Paris Hilton

An heir to the Hilton hotel fortune yesterday was charged with DUI, L.A. prosecutors say. Paris Hilton, 25, a fledgling TV and movie actress, would-be pop singer, and accomplished professional partier, was arrested Sept. 7 after being stopped in her Mercedes-Benz SLR. Cops said Paris' blood-alcohol level was 0.08 percent, which happens to be the minimum level that warrants an arrest. (Is the city of L.A. persecuting the girl?) Hilton's spokesman, Elliot Mintz, said the charges were not unexpected.

OVER THE years, I've stood behind this newspaper and its decisions about what or who is on the cover. But I'm disgusted with your cover story on Jan. 30 about Paris Hilton. I don't care where she started, or where she is headed unless it is OUT of the limelight. You found her to be a more important story than the loss of a beloved DJ. I have listened to Ed Sciaky for many years and followed him from station to station. This is a man loved by so very many people in the radio community, the music community and the city of Philadelphia.

LET'S SEE . . . Charges dismissed against two people held in Guantanamo for over four years, one of whom was 15 when he went in? Page 33. Two U.S. soldiers abducted in Iraq have now been killed, according to their captors? Page 10. Fencl Award winner Kimberly Byrd? Page 8. Bill Cosby in town join rally against the spiraling murder rate? Page 7. Meanwhile, Paris Hilton going to jail gets a huge portion of the front page,with the gripping story starting on Page 3, along with another large photo.

IF YOU'VE BEEN waiting for just the right moment to shell out $40 so you could enter the Internet world of Paris Hilton's junk, that yacht may have sailed. A federal judge who's probably checked out all the good stuff already has issued a temporary injunction against the ParisExposed.com Web site peddling personal pictures, videos, diaries, and other items that the randy rich girl once kept at a storage facility somebody forgot to pay for. Paris sued ParisExposed.com last month, accusing it of exploiting her private personal belongings for commercial gain.

SHANNA MOAKLER, Paris Hilton, let's get ready to rummmble! It happened early Wednesday at Hyde, the trendy L.A. club known as much for who doesn't get in as who does. Moakler (estranged wife of Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker) and a former Playboy model still smarting from her recent dismissal from "Dancing With the Stars," was there - in one corner. Hilton, the ubiquitous, sworn-off-men, faux singer and hotel heiress, recently videotaped kissing Barker, was in the other corner.

IT'S HARD to imagine Paris Hilton mad. In fact it's hard to imagine Paris without a smile on her face and a drink in her hand, dancing the night away in Ibiza. But Paris does indeed seem to be mad - over a steamy sex video that may soon go public. The homemade video reportedly features the vapid socialite and heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune having sex with Rick Solomon, who would later go on to marry, break up with and reconcile with Shannen Doherty. Although Paris knew the video was being made (she works at positioning her best side toward the camera)

If you are Cy Waits , bf of hotel inheritress Paris Hilton , your head must be spinning. And not just from the booze. Fast-backward to Tuesday. Paris' crib in L.A. Noises! You rush outside and hold a gun on alleged burglar Nathan Parada until police come. Hero! Wednesday, you're promoted to head of nightclub ops for Wynn and Hilton ! Hray! But Friday, in Las Vegas, mwa mwa mwa mwa (fail trombone), you're driving with your lady in the car and - busted! You are, for DUI. Paris?

Talk about celebrity worship gone wild. Hundreds of Philadelphians - including a woman who said she was a Benedictine nun - converged on the Center City Macy's yesterday afternoon to get a glimpse of celebrity heiress Paris Hilton. "We love everything about her. Her clothes, her hair, her handbags, her shoes - even her dog, Tinkerbell," said Mary Ellen Mullins, 56, who bought a $55 bottle of Hilton's fourth fragrance, Can-Can, just to meet her. Mullins' 50-year-old sister, Kate Newcomber, gushed: "I would just love to spend the day with her. Wake up in the morning and party with her all day and night until she goes to bed at 6 a.m. " "Yeah," chimed in Rich Rosa, 19. "She can live a party life.

Have you seen the new T-Mobile commercial with Snoop Dogg in a Laundromat puzzling over the right time to add fabric softener? He sends out a wireless appeal to a bizarre posse that includes Wayne Newton, Jeffrey Tambor, Jackass dwarf Weeman, and Paris Hilton. Looking at Snoop's message on her cell phone, Hilton says to the old man sitting next to her at the DMV, "Snoop does his own laundry? That's hot. " This ad marks a subtle but alarming development in the Hilton oeuvre.

THE WORLD is a better place. Paris Hilton is back in jail, and Tony Soprano is still alive. (We think.) Fade to black. Paris will be just fine. Jail stints and rehab are the new "gotta haves" for any would-be celebrity, talented or not. She gets some street cred, and a surprising amount of sympathy even after receiving preferential treatment. And once her stay is up, she'll walk out of the clink followed by a slew of photographers and, we're sure, offers for a new TV show, a cosmetic and clothing line, and a book deal.

