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Lionel Richie addresses daughter's case

(AP)
Updated: 2007-07-09 08:46





Lionel Richie performs during the Essence Music Festival in the Superdome
in New Orleans Saturday, July 7, 2007.[AP]

NEW ORLEANS - Lionel Richie didn't skirt questions about his daughter's
drunken-driving case after his performance at the Essence Music Festival.

"She's just in an unfortunate situation," he said Saturday night.


Nicole Richie, 25, is scheduled to go on trial Wednesday. She was
arrested Dec. 11 and pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of
driving under the influence. In addition, her case contains an allegation
that she had a prior misdemeanor DUI conviction in June 2003.

"She keeps apologizing to me," Lionel Richie said. "I told her, 'You're
doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing to your father at this
age.'"

The R&B star said celebrities today are under more scrutiny than ever
before.

"There's just so much information out there right now — MySpace, cell
phones, the Internet," he said. "If we had had all that when The
Commodores were around, God only knows what my mother and father would
have seen."

To be determined is whether Nicole Richie will spend time in jail like
her friend Paris Hilton, who served about 23 days behind bars for
violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.

The California vehicle code says a person convicted of DUI twice within
10 years can be sentenced to 90 days to a year in jail and have driving
privileges suspended.

An estimated 200,000 people attended the Essence Music Festival, which
returned to New Orleans for the first time since Hurricane Katrina,
festival officials said Sunday. The festival had been held in New Orleans
over the Fourth of July weekend since its launch in 1995. Last year, it
was moved to Houston.
























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