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"Simple Life" Star in Rehab

Fox's Simple Life star Nicole Richie spent a monthlong stint with pal Paris Hilton slumming it down South for reality television.

She may have to slog away even longer in drug rehab.

Richie (daughter of Lionel) was busted on a felony heroin-possession charge and a misdemeanor count of driving with a suspended license while motoring down the Pacific Coast Highway in her Mercedes-Benz last February.

Upon being stopped, she told cops she didn't have her driver's license. A subsequent search of her wallet turned up two balloons. A red balloon, tied into a knot, had a slit in it and contained nothing. A white balloon contained heroin, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department confirmed at the time.

Earlier this month, the poor little rich girl pleaded guilty to both counts.

On October 8, Richie was sentenced to probation for lack of a valid license and "deferred entry of judgment" for the drug charge, which means she has to attend a drug-diversion program, according to a spokesperson for Los Angeles' Superior Courthouse.

Lionel's offspring will have to report to court on December 5, just three days after her riches-to-rags series debuts on Fox, for a progress report. Richie's time remaining in rehab will be determined at this court appearance.

In fact, Richie was out on $10,000 bail when she and fellow socialite slummer Hilton descended on Altus, Arkansas (population: 817), last spring to shoot six episodes where they milked cows, waited tables and expressed their general amazement at working for a living.

"I'll never get to work at McDonald's," Hilton confided to USA Today. "I know that doesn't sound like fun to most people, but I thought it would be fun. It would be something I'd never do." (Who knew there was such novelty in your minimum wage job?)

While being stinking rich has never been a bad thing, whining about daddy's money is now landing a ton o' spoiled rich kids on TV.

MTV will present its own eight-episode series capturing the shopping habits of two Manhattan debutantes, Ally Hilfiger (daughter of Tommy) and her sidekick, Jaime Gleicher, whose father founded and then sold Innovation Luggage.

Rich Girls premieres Tuesday on the music network. But it's not just all about shopping sprees and spa visits, the reality series will also follow Gleicher as she embarks on an equal-opportunity rite of passage: trying to lose her virginity on prom night.

Meanwhile, HBO will broadcast a one-off about trust-fund babies titled Born Rich on Monday night. Shot by first-time filmmaker Jamie Johnson--the 23-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson empire--the one-hour documentary features interviews with the likes of S.I. Newhouse IV, Ivanka Trump, and Georgina Bloomberg on the burdens of wealth and privilege.

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