EVERY DAY, millions march into liquor stores and stumble home from bars in the wee hours. Lives are destroyed. Homes are broken into pieces. Children suffer, but later replicate. This is, however, if the drunk doesn't drive. Thousands are dead in Pakistan. Unemployment is at 10 percent. The proud promise of a presidency is at a 38 percent approval rating. Thirty-three percent of all African-American males are in jail. But, the big story today (ABC News) is that Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton are guilty, again!

  Japanese immigration authorities on Tuesday stopped Paris Hilton from entering the country following her guilty plea Monday to drug charges in Las Vegas. The Kyodo news agency says Paris, 29, was questioned for hours at Tokyo's Narita Airport. She was cleared to spend the night at an airport hotel but must report for more questioning Wednesday.   Cop: Sheen got off too easy Former Aspen, Colo., police officer Valerie McFarlane , who was on the scene when Charlie Sheen was arrested for assaulting his wife, Brooke Mueller , tells E!

Jessica Alba 's dad, Mark , is Mexican American. (Her ma, Catherine , is of Danish and French Canadian descent.) Yet the Dark Angel star has never played a Latina. That is, until her smokin' turn as a Mexican American federal agent in Machete , Robert Rodriguez 's blood-soaked, politically charged homage to grindhouse flicks. Alba, 29, tells USA Today she took the role because unlike many Latinas in the flicks, her character, Sartana, is "an intelligent, fierce, independent woman.

WITH SO much media scrutiny going on in the world, you'd think that the people under that scrutiny would start to behave a little smarter. Politicians routinely stake out positions opposite to those staked out previously - and they're all on video. Athletes claim they've never taken steroids when years earlier they had muscles like a post-spinach Popeye. Corporate CEOs make claims irreconcilable with statements to congress or shareholders that end up on "The Daily Show," or YouTube.

If you are Cy Waits , bf of hotel inheritress Paris Hilton , your head must be spinning. And not just from the booze. Fast-backward to Tuesday. Paris' crib in L.A. Noises! You rush outside and hold a gun on alleged burglar Nathan Parada until police come. Hero! Wednesday, you're promoted to head of nightclub ops for Wynn and Hilton ! Hray! But Friday, in Las Vegas, mwa mwa mwa mwa (fail trombone), you're driving with your lady in the car and - busted! You are, for DUI. Paris?

PARIS HILTON arrived at a Miami courthouse yesterday for the trial of a federal lawsuit accusing her of failing to adequately promote the DVD release of one of her really bad movies - 2006's "Pledge This!" Yesterday, Lohan. Today, Hilton. It reminds Tattle of a time before every story was about Michael Jackson. She is expected to testify today. Ah, Paris H. (not to now be confused with Michael's daughter, Paris J.), we missed you. The suit seeks more than $8 million from Hilton and her firm.

SURELY, YOU, like Tattle, thought Benji Madden was The One for Paris Hilton. He didn't look like a Greek god. He wasn't insanely wealthy. He didn't live simply to get his face in a magazine. He didn't seem to care about the difference between a designer label and a Budweiser label. Paris repeatedly spoke of the Good Charlotte rocker as if he was her soulmate, her best friend, the future father of her many children. And he agreed. Well, it's over. See ya. Life & Style Weekly reported the sorrowful turn of events yesterday.

IT'S BEEN awhile since we had an item on Paris Hilton, and haven't you missed her? It's a rhetorical question. But with a new TV show to promote in England, Paris sat down with the News of the World and opened up about love-of-her-life Benji Madden and why it's hard for her to trust men. "Every other guy I've been out with has used me for money or sex," Paris said, "but in most cases they just want fame. It made it hard to trust people. " Paris, dear, you could have said no. As for one of those untrustworthy scoundrels, Rick Salomon, Paris said: "I loved this guy for three years but he betrayed me. Rick's a scumbag and I hate him. "It was just the most horrible thing that's ever happened to me," she said of Salomon releasing their day-glo-green homemade porn film.

Paris Hilton's greatest professional achievement thus far might be the mug shot after her DUI arrest: hair, eyeliner and lip gloss all camera-fabulous. In The Hottie and the Nottie , a vanity picture starring Herself as the vanilla cutie unaccountably loyal to her grotesquely unattractive best bud, Hilton has the meticulously manicured appeal of a lawn where every blade of grass has been individually cut and polished. Head coyly tilted, hip out-thrust, she makes purring kitten, predatory lioness moves not often seen outside of beer ads. Though Hilton may be a model, if her work in Hottie is any indication, she is no actress.

Are there any grown-ups left in America who feel anything but disdain - mollified, perhaps, by a little pity - for Paris Hilton? After nearly five years in the public spotlight as one of the country's foremost party-chicks, and after that fateful year last year, when Paris and her Power GirlieGirl pals Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears partied themselves into near-oblivion, not to mention jail, Paris' name has become synonymous with everything that...