Hilton sent back to jail after day in house arrest

LOS ANGELES – Paris Hilton on Friday was ordered to return to her solitary cell, a day after she had been sent home to house arrest and became the center of a storm of protest that she was being treated better than someone less famous.

Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer made his ruling after a hearing that followed a tumultuous sequence in which Hilton was brought to court in a sheriff’s patrol car. Earlier, it seemed that she would attend the hearing only via telephone.

“The defendant is remanded to L.A. County jail,” Sauer said after an hourlong hearing. “The order is final and forthwith.”

Hilton crumpled into tears.

As she was led away to the side door and the waiting transportation to jail, she wailed, “Mom, Mom! It’s not right!”

Hilton, wearing handcuffs and sweats, entered a black-and-white police car, which was parked in the driveway next to one of the family cars, a Bentley.

Then, lights flashing, off she rode to meet her fate.

Hilton went to Sauer’s courtroom Friday because the city attorney’s office opposed her release from jail on Thursday.

She had served only a little more than three days of her sentence when Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca decided she was too ill to serve more time. Baca defended the decision to release Hilton for unspecified medical reasons, but the city attorney’s office demanded a hearing to return Hilton to jail.

Sauer originally sentenced Hilton to 45 days in jail after the professional party girl and reality-show actress repeatedly violated her probation on alcohol-related reckless driving charges.

Hilton surrendered late Sunday night to the Sheriff’s Department, and she was taken to Lynwood’s Century Regional Detention Facility. Reports quickly surfaced that she was depressed.

A little more than two hours into Thursday morning, she left the jail with an electronic monitoring device and orders to spend 40 days confined to her Spanish-style home.