Narita Immigration Detains Paris Hilton

[Mulboyne]

Daily Mail: Not welcome! Paris Hilton denied access to Japan after cocaine arrest
It was another bad day for Paris Hilton today. The heiress was detained and questioned for six hours over her recent arrest for cocaine possession after landing at Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan last night - questioning that resulted in Hilton being declined entrance into the country. Paris had flown via private jet to Tokyo with her sister Nicky, 26, where they were due to debut their fall/winter fashion collections. The 29-year-old socialite was detained at immigration and questioned over her recent, well publicised, arrest and conviction of cocaine possession and obstructing justice. After six hours talking with immigration officials in the airport Hilton was told she would have to remain at an airport hotel until the issue was resolved. It is unknown if Paris will stay or fly back to the United States...more...

The Japanese press is reporting that her events in Japan scheduled for Wednesday have now been cancelled.

[Tsuru]

Jesus.... even if you have your own jet you have to use Narita?

[2triky]

Jesus.... even if you have your own jet you have to use Narita?

In any case this dumb ass just plead guilty to cocaine possession just yesterday in open court in Las Vegas. I'm sure she's visited Japan on a number of occasions so she or her entourage should have known the complications her recent guilty plea would have posed. Idiot.

[eddie]

this explains why she hasn't called. i guess my dog gets the couch tonight.

[Kuang_Grade]

Finally, a J Immigration story we can all feel good about.

I wish they had put her in the "you can't leave the airport/you can't sleep here" limbo...That would created some fantastic tweets.

[Mulboyne]

...I'm sure she's visited Japan on a number of occasions so she or her entourage should have known the complications her recent guilty plea would have posed. Idiot.

My first thought, when I saw her admission, was that it could mean trouble for her in Japan, so you would think her PR company or partners in Japan would have been alert to the potential problem. Especially given that it turned out to be her very next engagement. It's possible they thought no-one would have the balls to pull her up but I suspect it just never occurred to anyone. I assume the Japan side either wasn't kept in the loop on what actually happened in court, or else didn't want to cancel anything and just hoped for the best.

[2triky]

My first thought, when I saw her admission, was that it could mean trouble for her in Japan, so you would think her PR company or partners in Japan would have been alert to the potential problem. Especially given that it turned out to be her very next engagement. It's possible they thought no-one would have the balls to pull her up but I suspect it just never occurred to anyone. I assume the Japan side either wasn't kept in the loop on what actually happened in court, or else didn't want to cancel anything and just hoped for the best.

I can see how that's possible...but she just recently got caught with marijuana while entering South Africa during the World Cup, so this isn't the first time she's had to deal with the consequences of drug possession while traveling.

[Mulboyne]

I can see how that's possible...but she just recently got caught with marijuana while entering South Africa during the World Cup, so this isn't the first time she's had to deal with the consequences of drug possession while traveling.

The charges against her were dropped in South Africa so she wouldn't have had anything on her record to prevent entry to Japan. Her plea in the US meant she did get a drug conviction and that's what created the problem.

[2triky]

The charges against her were dropped in South Africa so she wouldn't have had anything on her record to prevent entry to Japan. Her plea in the US meant she did get a drug conviction and that's what created the problem.

Oh I understand that but just the fact that she got caught with possession could easily put you on airport watch lists, notwithstanding the fact that charges against her dropped.

[Mulboyne]

Oh I understand that but just the fact that she got caught with possession could easily put you on airport watch lists, notwithstanding the fact that charges against her dropped.

It would mean she would be subject to increased scrutiny but not refused entry. A drug conviction is a different matter. You would think her close calls in Corsica and South Africa would have led someone on her team to investigate the implications of an actual conviction.

It's possible that someone was aware but concluded that applying for a visa dispensation for Japan would just be drawing attention to the problem and so run a higher risk of refusal. It also would have taken time, and her event in Japan was scheduled for Wednesday, which wouldn't have been possible. If that someone did indeed know of the potential problem - which is a big assumption - it looks like they just decided to wing it. If that is what happened, it would be interesting to know if they explained this to Hilton.

