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Heiress Paris Hilton was in trouble again. This time she is charged in Los Angeles Tuesday with driving under the influence and with a blood-alcohol level of .08 or higher.

Hilton`s arraignment was scheduled for Thursday but the hotel heiress is not required to be in the courtroom, People magazine reported.

The two misdemeanor charges stem from Hilton’s Sept. 7 arrest after she was stopped for ‘driving erratically’ and found to have a blood alcohol level of .08 — the minimum for a DUI arrest under California law.

Hilton later told radio host Ryan Seacrest she had not eaten all day, had one drink that evening and was probably ’speeding a little bit’ in her haste to get to a fast-food restaurant.

Hilton, 25, faces a maximum six months in jail and a $1,000 fine if convicted, but an expert told People she would most likely be fined, ordered to attend DUI classes and put on probation for three years.

Hilton is currently in Germany for Oktoberfest, dressed as a St. Pauli’s girl with friend Kim Kardashian, and allegedly is not too upset about the charges.

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Paris Hilton was arrested early Thursday for investigation of driving under the influence, police said.

Hilton was arrested shortly before 12:30 a.m. after being pulled over in Hollywood, said police Officer I. Isabella, who declined to give his first name.

Police stopped Hilton because she was “driving erratically,” he said.

“The officers observed that Hilton exhibited the symptoms of intoxication. A field sobriety test was conducted at scene, and the officers determined she was driving under the influence,” Isabella said, reading a police statement.

Hilton was booked on suspicion of misdemeanor DUI and released, he said.

Her spokesman, Elliot Mintz, confirmed the arrest and said police detected the minimum blood-alcohol level to warrant an arrest. The legal limit in California is 0.08 percent.

“She’s absolutely fine,” Mintz said. “She didn’t appear in the least bit to be intoxicated.”

At the time of her arrest, Hilton was driving home in her Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren from a charity event where she had one drink, a margarita, he said. She had spent the day shooting a music video for her new album, “Paris.”

The driving under the influence symptoms were “probably the result of an empty stomach and working all day and being fatigued,” Mintz said.

She was picked up from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood station by her sister, Nicky, Nicky’s boyfriend, actor Kevin Connolly, and Mintz.

In June, Hilton had a fender-bender accident when her Range Rover backed into a car in a parking garage after a shopping trip.

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