Paris in a puff while Leo parties with the bigwigs

While hotel heiress Paris Hilton was being interrogated in Port Elizabeth by cops, who believed she was getting high on more than just the soccer, her fellow Hollywood A-listers were getting their groove on in Cape Town.

Local and international celebrities filed into Sol Kerzner's One&Only Hotel at the V&A Waterfront on Friday to sip champagne, mingle and watch the heart-wrenching exit of Ghana from the World Cup.

Ageing rocker Mick Jagger - who has switched his World Cup allegiance from England to the United States and then Brazil, all to no avail - turned heads at the event.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who dined with Hilton at Johannesburg steakhouse, The Grillhouse, on Thursday, jetted to the Mother City on Friday and was seen speaking to a highly pregnant Lee-Ann Liebenberg and former beauty queen Michelle McLean.

Prominent local celebrities and business leaders at the party included Kerzner, Patrice Motsepe, Bongani Mbindwane and even controversial politician Tony Yengeni.

Liebenberg, who arrived with fiancé Nicky van der Walt, sipped on non-alcoholic drinks.

Hilton, meanwhile, who is accustomed to handcuffs thanks to her arrests for drunk driving in the US, had to explain why she was standing in a cloud of dagga smoke outside the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.

Police spokesman Brigadier Sally de Beer said police on duty got a whiff of dagga smoke outside the stadium at about 5:30pm on Friday.

When they approached Hilton and her friend, Jennifer Rovero, a "cannabis cigarette" suspiciously dropped to the floor.

"Police seized the evidence and approached the women inside the stadium. The women were taken into custody after a bodyguard handed a second cannabis cigarette over to the police," said De Beer.

Hilton and Rovero were taken to the Mount Road Police Station - which soon turned into a madhouse of fans and paparazzi.

After police denied them entrance, the group of onlookers and media camped outside the station, before making their way to the Port Elizabeth Magistrate's Court near the soccer stadium just after 11pm.

"We went inside the court and there were three courtrooms in session, one of them packed with foreigners arrested for trying to sell tickets," said a woman who witnessed the commotion.

"There was a bench between the two courtrooms and there was a pizza box. We'd heard earlier that she (Hilton) ordered pizza."

Thankfully, the heiress was able to continue her job of being famous when a charge of dagga possession was dropped.

The 31-year-old Rovero was not so lucky. She was found guilty and fined R1000 or 30 days in the chookie.

And while Hilton and her entourage managed to hog the international limelight and headlines, local gal Charlize Theron booked into the Table Bay Hotel at the city's V&A Waterfront. She was joined by retired US soccer player Mia Hamm.

Meanwhile, Prince Carl Philip of Sweden - the only son of King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia - arrived at an upmarket mansion in Cape Town's platinum street, Nettleton Road, Clifton, on Friday.

Insiders said the handsome prince was a guest at the R80-million house and that he planned to attend yesterday's Argentina vs Germany clash in the city.

Beautiful Spanish television reporter Sara Carbonero - girlfriend of goalkeeper Iker Casillas - raised temperatures when her country took on Portugal in Cape Town on Tuesday. The sexy brunette was widely blamed for Spain's shock defeat against Switzerland earlier, with critics saying her presence on the field right behind the goalpost distracted her beau.

Unperturbed by the comments, she was once again positioned a stone's throw from the goalpost - wearing her trademark tight jeans and sultry pout.

• Additional reporting by Zine George and Karen van Rooyen