Source: Associated Press
Paris Hilton’s brother pleaded guilty Wednesday to two misdemeanors stemming from a drunken-driving incident and will spend months taking alcohol education programs, authorities said. Barron Hilton, 18, also will lose his license for a year.

He was not in court as his lawyer entered his pleas to drunken driving and possessing a false driver’s license, district attorney’s spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said. Two other counts of driving under the influence and being an unlicensed driver at the time were dismissed, she said.

He was sentenced to three years of probation, fined about $2,000 and ordered to attend a three-month alcohol education program, another one involving a visit to a morgue and a third run by Mothers Against Drunk Driving. A call to his attorney, Richard Hutton, seeking comment was not immediately returned.

Hilton was arrested Feb. 12 after his Mercedes-Benz was spotted weaving on Pacific Coast Highway. At some point he apparently struck another vehicle and a gas pump and faces a June hearing to determine restitution, Gibbons said.

Source : AP

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - Jerry Seinfeld was in a harrowing rollover wreck but was unhurt after the brakes on one of his vintage cars failed.

Seinfeld was driving alone when the brakes on his 1967 Fiat BTM stopped working Saturday evening, East Hampton Town Police Chief Todd Sarris told the New York Post. Seinfeld tried the emergency brake, to no avail, and then swerved to keep the car from careering into an intersection, Sarris said.

The two-door sedan flipped over and came to a stop just yards from the highway, Sarris said, adding that the comic’s maneuver “probably avoided a very serious accident.” The wreck was attributed to mechanical failure, and no summonses were issued, Sarris said. Seinfeld, 53, did not require medical attention and returned to his East Hampton home. “He was a little shocked when he walked in and it started to dawn on him what happened,” his wife, Jessica, told the Post. The comedian took the crash in snide.

“Because I know there are kids out there, I want to make sure they all know that driving without braking is not something I recommend, unless you have professional clown training or a comedy background, as I do,” the Post quoted him as saying. “It is not something I plan to make a habit of.”

The sitcom star, who co-wrote, co-produced and starred in last year’s animated “Bee Movie,” is also an auto aficionado. He told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in November that his favorite car in his collection is a 1955 Porsche Spyder.