Paris Fallout: Agents Quit, Sheriff Targeted

by Gina Serpe

One day after learning that Paris Hilton has found God, we discover she's lost her agent.

Michael Donkis of the Endeavor Agency confirmed to E! Online Tuesday that the firm is no longer representing Hilton. Donkis did not offer any explanation for the move. Sources say the announcement was made Friday—the same day Hilton was ordered back to jail—in a company-wide email.

While the loss of her agent ranks relatively low on the list of Hilton's current worries, the man behind her get-out-of-jail ticket is facing all kinds of problems of his own.

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors gave Sheriff Lee Baca one week to come up with a detailed report on why, exactly, he defied a judge's orders and granted the heiress a "reassignment" to house arrest after just 72 hours behind bars.

This time around, an unspecified "medical condition" probably won't suffice.

At a morning hearing, County Supervisors Mike Antonovich and Yvonne B. Burke said that Baca must outline why Hilton was allowed to go home as opposed to the other inmates at Century Regional Detention Facility compatriots complaining of emotional and physical problems, especially since Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer expressly forbade home detention and electronic monitoring in his sentencing ruling.

Critics have cried foul over what they've deemed as kid-gloves treatment for inmate 9818783.

"We welcome the board of supervisors to be our voice because we feel...there should be no favoritism to anyone and this should not be about Paris Hilton," said activist Najee Ali, director of the Los Angeles-based Project Islamic HOPE. "This should be about the thousands of other inmates currently incarcerated in L.A. County jail who need proper medical treatment and who aren't given medical treatment as Paris Hilton was."

Baca has steadfastly denied such charges, insisting the Simple Life star needed a change of scenery after an "inexplicable deterioration" in jail due to "severe" medical problems. Baca said Hilton was in a downward spiral due in part to lack of proper medication, and he made the decision only after consulting county psychiatrists.

While there has been no official word on what ails Hilton, she acknowledged in a phone call to Barbara Walters Sunday to having been "severely depressed" at the jail. (One source told E! Online that Hilton suffers from claustrophobia, which may have affected her condition, while TMZ reports that the 26-year-old has ADD and didn't have access to her medicine.)

On Monday, Gloria Allred filed a claim with the county, accusing the sheriff and officials at Century Regional Detention Facility of denying her client, inmate Pamela Richardson, basic necessities. Like the use of her prosthetic leg. [View the claim.]

"I know I am not Paris Hilton," Richardson said in a statement released through Allred, "but I am a human being with medical needs, and I don't understand why I was treated in the way that I was." Such a claim is the precursor to a lawsuit. County officials say they are already receiving dozens of similar complaints.

Source: E! Online