The corner of Wilcox Ave. & Silma Ave., in Hollywood: the intersection where Paris Hilton was arrested by police on a misdemeanor charge of suspicion of driving under the influence, just after midnight on Sept. 7, 2006. Paris had just left a charity event at Dragonfly bar (at 6510 Santa Monica Blvd), and was driving her $252,000 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren north up Wilcox, headed for an In-&-Out Burger (at 7009 W. Sunset Blvd)., when cops saw her driving erratically and pulled her over. The breathalizer test showed the bare minimum (0.08) needed for the DUI bust, and Paris insisted that she had only had a single margarita on an empty stomach: "I was starving because I had not eaten all day... I was just really hungry and I wanted to have an In-N-Out Burger." Kimberly Stewart, the daughter of singer Rod Stewart, was also in the car at the time. Paris was booked at the nearby Hollywood police station and released. Her sister, Nicky Hilton, picked her up. She was put on 36 months parole for that offense, and her driver's license was suspended. But on Jan. 15, 2007, she was pulled over again by the Highway Patrol, driving with the suspended license, and signed a document acknowledging that she was not supposed to drive.
But on Feb. 17, 2007, she was pulled over again (this time while driving a blue Bentley on Sunset Boulevard). As a result, in May of 2007, a judge sentenced her to 45 days in jail at the Century Regional Detention Center (in Lynwood), for violating her probation. However, after checking into the Lynwood jail in early June 2007, she was released just a few days later, when her psychiatrist claimed she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She was allowed to return home three weeks early - with an electronic ankle bracelet confining her to her house on Kings Road for 40 days. But just a day later, public outcry over "special treatment" of celebrities led to Paris being brought back to the court in handcuffs and ordered back to her solitary cell at the county jail to serve out the remainder of her sentence. She was released, after serving her time, on June 27
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