Late Friday, everyone got excited because there was some news that Paris Hilton had been detained and maybe arrested in South Africa for possession of marijuana. Our dreams of a Midnight Express-esque end for Paris ended quickly though, as within hours, South African law enforcement formally apologized to Paris – it turns out that she was just hanging out with someone smoking pot, and Paris was caught up in the pot net and later released. Paris tweeted about the bullsh-t too:
After a South African court dropped a marijuana-smoking case against Paris Hilton, the heiress, 29, took to her Twitter page to reassure her fans that “everything is fine.”
“I had nothing to do with it,” she Twittered. “…There’s a lot of crazy rumors going around. Just want you all to know the truth. Everything is completely fine. I was not charged or arrested, cause I didn’t do anything. I was assisting the police with the investigation and answering their questions. Everyone was super nice and friendly to me. I love South Africa! Such an amazing place, especially during The World Cup! Hope that clears everything up. Love you guys, thanks for your concern. Xoxo P.”
Hilton was escorted out of the Brazil vs Netherlands quarterfinal match at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Friday.
After Hilton was questioned by police, her rep told UsMagazine.com: “It was actually another person in the group who did it. The case has been dropped against Paris and no charges will be made. The authorities have apologized for wrongfully accusing her since she had nothing to do with the incident.”
[From Us Weekly]
Of course that’s probably not the end of it. Because Paris has had a renewed glimpse of what it’s like to have everyone paying attention to her. She’s relevant again! Not really, it’s just that people were talking about her for a few hours, which hasn’t happened in a while. Which makes one her tweets really funny – she linked to this article from Culture Map – see how far up Paris’s ass this guy climbs:
Paris Hilton is at least as smart a businessperson as Donald Trump and George Steinbrenner (and that’s no knock on either Trump or Steinbrenner, who like Paris both had mega-rich fathers).
Paris built herself into a powerhouse international brand — without relying on the family name. She’s not famous because she’s a Hilton. She’s famous because she’s Paris. That’s a hard trick to pull off, one that requires much more skill than any once-supposed blonde bimbo could ever possess. Yes, Paris was always smarter than you thought.
Which made her arrest for pot possession at the World Cup hard to believe from the beginning. (It’s not hard to fathom Paris smoking pot, it’s the doing it in the midst of the world’s biggest sporting event in public, blatantly enough to get caught, part that made it dubious. Again, Paris is not dumb).
So, it’s no big surprise that all the charges against Hilton were dropped within hours of the incident. Of course, by then Paris Hilton’s name and arrest had been in headlines around the globe on the Internet. The South African police made the unusual step of coming out and apologizing to Hilton for the misunderstanding, but that’s really not enough.
Paris had her name besmirched in the international press for something she had little to do with. Jennifer Rovero — a former Playmate who works for Paris as a photographer (yes, Paris has Playmates with legit jobs in her entourage) — copped to the marijuana and was told to pay $1,000 or spend 30 days in jail.
It doesn’t matter if you think that Rovero is just covering for her boss or not (dubious), can you imagine if a Trump or a Steinbrenner were put in the same situation? They’d be banging their fist on a podium at a news conference, demanding that someone pay.
Paris? She just sweetly tweets, “Hey guys, there’s a lot of crazy rumors going around. Just want you all to know the truth. Everything is completely fine. I was not charged or arrested, cause I didn’t do anything.”That’s Paris Hilton, brilliant and forgiving.
[From Culture Map]
For goodness sake. Jesus. Brilliant? I just can’t with this sh-t. Can we go back to ignoring her now?
Photos courtesy of Paris’s Twitter.
She jinxd Brazil that f#%$^@# bitch.
Well for Paris to be so “brilliant” she was stupid enough to be sitting next to, and socializing with the girl, who was openly smoking pot.
I suspect that it was Paris being blatant and openly smoking the pot in a public arena. She just has a friend stupid enough to take the blame for it.
Next time I hire somebody to travel out of the country with Paris Hilton I expect them to plant the drugs ON HER. You simply cannot get good help.
LMAO she is so over… when was the last time she was rellevant?
