she wouldn’t be dependent on his estate after his death. The Yale Law grad — who began work in oil in the 1930s, working his way up the ladder to an extremely high executive level — was still “sharp” until the very last months of his life, and he wanted to help Smith. “She was his last project,” says Bentley. But as she would continue to do until her death, Smith “did what she wanted to do” and “couldn’t be controlled.” Ultimately, Marshall deemed her “unteachable,” says Bentley. Smith did have personal success. She turned a long-held dream into reality when she was named Playmate of the Year by Playboy. She was later chosen as the face and body of Guess? jeans. In addition to Marshall, other hugely successful, powerful men — Playboy’s Hugh Hefner and Guess’ Georges Marciano, to name two — who genuinely cared about her simply couldn’t direct her to help herself. “One of the first things she had done was get breast implants very early on,” says Bentley. “That increased her attractiveness in that world. It got her a lot of attention, and once that started, she placed a lot of faith in all kinds of plastic surgery. There were people in her circle in the early days who believe her real substance abuse came during that period, where she had access to the prescription drugs, and the taste stayed with her for a long time.” Unrealized opportunity seemed always at her door. “People now don’t realize that at the peak of her success, when she was at the pinnacle of Guess? and Playmate, she had a shot at movie stardom, but she just really wasn’t an actress,” says Bentley. “She could’ve been, with better handlers, like Pamela Anderson; she was a hard worker, but didn’t have the discipline or attention span to do it.” She still drew people to her. In 1996, she met, as her designer Bobby Trendy describes him, “the ultimate hanger-on,” her lawyer turned eventual companion Howard K. Stern. Stern represented her in her strenuous estate battle when, after Marshall died, she was pitted against his sons, most notably J. Pierce Marshall (who died last fall, further muddying the inheritance waters). Up until her death, Smith still wasn’t receiving any money from her late husband’s estate. People don’t realize, says Trendy, “that she was the breadwinner. Her house [cost] $7,000 a month, and it was all her supporting” everyone who lived in her home (Daniel, Stern, personal assistants and several dogs). With her reality show, leveraged because of the popularity of MTV's The Osbournes and her E! THS special, Smith soon became the butt of jokes. Depressed and lazy, she began to gain alarming amounts of weight. Through it all, “she was very sweet,” says her acting coach Howard Fine. “People made a lot of assumptions about her. But she was not stupid.” She also was desperate to prove herself. While having some artwork framed, Smith met gallery owner Lynne Crandall. Crandall’s studio was the setting for Smith’s one and only gallery showing, of some 30 paintings. “She did acrylic flowers, landscapes, people,” says Crandall. “It was charming, childlike art that her fans were interested in seeing.” Many pieces were sold, ranging in price between $2,000 and $4,000, recalls Crandall. Whether Smith’s artwork will increase in value is questionable, seeing as it "is strictly based on her name only, not her expertise as an artist. She wasn’t a great artist, yet they were from herself, from her real self.” And that real self, says her hypnotist Dr. Amazing (aka Marvin Teitelbaum, MD) “was bright, clear, very friendly, very smart, intelligent.” Trendy concurs, saying that off-camera, Smith was "very friendly, sweet and giving.” But that sweetness may have made her vulnerable to those who didn’t have her best interest at heart, both health- and career-wise. As much as her rise was documented in the pages of Playboy and artsy Guess? ads, her demise was just as public. No one told her not to appear before cameras or to conduct interviews when she was incoherent. Even if they did, she wasn’t listening. “She was a classic train wreck,” says Bentley. “And people were fascinated by it. She put her strengths and weaknesses out right there in front of everybody” — in both life and death, as the paternity of 5-month-old Dannielynn and Smith’s possible inheritance from Marshall continue to be fought in court and in the media.
Automobile accidents, drug overdoses, homicides, a plane crash — all have claimed the lives of Playmates. The cause of Smith's death is still unclear. "It's sad how many girls we've lost," said Peter Gowland, who photographed a number of centerfolds for Playboy in the 1950s and 60s with the help of his wife. In 1968, Gowland photographed Paige Young. In 1974, she was dead of a drug overdose. Jayne Mansfield, another Playmate he photographed, died in a car crash in 1967 at 34. "It's a curse to be beautiful," Gowland said. More than 600 women have graced Playboy's centerfold since the magazine began publishing in the 1950s. Their lives after the magazine have been both in and out of the spotlight, but their limited number and Playboy's wide circulation has meant that the death of one can become bombshell news. Perhaps before Smith, the most headline-grabbing death of a Playmate was that of 20-year-old Dorothy Stratten. Just months after she became the magazine's Playmate of the Year in 1980, she was murdered by her jealous estranged husband. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has said he and others never really got over Stratten's death. The magazine ran a tribute to her and movies were made about her life. Eve Meyer, a 1955 Playmate, was one of more than 550 people killed when two airliners collided on takeoff at Tenerife in the Canary Islands in 1977. She was 46. More recently, Ellen Louise Maligo, known in Playboy as "Star Stowe," was found murdered at 40 in Coral Springs in 1997. Marilyn Monroe, the cover girl for the magazine's inaugural issue, famously died at 36 from a 1962 overdose of sleeping pills. Tonya Crews, Carol Willis and 1970 Playmate of the Year Claudia Jennings all died in car accidents in the 1960s and 70s while still in their 20s. Playmate Willy Rey, pictured on Playboy's first stock certificates, was 23 when she died of a drug overdose in 1973. Twenty-eight-year-old Playmate Elisa Bridges died in 2002 after being found unresponsive in bed. Playboy said she died of natural causes, but a coroner's report said Bridges died of an accidental drug overdose. "There've been some that do too much booze and too much drugs, just as in the general population," said former Playboy editor Gretchen Edgren, author of "The Playmate Book: Six Decades of Centerfolds." A page on Playboy's Web site is dedicated to remembering Smith. "Perhaps Billy Joel should write a sequel to his song 'Only the Good Die Young' simply changing the last word to 'Beautiful.' We'll miss you Vicki," photo editor Gary Cole wrote on the site's blog, using Smith's real first name.
Two embalmers finished the job around noon, according to Joshua Perper, the Broward County medical examiner. They promised not to discuss, write about, photograph or draw the body. "They did an excellent job, and the body will be ready for viewing with no problem," Perper said. "In other words, she's basically looking like she looked in life or very, very close to that." Attorneys for photographer Larry Birkhead, who claims he's the father of Smith's baby girl, fought to delay the embalming until an additional DNA sample was taken from her body Thursday. The body remains at the medical examiner's facility, awaiting developments in a Fort Lauderdale courthouse, where Smith's estranged mother Virgie Arthur and her companion Howard K. Stern, resume their battle Tuesday over where the Playboy model should be buried. Arthur wants Smith brought to her home state of Texas; Stern wants to put her in a plot in the Bahamas next to her son.
U.S. District Judge George King said he will issue a preliminary injunction prohibiting ParisExposed.com from displaying any of the items until a lawsuit Hilton brought against the site is resolved. ParisExposed.com had promised subscribers glimpses of Hilton's personal records and claimed to have video footage of the hotel heiress in a "sexy bubble bath" and shots of the 25-year-old in "racy situations." The judge had effectively shut down the Web site earlier this month when he issued a temporary order barring it from showing Hilton's medical records, Social Security number, phone number or other personal information. The site's creator, identified as Bardia Persa, could not be located for comment Friday. Persa does not have a Los Angeles telephone listing, and court records do not list any attorney representing Persa. Hilton sued the Web site last month, accusing it of exploiting her private personal belongings for commercial gain. She claimed that Persa had paid $10 million to buy personal items that were publicly auctioned after she failed to pay a storage bill.
Documentary producer Ashley Wells Lewis has culled three hours of unseen footage of Smith, who died last week, into an 80-minute documentary that's being offered to broadcast and cable networks. The footage was shot in Lewis' Malibu home in May 1993 after the producer befriended Smith, who stayed at her guest house several times. The documentary, shot by cinematographer James Chressanthis (CBS' "Ghost Whisperer"), features the 1993 Playboy Playmate of the Year discussing such topics as her son, Daniel, who died in September, and future husband J. Howard Marshall, who died in 1995. She also sings in character as her idol Marilyn Monroe. "It shows a genuine, sweet, innocent side of her that we've never seen before," said Lewis, whose credits include "A Bridge for the Children" and "Voices That Care."
Daniel Wayne Smith, who was a minor at the time the will was written, died last year at age 20 of what a private medical examiner said was a possible deadly mixture of prescription drugs. The will specifically excluded any spouse from inheritance and revoked the inheritance of anyone who contested the will, which did not appear to immediately resolve any of the court battles taking place over her body, her burial or the paternity of her 5-month-old daughter.
Hotel heiress/reality TV star Paris Hilton certainly didn't look like she was having a ball Thursday night at the Vienna Opera Ball, Austria's society event of the year. Live TV coverage repeatedly showed her looking bored as she sat in her luxury box at the State Opera House. As debutantes in white dresses and their escorts in black tuxedos and tails marched into the ornate ballroom, Hilton was seen resting her head in her hands, absentmindedly flipping through the program and fiddling with her mobile phone. "Look how excited she is," deadpanned a commentator for public television station ORF, which broadcast the ball live. Hilton was the guest of Richard Lugner, a 74-year-old married construction magnate who invites a celebrity each year. His previous guests have included Geri Halliwell, Pamela Anderson and Carmen Electra. The annual Opera Ball draws about 4,500 well-heeled Austrian and foreign celebrities, dignitaries and socialites. Tickets often sell out months in advance. On Friday, Hilton headed to the Tyrolean ski resort of Ischgl to celebrate her 26th birthday — which is Saturday — with a bit of skiing. The festivities there included a Paris Hilton look-a-like contest and the "Paris Life Show" — photos of her growing up. Hilton planned to shed a white coat to symbolize the passing of another year, organizers said. "It's great to be back in Ischgl, and I'm looking forward to my birthday," said Hilton, accompanied by her brother, Barron, and cousin Brooke Brinson. Hilton said the Vienna ball was "great." "People were so beautifully dressed," she told reporters. The only hassle: "Too many cameras."
The Medical Board of California began looking at Dr. Sandeep Kapoor after receiving information about possible misconduct, board spokeswoman Candis Cohen said. Cohen declined to give details on the allegation or its source but said it was connected to Smith. Smith, who was living in the Bahamas, died Feb. 8 in Florida at age 39. The cause is under investigation. Among other things, the board is investigating whether it is legal to prescribe drugs for someone using an alias, Cohen said. She described the review as routine and said the board is obligated to review all allegations of physician misconduct. The celebrity news Web site TMZ.com this week published what appeared to be a 2006 pharmacy receipt for a methadone prescription written by a "Dr. Kapoor, S." to a "Chase, Michelle." TMZ said Smith used the name as an alias. A woman who answered the telephone at a listing for Kapoor in Los Angeles hung up when The Associated Press called Thursday. Methadone is similar to morphine and is widely used to treat severe pain; it is also used to treat heroin addiction. The California Health and Safety Code, which governs public health, includes several sections stating that no person who prescribes or dispenses a controlled substance may give a phony name or address or make any false statements in the prescription form.
