Hanoi Hilton

"I'll whack the guard with my racquet and make a run for it. Nobody's built a jail that can hold Dirty Parry!"

Ex-convict socialite Patty Hearst was amused by reports she had offered Paris Hilton advice prior to her jail time, insisting she really feels sorry for the reality TV star's future cellmates.

Hearst was infamously jailed in 1976 after being found guilty of accompanying her kidnappers on a bank robbery - her seven year prison sentence was commuted when then-US President Jimmy Carter intervened after 22 months. Hilton is set to start her 45 day sentence for violating her probation following her 2006 drunk-driving arrest next month.

Hurst told Paris it's simple, "you've got to get the upper hand in the first five minutes, if you were a man I'd advise you to take your cellmate throw coffee in his face, kick him in the nuts and grab him by the scrotum and warn him never to fall asleep. But since she's a rich young woman I told her to offer lots of money and if that didn't work at least ask that they wash themselves up a little. Brave kid."