UPDATE: Nicole Richie arrested for DUI
Nicole Richie was arrested for a DUI early this morning after two drivers spotted her SUV going the wrong way on the 134 Freeway in Burbank and called 911.
When the CHP responded, Richie was stopped in the carpool lane and was alone in the vehicle. When cops approached the vehicle, Richie was on her cellphone. Law enforcement officers tell TMZ Nicole Richie admitted she had taken Vicodin and smoked pot. A preliminary alcohol screening device revealed that Nicole was not under the influence of alcohol.
The booking sheet also reveals that Richie is spectacularly healthy at 5'1" and 85 lbs. She's so tiny the two drivers that saw her SUV probably couldn't even see her in the driver's seat. They must've thought it was a ghost car. Or maybe two babies driving, with one trying to steer and the other furiously working the pedals.
UPDATE: Now with 50% more mugshot.
*UPDATE: The Smoking Gun has a copy of Nicole Richie's DUI booking sheet from this morning and compared it to her booking sheet from February 2003 when she was arrested for heroin possession. Apparently in the three year span between arrests she's shrunk one inch, lost 5 lbs, and changed from white to black.

Reader Comments
1. DrunkBlogger - December 11, 2006 9:48 AM
I hate when people say, FIRST!!!
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2. *required field - December 11, 2006 9:50 AM
maybe she veered off when she had to use both hands to hold up the vicodin tablet
3. Rockstar28 - December 11, 2006 9:50 AM
You know what I love most about this site? It's like a review...of the gossip I generally read at least 5-24 hours earlier on other sites. Way to grab the torch there...you really are a trailblazer.
4. fergernauster - December 11, 2006 9:52 AM
BAM!!!
5. crabbie - December 11, 2006 9:53 AM
They should've let her crash.
http://crabbieshollywood.blogspot.com
6. enfilade - December 11, 2006 9:54 AM
Damn, you'd think these celebrities would realize it's a bad idea to drink and drive by now.
http://www.scandalsnappers.com/
7. jesseeca - December 11, 2006 9:54 AM
i don't think she'd really need to drink that much to bring her above the legal limit. Maybe 2 tbs. of Nyquil?
8. fearsarewishes - December 11, 2006 9:54 AM
Ms. Richie may soon regret that admission bit.
9. jesseeca - December 11, 2006 9:56 AM
I can't imagine driving after taking Vicodin considering I took one after surgery and I ended up having a seizure!
10. Jacquelantern - December 11, 2006 9:57 AM
Dumb biatch! Maybe this will make her get her shit together... Hopeful... but doubtful!
11. CelebSlam.com - December 11, 2006 9:59 AM
What a dumbshit
http://www.celebslam.com
12. jrzmommy - December 11, 2006 10:00 AM
And it's down, down, down we go! Where is rock bottom? Nobody knows! Woo HOO!!!!! Jump, Nicole, JUMP!!!
13. ch474 - December 11, 2006 10:01 AM
Viocodin is very low in fat while pot is high in fiber.
14. AnnoyingPseud - December 11, 2006 10:02 AM
Who is giving this poor misguided girl Vicodin? She's so tiny, a little pharmaceutical goes a long way. What's sad is this need to destroy herself, to erase herself, when by all rights, she'd have a charmed life if she stopped being so frackking self-loathing and destructive. Where is this girl's mom & dad in all this shit? Probably getting more plastic surgery.....Ugh.
I can't even adequately pick on this poor shrivelled little girl, she's just so sad and lost and misguided and straight up dumb.
15. PapaHotNuts - December 11, 2006 10:03 AM
She kept slipping through the prison bars and trying to escape, so the cops put her in a mayonaisse jar with a stick and leaf, then poked holes ino the top so she could breathe.
16. polypam - December 11, 2006 10:04 AM
The thing is, she wasn't even drinking alcohol. She had some cough syrup and because she weighs 85 lbs, it was enough to get her drunk.
Don't mess around with Robitussin, kids.
17. Spindoc - December 11, 2006 10:04 AM
Now I know why she's back to hanging out with Paris. She only loves Paris for that big wad of pot Paris trucks around in her purse.
