Paris Hilton Begins Jail Sentence
HOLMES: All right. Well, forget D-Day. That's Wednesday. Today is P-Day. Yes, Paris, the heiress, spending her first full day in jail after turning herself in last night. And hours before at the MTV Movie Awards, Hilton sounded like she had come to terms with her terms.</s>HILTON: I'm trying to be strong right now. I'm definitely scared, but I'm ready to face my sentence. And even though this is a really hard time, I have my friends and family and my fans who support me, and it's just been really helpful in this really scary time.</s>HOLMES: Scary time for a lot of us. What will we cover while she's in jail? Paris is finally doing the time, which means it's time for us to talk to TMZ.com's Harvey Levin. He's in Glendale, California. How are you always on top of this stuff? You've got the video of her going in. How did you know when she was going to be turning herself in?</s>HARVEY LEVIN, TMZ.COM: Well, we worked hard this weekend, but we knew.</s>HOLMES: You knew.</s>LEVIN: We knew.</s>HOLMES: That's all you're going to give me, you knew?</s>LEVIN: Yes, that's it. Sorry.</s>HOLMES: Well, what was that process like, her going in last night? What time was that video taken anyway? And she kind of -- she did, she went in a little early.</s>LEVIN: She went -- well, actually, she went -- she went early and she went late. I'll explain.</s>HOLMES: OK.</s>LEVIN: She went to her parents' house, and that's where her lawyer, Rich Hutton (ph), picked her up. And along with her mom, Kathy Hilton, they went down not to the jail, but to another area of the sheriff's department a couple of miles away where she surrendered herself. The sheriff wanted to do this because he just didn't want the pandemonium and wanted to basically -- wanted to have a decoy so that nobody knew where Paris was going. And then she got into a sheriff's vehicle from downtown L.A. and then went over to the Lynwood jail.</s>HOLMES: OK. And what's -- there's some debate now about what kind of shape or what kind of conditions she's living in. This is her talking about it. We're going to listen to a sound bite of her talking about what kind of conditions she's going to have to live under in the jail. Then we'll talk about it with you on the other side. So let's take a listen.</s>HILTON: Well, I did have a choice to go to a pay jail, but I declined because I feel like the media portrays me in a way that I'm not. And that's I wanted to go to county, to show that I could do it. And I want to be treated like everyone else. And if I'm going to do the time, I'm going to do it the right way.</s>HOLMES: OK. Now, what is all that about? So she -- what kind of -- I understand that she's not really mingling around right now and she's in some kind of solitary confinement-type situation. What's going on with her?</s>LEVIN: She is. She is basically in solitary 23 out of 24 hours every day. For the one hour she's not in solitary -- and we're told this by law enforcement officials -- she's going to basically be allowed to go into this little pod area near the cell where she can get on her phone or take a shower, but that's it. And I have to tell you, I mean, I think Paris Hilton got the shaft here. And TMZ has gone after her, you know, for various things. But not now. I mean, nobody in a situation like the one she finds herself in, nobody would have gotten 45 days in jail for her violation. The average jail sentence for that kind of violation, when anybody goes into jail at all, is 2.3 days.</s>HOLMES: OK. You know, a lot of people shaking their head at you right now. Come on. Paris got the shaft and poor Paris.</s>LEVIN: The shaft.</s>HOLMES: Nobody's agreeing with you on that right now.</s>LEVIN: Why? Why?</s>HOLMES: Because, people -- her public perception. People will look at this woman and say, I don't feel sorry for her at all, spoiled little brat. I'm just saying you know a lot of people will say that.</s>LEVIN: Well, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about, what is a judge supposed to do when somebody breaks the law? And you have to look at what the normal -- what the normal sentence is. And this woman for -- you know, whether you love her or hate her, and I don't care what it is, she got punished for who she is, not for what she did. And judges are not supposed to do that. It's really that simple.</s>HOLMES: Why the solitary confinement anyway? Why is that necessary, no matter what she did? That's reserved for hard core and misbehaving criminals is what we hear about solitary confinement.</s>LEVIN: The sheriff's department is in a tough situation here, because they have to make sure she is safe. And Paris Hilton is a big, fat target in this jail right now. So what they wanted to do was they just wanted to make sure -- look, we want to make sure she's safe and that the integrity of the jail isn't compromised, and they kind of had to do that. My beef isn't that the sheriff's department is doing that. Mine is, frankly, I think she got hammered by a judge who had no business doing what he did.</s>HOLMES: And Harvey, a quick five seconds, she's going to come back bad as ever, come back and throw a big party and come back pretty strong when she gets out?</s>LEVIN: The jury is out.</s>HOLMES: The jury is out. All right. Harvey Levin, you guys are always on top of it over there at TMZ.com. Good to see you, sir.</s>LEVIN: Good talking to you.</s>PHILLIPS: T.J., I'm sorry. I was reading some real news. I'm sorry.</s>HOLMES: Oh, come on!</s>PHILLIPS: OK. Excuse me. Oh, here's another one. Maybe you should have read this one, too. Mama mia. With her daughter Lindsay Lohan days into her second rehab stint -- here we go. We go for Paris -- don't you feel sorry for all these stars? Dina Lohan is reportedly in talks with E! now to do a reality show focused on her two youngest kids. "The New York Post's" Page Six says the show would focus on Dina's efnts to make 14- year-old Ali and 11-year-old Cody into stars as well. Well, the closing bell and a wrap on all the action on Wall Street straight ahead.