526. 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 Ricrdo Lee W.

527. Luckily, she did not hit another vehicle while driving in the wrong lane with a tragic result of perhaps killing or permanently injuring someone. Sure, she'll beat this rap. Why don't these stars do what the rest of us do? GET A CAB OR LIMO! Is she doing this for publicity? Who cares what she weighs? She should have her license yanked. That's what they do to the non-celebrity violators.

Posted at 7:54PM on Dec 13th 2006 by Carol

528. LIONEL RITCHIE NEEDS TO STEP UP BE A FATHER AND GET HIS DAUGHTER HELP TO SAVE HER LIFE. GO TO AN ISLAND WITH A REHAB CENTER AND AROUND THE CLOCK THERAPY, GET HER AWAY FROM HER TRASHY FRIENDS FOR A YEAR, SHE SHOULD LEAVE THE COUNTRY FOR A WHILE STAY OUT THE SPOTLIGHT AND GET HELP, AND OH YEAH CHURCH NEEDS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE THERAPY

Posted at 9:19PM on Dec 13th 2006 by ALYCIA

529. SHE IS LYING AND SOMEONE IS COVERING UP FOR HER. THERE IS NO WAY THAT VICATIN AND MARY-JANE WILL MAKE SOMEONE DRIVE ON THE FREEWAY THE WAY SHE DID. THE POLICE KNOW DAMN WELL MARIJUANA AND VICATIN WAS NOT THE ONLY CAUSE OF HER IDIOT ACTIONS, BELIEVE ME THERE IS MORE TO THIS THAN IS BEING SAID. REALLY SOUNDS LIKE SHE POPPED TO MANY XSTACY PILLS OR WAS SNIFFING POWDER COCAINE! IT WAS NOT WEED&VICATIN NO WAY!!!!!!!!

Posted at 9:20PM on Dec 13th 2006 by ALYCIA

530. Who r we to judge? Like we alll haven't done things in our own lives that haven't been exactly morally correct. Sure, she shouldn't have been driving her SUV under the influence, but like I said, who r we to judge. Leave the girl alone. She has to pay for her actions just like if it had been you or me under the wheel of that vehicle. people pass so much judgement on other people. They need to look in their on backyards or even their own closets before voicing their opinions. Seems to me that there are always so many people so ready to cast the first stone..... Those are usually the ones that live in glass houses and are trying to hide their own defects of character. LIGHTEN UP!!!!

Posted at 12:02AM on Dec 14th 2006 by Renee

531. She is 1/2 Caucasian, 1/4 Black, and 1/4 Mexican.

Biological father is Peter Michael Escovedo.

Was adopted by Lionel Richie and his then-wife Brenda Harvey-Richie.

Posted at 12:56AM on Dec 14th 2006 by Bar

532. ...cut the girl some slack!!! A lot of people have had drug problems,weight problems,& the list can go on & on!!! I do wish she would gain some Lbs though cos I had a friend pass away from not eating/drug abuse....& she does have great style kickin':)...so...back off people!!!!!!!!!~~BIG LOVE~~

Posted at 1:45AM on Dec 14th 2006 by Hadley

533. TO #535--So you are saying that because drunk soldier friends of yours get busted, it's okay with Nicole because....why???? The Golden Rule says 'don't kill'. How many of your military buddies brought up on DUI charges were on the wrong side of the freeway in Iraq?

To #540--WHO r WE to Judge? Just walk away Renee? We HAVE to judge behavior that could have killed ANYBODY just driving their car down the freeway, never in a gazillion years expecting some intoxicated person to slam into us. Don't give us that 'could have been you or me behind the wheel' sh*t. I won't speak for YOU, but I have always had the common f***ing sense to drive on the correct side of the road in the 35 years I have been driving. If some a**hole came at me from the wrong side like that I'd wanna tear them a 3rd corn-chute, as Alien Bob Dole said on The Simpsons.

Posted at 9:13AM on Dec 14th 2006 by floydpinque

534. Spoiled brat, irresponsible and self-absorbed. She needs to get a job on a dairy farm.

Posted at 11:30AM on Dec 14th 2006 by taylor stephens

535. To # 11. DUI doesn't neccessarily mean the girl was drunk, if you know ANYTHING, DUI stands for Driving Under the INFLUENCE...which could mean anything inhibiting.

Posted at 12:14PM on Dec 14th 2006 by hilary

536. her lawyer will just buy off the judge like the child molester did what a great country. we have the best judges and polititions money can buy, they should take and that other idiot paris hilton and shoot both of them along with their parents

Posted at 12:34PM on Dec 14th 2006 by robert rowe

537. FINALLY, a celebrity who takes a nice lookin' mug shot.

Posted at 2:40PM on Dec 14th 2006 by Dee

538. First of all (Sandra #44 comment) I dont think you would need to smell anything on Nicole to know she was DUI of some substance. I mean she was driving on the wrong side of the freeway!!! And you all mention how she could have killed someone, when in reality she could have killed herself. Nicole needs help, true, however one must want to help themselves first. She needs to talk to GOD!

Posted at 2:44PM on Dec 14th 2006 by Brooklyn

539. Dear confused:

DUI means driving under the influance of anything that will alter your nomal mind, ie,DRUGS

Posted at 3:47PM on Dec 14th 2006 by Chuck

540. Who cares if it was "Under The Infuence" of anything...it is still drving white intoxicated. If that be ETOH( Grain Alcohol), Opiates, or whatever it may be, it is still dangerous. She needs the same tretment as any common criminal and some cruel and unusual punishment...she needs to be placed in a 4 x 4 cell with "Hello" by Loinel Richie played over and over again. Whoeve she is, wahtever medical conditions she has or however much money she may have deosnt change the fact that she broke the law and needs to be punished.

Posted at 3:54PM on Dec 14th 2006 by Elijah