The Sunset Strip was the scene of an incredible reconciliation last night as Paris Hilton stepped out with some friends - including estranged pubicist Elliot Mintz! Not even a day after Elliot sent out an email saying he would no longer be representing Paris (due to his innocent missteps in LicenseGate), the power player was back by his most famous client's side to help her out of the car and retrieve her cat when it lit out from her house. Elliot then followed Paris back inside so that the pair could converse in private around 1 am.

But it wasn't until an hour later when Elliot emerged that the info really started to flow - during the XCLUSIVE interview he gave our guys, of course! For nearly three minutes, Elliot spoke very candidly about a number of subjects, including Paris officially taking him back on as her representative, his regrets about the handling of her case, and his unequivocal statement that "when Paris Hilton took the stand and testified that she did not know that she should not drive, she was telling the absolute truth"!