Jon Holato

Yes, you read that correctly: Paris Hilton, one of the world’s most famous “socialites” — whatever that means, is going to jail. Last Friday Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer sentenced Hilton to 45 days in jail for violating her probation by knowingly driving without a valid drivers license.

Hilton’s defense team tried to argue that she was unaware that her license was suspended. Hilton even testified on the stand that her publicist had told her she was allowed to drive for work-related reasons after the initial 30 days of license suspension in November 2006, and that she believed him.

Sauer wouldn’t be had. He said he didn’t believe Hilton was telling the truth because she had received a notice from a police officer during a traffic stop in January of this year, and had signed that notice. According to Sauer, Hilton “completely ignored” the notice, as well as another license suspension notice sent to her office by the DMV. As a result, he sentenced Hilton to jail and told her to report on June 5.

I’m sure the trial was entertaining yet interesting, however the biggest fireworks didn’t come until after the trial had ended, and they came not from Paris, but from her mother, Kathy.

Hilton wept and her mother, Kathy, yelled at the prosecutor, “You’re pathetic,” as the packed courtroom cleared.

This is one of my favorite celebrity quotes in a long time, and is up there will the best of them like when Jenny Lee said “I’m cooler than you” to another female contestant on Beauty and the Geek last season, but let’s not get into that. What this quote by Kathy Hilton shows is the sheer magnitude of arrogance and “elitism” within the Hilton family and celebrities in general. Sure, a mother will protect her child, but to call a prosecutor pathetic for doing his job after your daughter had been given several mulligans is childish and shows a real lack of character, especially when this is supposed to be someone from our society’s elite. People like Paris Hilton stroll around the world every day with nothing better to do, and often break laws thinking they can get away with whatever they want, and I commend Judge Sauer for putting his foot down and saying you are not above the law.