Nicole Richie arrested

[rbs3676]

Nicole Richie arrested, investigated for DUI

BURBANK, California (AP) -- Nicole Richie was arrested early Monday for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol, authorities said.

California Highway Patrol officers took Richie, 25, into custody without incident after she failed a field sobriety test, CHP Officer Todd Workman said.

Her black Mercedes sport utility vehicle was stopped in the car pool lane of State Highway 134 when officers arrived.

Authorities said they received 911 calls about a car going the wrong way on the freeway and the car matched the description of Richie's.

According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department report, Richie was set free on $15,000 bail.

Richie, star of "The Simple Life" reality series and daughter of pop singer Lionel Richie, was booked in Glendale, tested for drugs and released later Monday morning, Workman said. He said the results of the drug test hadn't been determined.

A message left with Richie's publicist wasn't immediately returned.

Richie stars with on-off friend Paris Hilton in "The Simple Life."

Burbank is 10 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

[DrummerDeanna]

I don't like to laugh at other people's misfortunes buuut....:laugh: :laugh:

No seriously though, driving the wrong way on the freeway!?! That's some serious stuff right there, if that happened and it was her (or anyone really), she could have killed herself and others....

There's just no excuse for this :distress:

[PsychCat]

I don't like to laugh at other people's misfortunes buuut....:laugh: :laugh:

No seriously though, driving the wrong way on the freeway!?! That's some serious stuff right there, if that happened and it was her (or anyone really), she could have killed herself and others....

There's just no excuse for this :distress:

No Joke! .... to all that you wrote.
To call this gal a knucklehead is the understatement of the decade.
Driving while drunk is unexcusable...... and yes, I do have personal experience with someone being killed by a drunk driver so I have NO tolerance there.
Driving on the wrong way on the freeway? Now that is some serious stuff there and rarely turns out with a happy ending.
It's amazing how clueless these "rich kids" are and how their parents are so apparently uncaring. :shrug: :confused:
Then it's always some "regular person" that ends up dead and the rest of us end up with coverage adnauseum. UGGGHHHHH.....

[ontheEdgeof17]

These celebrities are rich enough to hire drivers, but they continue to drive drunk and put innocent people at risk. That pisses me off.

[gldstwmn]

So it's the Vicodin that's keeping her so thin. I hope her family gets her some help. She really needs it.

[gldstwmn]

These celebrities are rich enough to hire drivers, but they continue to drive drunk and put innocent people at risk. That pisses me off.

She wasn't drunk. She admitted to the cop that she was on Vicodin and had smoked some weed. And yeah, get a driver.

[strandinthewind]

So it's the Vicodin that's keeping her so thin. I hope her family gets her some help. She really needs it.

Allegedly, she had her stomach stapled or banned and it went bad. As a result, has problems obtaining nutrition through food. Whether this is true reamins to seen, but it is consistent with her cryptic public statement that she has a medical problems, etc.

[jannieC]

These celebrities are rich enough to hire drivers, but they continue to drive drunk and put innocent people at risk. That pisses me off.

Thank you. And I heard somewhere she was talking on her cell phone when she was pulled over. What an asshole. Oh, and apparently she weighs 85 lbs. This girl needs help.

[mikeschmike]

So it's the Vicodin that's keeping her so thin. I hope her family gets her some help. She really needs it.

Where is Lionel Richie's clay head during all of this?

[strandinthewind]

Where is Lionel Richie's clay head during all of this?

On the other side of the scale to show that it weighs more than she does :eek:

[strandinthewind]

Here's a link to the police report.

Also, do they actually weigh you at the station, or do they take your word for it?

[gldstwmn]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1211062richie2.html

[gldstwmn]

Where is Lionel Richie's clay head during all of this?

Who do you think put up the bail money? :lol: $15,000 is a drop in the bucket though. She may have had that herself.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1211062richie2.html

[DrummerDeanna]

Geezaloo...85 pounds...and she's my height...and that's just a scary thought - that's sickly skinny.

And so she wasn't drunk - she was still impaired...vicodin and pot? Come on...she could have killed someone...:distress:

[macfanken]

I wish she would just go away... I'm tired of hearing about her. I'll give her some credit though... so far she hasn't flashed her vag in public like skanks Paris, Britney and Lindsay.

