# Any chance jail wil change Paris for the better? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 5, 2007, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811 "2007-06-05T08:42:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/21 "2007-06-05T16:51:39Z")
Publicity stunt? If so I hope it’s to make her more likable and not seem so above the law. If good Ol’Dad couldn’t bail her out, - or didn’t - then maybe she wants to appear more human, and less of a face. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/22 "2007-06-05T16:57:09Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] I mean, paris’ old man is loaded-he could have hired the best lawyer in beverly hills-she could have beaten the rap. [/QUOTE] I doubt this is true. She was caught pretty red-handed, and then violated her parole twice. Not much leeway there. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/23 "2007-06-05T17:04:12Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] She was offered the chance to go the “pay jail” where she could’ve payed to have a private room, access to her laptop & cellphone, and other creature comforts, but **she declinded**. She is however going to be held seperatly from the other inmates for her own safety. That’s SOP when dealing with high profile inmates. [/QUOTE] Really? why would she do that? ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/24 "2007-06-05T17:20:16Z")
I thought that the judge’s original ruling made it very clear that she did **not** have the option of going to a pay jail? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/25 "2007-06-05T17:27:27Z")
There’s a joke about a new line of accessories for Jailbird Barbie in here, but all I’ll say is: a year or more might change her outlook. Even six months might change it. 23 days–the rough equivalent of three weeks? I really, sincerely doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/26 "2007-06-05T19:17:01Z")
Of course this is a publicity stunt. 25 posts on this message board alone about her being in jail is way too much publicity for a woman who has no skills, no talent, and no brains. It seems that that for those who don’t like Paris Hilton, the best way of getting her out of the limelight is to stop paying attention to her. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/27 "2007-06-05T20:11:25Z")
This won’t change her a bit. We’ll always have Paris. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/28 "2007-06-05T20:19:37Z")
What if she converts to Islam, and becomes a radical fundamentalist? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/29 "2007-06-05T20:20:26Z")
What’s to change? It’s not like she’s O. J. or anything. She’s rich as Croesus, and she likes to party. When I was her age, I liked to party too, and I’d still like to be rich as Croesus. The main thing wrong with Paris is that people envy her. They feel that they’d be much more qualified recipients of unearned millions. I’m not sure that’s her problem. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/30 "2007-06-05T20:25:03Z")
[QUOTE=Merkwurdigliebe] What the hell could she do with her life that would actually get her some respect? [/QUOTE] From where she stands now, _maybe_ discovering a cure for all cancers _and_ a vaccine for HIV, she _might_ earn a lil respect. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/31 "2007-06-06T00:34:30Z")
[QUOTE=kelly5078] What’s to change? It’s not like she’s O. J. or anything. She’s rich as Croesus, and she likes to party. When I was her age, I liked to party too, and I’d still like to be rich as Croesus. The main thing wrong with Paris is that people envy her. They feel that they’d be much more qualified recipients of unearned millions. I’m not sure that’s her problem. [/QUOTE] I agree with this- its easy to say you would be more like Angeliona Jolie with your millions than Paris Hilton, but maybe you would have a wild time for a while first. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/32 "2007-06-06T03:23:09Z")
[Check out Paris’s mug shot.](http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21850889-5006301,00.html) And, [apparently, her shrink makes jailhouse calls.](http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21858733-5006343,00.html) > [@](#): > > Dr Charles Sophy, the psychiatrist who last month declared the 26-year-old hotel heiress too “distraught and traumatised” to testify in a civil suit against her, rushed to her aid just 35 hours after she checked into the Century Regional Detention Facility. The horror! The horror! ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/33 "2007-06-06T14:59:53Z")
[QUOTE=Dragwyr] Of course this is a publicity stunt. 25 posts on this message board alone about her being in jail is way too much publicity for a woman who has no skills, no talent, and no brains. [/QUOTE] I was surprised to learn, by watching a certain video, that she has at least one skill. And being Paris Hilton, it is not something she HAS to do. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/34 "2007-06-24T13:18:24Z")
Well, [she’s going to tell all on Larry King.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070624/people_nm/hilton_interview_dc) > [@](#): > > Hotel heiress and reality TV star Paris Hilton will give her first post-jail interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live” on Wednesday, the show’s spokeswoman said on Saturday. > > “She will be on for the hour,” Bridget Leininger told Reuters. “We had (filmmaker) Michael Moore originally scheduled for that time.” ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/35 "2007-06-24T22:00:10Z")
She’ll become a passionate advocate for better prison conditions. Her motivation will probably be just to clean up her rep, although she might be sincere. In either case, this will not change most people’s opinion of her. However, to her admirers she wind up almost as well-regarded as Princess Di. You read it here first. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/36 "2007-06-24T23:47:48Z")
[QUOTE=Staggerlee] Maybe she’ll get a full-time chauffeur? [/QUOTE] This is all one could reasonably hope she’d change. After all, getting drunk isn’t illegal, it’s driving while drunk that is, and then violating the parole you get for the DUI, which prevents you from driving. If she’d just get a chauffeur, she’d be a hazard only to herself when drunk, and that’s good enough for me. I don’t know why she insisted on driving when she didn’t have to anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811/37 "2007-06-24T23:56:17Z")
She is inconsequential, even by celebrity standards. She has no talent. I hope the cameras turn off, soon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-jail-wil-change-paris-for-the-better/406811.md?page=1)