It's easy to think that Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears are the only nutjob female celebrities worth a jot lately, but don't ignore Nicole Richie – queen of loading up on pot and prescription medicine and zooming into oncoming motorway traffic.
Scrap that – Nicole Richie is queen of loading up on pot and prescription medicine and zooming into oncoming motorway traffic and then denying it completely, unless she really didn't do in which case she's just telling the truth. In court yesterday representatives for Nicole Richie entered a not guilty plea for her misdemeanour count of driving under the influence, even though Nicole apparently admitted smoking pot and necking Vicodin before embarking on her dipshit backwards motorway jaunt to police back in December. But maybe the courts will go easy on Nicole Richie – after all, who hasn't got off their face on a cocktail of illegal and prescription drugs and driven their car head-first into a relentless torrent of screaming oncoming traffic on the fastest possible piece of road available to them.
For legal reasons we're obliged to say that we haven't.
Remember when Nicole Richie was just famous for being skinny? How much simpler was life back then? Every couple of weeks Nicole Richie would waste away a couple more inches and Lionel Richie would publicly fret about her. Occasionally Nicole Richie would stray from the formula a little and admit that she was skinny or try and have sex with an 11-year-old boy, but ultimately we all knew where we stood. Apart from Nicole Richie, obviously – she's so gaunt that she isn't actually able to stand up.
But that all changed in December. Continuing her weird competitive spat with Paris Hilton – who'd already been arrested for drink-driving – Nicole Richie decided to go one better by allegedly smoking some marijuana, downing some Vicodin and driving into oncoming traffic on a motorway. After Nicole Richie was stopped by highway patrolmen following complaints by motorists that she was driving right the hell at them, she failed a sobriety test and was arrested for driving under the influence. Yeah, that makes Nicole Richie just like Ray Liotta only a bit dumber and less prone to starring in awful films by Madonna's husband.
However, despite all this evidence against her, Nicole Richie has issued a not guilty plea to the charges in court via her lawyers a day earlier than expected – presumably after shouting "Britney Spears has done WHAT?" and hoping that they could sneak Nicole's plea through under all the Britney Shears headlines. Forbes reports:
Nicole Richie's lawyer appeared in court Tuesday without her client and entered a not guilty plea on Richie's behalf to a driving under the influence charge. The complaint alleges Richie was under the influence of an alcoholic beverage and an unspecified drug when she was arrested Dec. 11. A pretrial conference was scheduled for April 2… CHP Officer Todd Workman said at the time that Richie, the daughter of pop singer Lionel Richie, volunteered that she had smoked marijuana and taken the prescription painkiller Vicodin, but no drugs were found on her or in the car.
All this stacks up against Nicole Richie quite badly, but a not guilty plea is a not guilty plea. However, a rich young lady like Nicole Richie must be able to afford lawyers who know what they're doing – even though a former DUI charge means that Nicole could face jail for a year if she's found guilty, there's a chance that Nicole Richie and her lawyers are working on some kind of plea bargain setup.
Either that or they want Nicole Richie to go to prison in order to showcase how thin she is by allowing her to escape by slipping through her cell bars, limbo-dancing under the cell door or cartwheeling through the keyhole. And, hey, they're the legal experts, not us.
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Freddy Vs Jason says
Hey, remember what they say – innocent until proven guilty. Or innocent until youve drivven a car the wrong way into three lanes of high speed traffic. I can never remember which one
newrose says
Its only fair that we should not presume that she is guilty, because we do not have all the fact. Also remember that media only report prt of the story or rather interesting part of the story and leave public second guessing.