Hilton Hotel heir going to jail
A Los Angeles federal judge today revoked probation for hotel magnate Conrad Hilton’s great-grandson and sentenced him to two months behind bars after he failed several drug tests and was terminated from a court-ordered residential substance abuse treatment program.
Conrad Hughes Hilton, 22, tested positive for drugs. Including cocaine, marijuana and synthetic cannabinoids — three times over the course of a year, violating the terms of his probation for a 2014 meltdown on an international flight and triggering the mandatory revocation, U.S. Magistrate Judge Suzanne H. Segal said.
Hilton’s attorney, Robert Shapiro, successfully persuaded the judge to allow his client to self-surrender to federal authorities within 48 hours. Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Schwab told the court that Hilton had been given multiple chances to obey the terms of his probation.
“What we haven’t tried yet is a custodial term,” the prosecutor said, adding that Hilton has continued to “re-offend in precisely the same way over and over and over.”
Hilton asked the judge to consider allowing him to serve his 60-day sentence under house arrest at his grandfather’s home in Palm Springs, so that he could avoid friends in Los Angeles who were “a bad influence on me.”
As for serving the time at his own family’s home, the troubled heir, brother of Paris and Nicky Hilton — said it was a “bad environment … where I’m used to just sitting there and getting high 24-7.”
Hilton’s parents sat in court watching the proceedings. Hilton then tried asking the court to allow him to serve a “work program” instead of jail, but that request was denied.
Finally, Shapiro made a bid to have the judge lower the jail sentence to 30 days, but Segal rejected the idea. Segal warned Hilton that although he would remain free until Wednesday, he must remain sober. Hilton was sentenced to three years of probation after pleading guilty last year to a misdemeanor charge accusing him of assaulting two flight attendants aboard a British Airways flight on July 31, 2014, from London to Los Angeles.
Hilton was restrained and handcuffed by flight attendants on the transcontinental flight after an outburst in which he called fellow passengers “peasants” and accused the crew of “taking the peasants’ side,” according to court papers.
During the nearly 11-hour flight, Hilton physically threatened two flight attendants and repeatedly smoked marijuana and cigarettes in an airplane lavatory, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Six days after pleading guilty, Hilton was arrested again for allegedly violating a restraining order by going to his ex-girlfriend’s Hollywood Hills home.
Last month, in a separate case, Hilton pleaded guilty to a charge of evading arrest and was sentenced to 90 days in sheriff’s custody, with 89 days in the work release program.
Hilton was charged with one felony count of reckless evading of a peace officer, stemming from a 2014 incident in which he fled from a California Department of Fish and Game officer attempting to pull him over for speeding.
Hilton pleaded not guilty to the charge in September, but withdrew the plea May 18 during a felony settlement conference and was granted three years probation.