Broward County Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin indicated there would be no quick resolution on custody of the body of the billionaire's widow and tabloid star who died a week ago in Hollywood, Florida, aged 39, after collapsing at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. As a Florida medical examiner warned that the remains were decomposing and should be released immediately for burial, Seidlin ordered another hearing for Friday to decide whether Smith's body should be embalmed. "We're going to figure out whether we're going to embalm or not," Seidlin said. Seidlin is presiding over a legal tug-of-war between Smith's lawyer and companion, Howard K. Stern, her mother, Virgie Arthur, and Larry Birkhead, Smith's ex-boyfriend. Stern wants to bury Smith in the Bahamas, Arthur wants to bury her in Texas and Birkhead wants to ensure her DNA is preserved for his paternity battle. Stern and Birkhead both claim to be the father of Smith's daughter, 5-month-old Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern. Stern has said Smith wanted to be buried in the Bahamas next to her son Daniel, who died five months ago at age 20 just three days after the birth of Dannielynn "This is not going to be quick," Seidlin said. In Los Angeles on Thursday, another potential father of Dannielynn threw his hat into the ring when actress Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband filed court papers seeking to establish her paternity. Frederic von Anhalt has claimed that he had a 10-year affair with Smith and believes he is the baby's father -- although a publicist for Gabor has denied those assertions. "TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE" The judge held court in his packed -- and televised -- chambers in Fort Lauderdale, which was adorned with old movie posters, including one of the Three Stooges comedy team and a pen-and-ink drawing of a scene from "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," a classic tale of greed and mistrust among gold-diggers. Seidlin ordered a mouth swab for potential testing of Smith's DNA despite assurances from Broward County medical examiner Dr. Joshua Perper that more than enough DNA samples, including bone marrow and spinal fluid, had been taken. Arthur, dressed in black, burst into tears several times as Perper detailed the extensive samples that had been taken. The tears came soon after a lawyer for Stern, Krista Barth, said Smith had been estranged from Arthur since 1995 and had no real relationship with her mother. Seidlin appointed an administrator to interview those involved in the case and make recommendations at another hearing on Tuesday. A separate hearing was scheduled for Friday in another Fort Lauderdale court on DNA issues. Stern's attorneys entered into evidence on Wednesday a paper signed by Smith under her real name, Vickie Lynn Marshall. It contained excerpts from her will, signed on July 30, 2001, which appointed Stern the co-executor of her will. Stern also submitted affidavits from three people who testified that Smith wanted to be buried next to her son, Daniel, in the Bahamas, together with the remains of her late husband, J. Howard Marshall. Smith, a former topless dancer and Guess? jeans model, married the 89-year-old oil tycoon when she was 26. His death the following year touched off more than 10 years of litigation between Smith and members of his family over his estate that ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
The swab of Smith's cheek was to be taken in the afternoon, despite the objections of attorneys for her longtime companion, Howard K. Stern, and her estranged mother, Vergie Arthur, and testimony from the medical examiner and DNA experts that such an additional sample was likely not necessary. Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin said he wanted to make sure all samples were taken before Smith was buried, so her body wouldn't have to be exhumed. "When we bury her, I want it to be forever," he said in the second day of an emergency hearing. Smith, 39, died Feb. 8 after collapsing at a Florida hotel. As the proceedings dragged on, investigators in the Bahamas went into a mansion that Stern and Smith shared, though the officers declined to say why they were there. Stern filed a burglary report claiming a computer, home videos and other items were taken from the house after Smith's death. Stern claims he is executor of Smith's will and wants to have her buried next to her son in the Bahamas. Arthur wants her daughter buried in her home state of Texas. "She sits here today to take her to Texas and put her in the ground all alone ... and it's sad and it's sick," Stern's lawyer, Krista Barth, told the judge in attacking Smith's mother. Arthur's attorney, Stephen Tunstall, said his client "wants to take her home to Texas to bury her with the rest of her family." Arthur wiped tears away outside an elevator during a break in the proceedings. Photographer Larry Birkhead hopes DNA taken from Smith will help prove he fathered the former centerfold's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, who could inherit millions. The judge has said the dispute could be lengthy. The hearing, which began Wednesday, stretched into the afternoon Thursday and was to continue Friday. Debra Opri, an attorney for Birkhead, said earlier in a news release that she was satisfied DNA samples would be provided by Florida authorities. Opri has said Smith's DNA is needed to connect her with Dannielynn, and to help prove there was no baby switch. Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of the actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, has said he had a decade-long affair with Smith and may also be the father. He said he plans to file a paternity challenge in court and wants a DNA test. Smith's body remained at the medical examiner's office, and Seidlin said it would stay there. "This body's not leaving Broward County till I make the ruling." Smith was the widow of Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, whom she married in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. She had been fighting his family over his fortune since his death in 1995. A judge in the Bahamas issued an injunction Tuesday preventing the baby from being taken out of the country until the custody case is resolved. Arthur wants to be named guardian of her granddaughter and sought the order because she feared Stern would take the child from the Bahamas, her lawyer said.
Campbell, 36, speaking backstage at the Julien Macdonald fashion show in London, said she doesn't read negative press reports about herself: "As long I've got my real friends and family and I know who's who then I'm fine." Earlier in the evening, she'd opened the show to rapturous applause from the audience and was later surrounded by pals congratulating her backstage at the London Hilton on Park Lane hotel. On Jan. 16, Campbell was sentenced to five days of community service and two days of anger management for throwing a cell phone that hit former housekeeper Ana Scolavino. "This was an accident, because I did not intend to hit her," Campbell told the court. At least other three former employees have claimed Campbell attacked them, in several cases with phones, and in October she was arrested in London for allegedly assaulting her drug counselor. Asked by PEOPLE about the numerous incidents, Campbell replied: "I take responsibility for anything I do, but I'm pretty much okay with myself today." Campbell is currently working on FashionWeekLive, an event bringing the best of the catwalk shows to various cities in the U.S., but she also continues her volunteer duties. "I still do my charity work. I've being doing it since '92," said Campbell, who was named "best model" at the Elle Style Awards on Monday. "I've never done it for public adulation; I'm not talking about it or promoting it."
Probate Judge Larry Seidlin also ordered the medical examiner – at the request of Birkhead's attorneys – to take one more oral swab of Smith's body for review by Birkhead's expert, as the former boyfriend wages his fight to prove that he, and not Smith's companion Howard K. Stern, is the child's father. The order came after nearly three hours of argument and testimony. Attorneys for Birkhead, Stern and Smith's mother Virgie Arthur gathered in Fort Lauderdale to lobby for control of Smith's body. The hearing, held in a crowded conference roon attended by at least six lawyers, with another on the phone, took a midday break but will resume later today. During the hearing, Joshua Perper, the medical examiner who has Smith's body in cold storage following her death Feb. 8, repeated that he has saved enough samples for the death investigation and to prove eventual paternity. "There is absolutely no justification for additional tests," he said. But attorneys for Birkhead, who repeatedly say they fear a "bait-and-switch" of DNA samples that might work against Birkhead, pushed for review of those tests along with more testing, and asked the judge not to release the body just yet. Birkhead's DNA expert, Michael Baird, pushed for the additional oral swab, and the judge agreed after Perper said it was a simple process that could be done today. Still unresolved is the matter of who will get the body, a decision the judge hinted may not come for several days. Smith's mother, who wants to bury Smith in her native Texas, sat silently through the hearing. Neither Birkhead nor Stern – who wants to return the body to the Bahamas to be buried next to Smith's son Daniel, who died last September – were present.
Two uniformed police arrived in a patrol car and passed through the gate, followed a short while later by a van marked "crime scene unit." One of the officers then escorted the three men from the van into the home through a side entrance, and declined to answer questions from reporters. Later, members of the crime scene unit could be seen taking photos of the property, which is called "Horizons." It was unknown if Stern was home at the time. Stern filed a burglary report after claiming that a computer, home videos and other items were taken from the mansion before he returned from Florida, where the 39-year-old former model collapsed and died on Feb. 8. Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner for the Royal Bahamas Police Force, said the officers "must be" investigating a burglary report filed by Stern, but he said he had not been aware that officers had come to the mansion, and had no other information. Ford Shelley, the son-in-law of a South Carolina developer who claims ownership of the property, said he entered the property a day after Smith's death to "secure" it after he heard that someone had been removing items. Inside a refrigerator in a bedroom, Shelley said he saw a bottle of methadone — a substance that was found in her son Daniel's system after he died in the Bahamas on Sept. 10. Shelley declined comment on Stern's allegations that he stole personal property while inside the mansion. As for Thursday's police visit, Shelley said "there was no break-in at that house, so that doesn't affect me at all."
"Hello everybody, it's so good to see you," the 25-year-old hotel heiress/reality TV star cooed as the crowd went crazy. "Happy late Valentine's Day!" The session was cut short when several objects landed on the stage and Hilton was whisked away by security guards. Richard Lugner, who is Hilton's Vienna host, said the flying objects included cigarette packs, tissues and lipsticks. The 74-year-old married construction magnate invites a celebrity to the city's prestigious Opera Ball each year. His previous guests include Geri Halliwell, Pamela Anderson and Carmen Electra. The Austria Press Agency reported that sheets of paper that floated onto the stage were fliers from a communist youth organization. Hilton later dismissed the incident as "no big deal" and said she loved her fans, APA reported. She ran into a problem in Munich, Germany, on Wednesday because her passport had expired. Susan McCaw, U.S. ambassador to Austria, had to vouch for her so she could enter the country, APA said. When asked what happened, Hilton replied: "Oh nothing, just my passport." Taking questions from some 100 reporters earlier, Hilton said she "loved" classical music and that she grew up listening to it. "As a little girl, it really helped me fall asleep at night," she said, adding later that she "really loved" old Michael Jackson songs, Madonna and hip-hop. Hilton said there were "a lot of people who need help" in the world and that she planned to go to Africa sometime this year. "As a celebrity, you can really make people aware of what's going on in the world," she said. The Opera Ball, which was to be held Thursday night, draws about 4,500 well-heeled Austrian and foreign celebrities, dignitaries and socialites. Tickets often sell out months in advance.
Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider ruled last week that Smith's body be preserved until a February 20 hearing into paternity claims by the model's ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, one of several men who say they fathered her 5-month-old daughter. A Florida judge earlier on Wednesday said he would abide by that order and hold Smith's body in a morgue there.
Ten years ago, Banks became the first black supermodel to appear alone on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. The 2007 edition, which has a music theme, features 25-year-old singer and "Dreamgirls" actress Beyonce on the cover wearing a yellow-and-pink bikini. Sports Illustrated said Beyonce is the first nonmodel/nonathlete to appear as the main subject on the cover of the swimsuit issue. The inside of the magazine features scantily clad models posing with Kanye West, Aerosmith, Kenny Chesney, Gnarls Barkley and Panic! At the Disco. A five-page spread featuring model Anne Vyalitsyna was shot at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. Banks, 33, recently returned to the Bahamas to recreate the shoot that landed her on the coveted Sports Illustrated cover, even wearing the same red polka dot bikini — with a few adjustments. "I was about 140 pounds on that cover ... and I'm 161 now," the 5-foot-10 TV host told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "I'd say I looked like a stripper when I put it on." Banks, who retired from modeling in 2005, said some extra fabric was added to make the bikini a little less itsy-bitsy. "They covered the sides of my chest so that it wasn't so much hangin' out. And they put some extenders on the sides of the bikini bottom so it fit," she said. Last month, Banks, who hosts the syndicated "The Tyra Banks Show" and the CW network's "America's Next Top Model," was mocked on the Internet for unflattering photos showing her in a one-piece bathing suit. In the AP Radio interview, Banks said she considered going on a crash diet before the Bahamas shoot to look the same as she did 10 years ago, but then thought better of it. "I think there's more power in embracing what I am now and showcasing that," she said. "I'm thinking that I should probably do this every 10 years," she continued. "So, in 2017 maybe I'll get in the swimsuit again and I'll have to get them to add a little more fabric." Banks will show the results on Monday's episode of her talk show.
