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Paris Hilton traded her designer clothes for jail garb as she began serving a 23-day sentence in a Los Angeles County jail for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. Though a judge sentenced her to 45 days behind bars, Hilton, 26, was expected to serve only 23 days because of a state law that requires shorter sentences for good behavior. In a statement, the hotel heiress said, “This is an important point in my life and I need to take responsibility for my actions. In the future, I plan on taking more of an active role in the decisions I make.” On Sunday, Hilton made a surprise visit to the MTV Movie Awards, where she briefly spoke to reporters about her sentence. “I am trying to be strong right now,” said Hilton, who wore a black strapless dress and jewels. “Im really scared but Im ready to face my sentence.” The jail is an all-female facility, and Hilton will be housed in a unit for celebrities and high-profile inmates. (Reuters, AP)

Captain Jack Sparrow was the big winner at the MTV Movie Awards Sunday as “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest” was named best movie and its star, Johnny Depp, won for best performance. Depp joined the “Pirates” producer Jerry Bruckheimer to accept the Golden Popcorn trophy. “This is the man who did it all right here, Johnny Depp,” Bruckheimer said. “Without him, we wouldnt be here.” Other big winners during the live broadcast from Universal City, California, included Mike Myers, who won the MTV Generation Award, and Sacha Baron Cohen, who collected two trophies: the comedic performance prize for “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” and best-kiss honors for his smooch with Will Ferrell in “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.” Other award winners included Jack Nicholson, who was named best villain for his role in “The Departed”; and Jaden Smith, 9, for best breakthrough performance in his role opposite his father, Will Smith, in “The Pursuit of Happyness.” (AP)

Larry Birkhead, the father of Anna Nicole Smiths baby, has countersued his former attorney, claiming she defrauded him out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court claims Debra Opri offered to represent Birkhead for free during a paternity dispute involving the baby because the publicity would benefit her career. Birkheads lawsuit was filed just days after Opri filed her own suit claiming that Birkhead didnt pay his bills for her legal services. Birkheads lawsuit accuses Opri of depositing at least $865,000 owed to him for an unnamed project into an attorney client trust account against his wishes. After Opri refused to turn over the money, Birkhead fired her, the lawsuit said. In a statement released last week, Opri said that her former client “has now admitted, however, that he can pay his legal bills having received over $1 million in a media deal,” she wrote, adding that it did not include “untold millions he has received for selling photos of his daughter,” Danielynn. (AP)

Hugh Grant wont be prosecuted for allegedly hurling baked beans at a photographer, Britains Crown Prosecution Service said last week. Grant, who also will not face charges for allegedly kicking the photographer, was arrested following the clash on April 24. “There were clear discrepancies between the accounts of independent witnesses and those of the photographers involved,” said a spokeswoman for the prosecutors office, speaking on condition of anonymity. (AP)

Hustler magazine is looking for some scandalous sex in Washington again - and is willing to pay for it. “Have you had a sexual encounter with a current member of the United States Congress or a high-ranking government official?” read a full-page advertisement taken out by Larry Flynts pornographic magazine in The Washington Post on Sunday. It offered $1 million for documented evidence of illicit intimate relations with a congressman, senator or other prominent officeholder. The last time Flynt made such an offer was in October 1998 during the drive to impeach President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal, when he threatened to expose one or two members of the Republican Congress pushing for the impeachment. Flynts target this time, if he has one, was not immediately known. (Reuters)

MUMBAI, India —Mike Tyson wants to try something new — acting in Bollywood movies.

Tyson said the energy on the sets of a music video he recently shot for a new comedy got him thinking about trying to do more Bollywood work, The Times of India reported Monday.

The former heavyweight boxing champion said in an interview that Firoz Nadiadwala, producer of “Fool n Final,” had approached him with a script.

“Firoz has discussed a movie with me,” the newspaper quoted Tyson as saying.

“We seriously intend to work toward it,” he said, without disclosing any details.

Tyson, 40, danced to Bollywood music at a two-day shoot in Las Vegas last month for a music video to promote “Fool n Final,” about a diamond heist.

“The atmosphere was very congenial, happy and energetic,” the newspaper quoted Tyson as saying.

Tyson plays himself in the music video, set for release later this month.

He said Nadiadwala explained the concept of the music video to him earlier this year.

“I was, anyway, in that phase when I didn’t mind trying out something different,” he said. “The script seemed very interesting, with lots of excitement thrown in.”

Tyson said there are similarities between acting and boxing.

“In both the fields, in order to survive and triumph, you need focus and to be highly disciplined and determined,” he said.

A judge in Phoenix gave Tyson permission to travel to Las Vegas to shoot the music video. Tyson is facing charges of drug possession and driving under the influence of drugs for an arrest in Scottsdale last year.

Tyson had been expected to travel to India this summer to film the dance sequence, but the scene was shot in Las Vegas due to security reasons, director Ahmed Khan has said.

NEW YORK— has had “an interesting year,” she confided Sunday, and a lot of it will be in her new book, “Celebrity Detox,” coming this fall.

Speaking at a breakfast gathering at BookExpo America, the publishing industry’s annual national convention, O’Donnell said her long-delayed memoir on fame will not be “vindictive” or “mean-spirited,” but will offer a candid look at her very public life, including her brief, battling stint on “The View.”

“It is, in fact, a drug,” she said of fame, and spoke of seeing peers so radically, and scarily, transformed by celebrity that they looked like victims of “crystal meth.”

O’Donnell, looking healthy but tired on a Sunday morning, noted that her book was supposed to come out a few years ago, but she decided it wasn’t ready, not quite “cooked.” Her time on “The View” convinced her she was ready to start baking again. She called the book “half blog,” half “straight” writing.

Last month, O’Donnell ended an eight-month tenure on “The View” that lifted the show’s ratings and, perhaps, the blood pressure of show creator Barbara Walters. O’Donnell feuded with Donald Trump and frequently had snippy exchanges with the more conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

“We’ve had to change the epilogue,” she said of “Celebrity Detox,” then joked that her next career move would be “auditioning for `The Apprentice.”‘