Paris Hilton was arrested Friday night in Las Vegas for possession of a controlled substance after cocaine was found in her purse, a police spokesman says.
The coke arrest was her latest drug-related brush with the law this summer, and by all accounts the most serious. But don't jump to any conclusions, her lawyer says.
"This matter will be dealt with in the courts, not in the media, and I encourage people not to rush to judgment until all of the facts have been dealt with in a court of law," says attorney David Chesnoff in a statement.
Beyond that, Hilton's camp isn't issuing any statements or explanations. The 29-year-old heiress was released without bail Saturday morning after she was arrested in Las Vegas for investigation of cocaine possession. The drug was allegedly found in her purse after a traffic stop.
For her mugshot, she struck a stylish pose, smiling coyly for the police camera, her hair cascading over her bare shoulders.
Hilton, who was jailed three years ago in an alcohol-related driving case, is no longer on probation in that case and so won't face additional penalty due to the cocaine arrest.
In July, she was questioned by South African police at the World Cup for allegedly smoking marijuana and later held by police in Corsica after being allegedly caught with a small amount of pot in her purse. In both incidents, she was released without being charged.
George Michael has pleaded guilty to crashing his car while under the influence of cannabis and to possessing cannabis cigarettes for his personal use.
The 47-year-old singer appeared at Highbury Magistrates' Court in north London, where the assembled heard that Michael had been found by police slumped at the wheel of his Range Rover after driving it into a shop front in the early hours of July 4th.
Police reported that they suspected Michael was under the influence of drugs, as when they roused him, he was reportedly "spaced out", sweating and had dilated pupils.
He was then taken to Hampstead police station where a blood test showed cannabis in his system, but no alcohol.
Michael was handed an interim six-month driving ban by District Judge Robin McPhee. Judge McPhee added that the singer, whose real name is Georgios Panayiotou, will be sentenced at a later date after the court has taken into account the progress of a community order imposed on Michael in 2007.
Singer George Michael has been charged with possession of cannabis and driving while unfit through drink or drugs following an incident last month, Scotland Yard has said.
Michael was arrested on July 4th in Hampstead, north London, after he allegedly crashed his car into a branch of photographic shop Snappy Snaps.
The Wham! star, from nearby Highgate, was on police bail following the crash.
Police said Michael, 47, is due to appear before magistrates on August 24th.
The pop star, whose real name is Georgios Panayiotou, was charged when he reported to a police station in Camden, north London, on Thursday.
After being in drug treatment for over a year, Redmond O'Neal has graduated to a new phase of his life – literally.
The son of actors Ryan O'Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett graduated Thursday from an intensive drug-court program, and received a hug from Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Tynan.
"My plan is to move forward with my life, clean and sober," O'Neal, 25, said in a statement released through his lawyer Richard Pintal. "I am going to do so privately and with as much quiet dignity as I can."
O'Neal had been undergoing intensive court-ordered treatment following a number of drug-related arrests. He briefly spoke to a crowded courtroom filled with friends and family of graduates, saying he was nervous to speak at the podium, but said, "Thank you to everyone in this courtroom who's helped me out."
Addressing the more than a dozen graduates, Judge Tynan said, "This is the fight for the rest of your life."
O'Neal's mother passed away from cancer last June.
Chace Crawford was arrested early Friday morning for possession of marijuana, according to a police report.
The 24-year-old Gossip Girl star was arrested in a pub parking lot in Plano, Texas, after police discovered one marijuana joint in the car he was in. The charge is a misdemeanor, for having two ounces or less of marijuana.
On Friday, Crawford was spotted having lunch with two people at Naan Sushi, a restaurant located in the same shopping center where he was arrested, according to a source.
"He was cool," the source told People Magazine. "He was on the phone the whole time. [The group] seemed normal. None of them seemed like they were mad or anything.”
TMZ.com report was first to report the arrest.
A judge commended Redmond O'Neal on his "excellent progress" and graduated him from a drug rehab facility to a sober living environment after a Wednesday hearing in Los Angeles.
O'Neal, the 25-year-old son of Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal, was also praised by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Tynan for the "positive" decisions he had made in the last few months.
"It's a big, big day for Redmond," his attorney, Richard Pintal, stated. "Redmond has come so far. He's really feeling great."
O'Neal's incarceration stems from a January 2008 drug arrest and a probation violation. He is scheduled for another progress report on June 22nd.
Redmond O'Neal continues to battle his addictions.
The troubled son of Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal was taken into police custody at a Dec. 29 hearing for an alleged drug-related probation violation, his lawyer confirmed Tuesday. O'Neal had been undergoing in-patient rehab since September.
At a hearing Tuesday, Judge Michael Tynan ordered Redmond, 24, into a 30-day jail rehab facility pending a Feb. 2 progress report.
"It seems to me you haven't got a clue as to what recovery means," Judge Tynan lectured Redmond, who was nervously shaking his leg while wearing a blue L.A. County jail jumpsuit. "It's a lifetime commitment. It's grinding, hard, painful work."
The younger O'Neal had written a letter to the court explaining his relapse. In it, he wrote about his family's struggles and that he had "let them down." Fawcett died last June, while her son was behind bars.
According to L.A. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore, in late December O'Neal "was out of his rehab facility on a 24-hour pass. When he came back, he told his counselors he had used drugs. He subsequently tested positive for drugs."
Despite his latest arrest, Redmond's lawyer Richard Pintal said he was "confident" he could keep his client out of prison. The younger O'Neal has been arrested multiple times for drug charges over the years.
Tennis star Andre Agassi serves up a bombshell in his new memoir: In the late '90s he began regularly using crystal meth. "I can't speak to addiction, but a lot of people would say that if you're using anything as an escape, you have a problem," he said in a recent interview..
Agassi's book, Open, details his descent into drug use, as well as his hair loss, his troubled marriage to Brooke Shields and the love he eventually found with his current wife, Steffi Graf.
Asked how he thought his fans would react if they found out he was using drugs, Agassi, 39, says: "I was worried for a moment, but not for long. ... I wore my heart on my sleeve and my emotions were always written on my face. I was actually excited about telling the world the whole story."
For Agassi's story in his own words – including his ambivalent attitude toward the sport that made him famous – read an excerpt from his book in the new PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday. An excerpt also appears in the new SPORTS ILLUSTRATED.
Paris Hilton was arrested Friday night in Las Vegas for possession of a controlled substance after cocaine was found in her purse, a police spokesman says.
