Paris Hilton (Credit: Wire Image)
Paris Hilton is heading to prison for a 45 day stint beginning on June 5th. The socialite has said that "I feel that I was treated unfairly and that the sentence is both cruel and unwarranted and I don't deserve this.” She also admitted that she wasn’t aware that she couldn’t drive and was apparently told by her now ex-publicist Elliot Mintz that she could operate a vehicle for “work-related reasons.”
Mintz admits that the duo parted ways over “a misunderstanding she received from me regarding the terms of her probation.”
Despite the jail sentence, which her attorneys will most likely fight, Miss Hilton’s celebrity will probably not wane anytime soon. Jail didn’t do much harm to Martha Stewart’s or Lil ‘Kim’s careers, did it? As veteran publicist David Brokaw told the Associated Press, “The premise of her fame is being naughty. This is a career move for her. It simply fuels the fascination. She can only win with this.”