As for her weight, take off a few pounds for the big clunky shoes and the hundreds of bracelettes she was no doubt wearing when they busted her.
18. polypam - December 11, 2006 10:06 AM
Damn #8, I didn't see your post before I posted mine. My bad. Great minds think alike.
19. Binky - December 11, 2006 10:11 AM
85 pounds ? That must be a typo. She was probably carrying 85 pounds and on her way to Britain.
She can't be more than 60 pounds - tops.
20. normella - December 11, 2006 10:17 AM
Admitting to smoking pot is such bullshit. She wouldn't be 85lbs if she smoked pot.
21. BoognishRising - December 11, 2006 10:19 AM
Spectacularly healthy??? LMAO! She looks like a Charms blow pop. Didn't she fire her stylist because she was sick of her promoting unhealthy body images or something. I can see that's going well.
22. VeryLiberating.com - December 11, 2006 10:22 AM
All 8 pounds couldn't soak up the alcohol from a thimble.
http://www.veryliberating.com
23. Not from the CIA - December 11, 2006 10:23 AM
I was so shocked when I read this I almost choked on a pretzel. I wanted to raise my kids to be just like her one day, but now?! No way!
Excuse me while I go weep for my lost innocence.
http://www.papparelli.com
24. SPODLUMT - December 11, 2006 10:29 AM
She was parked in the commuter lane on a major highway talking on her cell phone and high on Vicodin? I wish those sluts the Hilton sisters came along in their limo and rear-ended her so all three could die in a fiery inferno. God's way of saying "get those skanks off my planet!"
25. the boy - December 11, 2006 10:29 AM
That this wretched hellspawn is of any relation to the mighty Lionel Richie is beyond me. He must be ashamed...
26. Eikooc - December 11, 2006 10:35 AM
Lionel Richie's daughter?...I thought this was the child of Skeletor.
27. noonespecial8888 - December 11, 2006 10:37 AM
Being a celebrity (for what, I don't know....regardless) I'd think that she'd have the money for a taxi or limo.
28. Italian Stallion - December 11, 2006 10:39 AM
LOL @16........
When they told her to stand sideways for a side view picture, it came out blank.........
29. oshkoshb-goshdammgosh - December 11, 2006 10:41 AM
Girls on Vicodin give the best head. Especially if you put Vicodin in your urethra.
30. Alex - December 11, 2006 10:41 AM
#26
Don't lose any sleep. She was adopted by Lionel Richie, which actually gives her more legal relations/rights than his real daughter, but no blood relation there.
31. RichPort - December 11, 2006 10:53 AM
Did they have to get a child seat for the back of the police car when they hoisted her off?
32. HollywoodSnark - December 11, 2006 10:54 AM
85 lbs? wow...I've eaten 85 lbs of mashed potatoes in one sitting before.....
http://hollywoodsnark.com
33. polypam - December 11, 2006 10:55 AM
It was bound to happen. Two weeks ago it was all about Britney & Paris. Last week belonged to Lindsay. The natural order of Hollywood celebutards dictates that it was Nicole's turn to light up the gossip columns. And she did it with such class, I am quite impressed.
Way to go, Nicole!
34. BarbadoSlim - December 11, 2006 10:57 AM
The Simple Life: Prison Encounters, E viewers get the cahnce to see Nicole eating rug every night and watch as our young star becomes big Shanickwa's bitch.
Hilarity will ensue!!!!
35. Jenster - December 11, 2006 11:10 AM
nah, Shaniquwa like them thick.
anyhoo this is way more entertaining than reading about Paris and Nicky showing their man-legs in a limo at Hef's house.
36. oshkoshb-goshdammgosh - December 11, 2006 11:20 AM
I love it when hilarity ensues, followed of course by hijinx.
37. Raebees - December 11, 2006 11:22 AM
FIRST!!!
38. Tyler Durden - December 11, 2006 11:25 AM
Am i the only one who thinks this is the hottest photo of nichole ever? maybe its the knowledge that shes about to have a rubber glove inserted into her orifices during a strip search that does it for me. and is she half-smiling?
39. PrettyBaby - December 11, 2006 11:46 AM
Oh I'm so Pretty!
I love a huge dong when it takes me rectally!
