Admitting she was frightened, Paris Hilton traded in her designer clothes for jail garb (clothes) on Sunday night as she began serving a 23-day sentence in Los Angeles for violating probation, her attorney said on Sunday.
"Paris Hilton has turned herself in to begin serving her sentence for violating probation at a Los Angeles County Jail located in Lynwood, California," attorney Richard Hutton said in a statement.
It also quoted the 26-year-old hotels heiress as saying: "This is an important point in my life and I need to take responsibility for my actions. In the future, I plan on taking more of an active role in the decisions I make ... Although I am scared, I am ready to begin my jail sentence."
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Hilton was booked at 11:38 p.m. PDT on Sunday (2:38 a.m. EDT/0638 GMT Monday).
Hilton was arrested for drunken driving in September, and, in January, pleaded no contest -- the equivalent of a guilty plea -- to a reduced charge of alcohol-related reckless driving. She was sentenced to three years' probation and had her license suspended.
But the heiress was caught driving on a suspended license in February when police stopped her for going over the speed limit with her headlights out at night. A traffic court judge ruled on May 4 that Hilton's latest offense constituted a probation violation and sentenced her to 45 days in jail.
Hilton will be held in a unit for celebrities and high-profile inmates at the jail. The unit is separated from the general prison population.
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