[strandinthewind]

I wish she would just go away... I'm tired of hearing about her. I'll give her some credit though... so far she hasn't flashed her vag in public like skanks Paris, Britney and Lindsay.

Well, at least Brit's was a shaven haven :] :] :]

[macfanken]

Well, at least Brit's was a shaven haven :] :] :]

yeah, that image and her c section scar are burned into my mind forever! :distress: I should sue!



ps. i like your sig. ;)

[strandinthewind]

. . . ps. i like your sig. ;)

Thanks!

It's from the play "Grey Gardens" (http://www.greygardens.com/) and I am feeling that these days :laugh: :eek:

[Livia]

How dumb do you have to be to admit to an officer that you're under the influence of anything? A breathalyzer ain't gonna show weed and vicodin!

[strandinthewind]

How dumb do you have to be to admit to an officer that you're under the influence of anything? A breathalyzer ain't gonna show weed and vicodin!

I was thinking that too - then again, she was driving the wrong way on the freeway :eek:

Also, I am thinking she had the stuff in her car.

In the end, who knows.

[gldstwmn]

Geezaloo...85 pounds...and she's my height...and that's just a scary thought - that's sickly skinny.

And so she wasn't drunk - she was still impaired...vicodin and pot? Come on...she could have killed someone...:distress:

Oh I certainly wasn't minimizing it. I'm sure she was high as a kite.

[DavidMn]

People you have it all wrong. SHe was in a hurry to get to McDonalds for a Big mac to get her weight up!:lol: Seriously though, the wrong way on a freeway?!:mad:

[gldstwmn]

How dumb do you have to be to admit to an officer that you're under the influence of anything?

I think the more appropriate question would be how high? :lol:

[gldstwmn]

I was thinking that too - then again, she was driving the wrong way on the freeway :eek:

Also, I am thinking she had the stuff in her car.



She did. They busted her for possession of a controlled substance. Apparently there was no prescription.

[amber]

She did. The busted her for possession of a controlled substance. Apparently there was no prescription.

For the weed or the vicodin? You probably don't know. Again, odd, because she could easily get a prescription for both. :rolleyes:

[gldstwmn]

For the weed or the vicodin? You probably don't know. Again, odd, because she could easily get a prescription for both. :rolleyes:

Vicodin is a controlled substance. If it was just weed, she'd be charged with some sort of misdemeanor possesion unles she had a huge amount on her. If she had a prescription, then they simnply would have charged her with driving while impaired. I am drawing these conclusions from what I read on The Smoking Gun. Possession of a controlled substance is a felony, I believe. She has a prior bust for possesion of heroin, so I'm guessing that this new charge is a felony.

[amber]

Vicodin is a controlled substance. If it was just weed, she'd be charged with some sort of misdemeanor possesion unles she had a huge amount on her. If she had a prescription, then they simnply would have charged her with driving while impaired. I am drawing these conclusions from what I read on The Smoking Gun. Possession of a controlled substance is a felony, I believe.

Ah, thank you for the recap.
I am still suprised she didn't have a prescription. But now I'm also thinking, how the heck much vicodin would you have to take to make you drive the wrong way on a freeway and stop in a carpool lane? Even if she smoked, too? :shocked:
Moron. She should have license suspension and mandatory rehab. She has shown at least five or six ridiculous and severely mentally impaired decisions in this little story. I mean, really moronic.

[gldstwmn]

Ah, thank you for the recap.
I am still suprised she didn't have a prescription. But now I'm also thinking, how the heck much vicodin would you have to take to make you drive the wrong way on a freeway and stop in a carpool lane? Even if she smoked, too? :shocked:
Moron. She should have license suspension and mandatory rehab. She has shown at least five or six ridiculous and severely mentally impaired decisions in this little story. I mean, really moronic.

I don't know if you've ever taken Vicodin but from my own personal experience with it you think you're all okay when you're really not. Combine that with being only 85 pounds (if that) and some really good weed and next thing you know, you're driving the wrong way down the freeway. Now, I've driven the wrong way on a one way street while sober, so it can happen, especially at night.

