Paris Hilton: Her Rash Release from Prison?
On the subject of Paris Hilton's recent release from jail, Entertainment Tonight reports:
L.A. County Sheriff Spokesperson STEVE WHITMORE told reporters that due to "medical issues," the heiress had been "reassigned" at about 2:00 a.m. Thursday and would finish out her sentence on house arrest....Sources close to the Hilton family tell ET the medical reason was actually a rash she developed on her body.
Mention of a bodily rash provides support for this ATL reader comment:
My friend's brother (who works with [Sheriff Lee] Baca's assistant sheriffs) told me that Paris was released due to a severe, "stress-induced" herpes outbreak. He also said that he heard that the blisters had apparently spread to her anus and had taken on abcess-like features that required more serious medical attention. Thus, after taking into account jail overcrowding, the increasing liability that Paris presents, and Paris's lesions, all things weighed in favor of her being put on home confinement.
Was a case of anal herpes a "Get Out of Jail Free" card for Paris Hilton?
More discussion, after the jump.
There is, it should be noted, a split of authority on this whole rash rumor. From TMZ.com (which has quickly become an authoritative source within the world of celebrity gossip):
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ Paris Hilton's medical condition was purely psychological and that she was in peril of having a nervous breakdown, and that's why she was released early this morning....The reason for releasing her had nothing to do with a rash or other physical issues. It was purely in her head.
It's worth noting that even if prison was rough for Paris Hilton, she reportedly received the red carpet treatment inside the big house. From the New York Post:
Hilton skipped a humiliating cavity search routinely done on all incoming prisoners, sources said."Paris didn't have to go through the cavity search. When bent over, she didn't have to cough," said Saul Reyes, who does maintenance at the women's jail as part of a work-release program.
"She didn't have to spread 'em."
Because, of course, she already has -- for millions and millions of satisfied viewers....
Paris Hilton Goes Home [Entertainment Tonight]
Paris' Medical Condition -- Mental, Not Physical [TMZ.com]
Paris Bawls in Jail [New York Post]
Comments
"Purely in her head"? So it's easier to get released early from jail than win a tort case for negligent infliction of emotional distress?
Shouldn't the fat guy in Shawshank have been released on his first night, then? More to the point, can I go out and get caught in a DUI, then start blubbering and flipping out when I get to jail, and get sent back to my apartment to play XBox all day with an ankle bracelet on for a couple months?
Posted by: NYU4L | June 7, 2007 01:28 PM
This is garbage. It seems more and more to me there must be a "Celebrity Docket" in the LA county courts where you get to play by totally different rules. I just have never heard of anything like this happening unless someone is dying or suffering some extreme medical condition.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 01:42 PM
Wow, there just might be some higher justice in the world after all. There are few people in the world I would wish a virulent outbreak of anal herpes on but Paris and Nancy Grace top the list.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 01:49 PM
I'm sure the Hiltons warned LA County that if anything happened to Paris in jail they would be tied up in s1983 litigation forever. Any possibly inflammatory actions that Paris and a plaintiff's lawyer could blow up to a jury had to be taken out of the process, despite the inherent unfairness at issue.
I'm sure some folks' California political careers were threatened, too. This would make for a semi-compelling Law and Order episode.
Posted by: hmm | June 7, 2007 01:52 PM
good point about the law and order episode
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 01:54 PM
hmm: nice use of the phrase "inflammatory actions" in a thread describing anal herpes.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 02:06 PM
Just wanted to point out that "semi-compelling Law & Order episode" is at best redundant and at worst oxymoronic. Carry on.
Posted by: Loyola14L | June 7, 2007 02:08 PM
1:42 writes: "I just have never heard of anything like this happening unless someone is dying or suffering some extreme medical condition."
I'm guessing you've never had anal herpes, my friend.
Posted by: I Have a Loathsome Disease | June 7, 2007 02:12 PM
Law & Order is the greatest legal drama of all time. Loyola14L, I demand you retract your comment at once.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 02:12 PM
What the hell is anal herpes and how do you get it?
Posted by: anon. | June 7, 2007 02:14 PM
2:14, you need to get out more.
Posted by: I Have a Loathsome Disease | June 7, 2007 02:15 PM
A quick Google search turns up a bunch of articles about Paris' herpes. Skank.
Posted by: Googler | June 7, 2007 02:32 PM
Eeeeew. What IS this stuff?
Posted by: Paris Hilton's Ass | June 7, 2007 02:32 PM
NYU4L is clearly in BarBri. Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress. Ha. Come back when you have a license, moron.
In other news, I want to date "I Have a Loathsome Disease." More herpes, please!
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 02:50 PM
...oh baby you, you got a disease, and you say its just a rash, but its herpes on your ass oh baby you...
to the tune of the Biz Markie song
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 02:57 PM
All should take this as a lesson: wear your raincoats!
And don't forget, herpes can be transmitted by oral sex as well.
Posted by: TrojanMan | June 7, 2007 02:58 PM
how can something be both redundant and oxymoronic, aren't they pretty close to antonyms?
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 03:01 PM
To the graduates of 2007: Wear Sunscrean!
