Paris Fallout: Agents Quit, Sheriff Targeted

One day after learning that Paris Hilton has found God, we discover she's lost her agent.

Michael Donkis of the Endeavor Agency confirmed to E! Online Tuesday that the firm is no longer representing Hilton. Donkis did not offer any explanation for the move. Sources say the announcement was made Friday—the same day Hilton was ordered back to jail—in a company-wide email.

While the loss of her agent ranks relatively low on the list of Hilton's current worries, the man behind her get-out-of-jail ticket is facing all kinds of problems of his own.

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors gave Sheriff Lee Baca one week to come up with a detailed report on why, exactly, he defied a judge's orders and granted the heiress a "reassignment" to house arrest after just 72 hours behind bars.

This time around, an unspecified "medical condition" probably won't suffice.

At a morning hearing, County Supervisors Mike Antonovich and Yvonne B. Burke said that Baca must outline why Hilton was allowed to go home as opposed to the other inmates at Century Regional Detention Facility compatriots complaining of emotional and physical problems, especially since Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer expressly forbade home detention and electronic monitoring in his sentencing ruling.

Critics have cried foul over what they've deemed as kid-gloves treatment for inmate 9818783.

"We welcome the board of supervisors to be our voice because we feel...there should be no favoritism to anyone and this should not be about Paris Hilton," said activist Najee Ali, director of the Los Angeles-based Project Islamic HOPE. "This should be about the thousands of other inmates currently incarcerated in L.A. County jail who need proper medical treatment and who aren't given medical treatment as Paris Hilton was."

Baca has steadfastly denied such charges, insisting the Simple Life star needed a change of scenery after an "inexplicable deterioration" in jail due to "severe" medical problems. Baca said Hilton was in a downward spiral due in part to lack of proper medication, and he made the decision only after consulting county psychiatrists.

While there has been no official word on what ails Hilton, she acknowledged in a phone call to Barbara Walters Sunday to having been "severely depressed" at the jail. (One source told E! Online that Hilton suffers from claustrophobia, which may have affected her condition, while TMZ reports that the 26-year-old has ADD and didn't have access to her medicine.)

On Monday, Gloria Allred filed a claim with the county, accusing the sheriff and officials at Century Regional Detention Facility of denying her client, inmate Pamela Richardson, basic necessities. Like the use of her prosthetic leg. [View the claim.]

"I know I am not Paris Hilton," Richardson said in a statement released through Allred, "but I am a human being with medical needs, and I don't understand why I was treated in the way that I was." Such a claim is the precursor to a lawsuit. County officials say they are already receiving dozens of similar complaints.

Meanwhile, Baca's office is denying suggestions that a $1,000 campaign contribution from William Barron Hilton, Paris' grandfather, helped him make the decision to relocate the socialite. Sheriff's Department spokesperson Steve Whitmore said the money "has no bearing on the way she has been treated."

But the appearance of playing favorites with Hilton has led to a former county employee to launch an effort to have Baca recalled. Andrew Ahlering says on his recallbaca.com site that he is "not anti-Hilton" but wants the sheriff to "be held personally responsible for the failings of his jail system to ensure equal rights for all."

Not surprisingly, Baca is getting support from one quarter.

After paying a visit to Hilton at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility's medical ward Monday, Hilton attorney Richard Hutton told reporters that his client was doing "as well as she can."

"The staff here is giving her excellent medical care. She's being treated the same as everyone else in jail. She is receiving no preferential treatment."

In addition to Hutton's drop-in, Hilton was also visited Monday by her psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Sophy, whose report of the heiress' mental condition last week played a major part in her reassignment. This time around, however, he opted to keep his professional opinion to himself, refusing to speak to the phalanx of reporters.

Parents Rick and Kathy Hilton, meanwhile, popped in Tuesday for a half-hour of face time, though their visit seems to have done more harm than good. The duo were whisked past a line of fellow visitors, bypassing some inmate relatives who had to wait upwards of four hours to be let into the facility, prompting yet more accusations of preferential treatment.

One visitor who had already made it inside the Twin Towers told the Associated Press that officials asked her to leave the visiting room and return after lunch in order to give the Hiltons the chance for a private visit.

For his part, Whitmore again attempted to do some damage control, saying it was routine procedure for high-profile visitors to visit during lunch, when the room is typically cleared.

Speaking to reporters after the controversial visit, Kathy Hilton said her daughter was still having trouble eating and sleeping ("It's tough in there; it's cold," said Kathy), but she was soldiering on.

"She just wants to do her time and get on with it."