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The Bitch is Back…. in Jail!
Paris Hilton is heading back to jail and she won’t go quietly.
Hilton was screaming and crying after the Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer ordered her returned to jail to serve out her entire 45-day sentence for a parole violation in a reckless driving case.
“It’s not right!” she shouted before she called out “Mom!”
After hours of anticipation, Hilton was picked up at her home by a black and white patrol car and driven to court in handcuffs.
The judge ordered the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to get Hilton and bring her to court. This after the Los Angeles Superior Court Public Information Officer Allan Parachini earlier said that Hilton would not be appearing in court. Instead she was going to join the hearing via a conference call.
Hollywood Hills was a Hilton frenzy this morning.
Helicopters hovered over her mansion and a band of Chihuahuas was seen on her patio barking at all the action.
Prosecutors are seeking to hold the sheriff’s department, that runs the Century Regional Detention Facility, in contempt for releasing Hilton early from jail and a hearing will be held at noon today.
“We cannot tolerate a two-tiered jail system where the rich and powerful receive special treatment,” said Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, the prosecutor on the case.
Delgadillo is questioning why Hilton’s “medical condition” wasn’t treated at the detention facility, which has a medical staff and an infirmary.
Not only this, but Judge Sauer, who sentenced Hilton, wrote in court documents that Hilton was not allowed to substitute a lesser punishment for time in jail.
Sauer explicitly wrote, “No work furlough. No work release. No electronic monitoring.”
According to Allan Parachini, the public informations officer for the L.A. Superior Court told ABC, “Early release decisions are the province of the sheriff every day due to jail overcrowding but not always. In this particular manner Judge Sauer was advised yesterday afternoon of the sheriff’s intention to release her and his response was that he reaffirmed the terms of the sentence on May 4th.”
And yet, Hilton was “reassigned” to her multi-million dollar home in Hollywood Hills.
Party On?
There she is required to wear a monitored ankle bracelet for 40 days. The ankle bracelet has a range of 3,000 to 4,000 square feet.
Under the terms of her house arrest, Hilton can stroll outside, get the mail and maybe even throw a party if she wants, said Bob Taylor of the the Los Angeles County Probation Department.
Any trip beyond her home would require the permission of the Probation Department.
Taylor said that while normally those under house arrest with a 9-to-5 job are allowed to go to work, it is very unlikely the socialite would be given permission to attend a party or an event for which she would be paid.
But she may not be that isolated. Taylor said Hilton can invite guests over and even throw a party and sip cocktails, because nobody would monitor who is in her home or how she behaves.
Hilton was sentenced to prison for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case, and was released from jail for medical reasons.
“With the help of medical personnel and doctors, it was determined that she be reassigned to a community-based electronic monitoring program,” said Steven Whitmore, the sheriff’s department spokesman.
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If she leaves her home while on house arrest, Whitmore said, she will most likely be remanded to court, and her jail time would be bumped up to 90 days. Hilton’s sentence was initially shortened from 45 days to 23 days, because of state rules allowing shorter sentences for good behavior.
“Because she has agreed to this through her attorney, her sentence is now back up to 45 days. She has already served five days, so that’s 40 days,” Whitmore said.
Through her attorney, Paris Hilton issued a written statement thanking the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for treating her fairly. The statement went on to say, “I have learned a great deal from this ordeal and hope that others have learned from my mistakes.”
The Ankle Bracelet Club
Hilton is not the only celebrity who has been assigned an ankle bracelet. Last month, a Los Angeles judge ordered former “Saturday Night Live” star Tracy Morgan to wear the bracelet for 90 days for violating probation for a drunken driving arrest. Morgan wore the bracelet while he hosted Spike TV’s Guys Choice Awards.
“Lost” star Michelle Rodriguez turned the ankle bracelet into a fashion statement when she wore it to New York Fashion Week in February. Rodriguez was sentenced to 60 days in jail for violating probation after a drunken driving arrest in Hawaii. She was released from the Century Regional Detention Center — where Hilton also was serving her time — almost immediately because of overcrowding.