Posted by: Commencement Speaker of the Century | June 7, 2007 03:05 PM
Sorry, should update to NYU5L but I've become attached to the name and I'm sticking with it. A year out and the Knowledge is still there!!!
Posted by: NYU4L | June 7, 2007 03:06 PM
Wow, this is truly sickening.
Fox 11 news ran a story just this week about more than one out of a hundred LA County jail inmates contracting new staph infections while in jail. Some of these are resistant staph - people in jail for trivial offenses are being permanently and seriously injured, and few if any of them are being let out, for things they caught while IN jail, let alone things they brought in with them.
And she gets let out for "stress" effects on her pre-existing herpes?
Sending someone home to a mansion with a professional chef, any entertainment she wants, Gucci slippers and a masseuse is NOT punishment.
Wonder how big the Hilton family donations to L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca's election campaigns have been, and how big they'll be in the future... Sickening.
Posted by: Disturbed in L.A. | June 7, 2007 03:06 PM
Given her anal herpes, it's probably better for all involved that the cavity search did not happen...
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 03:09 PM
3:01,
Technically, no, but in the context in which they were used by 2:08, yes.
Posted by: Anon | June 7, 2007 03:11 PM
Up until now, I had been afraid that going to jail would be good publicity for Paris. But I think she found the one way to turn this trip into an unquestionably bad PR move: a high-profile anal herpes. Most definitely NOT hott.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 03:11 PM
My apologies, NYU4L. I'm in BarBri and hate my life. In fact, my leashing out on you is simply a manifestation for the harm i wish to inflict upon myself. I hate myself, my chosen profession, and Professor Chemerinski's internal teleprompter. Why, BarBri, why?
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 03:14 PM
Stop hating on Paris. What'd she ever do to you?
The Yankees Rock!
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 03:20 PM
3:14 - at least he doesn't sing.
Posted by: NYU4L | June 7, 2007 03:24 PM
She gave me herpes, that's what.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 03:25 PM
3:01, you're either an idiot or a genius.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 03:55 PM
2:57 - Nice.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 04:00 PM
Hey, folks, just here to note that while "raincoats" do provide some measure of protection against herpes, there is still some risk as condoms may not cover the entire affected area.
Posted by: Dr. Drew | June 7, 2007 04:49 PM
The same is true for HPV I think - that condoms don't keep you entirely safe.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 05:17 PM
5:17, but Gardasil will!
Posted by: Merck | June 7, 2007 05:37 PM
Does Gardasil work for men (i.e. gay guys)?
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 05:40 PM
Hasn't been fully tested yet in men but doctors are optimistic.
Fortunately the risks of HPV for men are much lower, although it is mildly correlated with certain male cancers (but not nearly as strongly as with cervical and uterine cancers).
Posted by: Merck | June 7, 2007 06:36 PM
"Fortunately the risks of HPV for men are much lower"
Of course, if you have a female partner you care about, you having HPV will fuck them over.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 07:23 PM
i'm not sure what was ailing Hilton, but I have to assume it was something more serious than a bad reaction to a bologna sandwich. I attended a parole hearing just last week for an L.A. County Jail inmate who served eight months for stealing a lightbulb despite having cancer, AIDS and dementia.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 07:46 PM
Some of you need the 411 on herpes.
Posted by: Click here to learn more | June 7, 2007 08:16 PM
7:23, true, unless she's been vaccinated.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 08:18 PM
Ouch!!!!!!
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 08:24 PM
The google Paris/herpes links all atribute the accusation to one person: Shanna Moakler, so I am not convinced.
For those of you interested in probing this issue deeper I reccomend the restrained link: "PARIS HILTON IS A HERPES CARRYING WHORE...." at
http://forums.gumtree.com/about85840.html
See also the unforgetable "Paris Hilton is a Racist Coke Whore, Has Herpes" at
http://bossip.com/2007/01/paris-hilton-is-racist-coke-whore.html
(and I thought some of the comments I have read on this site were over-the-top...)
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 08:34 PM
But cf this photo of Paris' Valtrex perscription bottle auctioned from an abandoned storage locker (suposedly).
http://bossip.com/uploaded_images/valtrex2-719146.jpg
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 08:39 PM
This dosent look good...
http://bossip.com/uploaded_images/valtrex3-762490.jpg
Smoking gun or altered by Timothy Block, you be the judge.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 08:42 PM
Anon 5:40 -- thanks for the parenthetical. I was wondering what you meant by "men."
Posted by: Homer | June 7, 2007 09:17 PM
2:57 - I almost spat my beer out on my keyboard. Nicely done.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 7, 2007 10:29 PM
Mmmmmm. Herps. Double mmmmmm, Paris herps.
Also, June 7, 8:34 - I think probing deeper is what got Paris in trouble in the first place.
Posted by: so hot for herps | June 8, 2007 10:36 AM
Shame on you! Nobody goes to an LA jail for traffic problems, unless there's an accident. When was the last time anybody was sentenced like this? Way to pile onto a woman, who never did anything to you!
Posted by: annoymous | June 10, 2007 03:26 PM