Paris Goes To Jail!

"I feel that I was treated unfairly and that the sentence is both cruel and unwarranted. I don't deserve this," said Paris.

In her first public comments since she was handed a 45-day jail sentence for a driving related offense, celebrity heiress Paris Hilton has described her punishment as cruel and unwarranted.

She also fired her spokesman, veteran publicist Elliot Mintz, whom she blamed for getting her into the mess.

Visibly shocked and tearful, the 26-year-old socialite was sentenced to 45 days in a suburban Los Angeles jail after a judge ruled she knowingly violated her probation on a previous traffic offense by driving without a valid license.

At the hearing, Hilton said Mintz had told her she was permitted to drive for work-related reasons. But Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer rejected her claims and ordered her to turn herself in by June 5.

"I told the truth," Hilton told photographers waiting outside her Los Angeles home on Saturday night.

"I feel that I was treated unfairly and that the sentence is both cruel and unwarranted. I don't deserve this."

Her lawyer, Howard Weitzman, has said he will appeal "to modify the sentence."

Mintz, whose clients have included John Lennon and Bob Dylan, took the stand in Hilton's defense, but his testimony was rejected as worthless by the judge.

In a statement published on Sunday by news web site TMZ.com, Mintz was said he was "deeply and profoundly sorry" for giving his client bad advice.

"Due to this misunderstanding, I am no longer representing Paris. For the record, I have nothing but love and respect for Paris and her family. Paris is a wonderful person and does not deserve the punishment that was handed down by the court. I only wish her my best."

Superior Court judge Michael Sauer said he believed the 26-year-old reality TV star knowingly disobeyed the law by driving while her license was suspended and ordered her to report to jail on June 5.

"I think she has wanted to disregard everything that was said and continued to drive no matter what," Sauer before passing sentence.

He added, "The probation is revoked. Forty-five days in jail."

Sauer made the decision after a two-hour hearing during which Hilton insisted she was unaware that her driving privileges had been suspended when she was pulled over for driving without headlights on February 27.

Hilton said her publicist Elliott Mintz had told her she was permitted to drive for work-related reasons.

"I did not want to break the law," she told the judge "I did what I was told. I would never drive just because I want to. I follow the law and I respect the law. From now on I want to pay complete attention to everything."

"I just want to say I'm sorry," she said before being sentenced.

But the judge said he did not believe Hilton was ignorant of her driving restrictions saying she had "completely ignored" a notice given to her by a police officer that she had signed during an earlier traffic stop in January notifying her that her license was suspended.

After sentence was imposed, Hilton's mother Kathy yelled at a prosecutor "you're pathetic."

The socialite's attorney, Howard Weitzman, said she was singled out for being a celebrity.

"To sentence Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail is inappropriate and borders on ludicrous. It is clear that she has been selectively targeted for prosecution for who she is.

"I think she was honest in her testimony. We do intend to appeal to the judge and to a higher court to modify the sentence."

Hilton was placed on three years probation earlier this year for pleading no contest -- the equivalent of a guilty plea -- to alcohol-related reckless driving after a September 2006 arrest in Hollywood.

She landed in hot water again in late February, when she was pulled over on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood for driving without headlights. Police impounded her car, a $190,000 blue Bentley, when they discovered she was driving on a suspended license.

Hilton's latest legal problems come a little more than three weeks before her reality TV show, "The

Friends and family of inmates at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, CA say that Paris Hilton better watch her ass. They said if she acts uppity or uses her favorite word (the n-word) she's done for.

One friend of an inmate said, "My ex-wife got beat up and got a black eye in this place. She better learn to bite her tongue."

Paris will most likely be segregated to a one person cell for her own safety. She will have to wash out her panties in the shower, sleep on a thin mattress with one sheet and eat basic crap. Some inmates say that Lynwood is worse than a State prison.

She will have to shower with the others though and one inmate said that Lynwood has a population of extremely masculine, butch dykes and that Paris might be a favorite of theirs!

Ahahaha! Paris is going to be traded for a pack of ciggies! I mean that's basically what she's worth, right?

There has been rumors that she won't serve long due to overcrowding, but one prison official said that isn't a problem anymore. It better not be!

I would personally donate to the "KEEP THE HO IN JAIL" fund if there was such a fund.