Paris to speak about jail life
2007-06-27 11:57
Raquel Maria Dillon, Andrew Dalton and Andrew Glazer
Los Angeles - Paris Hilton speaks about life after jail.
Well, not quite yet - she has been holed up in her grandparents' Los Angeles mansion since walking out of the Century Regional Detention Facility early on Tuesday to a swarm of media and gawkers.
But she was expected to make her first public comments since leaving the jail later on Wednesday during an interview on CNN's Larry King Live, where no topic was going to be off limits.
The hotel heiress and notorious party girl has given hints about what's next, though.
"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 has said she would like to change people's perceptions of her.
"I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26-years-old, and that act is no longer cute," Hilton told Barbara Walters a few days into her jail stint.
'Focus on more important things'
Still, little has been said about the medical condition that persuaded Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca to authorise what ended up being a brief transfer to home confinement just days after entering the all-women's jail in Lynwood.
However, she has spoken out about the furious debate it ignited.
"I must also say that I was shocked to see all of the attention devoted to the amount of time I would spend in jail for what I had done by the media, public and city officials. 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."
To help reshape her image, Hilton has enlisted crisis management expert Michael Sitrick, whose Los Angeles firm has represented singer R Kelly and drummer Tommy Lee.
For now, however, the image splashed on the internet and in newspapers has been of her red-carpet style exit from jail.
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 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 and a stop at her grandparents' house.
Paris 'was hungry'
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.
Hilton's path to jail began September 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 licence. The second stop landed her in court and then in jail.
- AP