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FACTBOX: Celebrities get wide range of punishments in U.S.

LOS ANGELES | Thu Jun 7, 2007 11:42pm EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hotel heiress Paris Hilton was released on Thursday after serving three of a scheduled 23 days in a Los Angeles jail, and was instead given 40 days house arrest. She was jailed for violating probation in a reckless driving case.

Following are some recent sentences meted out to celebrities who have run afoul of the law in the United States;

- NAOMI CAMPBELL, Fashion model, spent five days community service mopping floors and cleaning toilets at a New York garbage depot in March after pleading guilty to assaulting a housekeeper.

- MEL GIBSON, actor/director, sentenced to three years probation, one year mandatory alcohol rehab program for July 2006 drunk driving conviction.

- MARTHA STEWART, U.S. home guru, served five months in prison in 2005 for lying to investigators about a stock trade.

- NICK NOLTE, actor, was given three years probation and 90 days drug rehab for driving under influence of drugs in 2002.

- BOY GEORGE, British pop singer, sentenced to five days community service in 2006 sweeping streets in New York for falsely reporting a burglary.

- COURTNEY LOVE, singer, got three years probation and six months mandatory drug rehab for various drug and assault charges in 2005.

- OMAR SHARIF, actor, was given two years probation and anger management counseling for 2005 assault on a Beverly Hills parking attendant.

- LIL'KIM, rapper, served 10 months in prison for perjury in case of 2001 rival rapper shootout.

- SNOOP DOGG, rapper, got a three-year suspended jail sentence and 800 hours community service for 2006 gun and drug possession charges.

- WINONA RYDER, actress, got three years probation and 480 hours community service for 2001 Beverly Hills shoplifting case.

- ROBERT DOWNEY Jr., actor, served one year in prison in 1999 for cocaine possession.

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