Photographer Larry Birkhead petitioned a court Tuesday asking that the model's remains be preserved for DNA paternity testing, while a medical examiner warned that her body is decomposing and should be released. The petition made in Broward County Circuit Court requests that a California court order for DNA testing that was filed Friday, the day after Smith died, be enforced in Florida. An attorney for Smith said DNA had already been taken. Tuesday's request was made so that work done to secure the Los Angeles court order "not be in vain," Birkhead's attorney, Debra Opri said. A Los Angeles judge last week requested that Florida authorities keep Smith's body for 10 days. That court earlier ordered DNA testing, which Smith's companion Howard K. Stern and Smith's mother, Vergie Arthur, were opposing. A court hearing was planned for Wednesday morning, she said. Meanwhile, Broward County medical examiner Joshua Perper issued an affidavit urging the prompt release of Smith's body, warning that "any further delay would result in destructive changes to the body." Smith died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. Perper said attorneys representing Stern and her mother notified him that they plan to request an emergency order for a prompt release of the body. Stern, who says he is the father of 5-month old Dannielynn, and Smith's mother fear that if the body is not embalmed, even though it is refrigerated, it will not be suitable for viewing or funeral purposes, Perper said. Perper said the model's body will remain refrigerated until he receives a judge's order. Telephone messages left at the offices and on the cell phone of James T. Neavitt, Stern's attorney, were not immediately returned. Telephone messages could not be left on Stern's cell phone. Ron Rale, the attorney who had represented Smith in the Los Angeles court battle over paternity, said late Tuesday that he planned to go to the Los Angeles court Wednesday morning to ask that the hold on the body be reduced on grounds that the coroner had already extracted DNA. "Her DNA is never going to show paternity for the baby," Rale said. Along with the paternity case, Rale is the executor of Smith's estate. He and Stern, also a co-executor, are authorized to make funeral arrangements. Rale, however, told The Associated Press Television News that Smith's mother was fighting to bring her body to Texas for burial. Smith's mother could not immediately be located for comment. Rale said Smith and her mother had been estranged for 15 years. "I implore Anna Nicole's mother to do the best for her daughter, carry on with her wishes and her wish is not to go to Texas," Rale said. Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of the actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, has said he had a decade-long affair with Smith and may also be the father. He said Monday he plans to file a paternity challenge in court and wants a DNA test.
The film stars Smith, who died last week in Florida, as one of three aliens who transform themselves into "super-hot babes and arrive to protect the Earth from intergalactic forces of evil," according to press materials from MTI Home Video, which will distribute the movie through DVD outlets. MTI spokesman Ed Baran described "Illegal Aliens," which is unrated, as a low-budget, deliberately "high-camp" production in which Smith lampoons her own ditsy sex-bomb image. No release is planned for movie theaters, Baran said. Filmmakers clearly had no Oscar ambitions for the 93-minute movie, which was shot in September 2005 in Vermont, Los Angeles and New York. A trailer, posted on the Web site of the production company, Edgewood Studios (www.edgewoodstudios.com), shows Smith's character, Lucy, shouting, "Nobody sticks a missile in Lucy's butt and gets away with it!" In another scene, she appears tied up to a chair and laments, "Who do I have to screw to get off this movie?" Smith invested her own money in the project and even took part in scripting her role. Her son, Daniel, who died in the Bahamas in September at age 20, three days after Smith gave birth to her daughter, was credited as an associate producer on the film, Baran said. "A lot of people really want to make her out to be some idiot but I really don't think that she was," Baran said. "She's poking fun at herself within the film so I think it's pretty damn smart." The former stripper and Playboy magazine centerfold died Thursday of unknown causes while enmeshed in a paternity suit over her infant daughter and a long-running dispute over the fortune left by an elderly oil tycoon she married in 1994. Smith, who was 39, previously starred in her own cable TV reality series, "The Anna Nicole Smith Show." She appeared a handful of movies, beginning in 1994 with "The Hudsucker Proxy" and the big-screen spoof "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult." Baran said the timing of distribution of Smith's last film was coincidental to her death, with MTI having submitted it to retailers for sale this coming spring about a week and a half before she died. Smith had planned to take part in a publicity campaign for the film, he said.
The main opposition party has called for an investigation into the process that granted permanent residency to the former Playboy Playmate after The Tribune of Nassau published front page photos of Smith embracing Immigration Minister Shane Gibson in a bed, both fully clothed. Gibson had approved Smith's residency application. But Cabinet members from Gibson's ruling Progressive Liberal Party expressed support for him as they entered a white-columned government building for a weekly meeting. "Nothing ought to happen unless there is some evidence of illegal improprieties," said Marcus Bethel, minister of energy and the environment. With general elections this spring, other ministers said attacks on Gibson were politically motivated. Gibson, who denied in a televised statement that his friendship with Smith influenced her application, walked past reporters without commenting. The images, published Monday, show the pair embracing on a bed decorated with pink flowers and a white ribbon. In one, they look into each other's eyes, their faces only inches apart. The two photographs were allegedly taken from a computer stolen from Smith's waterfront residence, according to Howard K. Stern, her partner. He told "Entertainment Tonight" that he had photographed the pair. Also Tuesday, a judge issued an injunction to prevent Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, from leaving the island chain, according to Wayne Munroe, an attorney for Smith's estate in the Bahamas. He said he had not yet seen the court papers. The hearing was attended by Smith's estranged mother, Vergie Arthur, who arrived in the Bahamas a day after her daughter was found unconscious in a Florida hotel room Thursday. Arthur told authorities she wanted to check on the welfare of her granddaughter. Stern returned to the Bahamas over the weekend from Florida, and he has been living with Dannielynn in the waterfront mansion that he shared with Anna Nicole. He has said Smith despised her mother and he would never allow Arthur to meet her granddaughter. A birth certificate lists Stern as the father, but two other men have also claimed paternity. One priority for Stern at the moment is pursing a robbery complaint filed with police, according to Wayne Munroe, an attorney for Smith. Stern said items missing from the house included Dannielynn's birth certificate, home videos and a DVD of Smith's latest film, "Illegal Aliens." Smith claimed ownership of the $900,000 house as the basis for her residency application, but the government opened an inquiry after G. Ben Thompson, a South Carolina developer who briefly dated the former reality show star, said the house belonged to him. Smith claimed the house was given to her as a gift, but Thompson said she did not honor an agreement to pay the mortgage. Thompson's son-in-law, Ford Shelley, went to the house Friday before Stern arrived. He said a refrigerator in Smith's bedroom contained a bottle of methadone — one of the drugs that a private examiner said contributed to the death of her son Daniel. The 20-year-old died while visiting his mother and newborn half-sister in a Bahamas hospital in September. Methadone is similar to morphine and is most widely used to treat severe pain. The drug also is used in the treatment of heroin addiction. Shelley declined comment on the alleged burglary. Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend of Smith who has filed a lawsuit claiming he is Dannielynn's father, was reportedly planning to travel to the Bahamas to pursue his claim. Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of the actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, has said he had a decade-long affair with Smith and may be the father. He said Monday he plans to file a paternity challenge in court and wants a DNA test. Since the death in 1995 of her 90-year-old husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, Smith had been waging a court battle over his estate.
Not So Stunning
PARIS Hilton was axed from an upcoming photo book of the world’s most stunning heiresses - even before The Post reported that her half-aunt, Elizabeth Avanzino, is a junkie jailbird. Celebrity lensman Roger Moenks planned to include the heir-head in “Inheriting Beauty,” along with Roberta Armani, Dylan Lauren, Allegra Hicks, Nadja Swarovski, Casey Johnson and other wealthy young women. But Moenks and his editors “bounced Paris by unanimous vote,” said his agent, Marianne Strong. “She’s tried to play society like a game of Three-card Monte. Let’s hear it for high standards.” Hilton’s rep had no comment.
America's Next Top Model Winner Jaslene Gonzalez Reveals Abusive Past
America's Next Top Model winner Jaslene Gonzalez impressed the judges with her spirit - but an abusive relationship nearly crushed her confidence, she reveals in a new interview.We Hear...
THAT Yellow Fever’s Jamison Ernest will throw a combined birthday bash tonight for Victoria’s Secret models Ana Beatriz and Fernanda Motta at Hamptons spot Stereo by the Shore
Sis Wants To Be Anna Nicole 2
THE fame-hungry half-sister of Anna Nicole Smith has hatched a bizarre plan to remake herself in the tragic model's image.Surfers In Shock
HOLLYWOOD is hitting the Costa Rican coastline, and the surfers are nervous. Vince Vaughn was seen partying at the red-hot Mal Pais Surf Camp and tooling around nearby Mar Azul a few days ago. Kate Moss and Matthew McConaughey have also visited. In addition, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Sting, Giselle Bundchen and Leo DiCaprio have supposedly looked at property in the area. Residents fear the infestation could destroy the area's natural beauty with new construction. "The roads are all dirt and there's not a lot here except great surf," said one nature lover.
For Paris, It's Time To Pray
PRAISE the Lord and damn the chihuahuas! Paris Hilton has lost the rampant partying, the pampered boy toys and her an noying new-pet-every-week habit - and found religion. The slammer- bound celebutard, who heads to jail June 5 for violating probation in her booze-related reckless driving case, popped into a Hollywood book shop this week to pick up some inspirational literature. No, not the Enquirer or In Touch, but copies (inset) of the Holy Bible and "The Power of Now," the best- selling self-help book by em powerment guru Eckhart Tolle. Confronted by pho tographers, the narcissistic knucklehead was a lot more willing to show her mug this time than she was a few days ago, when The Post snapped her doing a perp-walk act by cover ing her head with a blanket outside her Beverly Hills home. Our lensman reports Hilton, clad in navy blue head-to-toe, yakked continuously on her cellphone as she strolled. But maybe her reading will teach her that silence is golden - neither cellphones nor BlackBerries are allowed in side the cells at Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, Cal. During her 23-day sentence, she'll be separated from the general inmate population - presumably for her own protection, but just possibly to the relief of the other inmates as well. After all, do convicts in for the long haul really need to listen to Paris whine to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for leniency?
We Hear...
THAT Kendra Wilkinson - star of E! Channel's hugely popular "Girls Next Door" - will abandon Hugh Hefner and the Playboy Mansion on Memorial Day weekend to host the grand opening of White House (formerly CPI) in Hampton Bays Saturday.
Face And Jeans
HEIDI Klum is a busy girl. Not only is she still with Victoria's Secret and making another season of "Project Runway," she's the new face of Jordache. Klum was shot Thursday for the jeans line's new campaign at Chateau Marmont in L.A. by "Rush Hour" director Brett Ratner - who has never been known to turn down a lucrative gig shooting hot girls. We're told the pictures are "stunning."
Paris Not "Too Distraught" to Party?
According to Zeta Graff, coming down with a case of the jail jitters is right up there with the Twinkie defense.Anna Nicole in posthumous role at Cannes
Former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, whose death grabbed world headlines this year, makes a posthumous appearance at Cannes in a science fiction comedy straight from the B movie tradition.Paris Drops Appeal, Jail Awaits
Paris Hilton did the crime, and yes, she's going to do the time.Eva Herzigova: I'm Having a Baby Boy
Eva Herzigova says she's looking forward to motherhood – and reveals to PEOPLE the sex of her baby.Paris Hilton's jail time halved due to good behavior
Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton will only be jailed for 23 days of a 45-day sentence for a driving offence and will be held separately from other inmates, officials said on Thursday.Kylie And Christensen Kiss And Make Up
Kylie Minogue and supermodel Helena Christensen have become the best of friends after bonding over their past relationships with the late Michael Hutchence. The pair slammed reports they fell out over the Inxs singer, and now share a fond embrace whenever they see each other.Hilton's jail term cut to about 23 days
Paris Hilton will serve about half of her 45-day jail sentence and will be separated from the general inmate population, authorities said Wednesday.Kathy Hilton: Young People May Learn from Paris
Kathy Hilton wants young people to learn from her jail-bound daughter Paris, according to a statement Barbara Walters read on Wednesday's edition of The View.Anna Nicole diary: Sex, surgery, sadness
"Don't Read!! Personall," warns the diary's inside cover. But its author, Anna Nicole Smith, has no hold in death on the remnants of her life.Paris Warned: Say Hi To Hell
BE afraid of jail, Paris Hilton - be very, very afraid.Petra At Play
SAY it ain't so, Petra Nemcova! The tsunami-surviving supermodel, who just broke up with fey singer James Blunt, rebounded with Paris Hilton's ex, Stavros Niarchos. Our eagle-eyed spy caught the two making out at Bungalow 8 recently as they partied with Niarchos' oil-heir friend Brandon Davis. "She was grinding him," our witness said. "It was pretty gross. I mean, he used to sleep with Paris. Eww." A rep for Nemcova said, "I haven't heard of this."
