Paris Hilton was arrested Friday night on possession of cocaine charges. Her boyfriend, who was driving the car, was arrested on DUI charges.

Paris is insisting the the drugs were not hers. She claims to have let a friend use her purse, and didn’t clean it out before she used it. She’s saying that someone put the cocaine in her purse. More from TMZ:

Paris is telling friends, “I had no idea the cocaine was there.  I swear on my life.”

According to Hilton, she was eating sushi at the Wynn hotel with boyfriend Cy Waits, sipping a little wine.  Paris says she was tired and Cy offered to drive her home and then return to the hotel to work.

Paris is telling friends, “It could be a setup.  Everyone knows how against cocaine I am.”

And there’s this … Paris is saying she believes the cops who stopped the car were “star-struck and blew the whole thing way out of proportion.”

Paris tweeted a message to her fans yesterday.

Lea! Padma! Jane! It seemed that all of TV land’s leading ladies got the same memo: Go blue. The royal color ruled the red carpet Sunday night – and 57 percent of you agreed (via PEOPLE). Runner-up: Black

The winners and nominees for the 61st annual Emmy Awards are:

Outstanding Comedy Series

• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Modern Family (WINNER)
• The Office
• 30 Rock
• Nurse Jackie
• Glee

Outstanding Drama Series

• True Blood
• Dexter
• Mad Men (WINNER)
• The Good Wife
• Breaking Bad
• Lost

Lead Actress in a Comedy

• Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
• Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie (WINNER)
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures Of Old Christine
• Toni Collette, United States Of Tara
• Lea Michele, Glee
• Tina Fey, 30 Rock

Lead Actor in a Comedy

• Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Matthew Morrison, Glee
• Tony Shalhoub, Monk
• Steve Carell, The Office
• Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
• Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory (WINNER)

Supporting Actress in a Comedy

• Jane Lynch, Glee (WINNER)
• Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock
• Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
• Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live
• Julie Bowen, Modern Family
• Holland Taylor, Two and a Half Men

Supporting Actor in a Comedy

• Jesse Tyler, Modern Family
• Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
• Chris Colfer, Glee
• Ty Burrell, Modern Family
• Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family (WINNER)
• Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men

Lead Actress in a Drama

• Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
• Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer (WINNER)
• Glenn Close, Damages
• Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights
• January Jones, Mad Men

Lead Actor in a Drama

• Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
• Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad (WINNER)
• Michael C. Hall, Dexter
• Hugh Laurie, House
• Matthew Fox, Lost
• Jon Hamm, Mad Men

Supporting Actor in a Drama

• Martin Short, Damages
• Terry O’Quinn, Lost
• Andre Braugher, Men of a Certain Age
• Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad (WINNER)
• Michael Emerson, Lost
• John Slattery, Mad Men

Supporting Actress in a Drama

• Rose Byrne, Damages
• Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
• Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife (WINNER)
• Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
• Sharon Gless, Burn Notice
• Christine Baranski, The Good Wife

Reality-Competition Program

• American Idol
• Dancing with the Stars
• Project Runway
• The Amazing Race
• Top Chef (WINNER)

Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program

• Jeff Probst, Survivor (WINNER)
• Phil Keoghan, The Amazing Race
• Tom Bergeron, Dancing with the Stars
• Heidi Klum, Project Runway
• Ryan Seacrest, American Idol

Glee actress Lea Michele celebrated her birthday on the red carpet yesterday in a gorgeous blue dress.  “I love Oscar de la Renta and I love blue,” she says. “When I saw this, it was perfect!” Add on Lorraine Schwartz jewels and the Glee star, 24, looks every bit the Hollywood starlet.

Below is one of my favorite dresses, worn by Dianna Agron. The beautiful blond was decked out  in a floral organza Carolina Herrera tiered gown, Cartier jewels and Christian Louboutin heels.

January Jones is getting a lot of flack this morning for her electric blue Versace gown that she wore to last night’s Emmys, but I think it’s gorgeous. Who else could pull it off other than January? And she’ doesn’t care what anyone says, “It’s fantastic!” she told UsMagazine.com, adding that it took her “two hours” to get ready. “I slept in until noon!”

Also turning heads is red-head bombshell Christina Hendricks. I’m not a fan of the dress, but I think she looks gorgeous. The rest of the Mad Men cast is below!

Fame, Bauer Griffin

He looks like the young Brad Pitt from my dreams in Benjamin Button. He showed up all gorgeous for an interview in New Orleans about the state of Katrina since the hurricane.

Let’s take a minute, shall we?

Brad Pitt donated his time to interview with NBC news anchor Brian Williams in New Orleans, Louisiana Friday afternoon for a tribute to the weather-beaten city for the 5-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The Hollywood hunk took Williams to the rooftop of one of the new green homes in the city’s Lower 9th Ward that Pitt’s Make it Right Foundation helped build for residents left devastated and homeless by the hurricane. Looking handsome as always in a blue jean shirt, Pitt expressed his compassion for the low income community and smiled and waved at fans that came out to visit.

Fame

Paris Hilton was arrested last night in Las Vegas, along with her boyfriend (she has a boyfriend?!) Cy Waits.

Just before midnight, the couple was pulled over in an Escalade in front of the Wynn Hotel last night. After the officer smelled marijuana, Paris was searched, and cocaine was found in her purse. Paris and her boyfriend were both arrested. Waits was charged with a DUI, Paris was charged with possession of a controlled substance, cocaine. Paris was later released on her own recognizance. (GO HERE for video & pictures of Paris’ arrest!)

Paris’ defense? She’s swearing the purse wasn’t hers. And she’s hired powerful Vegas attorney David Chesnoff to handle her case. This isn’t the first time Paris has used the “it’s-not-my-purse” defense. Last month Paris was detained in South Africa for allegedly smoking marijuana at the World Cup. Her publicist called the incident a “complete misunderstanding”, and no charges were filed. In this case – Paris was the only woman in the car – so it would seem to make sense that the purse was in fact, hers. Wouldn’t you think?

Paris’ attorney just released the following statement:

“Paris Hilton was released this morning on her own recognizance. This matter will be dealt with in the courts not in the media and I encourage people not to rush to judgment until all of the facts have been dealt with in a court of law. There will be no interviews and no more comments at this time.”