Celebrity Justice
Hilton's Shrink: Paris is a Wreck

Paris HiltonParis Hilton's delicate state of mind is keeping her out of the courtroom ... for now.

According to a declaration filed by Dr. Charles Sophy, a psychiatrist who has seen Paris "off and on" over the last six months, Hilton is "not capable of any meaningful participation" in a civil trial brought against her by diamond heiress Zeta Graff. In a $10 million lawsuit filed in 2005, Graff claims that Hilton spread "vicious lies" about her that were printed in the New York Post.

Paris' shrink claims that Hilton is "emotionally distraught and traumatized" from the May 4 hearing where she was sentenced to 45 days in jail for breaking probation in her DUI bust, and asked a judge to allow her sufficient time to recover. Paris HiltonIn the document, the head-doc goes on to explain that Hilton "Cannot effectively respond to examination as a witness or provide any significant input into her defense." In fact, Sophy claims that forcing Paris to participate on May 21 would "exacerbate her current mental condition." The horror!

As a result, the judge has postponed the trial date until August 22.

Calls to Hilton's rep were not immediately returned.



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481. She sure wasn't distraught or traumatized the night she turned herself in to go to jail...she was out preening and posing for the cameras at the MTV Awards show. And in three whole days, she came so completely unglued that she had to be sent home, against the judge's express order to serve no alternate detention? Well, maybe she did. After all, she's such a princess. I'll bet she got a rash from the cheap sheets on her jailhouse cot. Either that, or someone put a pea under her mattress.

Posted at 2:22PM on Jun 8th 2007 by windrider

482. My guess is that she's addicted to opiates (percodan, vicodin, et al), and can't get any in jail.

Posted at 9:25PM on Jun 8th 2007 by casper

483. If this all too much for poor little Paris to handle as an adult, they should take her back to court, let the paparazzi in and give her a good sound spanking so everyone could enjoy seeing her pay the piper. Then when she's finished, do both of her parents for their unwillingness/inability to have parented her when they should have.

Posted at 9:39PM on Jun 8th 2007 by johnniecomelately

484. I cannot believe the hatred, envy and malice directed at this vulnerable, metnally fragile young woman. Once, once, she was pulled over and was dui. Once, only, she was pulled over with no headlights and breaking her probation by driving with a suspended licence. A second time she was pulled over. That's it. No established pattern of "drunk driving". No injury to any person or to any property. Do you really believe if it had been a nobody factory worker with an old Ford that the sentence would have been 45/23 days in the slammer? Come on! Then on the advice of his own medical team, the sheriff decides to transfer Hilton to her own home, but still in custody with the ankle bracelett, the City Attorned gets all "head gorilla, chest-pounding excited and yells to the judge to charge the sheriff himself with contempt of court! The judge hauls Hilton in cuffs (ridiculous) and, because the sheriff is not there, takes it out on Hilton!

She does have Attention Deficit Dissorder and the panic and fear of suddenly being in that little cage of a cell, all alone, for 23 hours a day, almost drove her to a real nervous breakdown, probably some form of true hysteria. It is said she could not even use the panic button in the cell, even though it had been shown to her and explained. She was not getting her prescription medication, according to the sheriff. What's more, and he has the statistics to back it, the sheriff says non-violent, misdemeanor offenders, like Hilton, never, ever serve even 10% of their time in jail, and he has a recent list of 500 releases, many guilty of far more serious offences than Hilton, to prove it. Bottom line, she has been hammered and singled out for extra punishment to advance the political career or Rocky Delegado, and is getting extra punishment, not less, not because of what she did but because of who she is.

Posted at 3:51AM on Jun 14th 2007 by Diogenes

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