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Paris Hilton leaves the Lynnwood, California, jailhouse Tuesday morning.
Hotel heiress Paris Hilton walked out of a Los Angeles-area jail early Tuesday with a big smile on her face after serving 23 days for violating her probation on a reckless driving conviction.
With the paparazzi swarming around her, Hilton walked past several sheriff's deputies into a waiting SUV with her parents inside. She left the jail at about 15 minutes after midnight.
The media dogged Hilton as she made her getaway, jockeying for position and snapping photographs of the socialite for miles along the Los Angeles freeway system.
CNN affiliate KTLA reported that Hilton went to her grandparents' home in the Benedict Canyon area of Beverly Hills.
The 26-year-old multimillionaire surrendered to authorities on June 3 and spent all 23 days bar one at Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California.
She was sentenced to 45 days for the 2006 probation violation, but only served about half the term, gaining credit for good behavior.
Three days after Hilton began her jail stay, she was released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff to home detention with electronic monitoring because of an unspecified medical condition.
She was at home for just over a day before she was ordered back to jail by Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer to complete her sentence. Hilton was led out of the courtroom weeping.
"This is by far the hardest thing I have ever done," she said in a statement. "I have had a lot of time to reflect, and have already learned a bitter, but important lesson from this experience."
Source: CNN.com
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