Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Paris Hilton is "emotionally distraught and traumatized" over her 45-day jail sentence and is not capable of testifying in a civil lawsuit against her, the socialite-reality TV star's psychiatrist said.
Dr. Charles Sophy has been seeing Hilton, 26, for the past eight months and has talked with her several times since her May 4 hearing for violating the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case, according to court papers.
Sophy said Hilton needs time to recover from the shock of receiving jail time before testifying in a civil case brought against her by actress and diamond heiress Zeta Graff.
Messages left with Hilton's spokesman and lawyer were not immediately returned early Tuesday. (Watch a Hilton family friend say Paris deserves to do time )
In court papers filed Monday, Sophy said Hilton is "distraught and traumatized as a consequence of the findings at the May 4 hearing ... and her fear of incarceration."
"At this point in time," he continued, "Ms. Hilton cannot effectively respond to examination as a witness or provide any significant input into her defense."
Graff filed a $10 million lawsuit against Hilton in 2005, claiming the reality TV star spread "vicious lies" about her. Hilton has denied that she was behind a report alleging Graff once tried to grab a necklace worth $4 million from her throat.
Superior Court Judge Linda K. Lefkowitz postponed the trial to August. It had been scheduled to begin this month.
Hilton and her pal Nicole Richie star on "The Simple Life," which throws them into everyday situations. After famously feuding and filming their parts separately last season, the celebutantes have reunited as camp counselors for the show's upcoming fifth installment.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/05/15/paris.hilton.ap/index.html
AWW POOR PARIS!!!
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
How did she ever get elected?
My heart bleeds for the poor darlin'.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
This makes me physically sick.
The only appropriate action at this point is a VERY public execution.
The thought that young people look up to this piece of excrement is a sign of the Apocolypse.
I would get a lot of satisfaction out of flicking Paris repeadley on the ear. Don't really know why, but I'd really like to do that.
i'm not saying this as some life long fan of hers or anything...
i seriously dont think the punishment fit the crime.
when my brother and i were younger, we were in the car with our mom and hit by a drunk driver on the highway. our car was totaled but thankfully we were ok. he did not serve any time in jail.
she's being put in one of the toughest jails in the country.
she's not a felon, she's an idiot. people like her have never had anyone teach them right form wrong. her publicist or someone (i forgot who) told her it was ok to drive beacuse it was for work.
send her to driving school. make her pass tests before she can drive again. make her do community service and donate some of her money to charity.
if i was her i would be terrified too. i have no doubt that she is going to be treated 10 times worse than anyone else in that prison just beacuse of who she is.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
Abba, I think that her punishment was beyond appropriate. Drunk driving is inexcusable, especially multiple times after she had been previously punished. Idiocy and ignorance of the law are not get-out-of-jail-free passes in America. If she had been really concerned about what she was doing she would have looked more thoroughly into what she was supposed to do after her license was taken away. I realize that she has grown up in an environment where she has been able to get away with everything, but that's not ht e way our society works and it's about damn time she learns that.
As for the drunk driver tha hit your car, how on God's green Earth did he get out of jail? that doesn't even make sense. THat right there is the real judicial tragedy, not Paris hilton having to serve a few weeks in prison for being a repeated offender.
God forbid She should be held to the same standards as us mere mortals. I'm only sorry she didn't get the full 90 days.
"I would get a lot of satisfaction out of flicking Paris repeadley on the ear. Don't really know why, but I'd really like to do that."
LOL! Great response!
LOL!
She's not going to be in with the general population, but in an area for high profile prisoners. Suck it up, you'll be out in less than a month!
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/18/04
Abba, she is not going to jail because of drunk driving. She's going to jail because she violated probation and missed her court appearance. Most people would go to jail for that. Her excuse that her publicist didn't tell her was LAME.
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