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Paris Hilton, nicknamed "Star", was born in New York, USA. Her grandfather, Conrad Hilton, is the founder of the Hilton hotels and source of the family fortune (estimated at $300 million). Known to the tabloids as "Paris the Heiress", a party-hopping socialite who made a name for herself in the modeling industry. Paris has appeared in shows for designers such as Marc Bouwer and Catherine Malandrino, and she was profiled, along with her sister Nicky, in People magazine. Paris also appeared, as herself, in the hi-fashion satire Zoolander (2001), starring Ben Stiller, and she made appearances in The Hillz, and appeared in the big-screen adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic, The Cat in the Hat. Paris and Nicole Richi starred in the FOX reality show, The Simple Life, which is based on Green Acres, and features Paris and Nicole living on a farm. Both girls also starred in The Simple Life 2: Road Trip (2003). This time they travelled across the country in a trailer. Paris have introduced her own perfumes: Paris Hilton Sheer and Just Me, opened a chain of night clubs: Club Paris, and publish her own book: Confessions of an Heiress.
Paris Hilton and Ingrid Cesress, a nightclub owner and proclaimed lesbian, grabbed headlines thanks to a makeout session. Paris Hilton Sex Video (1 Night in Paris) hit the Internet (you can find it below). It features the then barely legal Paris getting X-rated with actress Shannen Doherty's on-again, off-again husband, Rick Salomon. In February 2005, Paris mobile phone was hacked and the address book were posted on the Internet, angering her celebrity friends including; Eminem, Lindsay Lohan, Christina Aguilera, Vin Diesel and Anna Kournikova. Paris Hilton issued an apology to her famous friends via Us Weekly. That same year, she starred in a TV commercial for burger chain Hardee's new Spicy BBQ Thickburger. "That's Hot!", says Paris Hilton of The Spicy BBQ Six Dollar Burger and Thickburger. In the commercial Paris is eating The Spicy BBQ Six Dollar Burger while washing a Bentley in her swimsuit. The commercial was so popular that a web site touting the clip crashed for four hours.
Paris Hilton got engaged to the Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis on May 29, 2005. He proposed to her after she returned from a three-week publicity tour in Europe, where she promoted the horror film, House of Wax, and her new fragrance. They broke up during the summer of 2005. She was no. 20 on Maxim Magazine "Hot 100" for 2005. She did party hard in Saint Tropez, France, together with actress Tara Reid in the summer of 2005. Their hangouts where Nikki Beach and the night club Le Cave.
In June 2007, Paris Hilton spent 45 days in prison for violating her probation. |