celebrity scandals

Paris Enters Not-Guilty Plea

Paris is bucking the system and taking her chances with, by our best estimate, a very pricey (hence influential) criminal defense attorney. Just shortly ago, a plea of not guilty to DUI charges were made on her behalf.

As most of us know the 25 year-old luxury hotel heiress was arrested on September 7, just after midnight for driving erratically in her silver Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren in Hollywood.

She scored 0.08 on a breathalyzer, the minimum blood alcohol level required for a DUI arrest in California.

Paris’ reps jumped on the story, saying that Paris was completely embarrassed by the whole incident.

Following her release from jail, Paris made a verizon cell phone call to Ryan Seacrest’s L.A. radio show, explaining on-air that she hadn’t eaten anything all day and had worked for hours on the set of her new music video.

According to Paris, she only drank one margarita at an event that evening and was on her way to a fast-food restaurant when she was pulled over.

Asked by Seacrest if she had been driving erratically, Hilton replied, “No, I was just really hungry and I wanted to have an In-N-Out burger!”

The heiress was subsequently charged with two misdemeanors: DUI and driving with a blood-alcohol level of .08 or higher.

Her next court date is slated for Jan. 23.

It is opined that eventually the DA will offer her a plea bargain to a lesser charge in which she’ll do no jail time, no community service, and just pay a fine.

The hotel heiress and socialite has no prior DUI arrests.

If no plea is offered and she were convicted, she could be sentenced to six months in jail and fined $1,000. The minimum penalty for a first-time offender is a fine, probation and rehab.

Luckily for her, she has the money to get a good lawyer, pay a fine and keep doin’ her thing!

What Are They Doing Now?

Updates to the Celebrity Gossip articles we’ve brought to you recently. Oh you know they had to get better, right? Well, check out these exciting updates on your favorite celebrities.

Looks like Mel B (aka Scary Spice aka Melanie Brown) hates Eddie Murphy too, and she’s going to take him to the cleaners! You Go Girl!!!!!!! (Find out more at 3am Girls)

Nicole Richie sure does love to scarf down big cheeseburgers. Soon she’ll have real cleavage! (See the photo at Sun)

Looks like we’ll soon know who the real father of Anna Nicole Smith‘s daughter, Dannilynn Hope, is… (Read this story at People)

Reichen and Lance Bass are NOT over, they’re still going strong. Yeaaaaa! Oh, and Reichen is working on a class action lawsuit against Perez Hilton. Interesting. (Read the details at Reichen’s MySpace)

Hilary Duff calls Joel Madden’s new chick, Nicole Richie, a skank. CATFIGHT is on! (more details at Us Magazine)

Two Words:  TEAM ROSIE

Watch these two videos and tell me which team you’re on!  My thoughts… Donald hit below the belt and if all he has is her looks to hit back at her with, then he needs to seriously go look in a mirror.

Then go read Rosie’s blog… please.. click here to read her post.

Hey Rosie, I love Wikipedia too!

Nicole Richie… Party Pooper

The party is O-V-E-R for Miss Nicole Richie.  Well, at least for New Year’s Eve.  Daddy’s little girl has stepped down from her fabulous hosting at Tangerine in Las Vegas.

Have no fear party people, Dave Navarro has stepped in to insure all have a great time.  Dave would probably be more fun anyway!

What’s Nicole doing now for New Years? Maybe she’ll stay home with Joel Madden. Sounds like a party.

photo: flynet

Miss Kentucky Keeps her Miss USA Crown

This girl better find God and tell him, “Thanks!”

Donald Trump has given Miss USA Tara Conner a second chance. A man like Donald doesn’t do this often.

Donald said, “Tara is a good person. Tara has tried hard. Tara is going to be given a second chance. I’ve always been a believer in second chances.”

He admitted that he had originally planned to relieve Conner of her duties but changed his mind after speaking with her prior to the press conference. “I expected fairly routinely that we would be terminating Tara as Miss USA. After speaking to her…I saw somebody with a good heart that tried really, really hard.”

He continued: “She left a small town in Kentucky…and got caught up in the whirlwind of New York It’s a story that’s happened many times before to women and men who came to the Big Apple.”

photo: splash