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Nicole Richie quickly sprung from jail


(AP)
Updated: 2007-08-24 09:05





Nicole Richie was released from jail Thursday after serving 82 minutes of
a four-day sentence for driving under the influence of drugs.

The reality show star, who checked into jail in this Los Angeles suburb
at 3:15 p.m., was released at 4:37 p.m. "based on her sentence and
federal guidelines," Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Maribel Rizo
said without elaborating.

When asked whether Richie, who is four months pregnant, spent her brief
sentence in a jail cell, Rizo replied: "I have no further comment."

A call to Richie's attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, was not immediately
returned Thursday. An e-mail message to her publicist Nicole Perna was
not immediately answered.

The brief jail stint took place at the county jail for women, the same
place her "The Simple Life" co-star Paris Hilton was housed for nearly
three weeks after she was convicted of driving on a suspended license
while on probation for an alcohol-related reckless driving case.

Richie pleaded guilty in late July to a misdemeanor DUI charge in a deal
with prosecutors that helped her avoid a potential year in jail on a
second alcohol-related conviction.

Her first conviction was in 2003, for driving under the influence of
alcohol.

She was arrested again on Dec. 11, 2006, after witnesses reported seeing
her black Mercedes-Benz sport utility vehicle headed the wrong way on a
freeway in Burbank. The California Highway Patrol said they found her
parked in the car-pool lane.

Richie, the daughter of Lionel Richie, told authorities she had smoked
marijuana and taken the prescription painkiller Vicodin, a CHP officer
said at the time. No drugs were found on her or in the car.

Richie had the option of serving 90 hours either in county jail or at any
city jail. She would have had to serve the full sentence in a city lockup.

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