Ooooooooh Yeeeeesss!!!
40. BarbadoSlim - December 11, 2006 11:48 AM
Hehe now that you mention that #39, you know that all these publicity craving degenerates are gonna start getting arrested just so they can see which one takes the "cutest" or "hot" mugshot.
41. libtard - December 11, 2006 11:56 AM
You know....... Lionel Richie seems so normal and nice, whereas this child is such a mess. What kind of fucked up genes did he pass on to her? I'm beginning to think that a blood test may be in order here.
42. MousePotato - December 11, 2006 11:59 AM
All I can say is that this new arrest of DUI for Nicole Ritchie is really indicative of her suicidal desires. The girl should not be drinking any alcohol. Her body is the size of an 8 year old. Someone needs to sit down with her and compile her wishes for her funeral. Help her pick out her casket and find out what clothing she wishes to wear. They need to arrange as to whom will do her hair and if she wants an open or closed casket. They need to decide on her final resting place. (plot) I hope she is smart and has all this in order as she is going to need it......................very soon.
43. CowgirlUp - December 11, 2006 11:59 AM
ROFL at #32!
44. wedgeone - December 11, 2006 12:07 PM
#14 - LOL. Very well put.
#30 - OUCH!! I curled up in the fetal position just thinking about how a Vic stuffed into my dick would feel.
Now maybe Nicole and Paris will become friends again, since they both have a DUI in common.
Let's just hope that they both have their court dates one after another . . . in the same courtroom. Oh how the paps will storm the building that day.
45. ToiletDuck - December 11, 2006 12:07 PM
Pretty fuckin' nervy of those cops - the poor girl just pulled over to have her dinner...
46. HolisticWisdomcom - December 11, 2006 12:16 PM
Considering her weight, she could just smell someone's beer and it would make her drunk!
http://www.holisticwisdom.com
47. PrettyBaby - December 11, 2006 12:16 PM
#40 Very cute post!
48. carpemundus - December 11, 2006 12:17 PM
i was with her. she only gargled with mouthwash. dont know how she blew .08...
carpemundus.com - thin, but not too thin
49. ToiletDuck - December 11, 2006 12:26 PM
It's good publicity for her - now all she has to do is show off her snatch...
50. pus-eater - December 11, 2006 12:27 PM
85 pounds!!! You could put your dick in soft and when it gets hard you could listen to her bones crack!
51. butterfly - December 11, 2006 12:29 PM
awwww, I bet this makes Lionel want to run right out and adopt another crack-baby
52. andrewthezeppo - December 11, 2006 12:31 PM
She only lost 5 pounds in the past 3 years? some how I find that suspicious...
or was it because 2003 was her heroine days and she was skinny then, and then plumped up for the Simple Life
also, why don't they just use a limo? they have the money
53. ToiletDuck - December 11, 2006 12:34 PM
She is doing that latest celebrity fad, the Auschwitz diet...Mel Gibson swears by it...she is trying to lose another 20 pounds...
1. Breakfast - toast crumbs, diet Coke...
2. Lunch (the large meal) - One Tic-Tac, licking the salt from a soda cracker and diet green tea...
3. Dinner - one sprig of parsley, and a diet gummi bear washed down with a Red Bull...
3.
54. LL - December 11, 2006 12:37 PM
Everyone seems to be overlooking that she was yapping on her cell phone when they pulled her over. That probably had at least as much to do with her shitty driving as the Vicoden, if not more. For that alone, they should have dragged her out of her car and given her a beat-down, Rodney King-style. In fact, I wish the cops would drag cell phone yappers out of their cars and beat the crap out of them way more often. Then maybe I wouldn't get stuck behind some dumbass yapping on his/her cell phone and driving 10 mph under the limit or almost killed by one because he/she was yapping on the phone instead of paying attention to driving. I hate cell phone yappers much more than I hate Paris or Nicole or Mariah Carey.
There, I feel better now.
55. simon134 - December 11, 2006 12:54 PM
Race B? I know her adoptive dad is Lionel Richie, but Nicole is WHITE AS SHIT!!!
IT's mind boggling!
56. polypam - December 11, 2006 1:19 PM
#56... She is half & half. Her real dad was in the Commodores and last I checked, there wasn't a whitey among them.
