Michelle Rodriguez Spends Her First Night Of Prison At The Trop
When it came to her 60-day LA County jail sentence for violating parole by getting arrested in Hawaii on a DUI charge, Michelle Rodriguez was prepared to "do what you got to do." In the end, however, all she had to do was 4 hours and 27 minutes of hard time, upon which she was released because of overcrowding:
"Needless to say, our prosecutors are not happy about this," says a spokesperson for the L.A. City Attorney's office. "But the sheriffs have a policy to let some nonviolent offenders go early, in part due to jail overcrowding."
The night of her release, the actress was spotted at the Tropicana Bar at the Roosevelt Hotel, and on Monday night at the Hollywood club Shag.
"Michelle's happy with the way things turned out," her friend, designer Anand Jon, tells PEOPLE. "She knows this wasn't a literal get-out-of-jail-free card. Michelle's taken responsibility for the past and now she's ready to focus on her career."
We're disappointed for Rodriguez, who had barely enough time during her brief incarceration to corner the prettiest girl on the cellblock, take a deep whiff of her neck, and demand to know what the ingredients were of the "intoxicating" homemade perfume she was wearing. Still, we're thrilled Rodriguez hasn't yet abandoned us for France's shores (as she had sworn she would upon release), and has instead decided to submit herself to the self-policed rehabilitation of a life relegated to Hollywood's club scene, where the actress can ponder for a semi-eternity the damage her drinking has wrought by pounding Strawberry Caipirhinas until she passes out.