She occasionally has these brief flashes of interest E.G this or that old Mcain guy thing but she really is over lol
In my next life I want to come back as Paris. To do absolutely technically nothing and have no talent and get to travel the world – brilliant, but in a very offensive and odious way.
I really don’t care if she was smoking pot. Lohan is far more repulsive, IMO, and has gotten away with far more than Paris has. At least Paris spent a few days in jail! Lindsay keeps drinking, drugging and stealing and ripping off companies, and nothing at all happens to her.
Like I said, just my opinion. Make no mistake, I am no Paris fan, but I can tolerate her antics more that LL’s.
smoking pot in a foreign country….wow, how stupid!!! so Paris is just an idiot that knows an idiot.
@ gee_gee – Ha-ha! Too funny!
I just skimmed over the story since I don’t care about Paris. I headline just made me laugh outloud.
Can we also go back to ignoring the Kardashians?
If we ignore Paris then we should ignore all the irrelevant, brainless, rich-spoiled famewhores that have never done anything and yet they are called “famous”
Um, who is Culture Map? Oh that’s right, nobody. These are nobodies saying nothing about no one. I wouldn’t bemoan the fact that someone on the Internet said something positive about Paris Hilton. They’re no more relevant in their opinion than Celebitchy is. In fact, I’m sure Celebitchy is more relevant.
Say what you want about her, at least she writes legibly, instead of the usual celebrity tweets that are full of spelling mistakes and have no punctuation.
And that’s a sentence I never thought I’d say about Paris Hilton.
Exactly, Emily. It’s surprising to me that she can spell at all.
Paris smoke pot with the Oranje supporters next timr
At least she is assisting the police with the investigation. I’m sure they’ll crack the case wide open now.
Ignorance was bliss while it lasted. Thanks for creeping back into our lives, Paris.
the whole world needs to chill out about marijuana, there are so many bigger issues we should be dealing with. Very sad!
She probably did it on purpose to get people talking about her again. Ugh!
She thought: well, the Netherlands are playing and pot is allowed there, so I can do it here too right?
Don’t care for her arrest though, the Netherlands made it to the semis and a really big opportunity to get to the finale!! Hup Holland Hup!
I do think that she is brilliant, the way she built her brand and her business. She merely took advantage of the fools who were dumb enough to buy what she was selling, whether it is her image or style or lifestyle or whatever. Self respect and integrity – what’s that?
I was sitting here thinking about the whole “Paris is so smart!” thing that Culture Nap (typo, keeping it) said, and realized how stupid they were to say it in the first place.
Paris isn’t smart. She merely has good handlers that know what they’re doing. This is still the girl who was stupid enough to not pay her storage unit bill, knowing full well the litany of personal items that would be exposed if she did not pay her bill. This is a girl who has been stupid enough to TAPE HERSELF DOING DRUGS over and over and over. In fact, she was stupid enough that she taped herself using racial slurs, left prescription medication bottles and hospital bills related to her abortion and in a fake name in the storage unit. She’s a real genius, you guys.
This is merely the stuff we know. The OP at Culture Map must be retarded not to remember how many times she’s filmed herself doing drugs. Oh, and she’s supposedly smart enough to not do them in public? Yeah fucking right.
The blind items out there, if true, tell an even more telling tale, that of Paris doing things like getting kicked off a private plane for smoking some chemical illegal substance, or Paris going into strip clubs and using racial slurs while commanding strippers to go down on her. Or how about her puppy killer reputation, courtesy of Ted Casablanca? Someone who shoves their dogs in cupboards, not caring if they get neglected til they die, doesn’t strike me as incredibly smart.
Bottom line, there’s no doubt in my mind that Paris Hilton merely made someone else take the blame. That’s the “smartest” thing she’s done all year.
Like anyone would really care if she was imprisoned for life in a foreign country.
Yup, it was Paris smoking & got (paid) someone to take the rap for her.
So when was the last time the police apologized to you for accusing you of breaking the law?!
She is sexy n nice
I think the whole thing was initiated by people from her camp to publicize her presence in the World Cup as there are many sports celebrities who overpowered her presence.
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