Sightings
TRAVIS McCoy of Gym Class Heroes trying to light a fun ny-smelling cigarette at Stereo during the Reebok-hosted b-day party for model Nicole Vaidisova
Paris Hilton `distraught' over jail time
Paris Hilton is "emotionally distraught and traumatized" over her 45-day jail sentence and isn't capable of testifying in a civil lawsuit against her, the socialite-reality TV star's psychiatrist said.Therapist: Paris Hilton 'Traumatized' by Jail Sentence
Paris Hilton's psychiatrist declared that the heiress is "distraught and traumatized" and "fears incarceration" after a judge sentenced her to 45 days in jail.Spelling It Out to Paris
Tori Spelling's mom has taken it upon herself to give Paris Hilton a stern talking-to.Anna Nicole Will Revealed
He wasn't the husband. He wasn't the baby daddy. But as long as there are court documents to be filed, Howard K. Stern is still in the picture.Headed To Elle And Back
DON'T sit Elle editor Roberta Myers next to the coven of loudmouths on "The View." Myers was justifiably annoyed when Tyra Banks went on and whined that no fashion magazines featured her after she got fat - a play for publicity Banks has overused for two years now. Joy Behar then labeled the editors of Elle and other women's magazines "war criminals" who wage a "war against women" while Rosie O'Donnell sat by and silently agreed. In her editor's letter this month, Myers fumes, "Clearly Ms. Behar doesn't read fashion magazines, but her accusations align with the public's general misperception about the roots of eating disorders, particularly anorexia . . . The truth is, of course, that the much bigger crisis facing young women these days is obesity: Since 1980, the number of overweight adolescents has tripled, and 80 percent of those remain obese into adulthood, putting them at risk for all the attendant afflictions obesity brings, from heart disease to diabetes." Myers refutes Elle's "complicity in trying to starve poor Tyra off the runway" by showing "the last shoot we did with Ms. Banks, in which her banging curves are on full, enviable display."
Paris Is 'learning' With Patty's Help
Bank-robbing rich kid Patty Hearst got pardoned, why not booze-loving party princess Paris Hilton? It seems Paris is getting invaluable advice from her fellow socialite as the hotel heiress closes in on her June date for a stint behind bars, according to TV's "The Insider." The show reports Patty is prepping the ce lebutant on all the do's and don'ts of prison protocol. The heirhead star of "The Simple Life" is determined to do prison life with a clean body and mind, reports the show, airing tomorrow night. She's involved in therapeutic art work like collages and paintings - such as the poster she was seen carrying yesterday on a visit to her dad - before her 45-day lockdown for violating terms of a 2006 DWI arrest. She's also working out twice a day. Hearst, granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, was abducted from her own home by members of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army - and then caught on security cameras bran dishing a rifle when the radicals robbed a bank on April 15, 1975. She claimed she was forced into everything after being abused, raped and brainwashed. She was still convicted for the heist, and did nearly two years in prison before her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter. she got a full pardon from President Bill Clinton in 2001.
Sightings
CHRISTY Turlington having lunch at Megu in TriBeCa with friends and dining on sushi and green tea
Sightings
PETRA Nemcova and Miguel Forbes toasting photographer Robert Curran and his new book, "Asian Dreams," with Christiania vodka martinis at a private exhibit at Bret Bobo's SoHo apartment.
Paris Halfway Home Already?
A Hilton has never been so glad to hear that three weeks' worth of reservations may be canceled.Sightings
JOSH Hartnett and his new flame, Helena Christensen, singing karaoke at Star Lounge
Caged Heat
BISEXUAL actress-model Rie Rasmussen has some advice for jailbound Paris Hilton: "Come on, girl, go for the experience. You can use it for something later." Rasmussen, who plays a chain-smoking angel in her new movie, "Angel-A," told The Post's V.A. Musetto that she "would be psyched" if she were heading for the slammer (and those sapphic showers?). "How bad can it be?" Rasmussen added that Hilton is "a very, very nice girl. She's extremely polite to everybody she meets."
Why Is Paris Hilton Still Driving?
Today's burning question: If Paris Hilton is such a traffic scofflaw that she has to be locked up, what was she doing behind the wheel of a car this week?Hilton: `Ready to face the consequences'
Five days after she was sentenced to jail, Paris Hilton says she understands the seriousness of driving under the influence and that she is not "above the law."Paris Hilton sculpture shows heiress in deadly pose
Sculptor Daniel Edwards thinks Paris Hilton makes a fine subject -- as prom queen of the dead in what he says is a warning against drunken driving.Paris Hilton draws petitions for, against jail
The Internet was abuzz with rival petitions on Tuesday from fans and foes of jail-bound heiress Paris Hilton alternately asking California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon her or make sure she serves her time.Kathy Hilton stands behind her daughter
The Hilton who made the most noise in and out of court last week wasn't named Paris.Nick Cannon & Selita Ebanks Engaged
Nick Cannon and Selita Ebanks are engaged to be married, after the Drumline actor proposed to the Victoria's Secret model Monday with the help of a jumbotron in Times Square, his rep tells PEOPLE.Paris Hilton Asks for Schwarzenegger Pardon
Paris Hilton is now part of a grass-roots campaign to keep her out of jail.Paris Hilton rehires fired publicist
Jail-bound socialite Paris Hilton has kissed and made up with the veteran publicist she dumped over the weekend after blaming him for getting her into trouble with the law.Say Cheese!
IF all went well last night, this morning, MTV star Nick Cannon and his girlfriend of only three months, Victoria's Secret model Selita Ebanks, are engaged. Cannon was set to propose to Ebanks in Times Square after the couple attended the Metropolitan Museum of Art costume gala. The plan was for Cannon to get on one knee, present Ebanks with a 12-carat diamond ring while the words "Selita, will you marry me?" were projected on the MTV Jumbotron. The publicity-loving couple was slated to join her parents later at Butter. Here's hoping she said yes!
Paris Hilton heads for real "simple life" in jail
Hotel heiress Paris Hilton, star of the reality TV show "The Simple Life," will really be going back to basics when she checks into a Los Angeles County jail next month to do time for violating her probation.Naomi Campbell says mop duty taught her a lesson
Supermodel Naomi Campbell says her recent stint mopping floors and cleaning toilets at a New York garbage depot taught her a lesson and strengthened her resolve to stay away from drugs and alcohol.Jail time likely to fuel Hilton's fame
Paris Hilton is so pampered she doesn't read her mail.Paris Hilton: 'I Was Treated Unfairly'
Paris Hilton has spoken for the first time about the 45-day jail sentence she was handed on Friday – and she's not happy.Back To Work
ISABELI Fontana is back after an 18-month sabbatical from modeling that she spent with her new baby and actor husband Henri Castellito. The Brazilian beauty will be at Valentino's table at tonight's gala for the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute, and she'll open the Valentino show Thursday at Cipriani 42nd Street benefiting New York Hospital. Among those expected: Samantha Boardman, Julia Koch, Jessica Seinfeld and Tara Rockefeller.
Thongs R Her
GISELE Bundchen is counting down the seconds until her contract with Victoria's Secret runs out so she can cash in on her new deal with H&M. Page Six sources tell us the bronzed beauty - who is always on the arm of boyfriend Tom Brady - is "negotiating a lingerie line" with the label. "Gisele has been in talks with H&M for a long time, but for legal issues she has to wait for her Victoria's Secret contract to end to start the project." Reps for Bundchen did not comment.
Brave Man
NAOMI Campbell's latest arm candy is dashing hotel mogul, and Uma Thurman's recent ex, Andre Balazs. Though insiders say the two are not a couple, they were spotted last week at Waverly Inn having a cozy dinner, which was briefly broken up when Donna Karan plopped down to chat with the dinner daters. Later, Balazs brought Campbell to Kelly Killoren Bensimon's birthday party at Pop Burger, though a spy said, "They weren't really together there."
Paris Hilton & Longtime Rep Part Ways
Paris Hilton and her longtime press representative, Elliot Mintz, have ended their relationship, Mintz announced in an e-mail to PEOPLE received Sunday night.Eyewitness: Hiltons Stunned By Paris's Jail Sentence
Emotions flared at the Paris Hilton hearing on Friday, according to one eyewitness observer with an exceptionally good view: Mona Shafer Edwards, a freelance courtroom sketch artist with 25 years' experience.Paris' jail stint likely to add allure
Paris Hilton is so pampered she doesn't read her mail.Kid Rock Vs. Anna Nicole
THE Kentucky Derby means a lot of things to people, but to Kid Rock, it's really special. Kid told the May issue of Maxim he had a huge fight with Anna Nicole Smith at the Derby last year. "I had my son with me, and she strolls in shooting a TV show, so I politely ask her 'Miss, we're just trying to have a good time, and you've got those [bleeping] cameras rolling,' " Kid said. "And she was like, '[Bleep] you.' So I was like '[Bleep] me? [Bleep] you. You're a [bleep]ing pig.' Then she gave my son 300 bucks. I didn't know about it until we got home 'cause he bought some Nintendo [bleep]. I'm like, 'Where did you get the money?' He's like, 'That blond girl with the big boobs gave it to me.' " Every year Rock travels to the Derby with Peyton Manning, Dennis Hopper, Travis Tritt and George Strait. "It's kind of a little clique of us that you see every year. You have to understand the levels of whiskey involved. One time I ended up in a freestyle battle against Meat Loaf." Rock and girlfriend Jessica Stamm were expected at the Stereo party in Louisville last night.
Magic Man
HEAVYWEIGHT champ Wladimir Klitschko was here en route to Las Vegas for tonight's Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather bout and stopped by the Fantasma Magic Shop, where he impressed some professional prestidigitators with his mind-reading skills and card-trick prowess. Klitschko, a Ukrainian who lives in Germany, then worked his magic at the Rangers game as he chatted up supermodel Karolina Kurkova and Nobu owner Drew Nieporent.
Pain For Gain
AN upcoming auction for charity is going to be a big pain for one successful bidder. The Museum of Sex is offering a private session with whip-cracking dominatrix Domina M., who specializes in discipline and fetishes. Also up for grabs is a cameo in Candida Royalle's next porn production. The May 16 gala - benefiting the Muse Foundation - will also feature a live bathtub-striptease by burlesque cutie Dita von Teese.
What Paris can expect behind bars
Paris Hilton better like chicken. The hotel heiress was sentenced Friday to 45 days at the Century Regional Detention Center, Los Angeles County's jailhouse for women just south of downtown in Lynwood.Paris Hilton sentenced to jail
Hotel heiress and reality TV star Paris Hilton was ordered on Friday to spend 45 days in jail for violating the terms of her probation for alcohol-related reckless driving.Paris Hilton arrives late for hearing
Paris Hilton arrived at court 10 minutes late Friday for a probation violation hearing at which a jail sentence was a possibility.Stand By, Ms. Nemcova
SHE knows how to strut on the runway, but supermodel Petra Nemcova could not find her stride Tuesday night when she hosted a soiree on the rooftop of the Gramercy Park Hotel for her Happy Hearts Fund for tsunami survivors. Despite being instructed three times on where to stand, the leggy lass could not manage to stay put. "It's like she can't talk without moving," said one spy. Flummoxed guests included Wyclef Jean, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas and fashion designer Marc Bouwer, who told The Post's Tashara Jones, "I like a women with curves . . . A little butt is a good thing to accent."
Sightings
DJ Cassidy coaxing model Summer Rayne Oakes onto the dance floor at the Replay store on Prince Street for the party launching their "green jeans," a collection of "organic" jeans.
Prosecutors want Hilton in jail
Paris Hilton should be jailed for 45 days for violating terms of her probation for an alcohol-related reckless driving conviction, city prosecutors say.Leo, Rosie make Time's most influential
Heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio and envelope-pushers Rosie O'Donnell and Sacha Baron Cohen are among the entertainment newsmakers on Time magazine's list of 100 people who shape the world.Paris' New Pet
THOUGH many a D-lister has become "famous" for befriending Paris Hilton, the heiress' new fling, "Desperate Housewives" actor Josh Henderson , isn't one of them. "Everyone in Los Angeles is just calling him 'Paris Boy,' " said a Page Six source. "No one really knows his name, but he walks around acting like he's God's gift." Surely if the twosome are snapped after going on a few more dinner dates, he'll become a household name.