[gldstwmn]

Allegedly, she had her stomach stapled or banned and it went bad. As a result, has problems obtaining nutrition through food. Whether this is true reamins to seen, but it is consistent with her cryptic public statement that she has a medical problems, etc.

What kind of quack would give that procedure to someone who is not obese? :distress:

[PsychCat]

Moron.

Well said.
At 85 lbs she pretty much could have licked the vicodin and had an effect.
If she didn't have a pattern of being a knucklehead, that would be one thing but she's just like those others, ie. Brittney, Paris, Lindsay who have way too much time and money on their hands.

.... just thank God she didn't kill anyone.

[DrummerDeanna]

^^

:nod: Too much money, no real-life responsibilities, no parental discipline (though now she's too old for that)....I can go on and on :laugh:

Yeah - Vicodin totally knocks me on my ass - so I can't imagine what it'd do to an 85 pound girl who is also smoking weed...all in all a wildly stupid decision on her part..or actually several stupid decisions...

What sucks is she's going to get a mere slap on the wrist (I'm suspecting) for this..wanna start taking bets on when she'll "go into rehab"??

[sparky]

Watch the publicists start spilling all the tragic medical personal dirt ASAP. They will try to get sympathy for the poor sad tragic little rich girl and hope that the police are nice to her and let her off with a warning - after all she is so sick and has had such a hard time. Major move to elicit pity.
She certainly deserves our pity. Not for her miserable little life, but because she has a face like my foot.

[amber]

I don't know if you've ever taken Vicodin but from my own personal experience with it you think you're all okay when you're really not. Combine that with being only 85 pounds (if that) and some really good weed and next thing you know, you're driving the wrong way down the freeway. Now, I've driven the wrong way on a one way street while sober, so it can happen, especially at night.

Well, I've never been 85 pounds. The other, I still think is not as easy to do as you made it sound. :p A one way road, maybe, but a freeway? I suppose it could happen. Sort of. to nicole ritchie. A freeway, though?! :laugh:
:wavey:

Watch the publicists start spilling all the tragic medical personal dirt ASAP. They will try to get sympathy for the poor sad tragic little rich girl and hope that the police are nice to her and let her off with a warning - after all she is so sick and has had such a hard time. Major move to elicit pity.
She certainly deserves our pity. Not for her miserable little life, but because she has a face like my foot.

:laugh:

[DavidMn]

Watch the publicists start spilling all the tragic medical personal dirt ASAP. They will try to get sympathy for the poor sad tragic little rich girl and hope that the police are nice to her and let her off with a warning - after all she is so sick and has had such a hard time. Major move to elicit pity.
She certainly deserves our pity. Not for her miserable little life, but because she has a face like my foot.Yeah, she's not exactly a hottie as far as I'm concerned either.:laugh:

[gldstwmn]

^^

:nod: Too much money, no real-life responsibilities, no parental discipline (though now she's too old for that)....I can go on and on :laugh:

Yeah - Vicodin totally knocks me on my ass - so I can't imagine what it'd do to an 85 pound girl who is also smoking weed...all in all a wildly stupid decision on her part..or actually several stupid decisions...

What sucks is she's going to get a mere slap on the wrist (I'm suspecting) for this..wanna start taking bets on when she'll "go into rehab"??

If she wants to avoid the felony charge from sticking, she'll have to. It's California law.

[gldstwmn]

How dumb do you have to be to admit to an officer that you're under the influence of anything? A breathalyzer ain't gonna show weed and vicodin!

She took the breathalyzer and passed. :shocked:

[sparky]

If she wants to avoid the felony charge from sticking, she'll have to. It's California law.


Hasn't she already BEEN in rehab a few times? I sometimes wonder if there's a limit.

Ah well, it seems that people like this exist simply for the bizarre entertainment of the rest of us. Circus sideshows have been shut down, so the useless and talent-free wealthy are the new freaks. It's not like she even has something cool like a tail, a half grown twin hanging off her side, or an extra leg. I suppose the most remarkable thing about her is that even with all that money they can't make her look good. Ugly celebrities. They're all the rage! I guess there actually is something freakworthy about her after all.

[gldstwmn]

Hasn't she already BEEN in rehab a few times? I sometimes wonder if there's a limit.



