Jessica Simpson Goes to Jail -- To Bail Out Pal
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Jessica Simpson paid a late-night visit to ... jail!
The singer, 29, stopped by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department in West Hollywood early Friday morning to try to bail out her friend, Usmagazine.com confirms.
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Her pal and longtime makeup artist, Mary Phillips, was arrested at 1:40 a.m. for being drunk in public after police received a disturbing the peace call at the Sunset Tower Hotel, a law enforcement source tells Us.
Simpson, however, was turned away when she attempted to bail her friend, 30, out.
"She was arrested for being drunk in public, and she was not released to Jessica because you can't release someone who has not sobered up," Deputy Aura Sierra tells Us. "They're going to release her a little later when she's sobered up. I don't know what time that will be. It could be a minimum of 6 to probably 8 hours."
Hours earlier, Simpson had posted a photo on Twitter of herself, hairstylist BFF Ken Paves and Phillips -- who worked with Simpson on The Dukes of Hazzard and Employee of the Month and prepped her for her 2002 wedding to Nick Lachey.
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She said that she was "sizzlin' with my peeps, pretty boy KP and Lil' Cholita [Phillips] ... look out yo!!"
Simpson's rep had no comment.
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24it was just a mistake...everyone gets drunk once in a while so whatever.
It was nice of her to try and bail her friend out. I feel bad that it made ehadlines though. Once that girl sobers up she's probably going to be embarassed and seeing it in the tabloids would make it worse.
a disgusting looking tranny, just another ugly blonde, bring back marilyn monroe. yvette mimieux,
If someone in the Simpson camp called the tabloids to report this story, then it was pr stunt to try to portray Jessica as a nice friend. A true friend wouldn't expose a friend's embarrassing arrest like this to national magazines just to get some positive press. Only a narcissistic mediawh*re would do that. Somebody like that would stop at nothing to get attention...she'd probably even wh*re her marriage out on reality tv.
Enough of Kate already,she should just take a bow and start 2010 without Jon and raise her Children...But i guess u get use to the huge sum of buck's,maybe they will show her T.V.show and it fails and we won't have to go through another year of Jon and Kate.....
That's nice of Jessica to try to bail out her friend!! Love Jessica-STOP HATING!!!!
I give her credit for trying though she failed.
dear: JESSICA SIMPSON: i saw you in the usa but i ran out of 90 day visa waver things for the usa in 2005: i saw your sister ASHLEE SIMPSON at THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE my last visit to DENVER, COLORADO, USA, on the 1st march 2005: ST DAVIDS DAY: i overstayed my last 90 day visa waver thing to the usa so i've not been back: i have WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON'S signed photo somewhere in my house so i might be able to get back ??? eh ??? david miedzianik: KINGS CROSS: LONDON:
Sizzlin - look out yo...is she going GANGSTA? I guess after Contemporary Christian, Pop, Country, Films. Marriage, Dating have all failed you gotta try something. Jessica has become the overbearing bore at the party that everyone wishes would leave.
Helping out a friend everyone still wants to bash her, can't everyone just say she was being a great friend and leave it at that....Stop bringing her flippin dad into everything too.....so lame.
She's obviously been drunk when doing Jess's makeup recently...
Why Jessica wasn't arrested for being too stupid? Some maybe right. Joe will do anything put his talentless bimbo daughters on magazine covers. In which neither can sing,dance&act. They are worthless&embarrasement in entertain industry. Their better known as Tweedle Dumb(Ashlee)and Tweedle Dumber(Jessica)
So is she trying to convince us she's black now? LMAO! Jessica, When is your rap album going to come out?
Your bang on howard!
Western sizzlin, maybe
December 18, 2009 - 10:53am Howard Says: This is so obviously a Joe move to keep his daughters on the covers of mags. Congratulations Joe - you got the cover - the problem is your daughters have ZERO likability. They have overstayed their welcome and we are all very tired of your nonsense. I think Joe also leaked the Ashlee is going to be on Nicole Ritchie's show. I doubt ABC would spend good money to have a person on the show (Ashley Simpson) who will cause hundreds of thousands of Americans to turn their TV's off. (Just ask the CW). Joe, you won the battle , but lost the war - the Simpson sisters have become REPULSIVE! ************* OH YEA HOWARD, SHE HAD HER MAKEUP ARTIST ARRESTED ON PURPOSE TO GET ON THIS PAGE, THAT'S SO BELIEVABLE!!!! WHERE'D YOU GET YOUR BRAIN REJECT? A CRACKER JACK BOX???? YOUR A PHUKING MORON WHO NEEDS A LIFE ALREADY, SO GO FIND ONE YOU CREEP!!!!!!!!!
I was so hoping being that she isn't doing anything worthwhile for now, we wouldn't be subjected to having to see Jessica's mug every time we come here. What is it with US' love affair with the Simpsons? Either that or Pimp Daddy Joe pays you well. Enough, already.
I've had a rough year, too! Is it gonna make Us Weekly? Doubtful.
Nice circle that she surrounds herself with. Birds of a feather...flock together!
It's great to see she is loyal to her friends and employees-I don't know how many bosses will go and try to bail people out. This just goes to show what a great gal Jessica is. That's why so many love her.