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Paris Hilton has exchanged her orange Century Regional Detention Facility jumpsuit for a short-sleeved sage jacket with white trim and jeans after finishing her jail term for driving with a suspended license.

Hilton, heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, served three weeks in the women's jail, and was greeted on release early today by her parents, Rick and Kathy Hilton, and hordes of photographers.

She was beaming as she waved and slapped hands with onlookers, but avoided speaking to reporters and made her way quickly to a black sport utility vehicle where her parents were waiting. Hilton began running as she got closer to the vehicle and embraced her crying mother through the car window.

Her sentence began on June 4 in a county jail in Los Angeles, but after three days, the sheriff released her to serve the rest of her sentence at home with electronic monitoring because of an unspecified medical condition reported to be psychological.

However, Hilton was ordered back to jail the next day because her original sentence stated that she could not serve her sentence under house arrest. A sobbing Hilton was driven to the detention facility in a police car. She was heard shouting to her mother, "It's not right!"

Her spirits were better on her release.

"She fulfilled her debt. She was obviously in good spirits. She thanked people as she left," the sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

Photographers chased Hilton on the street while news helicopters followed her family's car from the air as they made their way to her grandparent's house in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Holmby Hills. At every red light photographers came right up to the window of the car and tried to get snapshots of the newly free woman.

While at her grandparent's house, a black Cadillac Escalade brought balloons and a cake with the words, "Welcome Home" to the home. At another point, Hilton received a visit from Dream Catchers Hair Extensions to have extensions added to her hair. A police officer also entered the house returning with the message that the Hiltons would not be releasing a statement immediately.

Several neighbors did not welcome Paris' arrival in Holmby Hills. At first there was little activity on the street. One neighbor mentioned that she wasn't even aware that the Hiltons lived on the street. However as the day progressed, neighbors were made well aware.

Traffic began to build up and one irritated motorist made an obscene gesture at the masses of reporters.

"I'm trying to get my daughter to her dance class," an angry neighbor, Mindy Mann, said as she called police on her cell phone, according to MSNBC.

The "Simple Life" star plans to appear on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Wednesday.

Hilton thanked Harvey Levin, the managing editor of TMZ.com, a celebrity news site, for his "fair and unbiased reporting of the events in my case," according to the note posted on the Web site. It was signed "Paris Hilton" – each letter "i" dotted with a heart.

While Hilton was in jail, Levin criticized the judge for the length of her sentence, stating that anyone else would have served less time.

It was on the night of Sept. 7, 2006, when Hilton failed a sobriety test after being pulled over by police for weaving down a street. The star pleaded no contest to reckless driving which resulted in 36 months of probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.

Months later Hilton was caught driving with a suspended license. She was brought to court and received her original 45-day sentence. She was released after only three weeks because of good behavior and time-off allowances.

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