I'm more shocked they say her hair is blonde. Clearly that mug shot shows a brunette. Who fills out these booking sheets?
Plus, the bail for the heroin (felony) was $5000 CHEAPER than the misdemeanor this time around. Is that due to inflation?
57. PapaHotNuts - December 11, 2006 1:20 PM
@55
That is excessive use of the word "yapping".
58. Rich From Your Home - December 11, 2006 2:06 PM
85 pounds!!!!
Wow.
59. oshkoshb-goshdammgosh - December 11, 2006 2:12 PM
She looks like a Bratz doll.
60. M@ - December 11, 2006 2:20 PM
is she black? wasnt she adopted? thats what it says on her rap sheet... black or white she is retarted.
61. LL - December 11, 2006 2:54 PM
RE overuse of the word "yapping": Agreed.
But I'm sticking to my guns on my larger point: People who yap and drive should be dragged out of their cars and beaten. And stomp the shit out of their cell phones too, just for good measure.
62. Edna Bambrick - December 11, 2006 3:15 PM
I have prayed for many souls on this website. I know I have touched many hearts of the pure, of the wise and of the kind. During my recent hospital stay, caused in part by the flashing of genitalia and the publishing of these pictures on this website, I received many kind words and many have helped me report disgusting posts. Though I am ridiculed by many, I know that God will help me prevail to clean up the Internet and rid it of filth as such contained in this website.
63. Jay from the Bay - December 11, 2006 3:43 PM
Did she call the arresting officer Sugar Tits?
64. Abe-O - December 11, 2006 3:48 PM
Did Nicole's recent reunion with Paris have an alcohol-related influence on her? Do you think? Also, how much alcohol would it take to get an 85-pound woman drunk? I'm guessing one glass of egg nog will just about do it....
http://www.celebrityfox.com/nicole-richie-arrested-with-dui/
65. RichPort - December 11, 2006 3:53 PM
Edna, I'd love my cumshot to meet your mouth.
66. BoognishRising - December 11, 2006 4:00 PM
As they say in the south she's a "high yaller".
67. fame is funny - December 11, 2006 4:00 PM
Remember, it's always best to tell the police all the chemicals you've ingested, right up front...y'know, get it out of the way and such.
When they asked her why she was driving that way she should have just said...'I'm Nicole Richie, like duh'
68. allgravybaby - December 11, 2006 4:32 PM
finally someone get charged, good on her she is an honest hunny i love her!
69. peruvianfinelohan - December 11, 2006 4:33 PM
one vic and pot? LIGHTWEIGHT
pun intended
70. Tyler Durden - December 11, 2006 4:43 PM
i cant help but get a half-on every time i stare into those soulful, innocent eyes. and what about that t-shirt? i wonder if shes wearing a bra under it? how far do her nipples stick out? maybe its the thought of her emaciated body looking exactly like a 13-year old girl's that does it for me
71. libtard - December 11, 2006 5:02 PM
#70,
Grooooooooooooan. I do love a good pun.
72. trey - December 11, 2006 5:02 PM
that's a hot mug shot. and #71 is turning me on.
73. libtard - December 11, 2006 5:05 PM
She probably shrank an inch as a result of wearing those anchors/sunglasses.
74. Tyler Durden - December 11, 2006 5:11 PM
trey, i got turned on writing it. maybe ive missed my calling in life. does anybody pay for writing snarky, semi-erotic blogposts?
75. jFp - December 11, 2006 6:23 PM
She has youth and fame. She is a celebrity. Can't you people understand that she is more important than those stupid people just going places? They probably have some stupid job to go to.
76. libtard - December 11, 2006 6:41 PM
Edna! How the hell are ya, you old bat! Glad to hear you were in the hospital and I hope that your health continues to decline in the coming days.
BTW, I masturbated while typing this. I held the vibrator with my teeth. Yes, I have a 2 foot long vibrator and very strong teeth.
Off topic, is that a frickin' scrunchie in Nicole's hair?
