Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American famous
person, socialite, actress and recording artist. She is an heiress to a
share of the Hilton Resort fortune, along with to the realty fortune of
her dad Richard Hilton.
Hilton rose to fame when a home-made sex video recording of her was leaked onto the Net in late 2003. The release of the tape, later titled 1 Evening in Paris (2004), drew in worldwide publicity and contributed to the success of Hilton's Fox actuality series The Simple Life. As an actress, she has appeared in several minor roles, most notably in the horror movie Home of Wax (2005), and in 2006, she discharged the self-titled album Paris.
In September 2006, she was detained for driving under the influence and subsequently sentenced to 36 months probation and had her certificate suspended. Following succeeding arrests for driving with a suspended license and speeding, Hilton was charged with violating her probation and sentenced to 45 days in jail.
Early life and household background Born in New York City, New York, Hilton is the oldest of 4 children of Richard and Kathy Hilton. Her younger sister is Nicky Hilton, and her younger brothers are Barron Hilton II, and Conrad Hilton III. On the maternal side of her family members, Hilton is a niece of 2 youngster stars of the 1970s, Kim Richards and Kyle Richards. By marital relationship, she additionally is related to Zsa Zsa Gabor and Elizabeth Taylor. Her paternal grandparents are resort chairman Barron Hilton, and his spouse, the previous Marilyn Hawley; Hilton's paternal great-grandparents were Hilton Hotels originator Conrad Hilton and his first wife, Mary Barron. When Conrad Hilton died in 1979, he left_inner absolutely nothing in his will certainly to his children or additional descendants. Barron Hilton contested this choice and prevailed in court in 1988. The value of Paris's inheritance has actually been variously approximated at between $ 30 and $ 50 million.
Hilton moved between many special homes in her youth, including a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Resort in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and the Hamptons. She attended her freshman year of senior high in Rancho Mirage, California at the Marywood-Palm Valley School and her sophomore and inferior years of senior high at the Dwight School in New York, however dropped out, and at some point earned a GED.
Hilton started modeling as a kid, appearing initially in charity events. At 19, she signed with Donald Trump's modeling agency, T Management. Hilton has actually worked with modeling agencies such as Ford Models Management in New York, Models 1 Agency in London, Nous Design Management in Los Angeles, and Premier Model Management in London. She has appeared in numerous ad campaign, including Iceberg Vodka, GUESS, Tommy Hilfiger, Christian Dior, and Marciano. In 2001, Hilton began to develop a reputation as a 19-year-old socialite, being identified as "New York's leading It Lady" whose fame was starting to "extend beyond the New York tabloids".
Media profession
Actress The actuality series The Simple Life premiered on December 2, 2003, starring Hilton and Nicole Richie, the followed daughter of Lionel Richie, and it came to be a mid-season success for the Fox Transmitting Business. Throughout the course of the period, Hilton and Richie lived with a household on their ranch in rural Altus, Arkansas. The show included the two working at a selection of blue collar jobs, making out with local guys, and carrying out menial activities associated with farm life. The pair's resistance to appreciate and participate in the "straightforward life" was a central motif on the series.
Paris Hilton at the Cannes Movie Celebration in 2005. After the success of the first season, The Simple Life was followed by two even more seasons on Fox. The network then canceled the show after a falling out between Hilton and Richie, but the show was consequently picked up by E! Entertainment Television for a 4th period, and yet another period is set to premiere in May 2007 on E!.
Hilton has actually appeared in small and supporting roles in the feature films Nine Lives (2002), Raising Helen (2004), The Hillz (2004), and House of Wax (2005). Her role as Paige Edwards in Home of Wax won the Teenager Option Award for "Finest Scream" and made her a nomination for "Selection Breakout Performance? Female". She also made a nomination for "Best Scared Performance" at the 2006. Hilton landed her very first lead roles in 2006 with the straight-to-DVD releases National Lampoon's Pledge This! (2006) and Bottom's Up (2006). She additionally appeared in cameo functions in films such as Zoolander (2001) amongst others.
Hilton has several upcoming theatrical releases in which she is the lead role, featuring The Hottie and the Nottie (2008), and an untitled superhero movie including Stan Lee. Plans for Hilton to provide her name, and also star in a cartoon series which follows the animated life of herself, her sister Nicky, and her dog Tinkerbell are in production. Hilton has also guest starred in episodes of The O.C., The George Lopez Show, Las Vegas, American Dreams and Veronica Mars.
Hilton has also appeared in a number of music videos, featuring It Lady by John Oates and Just Lose It by Eminem.