The first and second time a person gets busted the judge can order some type of drug treatment program for them. In looking at the Smoking Gun website again, it appears that she is only being charged with a misdemeanor. I was looking at the felony charge from her heroin bust in 2003. So maybe she did have a prescription for the Vicodin.
I was reading elsewhere that Courtney Love was cleared of all charges today as she successfully underwent drug treatment.
I know Nicole admitted on Oprah that she gained weight after getting out of rehab and that she went back to her "natural" figure later when her body had adjusted to being clean. So I guess what she really meant was she had the surgery? Shame, shame. You can't lie to Oprah! :lol:


I suppose the most remarkable thing about her is that even with all that money they can't make her look good.

Well I'm sure you've seen that woman who was "styling" her. Some of the clothes were beautiful, though.

[rbs3676]

Hasn't she already BEEN in rehab a few times? I sometimes wonder if there's a limit.

Ah well, it seems that people like this exist simply for the bizarre entertainment of the rest of us. Circus sideshows have been shut down, so the useless and talent-free wealthy are the new freaks. It's not like she even has something cool like a tail, a half grown twin hanging off her side, or an extra leg. I suppose the most remarkable thing about her is that even with all that money they can't make her look good. Ugly celebrities. They're all the rage! I guess there actually is something freakworthy about her after all.

Very well put! As usual.

rbs

[Für Elise]

^^

:nod: Too much money, no real-life responsibilities, no parental discipline (though now she's too old for that)....I can go on and on :laugh:

Yeah - Vicodin totally knocks me on my ass - so I can't imagine what it'd do to an 85 pound girl who is also smoking weed...all in all a wildly stupid decision on her part..or actually several stupid decisions...

What sucks is she's going to get a mere slap on the wrist (I'm suspecting) for this..wanna start taking bets on when she'll "go into rehab"??if she's been on heroin then vicodin and pot won't do much to her.

[jannieC]

if she's been on heroin then vicodin and pot won't do much to her.

That depends on how much she did of each.

[PsychCat]

Watch the publicists start spilling all the tragic medical personal dirt ASAP. They will try to get sympathy for the poor sad tragic little rich girl and hope that the police are nice to her and let her off with a warning - after all she is so sick and has had such a hard time. Major move to elicit pity.

KEY THE VIOLINS!! :wavey:

[irishgrl]

Vicodin is a controlled substance. If it was just weed, she'd be charged with some sort of misdemeanor possesion unles she had a huge amount on her. If she had a prescription, then they simnply would have charged her with driving while impaired. I am drawing these conclusions from what I read on The Smoking Gun. Possession of a controlled substance is a felony, I believe. She has a prior bust for possesion of heroin, so I'm guessing that this new charge is a felony.
Possession is a flopper, that is, you can be charged with either a misdemeanor or felony as the DA decides.

[irishgrl]

I don't know if you've ever taken Vicodin but from my own personal experience with it you think you're all okay when you're really not. Combine that with being only 85 pounds (if that) and some really good weed and next thing you know, you're driving the wrong way down the freeway. Now, I've driven the wrong way on a one way street while sober, so it can happen, especially at night.
ps: Vicodin never worked for me :shrug: I have a very high pain tolerance, so since the meds dont work I dont take them, and do without. even with multiple broken bones. I think Vicodin is overrated, but then, maybe she's built up a tolerance and needs quite a bit?

[strandinthewind]

. . . Now, I've driven the wrong way on a one way street while sober, so it can happen, especially at night.

IT WASN'T MY FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :p :p :p :p

[strandinthewind]

What kind of quack would give that procedure to someone who is not obese? :distress:

Happens all the time - and sadly so. I know of some people who clearly need no more plastic surgery and the doctors do it anyway and the people look like freaks.

[markolas]

ps: Vicodin never worked for me :shrug: I have a very high pain tolerance, so since the meds dont work I dont take them, and do without. even with multiple broken bones. I think Vicodin is overrated, but then, maybe she's built up a tolerance and needs quite a bit?

