Access Investigates: Paris’ Wild Ride

LOS ANGELES (September 7, 2006) — Paris Hilton is once again making news. But this time, it’s actually for doing something.

Unfortunately, it’s for allegedly driving drunk.

Access Hollywood’s Tony Potts spent the day retracing Paris’ steps and tracking her excuses.

Just after midnight on Wednesday, Paris was handcuffed and tucked neatly into a police car after being arrested on suspicion of DUI.

As sister Nicky Hilton was leaving Paris’ home Thursday morning, she was asked how her sister was doing.

“Not good,” Nicky said.

But Paris spoke out in her own defense Thursday morning on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS FM radio show in L.A.

“So there is no DUI charge?” Ryan asked Paris.

“Yeah. They were really nice. It was cool and I hadn?t eaten,” Paris claimed.

But here’s where the discrepancies begin.

Two minutes earlier in the interview, Paris said she had eaten.

“I got off at 10 p.m. and then went and had dinner with my sister and some friends,” she had said.

This we know for sure ? Paris spent the early part of Wednesday shooting a music video for her new album. After dinner, she then headed to the Dragonfly lounge in Hollywood for a charity event hosted by Dave Navarro.

At the event, Paris said she had just one drink.

Then just after midnight, Paris left with friend Kimberly Stewart.

“I had one margarita and I was starving because I had not eaten all day? I was on my way to In-N-Out which is three blocks away,” Paris told Seacrest.

Police pulled Paris and her $500,000 Mercedes Benz over at 12:30 a.m. at the corner of Selma and Wilcox in the heart of Hollywood. Police said she was “driving erratically.”

Seacrest asked Paris about the police’s claim.

“The reports are that you were driving erratically. Any truth to that?” asked Ryan.

“No. I was just really hungry and wanted an In-N-Out burger,” Paris said. “I was in my SLR which is a little fast.”

In fact, Paris’ Mercedes SLR McLaren (which is being held in a police impound lot) has a top speed of 208 MPH and can go from 0 ? 60 in under 3.8 seconds.

“So maybe I was speeding a little bit,” Paris laughed. “I got pulled over.”

After they pulled her over, police said Paris appeared to be drunk, so a sobriety test was issued. It showed her alcohol level was at the legal limit of .08 ? meeting the minimum California level for a DUI.

“There was a lot of paparazzi around so I think they were trying to make a statement and they even said ‘There’s people watching and we don’t want them to think we’re giving you special treatment,’” Paris claimed.

Paris was taken to the Hollywood police station and booked on suspicion of DUI. And while standard police procedure is to hold a DUI suspect for a minimum of three hours, Paris was released after only an hour-and-a-half because of what police called a “gaggle” of paparazzi who appeared and were causing a traffic hazard.

But Paris contradicts that police report.

“I was in there 15 minutes and out and up again in the morning for work,” she claimed.

At 2 a.m., Paris was met at the police station by her sister Nicky, her “Entourage” boyfriend Kevin Connolly and her publicist. Paris was released without bail.

And yet, one final discrepancy.

Paris returned to her home accompanied by her publicist at 3 a.m.

“She had not had anything to eat all day,” her publicist Elliot Mintz said. “She had one drink. You could see she was clearly not intoxicated. She was not drunk.”

On Thursday morning at 8:15 a.m., Paris told Seacrest she was back on the set of her music video in Pasadena. But when Access Hollywood spoke with Paris’ housekeeper on Thursday morning, she said Paris was upstairs sleeping.

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