And then there’s Martha Stewart. Stewart was convicted in March 2004 on four counts of lying to investigators and obstructing justice after selling her shares in the pharmaceutical company ImClone days before its application for a new drug was denied. She served five months before she was placed under supervised release and required to wear an ankle bracelet for an additional five months.
Was She Cut a Break?
When one reporter asked if Hilton had been cut a break, Whitmore said, “It’s a fair statement, and I don’t know if there’s any way to address that. … [We're] fully aware of this criticism and this action was taken.”
He also said if another person, or a noncelebrity, had the same medical problem as Hilton, he or she would also have been allowed to serve time at home.
Whitmore added, “She has paid her debt to society.”
She will also receive the same treatement as the 508 other people under this form of home confinement, according to Taylor.
Really?
According to statistics from the Bureau of Justice, in December 2005 there were 2.1 million prisoners in federal and state prisons, and local jails. And of those imprisoned, many also had “medical conditions,” just as Hilton reportedly had. In 2004, there were more than 6,000 people in prison with AIDS. That year, 204 of people with AIDS in prison died there.
Los Angeles defense attorney Dana Cole found the ruling outrageous, and said that if there was a true medical emergency Hilton should have gone to the hospital.
Cole said, “Many of my clients had all sorts of medical problems and never got out of jail. … One client [had] a grotesque staph infection that was eating away at his leg — this is common in jail. I tried desperately but could not get him out of jail.”
Molly Goodson, the editor of the celebrity news blog PopSugar.com, said the crying effort to get out of jail was part of Hilton’s plan all along.
“It was a strategy. … She knew going into it there was a chance she’d get out early. It was the same jail that allowed [Michelle] Rodriguez to leave after three hours of her sentence,” Goodson told ABC News.
Setting an Example?
Strategy or no strategy, Hilton made her exit early Thursday morning.
With the initial sentencing, Judge Michael T. Sauer seemed to be setting an example — celebdom won’t protect famous and wealthy people from incarceration.
But Hilton’s reassignment to house arrest suggests this is far from the case.
Goodson said, “If you are going to make an example of someone, make the example.”
Hilton was sentenced to jail in May for violating her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case, and she started her sentence Sunday night, a minute before midnight, and not without fanfare. First, she attended MTV’s Movie Awards, where she was even roasted by the show’s host Sarah Silverman.
According to her lawyer, Hilton was holding up in prison after her first night. But her condition deteriorated and rumors spread of her incessant crying, two psychiatric visits, lack of sleep and not eating.
Now Hilton’s back at home, and the crying has probably stopped. She’s reunited with her pet Chihuahuas and enjoying the comforts of her home.
Did she learn a lesson?
“It’s hard to say if she’s going to take anything from this. … Maybe she will learn something, that she should get a chauffeur,” Goodson joked.
Hilton likes to see and be seen, and the party will probably come to her for the next 40 days. She was spotted toting the Bible before she went to prison, but it’s doubtful Hilton’s 40 days will be anything like those in the Bible.
PARIS HILTON RELEASED? WHO LET THE TRAMP OUT????
Paris Hilton was released from and L.A. County jail early Thursday due to an unspecified medical condition after serving only three days of a 23-day sentence.
She was sent home with an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet and must remain there for 40 days, according to sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore.
Whitmore says Hilton left the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood just after midnight.
She checked into facility the just after 11:30 p.m. Sunday to serve 23 days, down from the 45 days she was originally sentenced to.
Whitmore says Hilton’s sentence will return to a 45 day term, with five days’ credit for time served.Hilton will be under the supervision of the L.A. County probation department, Whitmore said.
Whitmore also said a medical issue was involved, but could not elaborate because of privacy issues. Overcrowding and the reported staph infection at the facility did not play a part in her reassignment, Whitmore said.
“I can’t specifically talk about the medical situation other to say that, yes, that played a part in this,” he said.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department called a hastily scheduled news conference early Thursday morning outside the Century Regional Detention Facility to answer reporters’ questions about the famous inmate. TMZ.com first reported that Hilton was released from jail early.
Hilton surrendered to authorities on Sunday with little fanfare after a surprise appearance earlier that day at the MTV Movie Awards, where she worked the red carpet in a strapless designer gown.