[Mulboyne]

This report (Japanese) says it looks like immigration has decided to deny her entry and she'll be leaving today.

[xenomorph42]

Jesus.... even if you have your own jet you have to use Narita?

Yep, I know. What a nightmare! But as anal as Japan is about Narcotics, her agent should have done more inquiries about how Japan lumps all paraphernalia under a single umbrella. Of course this sent a red flag off in Japan. Remember; Paris Hilton is a foreigner and as such with her notoriety and you throw drugs into the mix, having a suspended sentence, coming to Japan? You can tell where this story is going to go.

[LTLurker]

First the United States outsourced manufacturing to China. Then it was back-office processing to India. Now it's justice to Japan!

[2triky]

http://theblemish.com/2010/09/paris-hilton-smuggles-drugs-in-her-vagina/

[Coligny]

There goes mah booty call... Sumbody tells my right hand she's on duty tonight...

[American Oyaji]

http://theblemish.com/2010/09/paris-hilton-smuggles-drugs-in-her-vagina/

Wow!! That adds new meaning to the term "camel toe".

[2triky]

Wow!! That adds new meaning to the term "camel toe".

<rimshot>

As crazy as that story about this dumb bitch sounds...when she was arrested in Las Vegas for possession she did ask the officer who made the traffic stop if she could go to the restroom and he allowed her to...which is fuggin' insane. I don't know who else would be able to get away with that shiet during a routine traffic stop when driver's suspected of driving under the influence.

If she went to the restroom it was probably in some attempt to hide her stash.

[Kagetsu]

Leave Paris alone! Leave her alone!
You're lucky she even performs for you bastards!

Sorry, modified Chris Crocker transcript.

[Level3]

Although Japanese immigration and drug laws are nearly equally shitty to all gaijin, the rich still get special treatment. Gets to stay in the airport hotel (is there a Hilton there?) instead of in a holding cell with mere serfs like us if we were dumb enough to try to enter Japan with a coke conviction and a history of worldwide drug arrests.

Did they go over every inch of her jet though? I suppose not, since she hasn't been arrested for whatever they should have found on it.

Again, special treatment.

I don't hate rich people. I hate the spoiled children of rich people. Whether it's a Hilton, a Bush, a Gore, or an Obama. Still not sure on the first rich kid Clinton, Chelsea, though there are plenty of reasons (ridiculously high salary for just out of school, $2million wedding, etc) to be jealous.

[Coligny]

Did they go over every inch of her jet though? I suppose not, since she hasn't been arrested for whatever they should have found on it.

Not sure here, but aren't jets like boats considered a part of the country they are flying under the flag of ? Before passing throught immigration your not yet in japan. Means on zee other direction passing immigrashiun you're no longer in japan...

[Samurai_Jerk]

My guess is that since she was convicted of a misdemeanor (two to be accurate) and not a felony everyone thought it would be OK.

[Doctor Stop]

My guess is that since she was convicted of a misdemeanor (two to be accurate) and not a felony everyone thought it would be OK.

Or that everyone was too coked up on the coke that she planned to smuggle through customs in her vagina to think straight.

[IkemenTommy]

Paris Hilton is too young to know what happened to Paul McCartney.

[McTojo]

She shot herself in the foot. Good to see the "J" authorities cracking down like this. Paris is just one less airhead we need in Japan.

[Mulboyne]

[Cyka UchuuJin]

it very clearly states on the back of the landing card 'have you ever been convicted of a felony in japan or any other country'.

they don't state whether or not it means you are automatically disqualified from entry into japan, but i'm sure the implication is there.

at least it wasn't KIX. 6 hours was a lucky break of detainment.

one thing i wonder about...japan takes all the passenger passport names and numbers before the departure from whereever they are coming from. emirates, for example, in the online check in, you have to put all that in. and that info is sent ahead to japanese immigration. if there is a question about the dodginess of a passenger, why even bother letting them get on the plane? or why not station a japanese immigration officer in the departure country to pre-clear the passenger?