Larry Birkhead and Baby Meet the Parents
Larry Birkhead has taken his Bahamas-born, 7-month-old daughter Dannielynn to meet his family in Kentucky, saying he is looking forward to making the introductions.Gisele Bundchen, Victoria's Secret Part Ways
Gisele Bundchen and Victoria's Secret are parting ways, PEOPLE has confirmed.Anna Nicole Smith's baby leaves Bahamas
Anna Nicole Smith's ex-boyfriend quietly slipped out of the Bahamas aboard a chartered plane with their 7-month-old daughter Tuesday, according to an entertainment-news program that had a television crew aboard.Critics praise Kate Moss range, items sell out
British supermodel Kate Moss won glowing early reviews for her new clothing range on Tuesday, helping to offset some barbed criticism of the designs in the United States.Victoria's Loss
GISELE Bundchen no longer wears Victoria's Secret. The Brazilian mannequin is giving up her wings as lead angel for the lingerie giant because it wouldn't up her $5 million-a-year salary. Her sister, Patricia Bundchen, confirmed to Brazilian Web site Glamurana that contract talks had broken off. "Her demands were outrageous. She got a new lawyer who was unrealistic," said a source. "Victoria's Secret doesn't care. They have five new hotter, younger girls debuting next year. And they won't have to deal with any craziness." Reps for Bundchen didn't return e-mails. A rep for Victoria's Secret declined comment.
Moss-mania breaks out with model's new range
Hundreds of Kate Moss fans queued on Monday for an early taste of the British supermodel's first foray into fashion design at the launch of her eagerly awaited new range.Sightings
TYRA Banks singing "Proud Mary" at Spotlight Live in Times Square, backed up by Epic Records chief Charlie Walk and talent manager Benny Medina.
We Hear...
THAT high-profile supermodel Kate Moss is coming to Barneys New York on May 8 to launch her "Kate Moss for Topshop" clothing line with Sir Philip Green, the owner of Britain's trendy Topshop chain, with an after-party at the Gramercy Park Hotel.
Kate Moss clothing launch stirs fashion frenzy
Fashionistas and paparazzi face catfights at dawn this week as supermodel Kate Moss's clothes collection hits the shelves of retailer Topshop.Just Old Friends
TYRA Banks sure looked cozy with Knicks coach Isiah Thomas as they lunched at Club 66 in Midtown on Tuesday afternoon. "They looked like they were really enjoying themselves," our spy said. More interestingly, the sizzling supermodel, who arrived in her private limo, left the eatery with Thomas, jumping into the passenger seat of his SUV. Banks' and Thomas' reps called the pair "old family friends" and nothing more, noting that Banks was Thomas' courtside guest at the final Knicks home game of the season.
Sightings
GISELE Bundchen and Rufus Wainwright at Chelsea gay bar Elmo while former "Golden Girls" star Rue McClanahan signed copies of her book, "My First Five Husbands
Tyra Banks Pays $120 Brunch Tab After Mix-Up
Tyra Banks finally paid a brunch bill Thursday after mistakenly leaving a Manhattan eatery without settling the check last weekend.We Hear...
THE Edge of U2 partying with Bill Clinton, David Bowie, Helena Christensen, Jimmy Fallon and Kate Bosworth at Gramercy Park Hotel's private roof club.
Birkhead free to travel with Anna Nicole's baby
The custody fight over the baby daughter of late Playboy Playmate and tabloid star Anna Nicole Smith appeared to draw closer to an end on Wednesday after another court hearing in the Bahamas.Anna Nicole's diaries sell for $59,750
An unnamed recording company executive from Dallas has paid $59,750 for two diaries written by Anna Nicole Smith in the early 1990s.Judge releases Opri in Anna Nicole case
A Superior Court judge has signed an order releasing attorney Debra Opri from the battle over Anna Nicole Smith's baby daughter.Shanna Moakler Posts Paris's Email, Phone Number
Paris Hilton's rep is hitting back at Shanna Moakler, calling her actions "childish" and "mean-spirited" after the former Dancing with the Stars contestant posted contact information for Hilton online over the weekend.Dita Von Teese Talks About Manson's Other Woman
Dita Von Teese knew Marilyn Manson was having an "inappropriate relationship" with another woman while they were married, she says in a new interview.Sneak Peek: Last Smith role self-parody
Anna Nicole Smith was never considered a serious actress, and she's unlikely to win any posthumous film awards for her final role as a goofy, flatulent superhero who's part of a trio of alien babes protecting Earth.Similar Tastes
FOR hard rocker Tommy Lee, sharing Pamela Anderson with Kid Rock wasn't enough. Spies at the Victoria's Secret party at Tao Beach in Las Vegas the other night said Lee was vying for Rock's Danish vixen, May Anderson, all night. "He was desperately trying to talk to May," said one onlooker. "Tommy even sent members of his entourage over to ask her to join him at his table." Our source said the leggy lass refused his advances and instead opted for the polite conversation of Heidi Klum and Karolina Kurkova.
Manners Count
WHAT does Karolina Kurkova look for in a man? "It's all about what's inside," the Czech supermodel told Elle.com. "A great personality, he shouldn't take himself too seriously and he needs to be a gentleman. When a guy acts like a gentleman, that's hot. This is how I want to be treated." Kurkova was buttonholed as she announced the Victoria's Secret list of what's sexy in 2007, which included Justin Timberlake as sexiest male musician, David Beckham as sexiest dad, Kate Hudson as sexiest mom, and "Grey's Anatomy" as having the sexiest cast.
Smith's legacy now up to the attorneys
When Anna Nicole Smith died in February she left behind an infant daughter, a spurned ex-lover, an estranged mother and a financial legacy so complicated it could take a small army of lawyers years to unravel.Custody hearing ends without resolution
Anna Nicole Smith's mother and ex-boyfriend left a Bahamian court disappointed Friday as the latest closed hearing in the custody dispute over the late Playboy Playmate's infant daughter ended without resolution.Paris' New Pal
ANOTHER man has fallen prey to the wiles of Paris Hilton. Although she was supposedly dating "Desperate Housewives" hottie Josh Henderson, Hilton showed up at Teddy's in L.A. Wednesday night with sister Nicky, David Katzenberg and Petra Nemcova's ex, "You're Beautiful" whiner James Blunt. Our spy watched as Hilton and Blunt "danced and held hands" before starting to make out. Blunt's rep huffed, "This sounds like gossip to me!"
Ivanka Observed
AT the Four Seasons restaurant bash for the redesign of the New York Observer Web site, tongues wagged about radiant Ivanka Trump, the rumored love interest of the salmon-colored weekly's young, highly eligible new owner, Jared Kushner, who'll graduate from NYU next month with degrees in law and business. Both Kushner and Trump say they're "buddies" and "close friends." Ray Kelly, Bonnie Fuller, Tina Brown and Atoosa Rubenstein mingled in the Grill Room with uninvited guests who infiltrated from the CNN party for Larry King in the Pool Room.
Birkhead hopes to leave drama behind him
Larry Birkhead has only kind words to say about Howard K. Stern, his former adversary in the Anna Nicole Smith paternity case.Empty Hamper
PARIS Hilton's dirty laundry isn't for sale, but eBay is auctioning off the hamper the celebutard used at her West Hollywood home. It's "in excellent condition . . . No DNA found inside, but maybe you have a better investigator," the posting reads. There's no bidders so far. Hilton's normally unflappable rep, Elliot Mintz, told us, "I just cannot think of a single thing to say." Paris also has another pain to deal with. She has a May 4 court date in L.A. for allegedly violating her reckless-driving probation.
We Hear...
THAT Marisa Miller, the Victoria's Secret stunner and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, left agency IMG for Elite because she "felt Elite had a great energy."
Hilton ordered to attend May 4 hearing
Paris Hilton was ordered Tuesday to appear in court May 4 for allegedly violating her probation in a reckless driving case by driving with a suspended driver's license. City prosecutors are seeking to revoke Hilton's probation on grounds that she violated its conditions, which could result in a sentence of up to 90 days in jail.Eva Herzigova: I Love My Body Pregnant
More than 10 years after Eva Herzigova literally stopped traffic with her "Hello Boys" Wonderbra campaign, the Czech supermodel is flaunting new curves.Sightings
VICTORIA'S Secret model Alessandra Ambrosio making out with her boyfriend, Fluir magazine's Steve Allain, after drinking several glasses of Barefoot wine at "The Happening" art opening at Milk Studios.
Nude photos of Kate Moss to be auctioned
Nude photographs of Kate Moss will be sold at an auction in London next month among a series of other pictures of the British supermodel.Modeling Agent Ankles Firm After Big Contract Dispute
UBER-modeling agent Earnest Williams, who dis covered "Grey's Anatomy" hottie Justin Chambers, has left DNA Agency after a bitter contract dispute. After toiling for two years at DNA without a contract, Williams recently returned from a trip to Brazil to find the company had drafted one for him - with outrageous demands, a source tells us. "It stated if he were to ever leave, he could not talk to, manage, operate, or have contact with any cli ents in the fashion industry if it involved pay," the source said. The 12-page, non-negotiable contract also stated he "couldn't open his own agency within a 50-mile radius of New York City." But, the source said, that's exactly what Williams plans to do after refusing to sign the contract. Chambers and "One Life to Live" 's David Fumero plan to follow him to his new EW Entertainment office in Chelsea. "The contract was insane, and they gave him one day to sign it," said an insider. "He felt he was being held hostage, and he's happy to be moving on. He felt he hit a wall at DNA. Nothing was left there for him, there's no creativity there." Williams declined to comment.
We Hear...
THAT Milla Jovovich will be named the new face of Chanel accessories.
No takers for Anna Nicole Smith diaries
Two diaries written by Anna Nicole Smith in the early 1990s failed to sell at an auction this weekend, but are now available for a minimum bid of $25,000 each, an the auction house said Sunday.More Face Time
SUPERMODEL Liya Kebede, who's the face of Estée Lauder, is also the face of Vanity Fair's African-themed June issue. Kebede, an ambassador for the World Health Organization, shot the magazine cover last week at Industria Studios in the West Village before flying off to Ethiopia with a group of women who will be promoting health care for women and children.
Howard K. Stern files slander lawsuit
Howard K. Stern, the former attorney and companion of Anna Nicole Smith, filed a slander lawsuit Friday against an attorney for Smith's estranged mother who has suggested Stern was involved in Smith's death.Deal sought before Smith baby hearing
Custody negotiations over Anna Nicole Smith's baby daughter intensified behind the scenes as a court confrontation loomed Friday between the late Playboy Playmate's mother and former boyfriend.MAGGIE DUMPS ON PIZZA JOINT
SUPERMODELS throw things out just like us, but when it comes to disposing of them properly, it's another story. Just ask Maggie Rizer, who nearly got busted for illegally dumping her garbage behind a pizza joint near her summer retreat on Lake Ontario.Melania Trump Calls Motherhood 'Amazing'
Melania Trump is having no trouble adjusting to being a mom – though 1-year-old Barron, her son with husband Donald Trump, keeps her busy.Just Too Old
MEOW! Former supermodel Paulina Porizkova says she wasn't impressed that Farrah Fawcett and Jaid Barrymore posed nude for Playboy in their 50s. "Do you really think they looked hot? I don't think so! Those pictures gave me nightmares! I thought they looked like train wrecks," Porizkova tells Steppin' Out's Chaunce Hayden. "Somebody should have told them to know better. I know all about women's lib and we're supposed to believe we look fabulous at 50 and we should be running through the world showing our boobs. But I kind of don't agree with that."
Fashionista Simmons has Style for series
Fashion entrepreneur and author Kimora Lee Simmons will add reality-TV star to her resume when her show debuts on the Style Network in the summer.Petra Nemcova: Loving the Single Life
After splitting with James Blunt in February, how's Petra Nemcova enjoying the single life?Stern claim won't halt Anna diaries sale
An auction planned for Saturday of two diaries written by Anna Nicole Smith in the early 1990s will go on despite a claim by her lawyer-turned-partner, Howard K. Stern, that they're stolen property.Report: Willa Ford will play Anna Nicole
Willa Ford will play Anna Nicole Smith in an independent movie that begins shooting next week, Daily Variety reported Wednesday.Dannielynn's father is a man of mystery
For months, Larry Birkhead was the mysterious other man, the little known Los Angeles photographer who emerged to tell anyone who would listen that he was really the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby.Birkhead Won't Share Dannielynn
Larry Birkhead is ready and willing, if not yet able, to begin his tour of daddy duty.We Hear...