I dunno, my grandmother certainly seemed to have a fondness for the Vicodin. And Soma. It was so much fun to watch her take a handful of those and then try to eat something. :rolleyes:

[Für Elise]

ps: Vicodin never worked for me :shrug: I have a very high pain tolerance, so since the meds dont work I dont take them, and do without. even with multiple broken bones. I think Vicodin is overrated, but then, maybe she's built up a tolerance and needs quite a bit?yeah I need about 3 vicodin and a couple xanax to be stable. for someone whose been on heroin I think she wouldn't be doing anything extreme taking a couple vicodin and pot. She'd have a tolerance.

[estranged4life]

Nicole Richie arrested, investigated for DUI

BURBANK, California (AP) -- Nicole Richie was arrested early Monday for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol, authorities said.

California Highway Patrol officers took Richie, 25, into custody without incident after she failed a field sobriety test, CHP Officer Todd Workman said.


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[irishgrl]

If she wants to avoid the felony charge from sticking, she'll have to. It's California law.
What is? that she has to attend rehab? That may be a term of probation but Im not at all sure its the LAW that a person has to attend probation if they are busted for drugs :shrug: There is a law that allows drug users to go thru rehab instead of jail time (commonly called prop 36), but they dont have to go with that option :shrug:

[strandinthewind]

Here's a link where you can hear the 911 calls reporting her driving

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,235862,00.html

[irishgrl]

Here's a link where you can hear the 911 calls reporting her driving

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,235862,00.html
you dont miss much do ya? :lol:

[strandinthewind]

^^^^

One like to keep informed.

[SuzeQuze]

^^

:nod: Too much money, no real-life responsibilities, no parental discipline (though now she's too old for that)....I can go on and on :laugh:

Yeah - Vicodin totally knocks me on my ass - so I can't imagine what it'd do to an 85 pound girl who is also smoking weed...all in all a wildly stupid decision on her part..or actually several stupid decisions...

What sucks is she's going to get a mere slap on the wrist (I'm suspecting) for this..wanna start taking bets on when she'll "go into rehab"??

She'll probably be sentenced to go. If she had her stomach banded the doc should have his license revoked. I saw the interview with Lionel and Nicole where she said she had no eating disorder and he claimed to believe her. I couldn't believe the level of denial. I mean, have you seen her? People just don't get that thin being healthy. Clearly there is something very wrong with that family.

[SuzeQuze]

ps: Vicodin never worked for me :shrug: I have a very high pain tolerance, so since the meds dont work I dont take them, and do without. even with multiple broken bones. I think Vicodin is overrated, but then, maybe she's built up a tolerance and needs quite a bit?

Wow, I've never heard anyone say that.

I've seen a very heavy woman on 4 Vicodan and it wasn't a pretty pic. So I thank that even if Nicole took only one or two and smoked pot she'd be flying at her size.

[irishgrl]

Wow, I've never heard anyone say that.

I've seen a very heavy woman on 4 Vicodan and it wasn't a pretty pic. So I thank that even if Nicole took only one or two and smoked pot she'd be flying at her size.
all I know is, I kept waiting for them to kick in, and since I could still feel everything as if I hadnt taken anything, I just dont bother taking them....I had full bottles prescribed to me, that just sat in my medicine cabinet, until my daughter's druggie friends found out and then all of a sudden, they were GONE!!! GASP!!! ah well, like I said, they were like taking nothing at all...they DID do a number on my stomach however....

[markolas]

all I know is, I kept waiting for them to kick in, and since I could still feel everything as if I hadnt taken anything, I just dont bother taking them...

Perhaps the secret is washing them down with a fifth of Old Crow.:laugh:

[golden braid]

all I know is, I kept waiting for them to kick in, and since I could still feel everything as if I hadnt taken anything, I just dont bother taking them....taking nothing at all

That's the same with me. When I broke my wrist they gave me vicodin but it didn't help. When I went back to the doctor I requested something stronger and but even that didn't seem to do anything so I didn't take anything. I ended up throwing out of the bottle of pills.

[CelticGypsy]

Why is this news? Seems like our media should focus on more important topics than some skinny druggie who needs a swift kick in the buns by her parents. Like a small child, this is Nicole's way of getting attention. She needs a really long time-out in rehab.

[gldstwmn]

What is? that she has to attend rehab? That may be a term of probation but Im not at all sure its the LAW that a person has to attend probation if they are busted for drugs :shrug: There is a law that allows drug users to go thru rehab instead of jail time (commonly called prop 36), but they dont have to go with that option :shrug:

I thought that's what I said? :confused:

[gldstwmn]

Why is this news?

