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Paris Dinged with DUI Charge
Paris Hilton better think twice before another late-night hamburger run.
In a bid to make the streets of Hollywood safer one celebrity at a time, the Los Angeles city attorney formally charged Hilton with two misdemeanor counts Tuesday morning, stemming from her arrest earlier this month on suspicion of drunken driving.
A spokesman for the city attorney's office says Hilton was rung up for driving under the influence and driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 or above.
Hilton was pulled over on Sept. 7, shortly after leaving a charity party at Hollywood hot spot Dragonfly, when LAPD officers noticed her Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren driving erratically.
Per the police report, officers observed "symptoms of intoxication" and issued a field sobriety test. Although police refused to confirm, sources claimed Hilton blew a 0.08 on the Breathalyzer test, the minimum blood-alcohol level required for a DUI in California.
Team Hilton was uncharacteristically mum following news of the charges Tuesday, refusing to make a statement. In the hours after her arrest, the heiress and her ever-ready publicist, Elliot Mintz (who picked her up at the station), publicly downplayed the incident.
Mintz claimed his client was simply exhausted after having spent all day shooting a music video for her new single "Nothing in This World," from her album, Paris.
"She's fine. She didn't appear in the least bit to be intoxicated," he said, adding that the positive breath test was "probably the result of an empty stomach and working all day and being fatigued."
Hilton, meanwhile, phoned in to Ryan Seacrest's L.A. radio show the following morning and denied she was drunken driving.
"Maybe I was speeding a little bit," Hilton told Seacrest. "I was just really hungry and wanted [to go get] an In-N-Out burger.
"Everything I do is blown out of proportion."
The maximum penalty for her indiscretion is a $1,000 fine and six months in county jail, though it's unlikely the hammer will come down on Hilton. First-time offenders like her usually get something closer to the minimum penalty, which entails a nominal fine, probation and some sort of alcohol education or rehabilitation program.
The "Stars Are Blind" singer was originally due to be arraigned Thursday, though on the request of her attorneys, the court date has been postponed until Dec. 5. Should she reach a deal with the prosecutor, Hilton will likely receive sentencing that day, though she won't be required to appear in court.
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