77. Ass Ferret Jones - December 11, 2006 7:00 PM
57. Read 56, especially the part about Nicole Richie being the "adoptive" daughter of Lionel Richie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption
63. Edna, you can start by "cleaning up" the splooge you spilled while trying to swallow my schlong.
71. Wrong site freak, try NAMBLA.
78. blue_star - December 11, 2006 7:38 PM
#53, I remember when the Simple Life first came out, and there was a magazine article that said she weighed 90 pounds. I was like EXCUSE ME?! There is no f***ing way. I mean, I'm close to her in height and if she started out weighing 90 pounds when she got famous, people would have been saying she was anorexic or a crackhead or whatever way back then. I believe the sites that say she probably weighed about 125 at first.
79. Peter Coffin - December 11, 2006 8:27 PM
Oh, the things I would do to Nicole Ritchie...
Mainly throw rubbish at her and say "GO AWAY."
Oh, the things...
80. mytwocents - December 11, 2006 8:50 PM
And to think we graduated from the same high school...
well, at least she graduated high school, Paris couldn't even make it that far...Britney's a hick and by the looks of her writing abilities, Lindsay barely made it past the 8th grade.... So really, Nicole was the best of the bunch...which is obviously not saying jack shit
http://www.thespinzone.com
81. aurealis - December 11, 2006 9:10 PM
Nicole you stupid bitch. I had so much faith in you. What with Lohan acting like a reject all over town. And Brit-brit dragging her cooter all over twon. And Paris, well you know. All you had to do was lay low, and wait to be crowned the least losery of the whores. Now I find out you're dating Duff leftovers? Ew, girlfriend, ew.
82. allgravybaby - December 11, 2006 9:11 PM
i myself am a marijuana + vicodin enjoyer... and i dont drive my car around @4.50am in the morning. heck im asleep by 9.30pm the bitch is skattered off of ICE, thus her weight & erradic behaviour... they are all on it HELLO!
83. falsetigerlimbs - December 11, 2006 10:59 PM
to me "vicodin and pot" sounds like a cover for heroin. both vicodin and heroin show up on drug tests in the same way. so she could just have said that she popped a pill because it's better than admitting to doing heroin.
84. Milandir - December 12, 2006 12:57 AM
Is it just me, or is Nicole Richie the only person that looks better (in this case somewhat normal) when the cops take a picture of her?
85. snot_rocket - December 12, 2006 1:09 AM
no actually heroine would have shown up under methadone since technically methadone is a heroine derivative and vicodan is an opiate.
but back to the bashing...
she's such a fucktard. 25 grand spent on bail in her life. i bet hilary duff gave her the vicodan so she would pass out then hilary could gnaw on her bones like little carrots for her horse face.
86. MrSemprini - December 12, 2006 3:32 AM
Look, guys... People like her need work to feel validated. I say, bring back the Love Boat!
87. IceQueen413 - December 12, 2006 4:40 AM
Her rap sheet also says she has blonde hair on the new one..... WTF? It's nowhere near blonde. And this time it was a misdemeanor, last time was a felony, and the bail in 2003 was only $10,000? Very odd.
88. EJ - December 12, 2006 6:17 AM
The annoying thing is, even though she endangered lives and fucking confessed to the police, she'll prolly get one week probation and maybe, MAYBE a month of "rehab".
89. Xopher.tm - December 12, 2006 6:49 AM
#86:
It's "heroin" and "vicodin".
And both are opiates.
90. techclerk - December 12, 2006 7:15 AM
All we need is for one of these skank divas to die in an act of tragic stupidity and hope the pride won't let the others be outdone. Let's hope another Natalie Wood is going to happen soon.
91. marie-jo - December 12, 2006 7:25 AM
Why o why do they wanna drive themselves.
"Damn, if I had the money I'd be smoking, snorting, poppin' & rubbin' my punana agains my non existing sister while getting photographed (all the beauty went in 1) in the back seet"
Lord knows I've been dodging pedestrians so many times with the above mantra
92. 86 - December 12, 2006 8:15 AM
Why did Lionel Richie adopt the child of one of his backup singers? Maybe he was hittin' that. Could Nicole really be his daughter?
93. AnnThrax - December 12, 2006 8:16 AM
I highly doubt that Vicodin had anything to do with her driving. Does anyone know how sadly weak Vicodin are?
My one concern...
