It seems Paris Hilton is following in the footsteps of Lindsay Lohan.
The socialite was arrested on suspicion of possessing cocaine late last week and was detained by police in Las Vegas after they pulled over a car in which she was a passenger. Cops are said to have found a suspicious-looking white powder in Hilton’s purse, which was tested and allegedly proved to be cocaine. The hotel heiress was arrested and booked into the Clark County Detention Centre, where she was charged with possession of a controlled substance.
However, the star, which also served time in jail in 2007 on a DUI charge, isn’t taking the charges lightly.
Asked whose cocaine was in the purse, Hilton told police she “had not seen it” and thought it was chewing-gum, according to a police report.
Hilton also told police she had borrowed the purse and that the cosmetics did not belong to her, though the asthma medication, cash, credit cards and Zig-Zag wrappers were hers.
She’s also taken the claims one step further claiming the the bag or purse containing the drug was not expensive enough to be hers and that a friend had lent it to her.
If convicted she could get anything from probation to four years in prison and a fine of £3,233.
Her lawyer, David Chesnoff, encouraged people “not to rush to judgement until all of the facts have been dealt with in a court of law,” according to a statement released to US media.
We look right back to when the star first started out.
