Paris Hilton's parents breeze past line on visit, while others wait hours |
By Raquel Maria Dillon Associated Press San Jose Mercury News |
Article Launched:06/13/2007 06:24:13 AM PDT |
LOS ANGELES - Paris Hilton's parents visited their daughter after breezing past others waiting to see loved ones - an incident that raised new complaints that the heiress is receiving special treatment. The visit Tuesday came less than a week after Hilton was reassigned to house arrest days after being jailed for violating parole. The 26-year-old socialite and reality TV star was later ordered back to jail. Alvina Floyd, one visitor to the Twin Towers Correctional Facility, waited more than four hours to visit her fiance. It normally takes two hours, and Floyd, 20, blamed the Hiltons for the delay. "I have to be at work later," she said. "I can't wait here all day." Shatani Alverson, 23, said she was hustled out of the jail's visiting room moments after her husband walked in because of the Hiltons. She was told to come back after lunch. Steve Whitmore, a sheriff's spokesman, said it was routine for high-profile inmates to receive visitors during lunch, a time when the visiting room is normally cleared out and closed. The visit came shortly after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors ordered Sheriff Lee Baca to respond by next week to allegations of favoritism for reassigning Hilton to house arrest. At the time, Baca cited an undisclosed medical condition as the reason for making the decision. Hilton was sent to a medical ward, where sheriff's officials said it costs $1,109.78 a day to house a female inmate compared with $99.64 a day in the general population. Mary Tiedeman, who regularly visits the jails as a monitor for the ACLU, said the area where Hilton was being housed was usually reserved for high-security inmates or those worse off than Hilton has appeared. "I don't know what her health issue is, but you have got to have a pretty intense medical or mental health problem to be in that part of the jail," she said. Meanwhile, the Endeavor talent agency has dropped Hilton from its roster of clients, Michael Donkis, a spokesman for the company, said Tuesday. "She is no longer a client," he said, declining further comment. Hilton has been represented by the Beverly Hills-based agency since 2005. |
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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Paris Hilton had a talent agency???? Now that's an oxymoron... As to the parents, I am not surprised that they think they are entitled to special treatment, jumping line over people who have waited for hours to see their loved ones. What do they care if somebody else cannot see a family member or probably will be written off because they got to work late? They are peasants, I tell you! I just wish that the media would stop covering Paris and let her slink off into obscurity.
I am torn on the slink off into obscurity part. I agree, yet at the same time I don;t like how that means that we just take the differences that are made between people for granted.
I agree with you Lotta. The fact that their daughter is in prison still does not make them respect the system that the rst of us are forced to respect, because the system itself is continuing to make exceptions for them *sigh*
It gets even worse when one considers that IF they were made to wait in line, they would not be in danger of loosing their jobs should they be late coming back from the jail...
It's special treatment all around. Her sister breezed past the commoners when she visited on Sunday. Paris herself is in the psycho ward part of the jail where she has more privacy. I'm sorry if Paris is having a hard time of it. I'm sure that jail is tougher for the idle rich than for the rest of us. I think Paris would have a difficult time if she was sentenced to spend 23 days living on my budget. Let's watch and see if she can receive any more visitors this week. Normally, inmates have visitors on Sundays and Tuesdays. Paris shouldn't see anyone for four days--the longest stretch she's been alone probably for her entire life. Will she make it? Will she cry and will the Sheriff crack?
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