THAT Victoria's Secret bombshell Alessandra Ambrosio, who will appear in her fifth Armani Exchange ad campaign this fall, will celebrate her birthday tonight at Mokai in Miami before jetting back to New York for another party at Tenjune on Friday.
Nutty Naomi's Vague Reality
HEY, Naomi Campbell - MTV is trying to get hold of you! The music network was set to start shooting a reality show called "The Minion" with Campbell on Friday, which would have followed the garbage-lugging lunatic in her search for a new (and presumably pugilistic) assistant. But it had to cancel the show when Campbell stopped returning calls. "Producers were on the phone with her all the time, setting up the show with her and her manager - but then last week MTV stopped getting their calls returned," our source said. "The show is pulped. They don't understand why Naomi won't call back." An MTV rep said, "The show is still in production." But Jeff Raymond, Campbell's latest rep, e-mailed, "That is not true. There is no show." The confusion might have arisen because the flighty model has told several people that they can represent her - and no one at MTV is sure which manager repped her. Besides Campbell's longtime adviser Bethanne Hardison, Hollywood hotshot Bernie Cahill also thought he repped Campbell - something IMG says it does exclusively. IMG says it was unaware of a show ever being in production.
Birkhead is father of Anna Nicole's baby
A former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, was identified on Tuesday as the father of Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith's 7-month-old daughter after DNA test results were released by a Bahamas court.Sightings
TOM Brady with Gisele Bundchen leaving the 9:15 Easter Sunday Mass at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in Little Italy and holding hands and kissing as they walked to the new Whole Foods on Houston Street.
Still `Simple Life' for Paris & Nicole
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are famous for having fun.Crossed Paths
VERONICA Varekova and Elsa Benitez shared more than just a 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover - the models have both shared a bed with Italian movie producer Valerio Morabito. Spies said Benitez (ex-wife of retired Miami Heat player Rony Seikaly) and Morabito are "getting hot and heavy all over Miami," where the Mexican beauty threw her new man a 33rd-birthday party at Casa Tua. Varekova, 29, who used to date Morabito, was recently spotted getting cozy with shipping heir Stavros Niarchos, 21, at Downtown Cipriani.
First-time Flop
PAULINA Porizkova knows how to write sex scenes. The supermodel's debut novel, "A Model Summer" (Hyperion), chronicles the coming of age of a 15-year-old Swedish beauty named Jirina in the high-stakes world of fashion. While most of her sexperiments can't be printed here, Porizkova's heroine gives a priceless description of her lackluster deflowering by an older man: "His mouth is cold, his tongue is slimy like a snail . . . His face above sags . . . This sex thing is truly overrated."
Backseat Buzz
AN empty energy-drink bottle found in the back of Paris Hilton's limo is being auctioned on eBay, and seven bidders have pushed the price up to $103.50. "You, too, can say you were with Paris Hilton and her friends," the seller gushes. "I got this from my boss, whose son does club-promoting in Miami. He was at the club when Paris and all of her friends came in and this was the beverage of choice." The Motley Bird bottle says it is imported from Austria and sugar-free.
Sightings
ADRIANA Lima introducing herself to Nello Balan after lunching with friends at his Madison Avenue restaurant and discussing his plans to spend Easter weekend in Liechtenstein, where the su permodel's prince boyfriend resides.
Dita Von Teese on Marilyn Manson: 'We're Not Friends'
Dita Von Teese may be ready to move on from her marriage to Marilyn Manson, but circumstances have kept the pair in contact.Hefner recalls Anna Nicole Playboy days
Take Hugh Hefner out of the running.Anna Nicole diaries at auction
Two diaries penned by Anna Nicole Smith in the early 1990s reveal a troubled young woman professing to be deeply in love with octogenarian oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, and often depressed and concerned about her weight and eating habits.Anna Nicole's doctor faces state investigation
The psychiatrist who prescribed all 11 of the drugs found in Anna Nicole Smith's hotel room after the tabloid star died is under investigation by the Medical Board of California, a spokeswoman for the state agency said on Thursday.Larry Birkhead Denies Playing Poker, Taking Donations
Anna Nicole Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead is denying recent allegations about his behavior.600 Pills Missing from Anna Nicole's Medications
One Los Angeles-based doctor authorized the 11 prescription medications discovered in Anna Nicole Smith's Florida hotel room on Feb. 8, the day the starlet died of an accidental overdose, according documents released by Florida's Broward County medical examiner's office on Wednesday.May Andersen Thinks Kid Rock Is 'Really Sweet'
Danish model May Andersen is smitten with her beau of one month, Kid Rock, but they're taking things slowly, her rep tells PEOPLE.Doherty And Moss Prove An Online Hit
A home video of Pete Doherty strumming a guitar while his scantily-clad supermodel girlfriend Kate Moss wanders around has proved a smash hit on the internet.1 doctor prescribed Smith's drugs
One doctor authorized all 11 prescription medications found in Anna Nicole Smith's hotel room the day the Playboy Playmate died of a drug overdose, according to documents released by the medical examiner's office Wednesday.Illusion Of Glitz
MODEL Miranda Kerr assures us she did not leave her current boyfriend, Diesel model Brent Tuhtan, for movie star Orlando Bloom. Photos of Kerr and Bloom popped up on gossip Web sites and in supermarket weeklies, which declared the two were "apartment-hunting in New York" together. In fact, the meeting was a publicity stunt set up by the press-hungry Atelier condo tower on West 42nd Street. The building has offered free apartments to a slew of celebs, including Lindsay Lohan, in order to get buzz.
Loss Of Allure
KATE Moss has started to gather moss. For the first time in a decade, it looks as though the reed-thin supermodel will not make FHM's annual list of the "World's Sexiest 100 Women." While she ranked No. 87 last year, she's now thousands of votes short of making the Top 100, with the contest ending next week. "She hasn't looked great as of late," FHM spokesman Dan Cooper told us. "I think the average guy on the street prefers someone that's a little more womanly." Among those set to be high on the list this year are Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller.
Paris Dui Sketch Clipped
PARIS Hilton acted in an MTV comedy sketch featuring a drunk ditz getting pulled over for DUI - but last week, her lawyers threatened to sue the network if it wasn't deleted from tomorrow's debut episode of "ShortCircuitz." Viewers of the sketch comedy show, exec-produced by Paris pal Nick Cannon, will not get to see a phony infomercial with Hilton shilling "What Would Paris Do" bracelets, The Post's Don Kaplan reports. In the sketch - which was included on a copy of the show sent to TV critics last week - the action shifts from salesgirl Paris to "real-life" situations in which people look to their bracelets for advice. In one instance, a leggy blonde in a short skirt is busted for drunken driving. After checking her Hilton bracelet, she starts grinding on one of the cops as if he were a stripper pole. "I can't arrest you, you're too fabulous," says the officer. A few months ago, Hilton agreed to poke fun at herself and appear in the sketch, which was filmed at her house on Jan. 4, a source told Page Six. But on Feb. 27, cops busted Hilton for driving with a suspended license, a violation of her parole stemming from a drunken-driving arrest last September. A rep for Hilton did not return calls or e-mails.
Paternity of Anna Nicole's child still a mystery
DNA test results ordered by a Bahamas judge to identify the father of late Playboy Playmate and tabloid star Anna Nicole Smith's six-month-old baby daughter, Dannielynn, were not made public on Tuesday.Ivanka Trump: Smart Is Sexy
One sure way to win Ivanka Trump's heart? A high IQ.Hearing expected in Smith paternity case
The Supreme Court was expected to hold a hearing Tuesday in the paternity case of Anna Nicole Smith's infant daughter, but the lawyers and officials are prohibited by Bahamian legal rules from discussing the case, even to reveal the nature of the hearing.Anna Nicole's partner drops DNA appeal
The lawyer-turned-partner of Anna Nicole Smith dropped his bid Monday to halt the use of DNA to prove the paternity of the former Playboy playmate's infant daughter when it appeared a Bahamas court was going to reject his appeal.Closet Ambush
PARIS Hilton is slammed in Manhattan Mini Storage ads that recently appeared on phone kiosks showing a Chihuahua who looks a lot like Tinkerbell with the slogan: "Your closet's so shallow, it makes Paris look deep." We brought this to the attention of Hilton publicist Elliot Mintz, who alerted her lawyer, Howard Weitzman, who fired off a "cease-and-desist" letter to the storage company - which is also getting blowback from Republicans for such ads as, "Your closet's scarier than Bush's agenda."
Not Expecting
GISELE Bundchen put pregnancy rumors to rest on Thursday at Set nightclub in Miami. Bundchen rolled in with two of her sisters wearing "head-to-toe, body-hugging black spandex," said our spy, who added that the supermodel had "no baby bump in sight" and was sipping cocktails. The fun-loving trio danced together and Bundchen "twirled with her arms over her head" to songs by The Strokes, Lily Allen and Erasure.
Paris Hilton may face jail time
Prosecutors asked a judge on Thursday to revoke Paris Hilton's probation for reckless driving, which could lead to jail time for the celebrity socialite, the City Attorney's Office said.Paulina Porizkova done with TV dance-off
Model Paulina Porizkova was the first to be eliminated from ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," which began its fourth season last week. Porizkova and her partner, first-season champ Alec Mazo, were kicked out of the competition during Tuesday's results show.Howard: Anna Nicole Refused Emergency Treatment
Anna Nicole Smith could have been saved if she been hospitalized before her death, a medical examiner said Monday – but in a statement released Monday night, her companion Howard K. Stern said she had refused emergency care, fearing a "media frenzy."Petra Nemcova & James Blunt Split
Petra Nemcova and James Blunt are over, PEOPLE has confirmed.Dita Von Teese Says She's Not Ready to Date
Dita Von Teese, who filed for divorce from rocker Marilyn Manson in December, isn't ready to jump back into the dating scene, she tells PEOPLE.Kid Rock Steps Out with Model May Andersen
With his divorce from Pamela Anderson finalized, Kid Rock has been spotted stepping out with another blonde Anderson, this one with an "e" – Danish model May Andersen.Anna Nicole Smith died of drug overdose: official
An accidental drug overdose caused last month's sudden death of former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith, Florida officials said on Monday.Sightings
RAY "Titus Pullo" Stevenson, in town to film "Babylon Fields" for CBS, partying till 6 a.m. at Arena and dealing with "Rome" fans while Victoria's Secret's Alessandra Ambrosia was two tables away bumping and grinding.
Inquest Into Daniel Smith's Death to Begin Monday
With Anna Nicole Smith's autopsy report due to be released on Monday, the official inquest into the cause of her son Daniel's death is set to move forward in the Bahamas the same day.Anna Nicole Smith diaries sell for over $500,000
Two diaries written by Anna Nicole Smith have sold on online auction site eBay for more than $500,000 to a German man planning to use them as the basis of a book, according to the memorabilia house that sold them.Gabor's husband provides DNA sample
Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband provided a DNA sample Friday in the ongoing dispute about the paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's infant daughter, and said he wanted to raise the child if he was the father. Frederic von Anhalt said he's "almost sure" the test will prove he's the father of 6-month-old Dannielynn. He says he carried on a decades-long affair with the former Playboy Playmate of the Year.Man charged in $100,000 Paris Hilton watch theft
Eleven people have been charged with the theft of passenger property at Los Angeles International Airport, prosecutors said on Friday, including a baggage screener accused of stealing a $100,000 watch from Paris Hilton's bag.Campbell released from community service
Naomi Campbell has cleaned up her act — by getting down and dirty. The catwalker was released Friday from a garbage truck garage after completing five days of community service for assaulting her maid. The British supermodel sauntered out of the Department of Sanitation facility in Manhattan just after 4 p.m., making her exit seconds after a garbage truck rolled through the area.Anna Nicole autopsy results to be released Monday
The long-awaited results of an autopsy on former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith will be made public on Monday, possibly ending the mystery of her sudden death, a Florida medical examiner's official said on Thursday.Appeal expected on DNA in Anna Nicole baby case
Getting a jump in planning for next season, ABC announced on Wednesday that it had ordered new episodes for 14 programs that will return in the fall.Paris and Nicole Go to Camp
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are friends again, and E! is celebrating that fact by reuniting the duo for another season of "The Simple Life."Rep: Naomi Campbell Is 'Doing Great'
As Naomi Campbell heads toward the midway point in her court-ordered community service, her rep tells PEOPLE: "Naomi is doing great."Court orders Smith baby paternity test
A Bahamian judge ordered a DNA test Tuesday on Anna Nicole Smith's infant daughter to identify the girl's father, an attorney for the baby's grandmother said, the latest chapter in a bitter custody feud sparked by the pinup's death last month.Naomi Campbell Reports for Day Two of Cleanup
Another day of cleanup, another drop-dead outfit for Naomi Campbell.Sightings
TOM Brady and Gisele Bundchen having a romantic dinner at the Spotted Pig on St. Patrick's Day.
