Paris Hilton out of jail

Paris Hilton out of jail (Image credit: AP/PA Photos)

Paris Hilton has been released from prison in California, having served 23 days of a 45-day sentence for a probation violation. The Simple Life star left jail on Tuesday after a bizarre, three-week stay in which she was briefly released to her Hollywood Hills home, then sent screaming and crying back to a county lockup. The 26-year-old walked out of the all-women's jail in Lynwood to an enormous horde of cameras and reporters just after midnight local time. It wasn't immediately clear where Paris was heading. The celeb socialite's path to jail began on September 7, when she failed a sobriety test after police saw her weaving down a street in her Mercedes-Benz. Paris, who said she was hungry and on the way to get a hamburger, pleaded no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving and was sentenced to probation for three years. In the months that followed she was stopped twice by officers who discovered her driving on a suspended licence. The second stop landed her in court and then in jail. Her spokesman Elliot Mintz would not comment on what she planned to do after being released. That left Paris watchers everywhere to speculate about everything from where the hotel heiress would stay to what her first meal would be.