Twitter Ruins Paris Hilton’s Cocaine Excuse

Almost a month before being arrested in Las Vegas for cocaine possession, Paris Hilton tweeted a photo of her latest purchase: a Chanel purse. It’s the same clutch that contained the drugs, and of which she claimed she’d borrowed it from a friend.

As we also reported at the time, Paris and her boyfriend were pulled over in Las Vegas and, when the officer thought he smelled marijuana, asked to come inside a nearby hotel for questioning.

At one point, as she reached for lipgloss, a bag of cocaine (.8 grams) fell out of the heiress’ purse. She first said the purse wasn’t hers, that she’d borrowed it from a friend; then that she thought the cocaine was gum.

All this time, word online had it that she and her attorney had decided to go for the “it wasn’t my purse” excuse – the only problem is, People points out, Paris herself may have already burned that bridge.

The star posted a photo of a new purse weeks before the arrest and it bears a very striking resemblance to the clutch she had on the night of the arrest, which means she can’t claim it belonged to a friend.

“‘Love My New Chanel Purse I got Today. :),’ she wrote on her Twitter page under a photo of the purse. That Tweet may now being coming back to haunt her,” People says.

“A photo of the heiress during the traffic stop just prior to her arrest last weekend in Las Vegas shows Hilton clutching a black Chanel purse that looks very similar to the one she swooned over on Twitter,” the magazine further informs.

However, even without the pic Paris herself tweeted, she would have still been in great trouble, insiders with the police say for E! Online.

Being charged with “possession” means a person is charged for having drugs on their person, regardless of whether it’s in their own or a burrowed purse, the Las Vegas Police spokesperson explains.

“She’s being charged with possession, so it doesn’t matter if it’s hers or someone else’s. She’s the person in possession of it, so it doesn’t matter,” Officer Jay Rivera states for E!.

“This is a common typical arrest. We don’t keep track of people’s purses and we don’t impound people’s purses when we find evidence or contraband in them,” Mr. Rivera goes on to say.