Naomi Campbell Wears Stilettos to Community Service
Even on her way to mop floors, Naomi Campbell was runway-ready.Campbell begins community service in NYC
Naomi Campbell, wearing black stilettos and slinging dark work boots over her shoulder, traded the catwalk for community service Monday at a sanitation garage to start a five-day sentence for assaulting her maid.Smith's ex in 'happy mood' after hearing
A former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith who claims to be the father of her daughter expressed optimism following a court hearing Friday. But both he and the late model's mother, who is also seeking custody of the girl, refused to discuss the case.'Criminal Intent' Does Anna Nicole
"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" will do some serious headline-ripping during May sweeps, offering up episodes that take on the death of Anna Nicole Smith and murder among astronauts.Birkhead Loses Lawyer in Anna Nicole Paternity Suit
If timing really is everything, then everything doesn't look so good for Larry Birkhead.Minogue's Rival Releases Pop Song
The model who reportedly stole Olivier Martinez away from Kylie Minogue has released a pop song cashing in on her 'other woman' status.Bahamian police in Fla. for Smith probe
Seminole tribal police and Bahamian authorities are meeting about the probe into Anna Nicole Smith's death, but prosecutors in Florida said Wednesday no homicide investigation was under way.No immediate DNA test in Anna Nicole baby battle
The battle for Anna Nicole Smith's baby resumed on Tuesday with a judge refusing to immediately order a paternity test for her former companion, Howard K. Stern, to help determine which of three men fathered the late Playboy model's 6-month-old daughter.Larry Birkhead Building a Nursery for Anna's Baby
Anna Nicole Smith's former boyfriend Larry Birkhead claims he's the father of Smith's baby daughter, Dannielynn – and is so confident about it, he's already getting his home ready for her.Lawyer wants Anna Nicole partner's DNA
A lawyer for one of three men claiming to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby asked a judge Tuesday to order the late Playboy model's partner, Howard K. Stern, to come to California and provide a DNA sample.Kate Moss: My Daughter Is My Mini-Me
Kate Moss has a reputation for being a partyer, but her nightlife includes reading a story to her 4-year-old daughter Lila before bed, she says in a new interview.DiCaprio, supermodel, arrive in Israel
Leonardo DiCaprio arrived in Israel with supermodel Bar Refaeli this weekend, creating a paparazzi storm.Hair's To Model Change
PETRA Nemcova is not the same girl she was when she met her boyfriend James Blunt - at least when it comes to her ever-changing hair. Nemcova was overheard chatting about her locks at Guastavino's. "When he met me, I was platinum blond, and then I changed to dark hair," Nemcova told fellow partygoers celebrating Ray Ban's Hide Away campaign. "The first time he saw me with my new hair he said, 'Wow! I was dating Barbarella, and now I'm dating a Bond girl!'
Infanticipating
GISELE Bundchen isn't the only catwalker who has tongues wagging with pregnancy rumors. Page Six has learned that lovely British supermodel Karen Elson and her husband, White Stripes rocker Jack White, are expecting their second baby. The couple married in June of 2005 and welcomed their daughter, Scarlett, last May. A rep for Elson had no comment.
Anna Nicole is a continuing case study
Anna Nicole Smith was a high school dropout, but she's been a fixture at law schools for years and now, more than ever, she has something to teach aspiring lawyers.We Hear...
THAT Wilhelmina Models president Sean Patterson has lured power-booker Mia Lolordo from Next Models. The former IMG agent, who's repped the likes of Heidi Klum, Tyra Banks and Rebecca Romijn, is rumored to be bringing some of her former agency's top girls with her.
Naomi Campbell 'Happy' to Mop Floors
One thing Naomi Campbell's not angry about: doing the dirty work.Anna Nicole Smith autopsy delayed
An autopsy report expected to detail how Anna Nicole Smith died has been delayed because police have turned over new evidence, the Broward County medical examiner said Thursday.Second Baby?
IS Linda Evangelista pregnant again? The supermodel - who gave birth to Augustin James Evangelista last year, but refused to name the father - has been dating billionaire Peter Morton for the past six months. A friend says she's expecting again and the baby is his. Morton, who sold the hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas last year, is also the father of Harry Morton. Morton and a rep for Evangelista didn't return calls.
We Hear...
THAT Petra Nemcova and Karolina Kurkova will lead the model contingent tonight at the Knick Bowl at Chelsea Piers, where the hoopsters will go for strikes and spares to benefit MSG's Garden of Dreams Foundation.
Terrence Howard Denies Naomi Campbell Rumors
Don't believe those rumors linking Terrence Howard to Naomi Campbell: The onetime Oscar nominee tells PEOPLE he's trying to woo back his estranged wife, Lori.O.J. A Smith Dad Candidate
ADD O.J. Simpson's name to the list of Anna Nicole Smith conquests. When the blond bombshell died last month and at least three men claimed to be the father of her baby girl, Dannielynn, the double-murder acquittee "said he was throwing his hat into the ring," Norm Pardo told Page Six. Pardo is the videographer who amassed 70 hours of footage of Simpson from 2000 to 2005. "He said he knew Anna Nicole pretty well, and he said he had slow-moving sperm, and he might be the father." Simpson and Smith were castmates in "Naked Gun 331/3: The Final Insult" (1994), and Anna Nicole was certainly O.J.'s type. His murdered wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, was also blond and busty. Simpson, who often visits the Bahamas, also joked to Pardo, "I hope they don't do a DNA test on Anna Nicole's baby. If they find out Dannielynn is mine, I don't want Fred Goldman trying to seize her money - or the baby herself." Goldman - the father of Ron Goldman, who was killed with Nicole - has been the most relentless in pursuing damages over the murders in civil court after Simpson was acquitted on criminal charges.
Naomi Campbell to mop NY floors in gloves and vest
British beauty Naomi Campbell will swap her catwalk outfits for a broom, gloves and safety vest when she begins mopping floors at New York's Sanitation Department on March 19, a court official confirmed on Tuesday.Love Jeopardises Hilton/Richie Reality Show?
Rocker Courtney Love has sparked concern about Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie's plans to work as camp counsellors for children in a TV series, after claiming drugs were readily available at Hilton's recent birthday party.Dannielynn's Caretaker: 'She's Doing Fine'
Gerlene Gibson – the woman who has been helping care for Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern – tells PEOPLE about the baby in a new interview, "She is doing fine. She is growing."Low And Lower
ANNA Nicole Smith never met a dress she didn't want smaller, says designer Andre Van Pier, whose new celeb consulting firm Luckman Van Pier has declared war on "trashy couture." He told us: "Anna kept asking me to lower the front, lower the back and raise the slit on all of the black silk dresses I created for her TrimSpa ads. She kept re peating, 'Remember, I'm the sex and glamour girl.' I told her, 'Anna, if we keep on low ering everything and raising everything, we won't have any dress left.' "
MODEL AND EX EXCHANGE FIRE
VICTORIA'S Secret model Selita Ebanks is so desperate, she'll do anything to become a famous actress, her former manager/boyfriend says. But Ebanks' high-powered lawyer says the ex-manager is an obsessive, jilted lover who can't let her go.All Too Real
DESPITE the National Enquirer's claim that the eerie post-mortem images of Anna Nicole Smith it published were "photo re-creations based on eyewitness accounts," a source close to the magazine says they were the actual photos of the Playboy playmate's corpse lying in a Florida mortuary. "We didn't want to get anyone fired," an Enquirer operative told The Post's Braden Keil. Someone with access to the refrigerated drawers scored a big payday after pulling out Smith's pre-embalmed body and unzipping the body bag for an Enquirer photographer to hurriedly snap her bluish face.
Anna Nicole burial doesn't end wrangling
Anna Nicole Smith — dressed in a designer gown, her coffin covered in a pink rhinestone-studded blanket — was buried in an extravagant funeral, but the fight over her baby and a potential large inheritance remains.Pete Doherty & Kate Moss evicted from NME Awards
Pete Doherty and Kate Moss were asked to leave the NME Awards last night, it has been claimed.Anna Nicole Smith laid to rest near son
Former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith was laid to rest Friday with all the pomp and circumstance of a royal funeral, but litigation surrounding a multi-million-dollar inheritance and the paternity of her baby daughter remain very much alive.Smith memorial to be lavish, private
Former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith will be buried beside her son Friday in a custom-made gown after an extravagant, private and "very pink" memorial service bringing together the three people battling for custody of her baby daughter.Smith's funeral to feature pink flowers
Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in a custom-made gown next to her 20-year-old son following an "over the top" memorial service with a tightly controlled guest list, said a friend helping to organize the memorial.Brinkley recovering from back surgery
Christie Brinkley was recuperating Wednesday from back surgery at a Manhattan hospital, her publicist said. "Last evening Christie Brinkley underwent emergency back surgery," said publicist Marcia Horowitz.Bahamas burial back on track for Anna Nicole
A U.S. court on Wednesday rejected a bid by the estranged mother of dead Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith to halt her burial in the Bahamas, clearing the way for an end to a battle over the decomposing body.Nick Cannon & Selita Ebanks: So In Love
Nick Cannon has been touched by an angel – Victoria's Secret Angel Selita Ebanks, that is.Florida judge evades Anna Nicole paternity fight
A Florida judge on Wednesday rejected a bid by a former boyfriend of late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith to have a Florida court decide a paternity fight over Smith's 5-month-old baby daughter, Dannielynn.Paris Hilton caught driving on suspended license
Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton was caught driving on a suspended license overnight and is to appear in court again -- while her blue Bentley remains impounded, police said on Wednesday.Playmate burial dispute back in court
A three-judge appeals panel expressed doubts Wednesday about burying Anna Nicole Smith in Texas, as her mother wants, but also questioned how the advocate in charge of funeral plans knew the Playboy model intended to be laid to rest in the Bahamas.Celebrity partygoers exposed to Hep A
A Sports Illustrated bash for its annual swimsuit issue has turned into a health scare for stars in Hollywood after a caterer working for celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck may have exposed them to acute Hepatitis A.Katharine to Tyra: My Boobs Are Real!
