Diana Ross says she served jail time

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Singer Diana Ross, ordered to return to Arizona to serve a drunken driving sentence, says she has already met a state requirement to spend 24 consecutive hours in jail.

"I think we actually have proof from her," said Jim Nesci, an attorney for Ross. "She documented it in her diary." Ross pleaded no contest last month to a drunken driving charge in Tucson in December. She arranged to serve her 48-hour sentence in Greenwich, Conn., where she lives.

But Tucson City Court Magistrate T. Jay Cranshaw found that Ross failed to serve 24 consecutive hours as required by Arizona law.

Ross served 47 hours in the custody of Greenwich police over a three-day span, Cranshaw found.

On her last stay at the jail, police logs show Ross arrived on Feb. 11 at 8 a.m. and stayed for 22 hours until 6 a.m. the next day.

Cranshaw has ordered Ross to return to Tucson "to serve 48 consecutive hours in the Pima County Jail" and has scheduled an April 1 court hearing on her sentence.