Recording artist Hilton started working on an album in 2004 and her self-titled very first, Paris, was released on August 22, 2006. Although the album reached number 6 on the Billboard 200 for a week, its overall sales volume has actually been low. Producers for Paris consist of Greg Wells, Kara DioGuardi, Jane Wiedlin and Scott Storch. Hilton collaborated with Fat Joe and Jadakiss on the tune "Battling Over Me". The first solitary from Paris, "Stars Are Blind", produced by Fernando Garibay, was produceded for download on June 20, 2006 and peaked at number eighteen on the Billboard Hot 100; "Turn It Up" and "Nothing in This World" followed as around the world singles. While All Songs Manual commented on the album, "it's even more fun than anything produceded by Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson, and a ton fresher, too.", vital function as a whole has been combined.
In August 2006, it was exposed that artists Banksy and Threat Mouse changed 500 copies of Hilton's very first album in various UK record shops with their very own parody remixes and cover art. Along with completely reworked liner notes that consisted of topless photos of Hilton slathered with mottos like "Every Compact Disc you purchase puts me even further from your league", Hazard Computer mouse has actually replaced Hilton's original tunes with his very own remixes.
Hilton is the creator of Heiress Records, a sub-label of Warner Bros. Records, which she created in 2004. Heiress Records' only release as of yet has actually been Paris, though Hilton has said that she organizes to sign brand-new artists in the future. According to June 2007 news reports, nonetheless, Hilton has actually been dropped by Warner Bros. Records, due to the fact that single and album sales did not meet expectations. In addition, a Warner reprensentative was quoted stating, "We are not expecting any brand-new Paris Hilton material in the foreseeable future."
Business endeavors In the autumn of 2004, Hilton discharged an autobiographical book, Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, co-written by Merle Ginsberg, which includes full color photos of her and provides her advice on the life as an heiress. Hilton apparently got a $ 100,000 in sophisticated payment for this book. Some in the media panned the writing as amateurish, and the book was parodied by Robert Mundell on The Late Show with David Letterman. Nonetheless, the book became a New York Times bestseller. Hilton followed it up with a designer diary, also with Ginsberg, called Your Heiress Diary: Confess It All To Me.
Hilton has assisted create a collection of purses for Japanese label Samantha Thavasa, and has actually also been involved in the design of a precious jewelry line for Amazon.com. In 2004, Hilton was involved in the production of a perfume line by Parlux Fragrances. Originally set to be a little release, demand was high and warranted a wider release prior to Christmas of 2004. The launch was followed by a 47 % increase in sales for Parlux, which was mainly due to sales of the Hilton-branded fragrance. After the success of Hilton's fragrance, Parlux Fragrances discharged many even more perfumes with Hilton's name, featuring fragrances lines for guys.
Hilton provided her name to a chain of nightclubs known as Club Paris in 2005. The first of which in Orlando, Florida has actually been a success, and a 2nd club located in Jacksonville, Florida opened in July 2006. Hilton was fired in January 2007 by the manager of Club Paris, Fred Khalilian, after she had actually failed to go to several scheduled promotional appearances.
Asing reported by Forbes Magazine, Hilton earned about $ 2 million in 2003? 2004, $ 6.5 million in 2004? 2005, and $ 7 million in 2005? 2006.
Individual life Hilton was engaged to fashion model Jason Shaw from mid-2002 to early 2003. On Might 29, 2005, she announced her engagement to Paris Latsis, a Greek shipping successor; the engagement was called off five months later. After that, she began dating one more Greek shipping inheritor, Stavros Niarchos III, but in May 2006, Hilton press agent Elliot Mintz informed the press Paris and Stavros had actually broken up. In an attempt to find herself, Hilton imposed a ban on sexual activity for one year starting in July 2006. She informed Regis and Kelly: "One-night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you merely give it up. People prefer you more, if you don't merely hand it to them on a plate.
In July 2006, Hilton was photographed kissing her finest male buddy Brandon Davis, the man who "ranted against" Lindsay Lohan on nationwide television, 5 days later.
In January 2007, Hilton's exclusive life again developed headlines with the launch of ParisExposed.com, a site that included images of individual and medical papers, video presentation, and other exclusive product, purportedly acquired when the contents of a storage locker rented by Hilton were auctioned off due to shortage of payment. CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 went over video acquired from the site which includes Hilton using a number of ethnic slurs. On February 3, 2007 Hilton got a temporary injunction against ParisExposed.com, closing down the website.
In a June 11, 2007 phone interview from jail, Hilton informed Barbara Walters that while serving time in prison, God has actually provided her a new possibility, and that she will certainly not "act dumb.
Sex video recording The crack of a three-year-old home-made sex video of Hilton with her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon a week prior to the premiere of her Fox actuality series The Simple Life drew in around the world attention in late 2003. The release of the tape led to speculation that it was a deliberate publicity stunt, but Hilton has strongly denied such claims and explained she was "ashamed" and "humiliated" by the publicity delivered by the tape. The sex video, ultimately titled 1 Evening in Paris in 2004, was later released on DVD and Hilton obtained directorial credit. The movie earned three AVN Awards in 2005, including "Finest Offering Title of the Year". Hilton initially sued Salomon over the release of the tape, however settled out of court in July 2005. Hilton was apparently awarded up to $ 400,000 and organized to give away a portion to charity, although in a 2006 interview with GQ magazine she stated that she never got cash from the sale of the video recording.
Civic participation In November 2004, Hilton participated in Sean "Diddy" Combs' Citizen Change campaign to promote youths to vote in the presidential election. She drew criticism after it was exposed she had neither voted nor signed up to do so.
Legal issues Restraining order On March 8, 2006, Brian Quintana, an occasion producer, was granted a three-year restraining order against Hilton after he indicated that she bothered and threatened him.
Driving abuses In September 2006, Hilton was detained and charged with driving under the influence with a blood alcohol material of 0.08 %, the minimum at which it is unlawful to drive in California. Hilton's drivers license was consequently suspended in November 2006 and in January 2007 she pled no contest to the alcohol-related careless driving fee. Her penalty was 36 months' probation and fines of about $ 1,500.
On January 15, 2007, Hilton was pulled over for driving with a suspended permit and signed a document acknowledging that she was not enabled to drive. On February 27, 2007 Hilton was caught driving 70 MPH in a 35 MPH zone, again with a suspended certificate. She additionally did not have her headlights on even though it was after dark. Prosecutors in the office of the Los Angeles City Attorney charged that those actions, along with the failing to enroll in a court-ordered liquor education and learning program constituted a violation of the terms of her probation.
On Might 4, 2007 Hilton was sentenced by Judge Michael T. Sauer to 45 days in jail for violating her probation. At first, Hilton organized to appeal the sentence, and supported an online request asking California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for a pardon. In response, numerous opponents started a petition to preserve the sentence. Both requests drew in tens of thousands of signatures. Paris later switched over attorneys, and dropped her plans to appeal.
Hilton rose to fame when a home-made sex video recording of her was leaked onto the Net in late 2003. The release of the tape, later titled 1 Evening in Paris (2004), drew in worldwide publicity and contributed to the success of Hilton's Fox actuality series The Simple Life. As an actress, she has appeared in several minor roles, most notably in the horror movie Home of Wax (2005), and in 2006, she discharged the self-titled album Paris.
In September 2006, she was detained for driving under the influence and subsequently sentenced to 36 months probation and had her certificate suspended. Following succeeding arrests for driving with a suspended license and speeding, Hilton was charged with violating her probation and sentenced to 45 days in jail.
Early life and household background Born in New York City, New York, Hilton is the oldest of 4 children of Richard and Kathy Hilton. Her younger sister is Nicky Hilton, and her younger brothers are Barron Hilton II, and Conrad Hilton III. On the maternal side of her family members, Hilton is a niece of 2 youngster stars of the 1970s, Kim Richards and Kyle Richards. By marital relationship, she additionally is related to Zsa Zsa Gabor and Elizabeth Taylor. Her paternal grandparents are resort chairman Barron Hilton, and his spouse, the previous Marilyn Hawley; Hilton's paternal great-grandparents were Hilton Hotels originator Conrad Hilton and his first wife, Mary Barron. When Conrad Hilton died in 1979, he left_inner absolutely nothing in his will certainly to his children or additional descendants. Barron Hilton contested this choice and prevailed in court in 1988. The value of Paris's inheritance has actually been variously approximated at between $ 30 and $ 50 million.
Hilton moved between many special homes in her youth, including a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Resort in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and the Hamptons. She attended her freshman year of senior high in Rancho Mirage, California at the Marywood-Palm Valley School and her sophomore and inferior years of senior high at the Dwight School in New York, however dropped out, and at some point earned a GED.
Hilton started modeling as a kid, appearing initially in charity events. At 19, she signed with Donald Trump's modeling agency, T Management. Hilton has actually worked with modeling agencies such as Ford Models Management in New York, Models 1 Agency in London, Nous Design Management in Los Angeles, and Premier Model Management in London. She has appeared in numerous ad campaign, including Iceberg Vodka, GUESS, Tommy Hilfiger, Christian Dior, and Marciano. In 2001, Hilton began to develop a reputation as a 19-year-old socialite, being identified as "New York's leading It Lady" whose fame was starting to "extend beyond the New York tabloids".
Media profession
Actress The actuality series The Simple Life premiered on December 2, 2003, starring Hilton and Nicole Richie, the followed daughter of Lionel Richie, and it came to be a mid-season success for the Fox Transmitting Business. Throughout the course of the period, Hilton and Richie lived with a household on their ranch in rural Altus, Arkansas. The show included the two working at a selection of blue collar jobs, making out with local guys, and carrying out menial activities associated with farm life. The pair's resistance to appreciate and participate in the "straightforward life" was a central motif on the series.
Paris Hilton at the Cannes Movie Celebration in 2005. After the success of the first season, The Simple Life was followed by two even more seasons on Fox. The network then canceled the show after a falling out between Hilton and Richie, but the show was consequently picked up by E! Entertainment Television for a 4th period, and yet another period is set to premiere in May 2007 on E!.
Hilton has actually appeared in small and supporting roles in the feature films Nine Lives (2002), Raising Helen (2004), The Hillz (2004), and House of Wax (2005). Her role as Paige Edwards in Home of Wax won the Teenager Option Award for "Finest Scream" and made her a nomination for "Selection Breakout Performance? Female". She also made a nomination for "Best Scared Performance" at the 2006. Hilton landed her very first lead roles in 2006 with the straight-to-DVD releases National Lampoon's Pledge This! (2006) and Bottom's Up (2006). She additionally appeared in cameo functions in films such as Zoolander (2001) amongst others.
Hilton has several upcoming theatrical releases in which she is the lead role, featuring The Hottie and the Nottie (2008), and an untitled superhero movie including Stan Lee. Plans for Hilton to provide her name, and also star in a cartoon series which follows the animated life of herself, her sister Nicky, and her dog Tinkerbell are in production. Hilton has also guest starred in episodes of The O.C., The George Lopez Show, Las Vegas, American Dreams and Veronica Mars.
Hilton has also appeared in a number of music videos, featuring It Lady by John Oates and Just Lose It by Eminem.
Recording artist Hilton started working on an album in 2004 and her self-titled very first, Paris, was released on August 22, 2006. Although the album reached number 6 on the Billboard 200 for a week, its overall sales volume has actually been low. Producers for Paris consist of Greg Wells, Kara DioGuardi, Jane Wiedlin and Scott Storch. Hilton collaborated with Fat Joe and Jadakiss on the tune "Battling Over Me". The first solitary from Paris, "Stars Are Blind", produced by Fernando Garibay, was produceded for download on June 20, 2006 and peaked at number eighteen on the Billboard Hot 100; "Turn It Up" and "Nothing in This World" followed as around the world singles. While All Songs Manual commented on the album, "it's even more fun than anything produceded by Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson, and a ton fresher, too.", vital function as a whole has been combined.
In August 2006, it was exposed that artists Banksy and Threat Mouse changed 500 copies of Hilton's very first album in various UK record shops with their very own parody remixes and cover art. Along with completely reworked liner notes that consisted of topless photos of Hilton slathered with mottos like "Every Compact Disc you purchase puts me even further from your league", Hazard Computer mouse has actually replaced Hilton's original tunes with his very own remixes.
Hilton is the creator of Heiress Records, a sub-label of Warner Bros. Records, which she created in 2004. Heiress Records' only release as of yet has actually been Paris, though Hilton has said that she organizes to sign brand-new artists in the future. According to June 2007 news reports, nonetheless, Hilton has actually been dropped by Warner Bros. Records, due to the fact that single and album sales did not meet expectations. In addition, a Warner reprensentative was quoted stating, "We are not expecting any brand-new Paris Hilton material in the foreseeable future."
Business endeavors In the autumn of 2004, Hilton discharged an autobiographical book, Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, co-written by Merle Ginsberg, which includes full color photos of her and provides her advice on the life as an heiress. Hilton apparently got a $ 100,000 in sophisticated payment for this book. Some in the media panned the writing as amateurish, and the book was parodied by Robert Mundell on The Late Show with David Letterman. Nonetheless, the book became a New York Times bestseller. Hilton followed it up with a designer diary, also with Ginsberg, called Your Heiress Diary: Confess It All To Me.
Hilton has assisted create a collection of purses for Japanese label Samantha Thavasa, and has actually also been involved in the design of a precious jewelry line for Amazon.com. In 2004, Hilton was involved in the production of a perfume line by Parlux Fragrances. Originally set to be a little release, demand was high and warranted a wider release prior to Christmas of 2004. The launch was followed by a 47 % increase in sales for Parlux, which was mainly due to sales of the Hilton-branded fragrance. After the success of Hilton's fragrance, Parlux Fragrances discharged many even more perfumes with Hilton's name, featuring fragrances lines for guys.
Hilton provided her name to a chain of nightclubs known as Club Paris in 2005. The first of which in Orlando, Florida has actually been a success, and a 2nd club located in Jacksonville, Florida opened in July 2006. Hilton was fired in January 2007 by the manager of Club Paris, Fred Khalilian, after she had actually failed to go to several scheduled promotional appearances.
Asing reported by Forbes Magazine, Hilton earned about $ 2 million in 2003? 2004, $ 6.5 million in 2004? 2005, and $ 7 million in 2005? 2006.
Individual life Hilton was engaged to fashion model Jason Shaw from mid-2002 to early 2003. On Might 29, 2005, she announced her engagement to Paris Latsis, a Greek shipping successor; the engagement was called off five months later. After that, she began dating one more Greek shipping inheritor, Stavros Niarchos III, but in May 2006, Hilton press agent Elliot Mintz informed the press Paris and Stavros had actually broken up. In an attempt to find herself, Hilton imposed a ban on sexual activity for one year starting in July 2006. She informed Regis and Kelly: "One-night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you merely give it up. People prefer you more, if you don't merely hand it to them on a plate.
In July 2006, Hilton was photographed kissing her finest male buddy Brandon Davis, the man who "ranted against" Lindsay Lohan on nationwide television, 5 days later.
In January 2007, Hilton's exclusive life again developed headlines with the launch of ParisExposed.com, a site that included images of individual and medical papers, video presentation, and other exclusive product, purportedly acquired when the contents of a storage locker rented by Hilton were auctioned off due to shortage of payment. CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 went over video acquired from the site which includes Hilton using a number of ethnic slurs. On February 3, 2007 Hilton got a temporary injunction against ParisExposed.com, closing down the website.
In a June 11, 2007 phone interview from jail, Hilton informed Barbara Walters that while serving time in prison, God has actually provided her a new possibility, and that she will certainly not "act dumb.
Sex video recording The crack of a three-year-old home-made sex video of Hilton with her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon a week prior to the premiere of her Fox actuality series The Simple Life drew in around the world attention in late 2003. The release of the tape led to speculation that it was a deliberate publicity stunt, but Hilton has strongly denied such claims and explained she was "ashamed" and "humiliated" by the publicity delivered by the tape. The sex video, ultimately titled 1 Evening in Paris in 2004, was later released on DVD and Hilton obtained directorial credit. The movie earned three AVN Awards in 2005, including "Finest Offering Title of the Year". Hilton initially sued Salomon over the release of the tape, however settled out of court in July 2005. Hilton was apparently awarded up to $ 400,000 and organized to give away a portion to charity, although in a 2006 interview with GQ magazine she stated that she never got cash from the sale of the video recording.
Civic participation In November 2004, Hilton participated in Sean "Diddy" Combs' Citizen Change campaign to promote youths to vote in the presidential election. She drew criticism after it was exposed she had neither voted nor signed up to do so.
Legal issues Restraining order On March 8, 2006, Brian Quintana, an occasion producer, was granted a three-year restraining order against Hilton after he indicated that she bothered and threatened him.
Driving abuses In September 2006, Hilton was detained and charged with driving under the influence with a blood alcohol material of 0.08 %, the minimum at which it is unlawful to drive in California. Hilton's drivers license was consequently suspended in November 2006 and in January 2007 she pled no contest to the alcohol-related careless driving fee. Her penalty was 36 months' probation and fines of about $ 1,500.
On January 15, 2007, Hilton was pulled over for driving with a suspended permit and signed a document acknowledging that she was not enabled to drive. On February 27, 2007 Hilton was caught driving 70 MPH in a 35 MPH zone, again with a suspended certificate. She additionally did not have her headlights on even though it was after dark. Prosecutors in the office of the Los Angeles City Attorney charged that those actions, along with the failing to enroll in a court-ordered liquor education and learning program constituted a violation of the terms of her probation.
On Might 4, 2007 Hilton was sentenced by Judge Michael T. Sauer to 45 days in jail for violating her probation. At first, Hilton organized to appeal the sentence, and supported an online request asking California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for a pardon. In response, numerous opponents started a petition to preserve the sentence. Both requests drew in tens of thousands of signatures. Paris later switched over attorneys, and dropped her plans to appeal.
