Paris Hilton has had her day in court. Well, another day. This time, the celebutante wasn’t worried about her DUI charge. No, she had her lawyers plead no contest at the end of January. Paris will serve 36 months probation, pay a $390 fine and attend an “alcohol education program.”
Currently, Paris and her legal team are protesting ParisExposed.com. The web site, which charged viewers $39.97 for a ‘glimpse of Paris passport,’ apparently got hold of some of Paris’ items from a North Hollywood storage locker that The Simple Life diva rented – and missed some rental payments on – back in 2005. The items from that locker were eventually sold to one Bardi Persa, the purveyor of ParisExposed.com, for a cool $10 million dollars.
These private items included photos, videos, diaries, emails, medical information, and the heiress’ Social Security number.
Paris is suing Persa for copyright infringement, invasion of privacy and “violation of her right to publicity.” Miss Hilton and her lawyer, Howard Weitzman, also asked for a restraining order, which they received on Friday, February 2, 2007.
According to TMZ.com, the injunction “prohibits Persa from temporarily peddling Paris' health information, Social Security number, phone numbers, addresses, banking and financial information and photographs, videos, and writings depicting Plaintiff in a sexual manner not previously exposed to public viewing. The injunction also prohibits Persa from peddling Paris' name, voice, photograph, or likeness in connection with any website, whether under the domain www.parisexposed.net or otherwise, in connection with the offer or sale of any good (sic) or service without Plaintiff's consent.”
Persa will return to court on February 16, 2007 to ask that the injunction be lifted.