When Katharine McPhee sat down recently with Tyra Banks on her talk show, in an episode airing Tuesday, the Idol runner-up wanted to get something off her chest.Campbell regrets hitting maid with phone
Naomi Campbell says she very much regrets losing her temper and hitting her maid with a cell phone over a pair of missing jeans last year. "I felt very remorseful for having thrown the phone at someone that didn't deserve it," the 35-year-old supermodel tells the TV show "Extra" in an interview set to air Tuesday. "I have a deep sense of shame for the things I've done."Smith's mom briefly visits granddaughter
Anna Nicole Smith's estranged mother wept Tuesday after making a brief first visit with the 5-month-old daughter of the late former Playboy Playmate.Birkhead on Dannielynn: 'She Looks Like Me'
Larry Birkhead finally met the child he claims is his 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, whose mother is the late Anna Nicole Smith.Appeals court to consider Smith burial
The fate of Anna Nicole Smith's body was in the hands of three appeals court judges Tuesday who will decide whether to overturn a trial court ruling that meant the Playboy model would be buried in the Bahamas.Howard K. Stern to Keep Dannielynn - For Now
Anna Nicole Smith's 5-month-old daughter Dannielynn will remain in the care of Howard K. Stern – for now – after a judge in the Bahamas adjourned the custody battle until next month.Court halts Anna Nicole burial
A Florida appeals court suspended on Monday a lower court ruling that would have allowed the burial of former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith in the Bahamas, as the battle over her baby shifted to the Bahamian capital.Model Performer
JOSH Hartnett picked up a supermodel Saturday night. The "Black Hawk Down" star went to a party at the Mondrian Sky Bar for Natalia Vodianova and started chatting up Danish treat Helena Christensen . An hour later, Hartnett walked into the Chateau Marmont - with Christensen 10 paces behind him. Then he went to the bar for several minutes before disappearing into his room. Hartnett has been on a roll since he dumped Scarlett Johansson.
Anna Nicole's mother appeals to block burial ruling
Anna Nicole Smith's estranged mother asked a Florida appeals court on Monday to overturn last week's court ruling that would allow the burial of the former Playboy Playmate in the Bahamas.Birkhead hopes to see Smith infant soon
An ex-boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith who claims to be the father of her baby girl said Monday he hopes to see the infant soon as he entered a Bahamian courthouse for a three-way custody battle.Attorney: No Smith funeral before Tues.
Anna Nicole Smith's funeral will not take place before Tuesday, the court-appointed attorney for the starlet's baby daughter said Saturday.Hefner: Smith wanted to be with her son
Hugh Hefner says he believes Anna Nicole Smith — a Playboy Playmate in 1992 — wanted to be buried in the Bahamas next to her late son, Daniel.Fla. judge mocked over Anna Nicole case
From the state that brought you the hanging chad, now comes the crying judge. Some members of the bar and other court-watchers are cringing over the way Judge Larry Seidlin wept — no, sobbed — on live, national TV as he announced a ruling Thursday in the dispute over where Anna Nicole Smith should be buried.Disputes in Smith saga move to Bahamas
With a feud over Anna Nicole Smith's resting place resolved by a Florida court, judges in the Bahamas were preparing to take up disputes over custody of the late model's 5-month-old daughter and ownership of her waterfront residence.Florida judge disinclined to take on Anna Nicole case
A Florida judge added more uncertainty to the paternity battle over Anna Nicole Smith's baby on Friday when he said he wasn't sure he had jurisdiction over the case.Daniel Smith Police Report: New Revelations
Shortly after Anna Nicole Smith's son Daniel died while visiting his mother in a Bahamas hospital, Howard K. Stern appeared to have "flushed [a couple] of prescription drugs down the toilet" in the house he shared with Smith, according to a witness interviewed by Bahamian police.Smith's messy death eclipses wacky life
"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair," the late British author W. Somerset Maugham has oft been quoted as saying. He obviously didn't live in the Anna Nicole Smith era.Ex-Playboy model Anna Nicole nears Bahamas burial
Former Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas after most of the parties feuding over her corpse reached a deal on Thursday to lay her to rest next to her dead son.Report: Cannon Marries Model in Vegas
Nick Cannon may have been wild and out even for him in Las Vegas last weekend.Attorney: No Smith funeral before Tues.
Anna Nicole Smith's funeral will not take place before Tuesday, the court-appointed attorney for the starlet's baby daughter said Saturday.Hefner: Smith wanted to be with her son
Hugh Hefner says he believes Anna Nicole Smith — a Playboy Playmate in 1992 — wanted to be buried in the Bahamas next to her late son, Daniel.Fla. judge mocked over Anna Nicole case
From the state that brought you the hanging chad, now comes the crying judge. Some members of the bar and other court-watchers are cringing over the way Judge Larry Seidlin wept — no, sobbed — on live, national TV as he announced a ruling Thursday in the dispute over where Anna Nicole Smith should be buried.Larry Birkhead: Anna & I Talked About Marriage
Larry Birkhead, Anna Nicole Smith's former boyfriend who claims to be the father of her 5-month-old daughter Dannielynn, took the stand on Wednesday during the ongoing hearing to decide who will get custody of Smith's remains.Feuding Anna Nicole entourage views her corpse
The feuding mother, partner and former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith took a brief break from a courtroom battle over the Playboy model's corpse on Wednesday to get a private viewing of her rapidly decomposing body in a Florida morgue.Smith's mother fears for baby's life
Anna Nicole Smith's mother says she is afraid for the safety of her granddaughter in the custody of Howard K. Stern.Inside Howard K. Stern's "Get Slim Quick" Plan for Anna Nicole
Even as the E! network was hiring überfitness trainer Tony Little to get the increasingly plus-sized Anna Nicole Smith into shape, her lawyer and companion, Howard K. Stern, was already brokering a deal with TrimSpa, Little tells TV Guide — an arrangement which would have netted Stern a lot of cash.Judge seeks Anna Nicole case compromise
The judge preceding over the drawn-out court battle over what to do with Anna Nicole Smith's body indicated Wednesday he was seeking a compromise to appease both the starlet's boyfriend and her estranged mother.Howard K. Stern: Anna Nicole Was 'My Whole World'
Anna Nicole Smith's longtime companion and lawyer Howard K. Stern took the stand in a Florida courtroom Tuesday, calling the former model "pretty much my whole world."Boyfriend tells of Smith burial wishes
Anna Nicole Smith wanted to be buried next to her son in the Bahamas, where she lived, her companion testified Tuesday in the latest round of legal battles surrounding the model's death.Judge ponders question on Smith burial
The boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith appeared in court Tuesday in his quest to "carry out what Anna Nicole wanted" on her burial, closing his eyes as her embalming was discussed.Paris Loses In B-day Battle
HOLLYWOOD A-listers shunned celebutard Paris Hilton's 26th birthday in Las Vegas in favor of hanging out in New York for Untitled Entertainment founder Jason Weinberg's 40th birthday at Midtown hot spot The Grand on Friday night. The power player toasted his big day with close friends Clive Davis, Kanye West, Marissa Tomei, Amy Sacco and Naomi Watts. Weinberg even had his "Happy Birthday" sung to him by Blondie legend Debbie Harry. Meanwhile, Hilton held her party at Body English at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Vegas, but the bash turned out to be more of a bust. "There were no names there except for [sister] Nicky Hilton and Nicole Richie," said our source. But even without many boldfaces, things at the after-party at the Penthouse Suite got a little odd. After downing TY KU liquor and bottles of Dom Perignon, guests reported seeing Hilton play with a monkey while a band of midgets led a pack of goats around the room.
Just Stay There
MODEL Amber Valletta is no New Yorker. The hot blonde tells C magazine, "I commend anyone who has children in New York. I got pregnant, and it was such a good excuse to leave. My son has never lived there, but he was with me for a few weeks when I filmed 'Hitch' there. We're both so noise sensitive, with the jackhammers, the taxis honking, people everywhere. My life here is totally different. We'll go hiking in the Santa Monica Mountains."
Anna Nicole Smith's Rise and Tragic Fall: An Inside Look
The week after Anna Nicole Smith’s mysterious death on Feb. 7, the satiric Daily Show with Jon Stewart aired a segment questioning the intense media scrutiny and interest.As an example, Jon Stewart pointed out that CNN aired a 90-minute, commercial-free program dedicated to the late stripper turned red-carpet regular, whose only claim to fame was the parading of her voluptuous assets and her 1994 marriage to a wheelchair-bound billionaire several decades older.Smith joins grisly club of Playmates
The selection of Anna Nicole Smith as a Playboy Playmate in 1992 made her a member of an exclusive sorority. Her death at 39 put her in a more grisly club — Playmates who haven't reached their 50th birthday.Embalmers finish work on Anna Nicole
The body of starlet Anna Nicole Smith was embalmed Saturday, under a court order issued a day earlier.Web site can't sell off Hilton items
A federal judge on Friday barred a Web site from peddling Paris Hilton's racy photos, videos, diary entries and other personal items."Innocent" Anna Nicole Smith in documentary
She may have lived nearly half her life in the spotlight, but there's still some video of the late Anna Nicole Smith that you haven't seen.Anna Nicole's will, from 2001, released
In a will signed on July 30, 2001, former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith left her estate to her late son, Daniel, and appointed her lawyer and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, as the trustee.Paris Hilton looks bored at Vienna ball
She could have danced all night. Instead, she stifled yawns.Sightings
GISELE Bundchen, who's dating Tom Brady, taking an "S Factor" pole-dancing class on West 23rd Street.
Calif. examines doctor linked to Smith
The state medical board said Thursday that it is investigating a California doctor who may have prescribed methadone to Anna Nicole Smith through a prescription that contained an alias.No decision on who buries Anna Nicole
A Florida judge on Thursday ordered that new DNA samples be taken from the body of Anna Nicole Smith but made no decision on whether her boyfriend or her mother has the right to bury the former Playboy Playmate.New DNA test in Anna Nicole Smith case
A judge ordered another DNA sample be taken from Anna Nicole Smith's body Thursday as he heard often fiery arguments in the fight over the former Playboy Playmate's remains and custody of her infant daughter.Naomi Campbell Says She's 'Okay' with Herself
Naomi Campbell, who recently pleaded guilty to charges of misdemeanor assault for attacking her former housekeeper, tells PEOPLE: "I take responsibility for anything I do."Judge: Birkhead May Review Anna Nicole DNA
Anna Nicole Smith's body remains stuck in the morgue, but an expert working for ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead will be allowed to review DNA samples taken from the body to make sure no one will substitute other samples in the paternity fight over Smith's daughter Dannielynn, a Florida judge ruled Thursday.Bahamas police enter Smith mansion
Police on Thursday entered the oceanfront home that was shared by Anna Nicole Smith and her companion, Howard K. Stern, until the former Playboy Playmate's death.Paris Hilton star guest at Vienna Ball
Hundreds of shrieking, frenzied fans welcomed Paris Hilton as she made an appearance at a Vienna mall Thursday to sign autographs.L.A. judge lifts hold on Anna Nicole's body
Los Angeles judge on Wednesday lifted an order that kept Anna Nicole Smith's body from being buried, saying that DNA required for a legal battle over her baby daughter had already been obtained.Tyra Banks to mark S.I. cover milestone
Tyra Banks marks a modeling milestone next week, and is donning a decade-old bikini to celebrate the special anniversary.We Hear...
THAT Paris Hilton will celebrate her 26th birthday with Nicole Richie, Joel Madden and Snoop Dogg at Hard Rock Hotel club Body English in Las Vegas on Saturday.
Nicky's Eyeful
NICKY Hilton is gearing up to battle the developer who's suing her for allegedly reneging on deals to promote Nicky-O hotels in Miami and Chicago. Robert Falor filed a suit in Illinois against the hotel heiress and her manager, Paul Fisher, claiming he subsidized a "lavish" lifestyle for them, including a Cadillac Escalade for Fisher, parties for Hilton and her friends and free plasma TVs for both. Nicky's publicist, Elliot Mintz, told us, "There is much more here than meets the eye."
Twins' Anna Grief
Favorite Playboy Playmate duo the Barbi twins (Shane and Sia) say they tried to stage an intervention with Anna Nicole Smith years ago - but their efforts were a bust. The titillating twins told TMZ.com they left a phone message urging Smith to go to AA with them but "we never heard from her again."
Fla. battle over Anna Nicole Smith's body
Two men claiming to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby are now battling over the late model's body.Anna Nicole Smith's last film due in May on DVD
The last movie made by stripper-turned-celebrity Anna Nicole Smith, a sci-fi comedy titled "Illegal Aliens," will be released on DVD in May, its distributor said on Tuesday.Bahamas official defends Smith photos
The Bahamas immigration minister denied that his friendship with Anna Nicole Smith influenced his decision to grant her residency, and his political allies lent him their support Tuesday after photographs showed the pair on a bed.Continue Reading More Of The Archive Here!