Hilton was housed in the “special needs” unit of the 13-year-old jail, separate from most of its 2,200 inmates. The unit contains 12 two-person cells reserved for police officers, public officials, celebrities and other high-profile inmates. She didn’t have a cellmate.
After her first night in jail, Hilton’s lawyer, Richard A. Hutton, said she was doing well under the circumstances.
“She’s using this time to reflect on her life, to see what she can do to make the world better and hopefully, in my opinion, to change the attitudes that exist about her among many people,” Hutton said after visiting Hilton.
When she was sentenced May 4, Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer ruled that she would not be allowed any work release, furloughs or use of an alternative jail or electronic monitoring in lieu of jail.
Sheriff’s officials had said she would serve about 23 days of her 45 day sentence behind bars because of state rules allowing shorter sentences for good behavior.
The star of “The Simple Life” reality TV show pleaded no contest to a reckless-driving charge in January and was sentenced to 36 months’ probation. When she was later pulled over by the California Highway Patrol, Hilton was told that she was driving on a suspended license and signed a document acknowledging she was not to drive. She was then pulled over by sheriff’s deputies on Feb. 27 and charged with violating probation.
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Everyone is invited to come to Chicago for Pride Week, June 18-24!
Enjoy the LAkeview Pride Fest, and experience the Greatest Pride Parade in the Country on Sunday June 24th.
Pass this on to all of your friends.
Pride Forever!!!
ROSIE O’DONNELL QUITS ‘THE VIEW’
Rosie O’Donnell couldn’t handle all the on-stage (and back-stage) battles at The View. ABC has announced that the lesbian comedienne will not be completing her contract, which was meant to expire on June 30th. President of daytime programming Brian Frons released a statement,
We had hoped that Rosie would be with us until the end of her contract three weeks from now, but Rosie has informed us that she would like an early leave. Therefore, we part ways, thank her for her tremendous contribution to The View and wish her well.
He went on to say, “She may be a loudmouth monster, but she kept our show in the news. We’re all fucked.”Meanwhile, Barbara Walters – The View’s mama and O’Donnell’s original champion – told concerned citizens:
I brought Rosie to the show. Rosie contributed to one of our most exciting and successful years at The View. I am most appreciative. Our close and affectionate relationship will not change.
For her part, O’Donnell insists she loves her co-hosts, even Elisabeth Hasselbeck and enjoyed her time making headlines, making enemies and making dough.Now, it’s back to the unemployment line. And poor Hasselbeck can finally unclench her asshole!
Chicago Transit Agency gets new Boss…. Too bad he has lost his MIND!!!
This is the scene….
Chicago’s public transit agency, the CTA, has a new boss.
His name is Ron Huberman. On May 25th, hes announced the most insane service cuts and fare increases EVER!
This man, who seems to be perfectly normal by his look and speach, is obviously out of his mind!
He wants to cut service accross the board, ending many overnight bus routes, and eliminating an entire elevated train line.
Now I know that prices have gone up for fuel, pay, insurance, etc., but this is a transit agency that has seen a increase in ridership of more than 20% over the past 5 years. They have created a fare payment system that allows them to collect money far in advance of the actual use of the service.
Why then does the CTA still need to raise fares and cut service, when they are getting so much money from fares, and most buses and trains are full all day???
To break it down….
One Way Fare…. $2.00 (now), no transfer if paying with cash. You must pay $2 again to transfer to another line.
Touch and Go Fare Card…. $1.75 one-way fare, .25 cents for a transfer. Fill card in advance at rail stations, or online with a credit card or bank account.
Unlimited ride passes….. These come in 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 30 day increrments. Cost varies from $5 to $75 each. These allow unlimited rides from the time they are first used, until their time expires.
If this was any other service company, they would be dripping in profit.
Why not the CTA??????
Detailed story HERE
All is not fair in BDSM….
As thousands of leathermen head to Chicago for this weekend’s International Mr. Leather contest, one group won’t be welcome at a Windy City gay SM club – those who are transgender.
Leather transmen and their advocates are putting pressure on the Chicago Hellfire Club, one of the oldest leather and SM clubs in the country, to repeal its 10-year-old policy against female-to-male individuals.
