Celebrity Justice
Nicole Richie Popped for DUI

TMZ has learned that Nicole Richie was arrested for DUI early Monday morning. She was booked at 4:50 AM today and was released around 7:15 this morning. The booking sheet reveals Richie is 5'1" and 85 lbs.

We're told two motorists spotted her SUV going the wrong way on the 134 Freeway in Burbank. The drivers called 911.

When the CHP responded, Richie was stopped in the carpool lane and was alone in the vehicle. When cops approached the vehicle, Richie was on her cellphone.

Law enforcement officers tell TMZ Nicole Richie admitted she had taken Vicodin and smoked pot.

A preliminary alcohol screening device revealed that Nicole was not under the influence of alcohol.

One law enforcement source tell TMZ that while Richie was at the jail she was "very cooperative and very humble."

This is not the first brush Richie has had with substance abuse. In 2003, she pled guilty to heroin possession. The charges were dismissed after she completed the terms of her probation.DUI Busts gallery: Click to launch

A rep for Richie had no comment.

TMZ has learned that Richie hired celebrity lawyer Howard Weitzman to rep her in this latest incident.



Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Nicole Richie

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511. Sounds like she is still in denial of a substance abuse needing to be set free.

Posted at 11:10PM on Dec 12th 2006 by Everett Wiltse

512. Hmm, I knew her being friends with Paris Hilton again was bad news and now this happens. Paris is not a good influence.

Posted at 11:13PM on Dec 12th 2006 by duh

513. You wouldnt believe the comments on Nicole's Myspace page...these girls are actually idolizing her!!!! They want to be like her....what is going on with the younger girls????????????

Posted at 12:14AM on Dec 13th 2006 by bitty

514. Well at least we all know why she says she can't gain any weight; VICODIN. Remember how skinny Matthew Perry became while he was hooked on those.

Posted at 1:06AM on Dec 13th 2006 by Tamra

515. Don't these girls have anyone to take care of them? Does no one care that they are living vacuous lives and getting lost in the process? Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton...My God it seems as if no one in their right mind cares about the empty lives they are living. They go about chattering idiotic sayings that makje no sense in the world. Linday is always saying "what is any young girl supposed to do? Clubbing of course" She doesn't know that there are other options in life besides drinking drugging and partying. they all way 80 lbs and think that is beauty. How lost can they be and how little do their oved ones care?

Posted at 1:11AM on Dec 13th 2006 by JUDY

516. I think rich little hoes like her and all of the others will not learn nothing from this, if she was poor and had to realy deal with it she would turn her life around.

Posted at 6:27AM on Dec 13th 2006 by Roger

517. How can she be smoking pot and weigh only 85 pounds? Isn't it supposed to make you eat? She must have smoked lawn clippings instead of real pot.

Posted at 9:28AM on Dec 13th 2006 by Ben

518. Ha! All those stupid tabloids who've been saying that at her lowest she weighed 88 lbs - bullshit! The girl was in the 70's for shizzle. That's smaller than a lot of dogs. A vicodin is probably the equivalent of a three bottles of Oxycontin to a normal fat ass.

p.s. It's sad that at 85 lbs the press has been giving her ass all sorts of props for being healthy. Damn. She needs to go to Promises or Monetenido or whatever to address her addiction. That's just fucking sad.

Posted at 10:37AM on Dec 13th 2006 by lola

519.
In response to #164----"Innocent until proven guilty...".. Nicole drives the wrong way on a California freeway, potentially killing people. The only people who ever beat that rap are victims of Alzheimers, who really are confused or forgot they were whacked out on legal scrips. ...She fails the sobriety test--high is high ferchrissakes, no matter what the intoxicant of choice in ALL 50 states! Even admits to the weed and vicodin....The bitch will undoubtedly plead 'no contest' because if it went to trial her admissions would be used against her..More to the point--any juror would imagine themself happily driving along and all of a sudden some dumb-ass airhead on drugs almost kills them coming the wrong way.
BTW, doesn't it seem that in 99% of all these celeb DUI mugshots they seem to be smiling (N-Nolte and G-Campbell aside) as if to say--'hey, I was just having a little too much fun but you still like me, right'? They are exactly what they are--criminals.

Posted at 11:32AM on Dec 13th 2006 by Floyd Pinque

520.
The sweetest irony would have been if she crashed her car and wound up killing her biological parents in the process. Maybe for once a Tinseltown celeb would actually show remorse.

Posted at 11:57AM on Dec 13th 2006 by Ken L. Ration

521. There is supposed to be a thing in this country as "Innocent until proven guilty." Isn't this one of our "Rights" I always here that our soldiers in Iraq fighting are for? Some of you people better hope none of you are ever on each others jury or the verdict will be in before the trial starts. There is too much hate in the world and not enough compassion. What would Jesus say? I'd bet it would not be 99% of the comments I have read here.

Posted at 12:43PM on Dec 13th 2006 by Keith

522. Look all these rich hollywood types for the most part are idiots. I guess Lionel is probably telling her why did you drive "ALL NIGHT LONG" "ALL NIGHT" and besides shes deffinetely got a wieght problem and they think thats sexy i think she is ugly as sin along with paris, but dont freat she will get off one thing about our legal systems is, if you got the money you can get away with mureder, Just ask OJ

Posted at 12:59PM on Dec 13th 2006 by RAy

523. Niclole is about as dumb-as-they-come!!! Competing with Paris!!! Nicole is exoctic looking, Paris is just a blond bland blue-eyed white girl without any flavour, that's why she out f***ing up... It's okay not 2 B a blond... Nicole get a grip B Black!! That's what you're considered rather you like it or not!!!!