[Samurai_Jerk]

it very clearly states on the back of the landing card 'have you ever been convicted of a felony in japan or any other country'.

See my post above. It were a mistymeaner (Sorry, I was channeling the board's resident Frenchman for a moment there).

[Cyka UchuuJin]

See my post above. It were a mistymeaner (Sorry, I was channeling the board's resident Frenchman for a moment there).

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But we're married now, right? so i have to totally ignore everything you say and then repeat your words to the public as if you never said anything to begin with

[Mulboyne]

When it comes to drugs, Japan cares only about the conviction, not the distinction between felony and misdemeanour so the landing card script is not relevant. I'm sure plenty of visitors have signed that in good faith and been waived through because immigration had no information to turn them away.

Immigration has made some very public exceptions but the case of Robert Downey Jr is helpful here. He was detained when he came over to promote "Iron Man" in 2008 but eventually allowed in. According to an AP report, however, he was not welcome for "Sherlock Holmes" and "Iron Man 2" this year.

My guess is that Downey Jr made it through first time because he had a highly publicized engagement and immigration concluded that his drug conviction wouldn't become a focus in news coverage while he was in Japan. When he made soundings about subsequent visits, he was likely told "no", or else given no guarantees, so he didn't make the trip.

In Hilton's case, she had only just been convicted and the press hadn't really had a chance to quiz her about the case so the chances of it being discussed while she was in Japan were high. That probably swayed the decision not to grant her a Downey Jr one-time pass, despite her engagements.

Musicians tend not to be turned away at Narita. When they want to perform in Japan, they have to make a visa application in advance so they will get refused while overseas. If they do get visas, then immigration generally has no reason to detain them although customs might be on the alert.

[Cyka UchuuJin]

When it comes to drugs, Japan cares only about the conviction, not the distinction between felony and misdemeanour so the landing card script is not relevant. I'm sure plenty of visitors have signed that in good faith and been waived through because immigration had no information to turn them away.

Immigration has made some very public exceptions but the case of Robert Downey Jr is helpful here. He was detained when he came over to promote "Iron Man" in 2008 but eventually allowed in. According to an AP report, however, he was not welcome for "Sherlock Holmes" and "Iron Man 2" this year.

My guess is that Downey Jr made it through first time because he had a highly publicized engagement and immigration concluded that his drug conviction wouldn't become a focus in news coverage while he was in Japan. When he made soundings about subsequent visits, he was likely told "no", or else given no guarantees, so he didn't make the trip.

In Hilton's case, she had only just been convicted and the press hadn't really had a chance to quiz her about the case so the chances of it being discussed while she was in Japan were high. That probably swayed the decision not to grant her a Downey Jr one-time pass, despite her engagements.

Musicians tend not to be turned away at Narita. When they want to perform in Japan, they have to make a visa application in advance so they will get refused while overseas. If they do get visas, then immigration generally has no reason to detain them although customs might be on the alert.

i don't recall exactly, but i think it's 'felony' that is written on the card. doens't matter what it's for, does it?

i agree with all your points above though, it's too fresh and the media will be all over it.

what's interesting now, is that if she ever tries to come back to japan, she will now have to tick the 'have you ever been refused entry into or deported from japan' box. and depending on how grumpy the officer is, that is another kettle of fish. after my denial/subsequent appeal which overturned it, on my next visit, i ticked the 'no' box. and was taken away into the little room asking why i was trying to be dishonest. but as i was told during the first situation, having the code number of the case number and appeal that i won, that it was NOT considered a denial or deportation. but I was told that i should tick the 'yes' box from now on and explain what had happened, even though i have never technically been denied entry (according to j-law). i ticked the 'no' box last time i came in, just to see what would happen, because now i travel there strictly on business, and all they did was ask for a copy of my business card and the adress of our office in gotanda.

personally, i'd have turned mizz hilton away for that hideous 'i wanna be a giant overaged hello kitty wannabe' dress.