According to David Igasaki, the immediate past president of the Hellfire Club and a member for 15 years, “The general rule of thumb is that there has to be a penile attachment.” This means that for transgender men to be invited to or considered for membership to attend the private play parties and events they need to complete convertive surgery.
Igasaki told the Bay Area Reporter that he was aware that many FTMs don’t complete genital surgery for various reasons, but that he opposed changing the current policy regarding transmen.
“They don’t want to admit women,” said Igasaki. “It’s not that people are anti-women or personally discriminate against transgender people. It’s just that as a sex club there is a desire to protect a gay environment during play.”
The Hellfire Club has an estimated 400 members with an annual operating budget of over $300,000, according to David Schultz, a member for 10 years who supports transmen’s inclusion in the club.
The Leather Journal lists just over 400 leather clubs in the United States, but according to leather transmen and their advocates, only a handful have active anti-transgender policies. The Hellfire Club, in existence for 35 years, is the largest club in the country.
The issue has heated up within the past several months after a majority of the Hellfire Club’s board members voted in October 2006 to continue the current policy, according to Igasaki.
According to Schultz, several developments regarding the club’s transgender policy have occurred within the past several months. Due to the incidents and the policy, Schultz has withheld his membership dues in protest.
First, Schultz said, there was the dumping of the print edition of the January/February 2007 issue of The Brand, the club’s newsletter, after a letter he wrote regarding the board’s decision to retain the discriminatory policy was published. Editor Ken Jacobs confirmed the destruction of the newsletter. Jacobs told the B.A.R. that he resigned from the position in March because “I wasn’t going to be a party to censorship.”
Second, according to Schultz, an unofficial request to look into the issue was brought to the city of Chicago’s Human Relations Advisory Council on Gay and Lesbian Issues.
Bill Greaves, director and LGBT community liaison of human relations council, told the B.A.R., however, that discrimination complaints needed to be filed formally with the Chicago Commission on Human Relations in order to be investigated.
Ken Gunn, first deputy commissioner of the Commission on Human Relations, told the B.A.R. that a formal complaint hadn’t been filed against the Hellfire Club.
Third, the 15 Association stopped sponsoring the club this year and posted its anti- discrimination policy regarding “birth gender” on its Web site. A link to the Hellfire Club was still on its Web site at press time.
“It’s a sore spot,” said 15 Association Chairman Steven Gaynes. There are two transmen who are active members of that club, according to Gaynes. “We disagree with them on this, but we don’t want to make it into a situation where there are any bad feelings. We are not coming down on them, we are just not doing business with them.”
Current Hellfire President Roger Scheid refused to comment about the club’s internal policies and individual’s personal decisions regarding the transgender policy.
According to Igasaki, the club is in compliance with the Chicago human relations commission.
“We are a private club that fits within the exemption of the Chicago ordinance, which the club did endorse when it was adopted,” said Igasaki. “There is a private club exemption and since we are essentially a private sex club we are not covered by the ordinance.”
Transmen and their advocates are critical of the Hellfire Club’s endorsement of the human rights ordinance that includes “gender identity,” when the club openly carries out a discriminatory policy against transmen.
“Do you support transgender equality or don’t you?” asked Billy, a transman who asked that his last name not be used. “If you do why is it that transgender men that are like myself [and] that are legally men can’t come to your event?”
Leather transmen and their advocates believe that after 10 years and the fact that many clubs either allow transmen or have active anti-discrimination policies in place that it’s time for the Hellfire Club to change its policy. Many transmen and their advocates told the B.A.R. that people wouldn’t even know if someone was transgender unless they tell someone. Billy likens it to the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
“It’s a disappointment that they are not willing to change with the times,” said Tyler Fong, 40, a gay trans man.
“What are they going to do? Are they going to do a dick check at the door? I don’t think so,” said Billy about the Hellfire Club’s insistence on maintaining the policy. “The United States government recognizes me as male, yet this club does not recognize me as male.”