If shes going to be popping opiates like Vicodin..is there a chance she will start smoking black tar again? HmMmmMmMm. Im waiting on it.
94. AnnThrax - December 12, 2006 8:21 AM
Vicodin would NOT show up as heroin on a drug test.
Heroin would NOT show up as methadone on a drug test.
Drug tests are drug specific. If you have taken an opiate, the test wont just say OPIATE. It will tell you exactly which drugs are in your system.
Things like Vicodin, Lortab, and other pain killers are opioid synthetics. They are NOT going to show up as heroin on a drug test.
Once heroin enters the bloodstream it metabolizes and turns into MORPHINE. So, if she was under the influence of HEROIN, the test would come back morphine positive.
95. Whammer Jammer - December 12, 2006 9:10 AM
Isn't this the person who was "working with a team of doctors" to gain weight?
96. particle)man - December 12, 2006 10:38 AM
i can't belive she is white on one rap sheet and black on the other...what is her deal?
97. peopleRweird - December 12, 2006 5:30 PM
this is a bit off topic but...do you think if any of the members of" since daddy never loved me,do you wanna fuck me?" club (hohan,parasite& icky hilton,shitney,nicole and any other celebutard)died of anything that was not of natural causes/drug overdose that most likely they would win a darwin award.ya kno the ppl who improve our gene pool...by removing themselvs from it.
98. Ricardo Lee W. - December 13, 2006 1:39 PM
What's amazing to me (besides the absurd amount of losers out there who are so miserable they're willing to waste their precious time posting trash here; that they should know Mrs. Richie of SIMPLE LIFE fame isn't ever going to bother to read) is how pretty she still looks: intoxicated, embarrassed, arrested, groggy, at 5:00 in the morning, in a bad police mug shot. Even with all the weight she's lost her eyes still sparkle in such a pretty way that you can tell, she's a star.
Her beautiful complexion, her little mouth and even the little smile she managed... She's gorgeous... she's a star!! Even after all the weight loss.
As a young black man that just came home from being stationed overseas the last 3 and a half years in Baumholder Germany (ETS ed 11M A 1/6 Assassin Hooah!) its crazy to hear how much she parties. She looks so fresh faced and innocent its really hard to believe. Even in her mug shot she looks more like an angel than the amazons in the Victoria's Secret ads. Anyway's this chicks living her life and making her money. So why waste energy shaking your fist in the wind?
I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area but Im spending Christmas to New Years in Vegas at the Bellagio where my Pops got us a balcony facing the Strip and the fireworks on New Years eve. What Im getting to is year in and year out people party till they have to lock all the balcony doors on New Years to keep intoxicated people from falling or jumping off! As a kid I spent New Years in Vegas/Reno, New York, New Orleans, Union Square (SF). Ive partied when the Niner's won they're Super Bowl victories. I've been places where the whole cities are out drinking and celebrating. In Idar Oberstein Germany I saw a guy crash his brand new BMW drunk during the Linden Festival. In Ibiza you should see how crazy the British girls get or how we acted during R&R in Bulgaria. All around the world people party, this isnt some new occurrence or something Nicole Richie has just started or invented. Human beings can make mistakes sober. Nicole Richie is not your leader she's no politician or televangelist so why sweat every little move she makes. She's just a girl who grew up in Hollywood, she not a teacher or congressmen or even anytype of civil servant... What type of moron or horrible parent would go around making what Nicole Richie does out to be all important when you have the president who ""didn't inhale"" having affairs with interns, a President in-office we elected twice who had at the very least a DUI (and he's the head of the military chain of command and ""leader of the free world"".)
Getting behind the wheel of a car intoxicated is crazy but more soldiers (that I was personally friends with) got chaptered or Article 15's for drunk driving than anything else. Nicole's definitely not the first person guilty of driving under the influence. You have teachers sleeping with the kids and politicians propositioning pages... and your wasting time here? Trying to think of something nasty to say about a girl who parties???
Youd probably be more well served teaching Your kids the Golden Rule, forgiveness/compassion temperance i.e.; or if your really that worried how to "just say no" & defensive driving...
99. HollywoodSnark - March 24, 2007 8:51 AM
yeah, way to act casual....