Nicole Richie’s Close Call

Hellmuth Dominguez, PacificCoastNews.com

Nicole Richie is seen here looking glamorous and fabulously bohemian, holding true to her personal and super chic and sexy style on the red carpet. She is at an event teaming up with superstar Pete Wentz to promote her jewellery range “House of Harlow” while Pete promoted his Clandestine Industries clothing line. If you like Nicole’s style, and want to have some of her own, then you will love her bohemian 70’s inspired necklaces and earrings to add that touch of retro bohemian chic. As long as Nicole is around to inspire us, we know the super chic retro look will never go out of style. Even so however, this new mom of two now may look glamorous and challenge free, but she does have her share of troubles. Monday she was in a car accident than led her to the hospital. Though by all looks and accounts she was not injured terribly, and it was only a rear ender, it was a close enough call to send her to the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to get checked out. The rear ender was created by some over zealous paparazzi in Beverly Hills, and it lead to more trouble than a picture is worth for the offending media rep. According to the recently released police statement:

“Nicole was driving with a passenger at around 2pm when she was struck by two photographers driving in one vehicle behind her. She has complained of pain…her car sustained moderate damage. No paramedics were called to the scene. She told officers she was going to seek her own medical treatment, so it’s unknown if she’s headed to the hospital or not.”

The driver who hit Nicole is being arrested and booked for being unlicensed because “officers could not verify his identification.” He was physically brought to the station in what will likely lead to a misdemeanour traffic violation. Luckily, Nicole’s two children were not in the vehicle at the time, but this incident can not help but bring back memories of Princess Diana who lost her life at the hands of crazed paparazzi. After the accident, reports did confirm that she spent several hours at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, but was released the same day. The following day, her mom Brenda Richie spent some time with her at home, along with her two kids Harlow who is almost 2, and her most recent arrival, Sparrow who is just a wee one month babe. The driver of the other vehicle has since been identified as Eduardo Arrivebene, was as mentioned initially arrested for driving without a license but was later freed on $1,225 bail. Nicole’s reps won’t comment on the injuries or pain she was treated for at Cedars, but it is reported that she has since hired celebrity attorney Mark Geragos so there may be a civil suit pending. And how did we miss the announcement of little Sparrow? We’re thrilled to hear that Nicole is fine and well on the way to recovery, and happy belated birthday little Sparrow!