Posted at 2:39PM on Dec 13th 2006 by Staychg

524. What's amazing to me (besides the absurd amount of losers out there who are so miserable they're willing to waste their precious time posting trash here; that they should know Mrs. Richie of SIMPLE LIFE fame isn't ever going to bother to read) is how pretty she still looks: intoxicated, embarrassed, arrested, groggy, at 5:00 in the morning, in a bad police mug shot. Even with all the weight she's lost her eyes still sparkle in such a pretty way that you can tell, she's a star.
Her beautiful complexion, her little mouth and even the little smile she managed... She's gorgeous... she's a star!! Even after all the weight loss.

As a young black man that just came home from being stationed overseas the last 3 and a half years in Baumholder Germany (ETS ed 11M A 1/6 Assassin Hooah!) its crazy to hear how much she parties. She looks so fresh faced and innocent its really hard to believe. Even in her mug shot she looks more like an angel than the amazons in the Victoria's Secret ads. Anyway's this chicks living her life and making her money. So why waste energy shaking your fist in the wind?
I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area but Im spending Christmas to New Years in Vegas at the Bellagio where my Pops got us a balcony facing the Strip and the fireworks on New Years eve. What Im getting to is year in and year out people party till they have to lock all the balcony doors on New Years to keep intoxicated people from falling or jumping off! As a kid I spent New Years in Vegas/Reno, New York, New Orleans, Union Square (SF). Ive partied when the Niner's won they're Super Bowl victories. I've been places where the whole cities are out drinking and celebrating. In Idar Oberstein Germany I saw a guy crash his brand new BMW drunk during the Linden Festival. In Ibiza you should see how crazy the British girls get or how we acted during R&R in Bulgaria. All around the world people party, this isnt some new occurrence or something Nicole Richie has just started or invented. Human beings can make mistakes sober. Nicole Richie is not your leader she's no politician or televangelist so why sweat every little move she makes. She's just a girl who grew up in Hollywood, she not a teacher or congressmen or even anytype of civil servant... What type of moron or horrible parent would go around making what Nicole Richie does out to be all important when you have the president who ""didn't inhale"" having affairs with interns, a President elect who had at the very least a DUI (and he's the head of the military chain of command and ""leader of the free world"".)
Getting behind the wheel of car intoxicated is crazy but more soldiers (that I was personally friends with) got chaptered or Article 15's for drunk driving than anything else. Nicole's definitely not the first person guilty of driving under the influence. You have teachers sleeping with the kids and politicians propositioning pages... and your wasting time here? Trying to think of something nasty to say about a girl who parties???

Youd probably be more well served teaching Your kids the Golden Rule, forgiveness/compassion temperance i.e.; or if your really that worried how to "just say no" & defensive driving...

Posted at 3:58PM on Dec 13th 2006 by Ricardo Lee W.

525. What's amazing to me (besides the absurd amount of losers out there who are so miserable they're willing to waste their precious time posting trash here; that they should know Mrs. Richie of SIMPLE LIFE fame isn't ever going to bother to read) is how pretty she still looks: intoxicated, embarrassed, arrested, groggy, at 5:00 in the morning, in a bad police mug shot. Even with all the weight she's lost her eyes still sparkle in such a pretty way that you can tell, she's a star.
Her beautiful complexion, her little mouth and even the little smile she managed... She's gorgeous... she's a star!! Even after all the weight loss.

As a young black man that just came home from being stationed overseas the last 3 and a half years in Baumholder Germany (ETS ed 11M A 1/6 Assassin Hooah!) its crazy to hear how much she parties. She looks so fresh faced and innocent its really hard to believe. Even in her mug shot she looks more like an angel than the amazons in the Victoria's Secret ads. Anyway's this chicks living her life and making her money. So why waste energy shaking your fist in the wind?
I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area but Im spending Christmas to New Years in Vegas at the Bellagio where my Pops got us a balcony facing the Strip and the fireworks on New Years eve. What Im getting to is year in and year out people party till they have to lock all the balcony doors on New Years to keep intoxicated people from falling or jumping off! As a kid I spent New Years in Vegas/Reno, New York, New Orleans, Union Square (SF). Ive partied when the Niner's won they're Super Bowl victories. I've been places where the whole cities are out drinking and celebrating. In Idar Oberstein Germany I saw a guy crash his brand new BMW drunk during the Linden Festival. In Ibiza you should see how crazy the British girls get or how we acted during R&R in Bulgaria. All around the world people party, this isnt some new occurrence or something Nicole Richie has just started or invented. Human beings can make mistakes sober. Nicole Richie is not your leader she's no politician or televangelist so why sweat every little move she makes. She's just a girl who grew up in Hollywood, she not a teacher or congressmen or even anytype of civil servant... What type of moron or horrible parent would go around making what Nicole Richie does out to be all important when you have the president who ""didn't inhale"" having affairs with interns, a President elect who had at the very least a DUI (and he's the head of the military chain of command and ""leader of the free world"".)
Getting behind the wheel of car intoxicated is crazy but more soldiers (that I was personally friends with) got chaptered or Article 15's for drunk driving than anything else. Nicole's definitely not the first person guilty of driving under the influence. You have teachers sleeping with the kids and politicians propositioning pages... and your wasting time here? Trying to think of something nasty to say about a girl who parties???

Youd probably be more well served teaching Your kids the Golden Rule, forgiveness/compassion temperance i.e.; or if your really that worried how to "just say no" & defensive driving...

Posted at 4:02PM on Dec 13th 2006 by Ricardo Lee W.

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