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World awaits Paris Hilton's return

(AP)
Updated: 2007-06-26 08:26


LOS ANGELES - As Paris Hilton counted down her final hours in jail
Monday, her reality stint behind bars was about to be replaced by the
bizarre, almost fictional qualities that make up her life on the outside.

With Hilton due to be released sometime Tuesday, the Federal Aviation
Administration promised to keep a close watch on the paparazzi helicopter
pilots expected to track her every move.

"We will be sending inspectors to her neighborhood and to the jail to
keep an eye on all the helicopter and perhaps even airplane traffic in
the vicinity and make sure all the operations are conducted safely," said
FAA spokesman Ian Gregor.

He noted that copter pilots could be cited for such things as hovering
dangerously low over people or hovering low enough to kick up debris that
damages homes and vehicles.

Meanwhile, in the fashionable Hollywood Hills neighborhood that Hilton
calls home when she's not in jail, city transportation officials put up
temporary no-parking signs during the weekend to ensure that news vans
and other vehicles didn't block access to the narrow, winding street.

"It's done to enable the people who live in the community to have access
to their homes," said Transportation Department spokesman Bruce Gillman.
He didn't know how long the signs would remain but said, "Hopefully, the
media isn't there too long."

At the Sheriff's Department, which administers the Los Angeles County
jail system, officials were keeping quiet about how Hilton was spending
her last hours in jail or what sort of paperwork process she must go
through before being released.

"I'm not going to get into that. What I will say is to reiterate that the
release date is tomorrow," sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said
Monday. "We're not going to discuss anything other than that tomorrow is
the day."

Hilton spokesman Elliot Mintz declined to comment on what the star of
television's "The Simple Life" planned to do after being sprung from the
stir. That left Paris watchers everywhere to speculate about such things
as:

_Where would the hotel heiress go first, her home, her folks' home or a
hotel?

_What would be the first meal for Hilton, who has roundly criticized the
quality of jail food? Would it possibly be an In-N-Out burger, which
Hilton has said she was on her way to pick up last September when she was
stopped for reckless driving, the incident that eventually put her in
jail.

"I will definitely get a good meal because the food in here is absolutely
inedible and horrible," the 26-year-old celebutante told E! News' Ryan
Seacrest by phone last week.

Over the weekend, her mother, Kathy Hilton, paid a visit to the jail and
told reporters afterward that her daughter was itching to trade in her
orange jail jumpsuit for something a bit more stylish.

"She doesn't like orange anymore," Hilton's mother said. "She can't wait
to get that orange suit off."

The hotel heiress presumably will discuss more long-range plans Wednesday
when she appears on CNN's "Larry King Live."

Hilton, who is arguably most famous for starring in a homemade sex video
and being a permanent fixture on the Hollywood nightclub scene, has said
she'd like to begin doing something more important with her life.

"I want to help build a transitional home so that when inmates leave here
they don't have to go back to the street," she told Seacrest from jail.
"These women just keep coming back because they have no place to go."

Hilton's path to jail began Sept. 7, when she failed a sobriety test
after police saw her weaving down a street in her Mercedes-Benz. Hilton,
who said she was hungry and on the way to get a hamburger, pleaded no
contest to alcohol-related reckless driving and was sentenced to
probation for three years.

In the months that followed she was stopped twice by officers who
discovered her driving on a suspended license. The second stop landed her
in court and then in jail.









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