Billy, 43, a gay leather man who transitioned in 1992 and has been a member of the leather community since about 1987 or 1988, is the only out transgender individual who has attended Inferno, the club’s invitation-only event held in September. Fifty-three Hellfire Club members sponsored him to attend Inferno in 2003.
Billy told the B.A.R. that he attended the event even after he was disinvited by Brent McGuiness, who coordinates Inferno, because it would “harm the community.”
Billy didn’t back down despite the request not to attend Inferno and the public shunning at the event. He went and had a good time, hoping that his presence would educate and help the board members reconsider their policy. Billy was disappointed that the members chose not to invite him back the following year. Billy said that no negative incidents happened at Inferno.
“When you’re a part of a community that can be invisible I think that it’s really important when you have an opportunity to try and do something positive,” said Billy. “I thought that might help change the club [and] promote some positive dialogue. Unfortunately, what it did was quite the opposite.”
McGuiness did not return a call seeking comment.
Private club?
Transmen and their advocates question the Hellfire Club’s viability as a private club. They argue that it isn’t strictly a private club because it solicits invitations to its events at public venues and on its Web site. They also take issue with the fact that the Hellfire Club doesn’t recognize valid government-issued identification, including driver’s licenses and passports.
“I don’t think that a private club would set up a table at a public venue and allow anybody to talk with you and inquire to attend an event,” said Billy.
It’s not just that the club solicits potential members in public spaces, but then the invitation gets extended.
“How hurtful is it for somebody to walk up and invite you to an event and you say I can’t come because I’m not allowed?” asked Billy, who told the B.A.R. that this happens to him several times every year he attends the IML event, during which Hellfire sponsors several invitation-only parties. “It’s hurtful for the person that’s extending the invitation and it’s hurtful for the person who’s gotten the invitation.”
The IML contest, which gets under way today (Thursday, May 24), does not discriminate against transmen.
Chuck Renslow, the owner of IML, did not respond to an e-mail request seeking comment on the issue.
Igasaki told the B.A.R. that transmen do attend Hellfire’s more public events, such as the annual cocktail party that happens during IML, and bar nights. He said there haven’t been any problems at these events with transmen.
“We do have some effort to be somewhat public in invitation, but it’s closely guarded,” said Stephen Schorle, a full member emeritus of the Hellfire Club who advocates against the club’s transgender policy.
“I would argue if that’s not solicitation and foregoing your rights as a private club, nothing else is,” said Schultz.
Schorle and Schultz told the B.A.R. that like discrimination against many groups in the past, it’s done through innuendo and word of mouth.
“What’s interesting about the club is if you name drop somebody that’s in Hawaii, I’ll call that person in Hawaii and say, ‘What do you know about so and so over here?’” said Schorle. “So we get reports on people who aren’t even members.”
Fong said that he has spoken with Igasaki about the policy in the past.
“He kind of scooted around the policy and asked me, ‘Gee, Tyler, do you have a dick? Do you have a penis?’” said Fong. “I said, ‘Yeah, but it’s very small.’”
Billy told the B.A.R. that he had a similar experience.
“The pure meanness like calling my friends up and asking my friends what kind of surgery I had,” said Billy.
Igasaki admitted that the issue had escalated.
“Whatever their views on the issues [Hellfire members] were starting to raise it to such a pretentious and personal level it was just antagonizing other people,” said Igasaki. “If they want to change views they need to engage in education, but just attacking people personally – the people on the other side – is not going to bring them the vote.”
Igasaki told the B.A.R. that the issue “was starting to tear us apart” and “grate on people, even people who wanted to change the policy.”
According to Billy, opportunities for education were offered.
When the B.A.R. asked Igasaki if members had taken the opportunity to be educated he said, “There are all these opportunities, we all have each other’s contact information.”
When pressed on whether any formal education had happened, Igasaki said, “No. There hasn’t been a formal educational program.”
Lance Moore, 47, who said he is a bisexual man with “a transsexual history,” told the B.A.R. that he would like to go to Inferno someday, but he’s aware of the policy, which angers him.
“Some people find FTMs sexy,” said Moore. “Let them go through the elimination process like anybody else. Either they get in or not on their own merit. That’s how it should be in all of the clubs.”
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