Paris Hilton
© AFP Gabriel Bouys LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The 26-year-old heiress to the Hilton hotel empire will begin her sentence on June 5, the court ruled, following a three-hour hearing at the Metropolitan Court House.
Hilton's parole violation came after she was caught driving on a suspended license following her no contest plea to driving under the influence.
Prosecutors told the court Hilton had been stopped in her 190,000-dollar Bentley Continental GTC on January 15 by the California Highway Patrol and told that she was not allowed to be driving.
On that occasion, Hilton signed a police statement acknowledging that she was not supposed to drive. But just over a month later she was hauled over again in Hollywood when spotted driving at night with her headlights off.
A spokesman for Hilton said his client was unaware she was violating her parole -- but prosecutors dismissed that line of argument, citing the earlier brush with traffic police in January.
Hilton had lost her license for alcohol-related reckless driving and was given 36 months probation.
The charges stemmed from her September 7 arrest after she was found driving her Mercedes with an alcohol level equal to the legal limit.
Court documents described her decision to repeatedly keep driving as a "flagrant" violation of court orders and demanded that she be given a custodial sentence.
They also alleged Hilton failed to enroll in an alcohol education program within 21 days of the order directing her to do so.
A favorite target for tabloid gossip and the paparazzi, Hilton appeared in the reality television series "The Simple Life," and in 2003 an unauthorized sex video with her former boyfriend appeared on the Internet.
She ventured into music last year with a debut album and has had cameo roles in a handful of films, including 2005 horror film "House of Wax."
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