Hotel heiress Paris Hilton was released from jail at around 12:15 a.m. on Tuesday, exiting the Century Regional Detention Facility through a mob of paparazzi, reporters and onlookers.

The 26-year-old multimillionaire who was wearing a sage jacket smiled for paparazzi and strutted down the road in high heels, ignoring the reporters’ questions.

When her SUV had to stop at a red light, photographers jumped out of their cars and surrounded it, Paris Hilton went to her grandparents’ home in a ritzy Los Angeles canyon north of Sunset Boulevard.

The blonde star, who found worldwide fame when a private sex tape 1 Night In Paris was leaked onto the Internet, was serving three weeks in jail for a DUI probation violation.

Paris Hilton is back - free to party.

Paris Hilton the 26-year-old hotel heiress will leave jail on Tuesday after spending more than three weeks behind bars. The release date, announced Friday, was determined by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Inmate Reception Center. The exact hour was not disclosed.

Yesterday Paris Hilton was out of jail after only 3 days in prison, the hotel heiress was put on house arrest.

But Today the 26-year-old socialite was escorted from a courtroom and sent back to jail after a judge ruled that she must serve out her entire 45-day sentence behind bars rather than in her Hollywood Hills home.

Paris Hilton was taken handcuffed from her home in a black-and-white police car, paparazzi sprinting in pursuit and helicopters broadcasting live from above.

The celebrity trembled and cried quietly throughout the hearing and then broke into loud sobs when the judge ordered her back behind bars.

The 26-year-old hotel heiress Paris Hilton out of jail after just 3 days! She has been let out of jail and placed under house arrest after serving three days of a three-week sentence in a move that drew fire from prosecutors and sparked public debate about celebrity justice.

Officials said Paris Hilton, was released from jail for undisclosed medical reasons but was fitted with an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet and must remain confined to her house for the next 40 days.

TMZ cited unidentified law enforcement sources as saying a psychiatrist who visited her in jail on Wednesday found she was in danger of suffering a nervous breakdown.

Hilton had been housed in the “special needs” unit for celebrities and high-profile inmates at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, about 24 km from LA.

Paris Hilton was originally sentenced to 45 days for violating probation, but that was cut to 23 days.

Paris Hilton the 26-year-old hotel heiress has begun serving her Los Angeles jail sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.

“Paris Hilton has turned herself in to begin serving her sentence for violating probation at a Los Angeles County Jail located in Lynwood, California,” Richard Hutton said in a statement.

The socialite was booked late Sunday into the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, an industrial area about five miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, according to the sheriff’s inmate locator Web site.

Hilton will be held in a unit for celebrities and high-profile inmates at the jail. The unit is separated from the general prison population, officials say.

Pals of Paris Hilton - who has been sentenced to 45 days in jail for driving with a suspended licence - believe imprisonment will be good for her. It’s going to make her more famous than ever and she will gain “street cred”

However, not everybody believes Paris’ prison term will be beneficial to her. A friend of Paris is worried her incarceration will ruin the star’s career, he think we could be witnessing the end of Paris Hilton.

Paris Hilton’s lawyers have dropped plans to appeal her 45-day jail sentence after learning that the amount of time the famous socialite must actually serve will be cut almost in half, a court official said on Friday.

Paris Hilton was found driving on a suspended license in February, following her 2006 conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol.

The hotel heiress is scheduled to begin her sentence, which could be as small as 23 days, before June 5.
Paris will be confined 23 hours a day to an 8-foot-by-12-foot cell that she most likely will share with another inmate, he said.

Paris Hilton, who faces 45 days in prison for driving on a suspended license, has chances of escaping the jail sentence.

Hilton, could spend three weeks or less behind bars because of a state requirement that grants inmates time off for good behavior and because of overcrowding in the system, Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

She will not receive any favors because she is a celebrity, he added.

A judge has sentenced Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton to 45 days in Los Angeles County jail for violating her probation in a reckless-driving case.

Hilton must go to jail on June 5 and she will spend the 45 days at a women’s jail in suburban Lynwood. Paris Hilton will not be allowed any work release, no furloughs, no use of an alternative jail and no electronic monitoring in lieu of jail.

She pleaded to the judge just before the decision “I’m very sorry and from now on I’m going to pay complete attention to everything. I’m sorry and I did not do it on purpose at all”

LA judge handed down the sentence after prosecutors contended in a two-hour hearing that Hilton had violated her probation when she was ticketed in late February for driving a blue Bentley Continental GTC on Sunset Boulevard with a suspended license. Hilton and her attorneys argued that it was a mistake and that her action did not warrant a jail sentence.

The eccentric musician Prince humiliated Paris Hilton by challenging her to sing live, it has been reported.

Prince invited Paris to join him on stage when he was performing at Las Vegas’ Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino. The hotel heiress was excited and ran onstage to meet the pop icon, Prince handed her a microphone and allegedly said to the audience, “Lets see if she can really sing!”

According to witnesses, Paris was angry and humiliated, she left the stage and left the club minutes later.