Because after six years with Bush in office, our expectations are really, really low and we're all trying to focus on something else besides how ****ty our lives have become in that time. :)

[gldstwmn]

Perhaps the secret is washing them down with a fifth of Old Crow.:laugh:

There you go. Then the next morning you wake up with a concussion from whacking your head on the porcelain bowl whilst vomiting.

[SuzeQuze]

Because after six years with Bush in office, our expectations are really, really low and we're all trying to focus on something else besides how ****ty our lives have become in that time. :)

Yeah, we can get annoyed by some dumb no-talent celebrity instead of by the fat cats at the top profiting from our blood, sweat, and tears.

[irishgrl]

I thought that's what I said? :confused:
you made it sound as if it was mandatory :shrug: and I know it isnt. Prior to Prop 36, druggies had jail time. Then, when the jails were full of druggies, it was decided that to alleviate the overcrowding, to NOT incarcerate the non-violent offenders, and see if they can be rehabilitated....

Now, you must remember, in sentencing, the JUDGE has vast discretion. You never know just WHAT a judge will do in a particular case :shrug:

[irishgrl]

Yeah, we can get annoyed by some dumb no-talent celebrity instead of by the fat cats at the top profiting from our blood, sweat, and tears.
wait! I still get annoyed at the rich fat corporate fat cats! howzabout Skillig eh? lets all throw rotten tomatoes at him! Especially us Californians! Enron shafted us PLENTY and poor Gray Davis took the fall for it! (no, I am NOT a Gray Davis hater)

[markolas]

There you go. Then the next morning you wake up with a concussion from whacking your head on the porcelain bowl whilst vomiting.

You know, I don't ever remember my grandmother (the Queen of prescription drug addicts) ever vomiting. Not even the time she drank peroxide in an attempt to get a buzz on. She must've had an iron constitution, to say the least. Of course, she did end up having to get her colon removed, so...

[irishgrl]

so, anyway, here's the latest:

Nicole Richie could be adding stripes to her wardrobe in the very near future.

TMZ has found court documents which reveal that Richie pled no contest four years ago to driving under the influence. Under California law, if Richie is convicted of DUI as a result of Monday's arrest, the judge must impose a jail sentence.

The law requires a mandatory sentence of five consecutive days in county jail as well as a one year license suspension for anyone twice-convicted of DUI. In addition, Richie would be ordered to attend an alcohol education program for a year-and-a-half, even if the second conviction is not alcohol-related.

As TMZ first reported, Richie admitted to CHP officers that she had taken Vicodin and smoked pot before driving the wrong way on a Burbank freeway. A field sobriety test revealed she was not under the influence of alcohol.

Cop: "What have you eaten today?"
Nicole: "French Fries"


TMZ has obtained the police documents in the 2002 case. In the arrest report it reveals that Richie told cops all she had eaten that day were french fries. As for what she drank that day -- "1 shot vodka."

She blew a .12. and a .13 in two separate tests. In California, .08 is considered legally intoxicated. Richie was stopped in her Toyota Corolla after a UCLA police officer observed her blowing a red light and driving over a speed bump at more than 50 miles an hour in an area with a 15 mph speed limit. Richie flunked the field sobriety test -- her eyes were watery and bloodshot, and she could not keep her balance.

Richie was given three years probation for her 2002 DUI conviction and had her license suspended for one year. Six months later, Richie was arrested for possession of heroin and for driving with a suspended license.

so, now we see a pattern. And I dont know if rehab will be an option for her.

[DrummerDeanna]

:eek: Muy interesante!!!

I think there should be harsher penalties for FIRST TIME offenders all around. It seems to me it's always so and so with 893473 prior drunken driving (or driving while impaired in others ways) records who ends up killing the family of four...it pisses me off....

[skcin]

I think Vicodin is overrated, but then, maybe she's built up a tolerance and needs quite a bit?


That'd be my guess.


Because after six years with Bush in office, our expectations are really, really low and we're all trying to focus on something else besides how ****ty our lives have become in that time. :)

How sad, and how true. :distress: