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Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American
model, actress, and heiress of the Hilton Hotel fortune.
Hilton moved
between several homes in her youth, including a suite in the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and the Hamptons. After secondary education,
she decided not to go to college. Instead, she worked as a fashion model for
Catherine Malandrino and Marc Bouwer, and on an ad campaign for Italian label
Iceberg.
Hilton has had cameo appearances in Zoolander (2001) and Win a
Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004). She also appeared in the short subjects QIK2JDG
and L.A. Knights, as well as minor and supporting roles in the feature movies
House of Wax,
The Hillz, Wonderland, Uptown Girls, Raising Helen, The Cat
in the Hat, and
Nine Lives. Pictures of her have appeared in several
magazines, including GQ, Vanity Fair and FHM.
She and her former best
friend, Nicole Richie, starred in the 2003 FOX hit reality series
The Simple Life, in which they lived with a family on their
farm in rural Altus, Arkansas. Highlights of the show included the girls
performing poorly at various jobs, making out with the local boys, and numerous
instances of them shown as "fish out of water."
Hilton is the founder
of Heiress Records, a label on which she plans to release her debut album in
2005. She is also a spokesmodel for various products including the T-Mobile
Sidekick and Creative Zen Micro. In May, 2005, Hilton was featured in a
30-second commercial
for Carl's Jr. where the hotel heiress was shown washing a Bentley and chomping
on Carl's Jr's Spicy bbq Burger in a stringy black swimsuit.
In the fall
of 2004, Hilton released a book,
Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the
Pose, which brings full color photographs of her and gives her tips on the dos
and don'ts of living as an heiress. Some in the media panned the writing as
amateurish, and the book was parodied by Robert Mundell on The Late Show with
David Letterman. Still, it became a New York Times bestseller.
An
unauthorized sex video of Hilton with her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon, who
leaked it onto the Internet was released as a DVD titled 1 Night in Paris in
2004 . Hilton sued Salomon for releasing the tape. In July, the suit was
settled, with Hilton receiving $400,000 and a percentage of the profits. All
profits from the video she received were donated to charity. The original
video, and a rip of the DVD, are still circulating on the Internet.
In
May, 2005, Hilton became engaged to boyfriend Paris
Latsis.
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