Background
She is the firstborn of quadruplet youngsters born to Richard Hilton and Kathy Richards. Her immature sister is Nicky Hilton, & immature brothers come Barron Hilton and Conrad Hilton.

On the maternal side of her family, Hilton occurs as niece of deuce popular little one stars of the 1970s, Kim Richards and Kyle Richards, who appeared in the motion picture Escape to Witch Mountain and TV shows like Nanny and the Professor, Little House on the Prairie, and late, ER.

Based on data from her autobiography, Confessions of an Inheritress, Paris's paternal grandparents were Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Jr. and his second wife, Patricia, contrary to reports that Barron Hilton and Marilyn Hawley were her grandparents. "Nicky" Hilton was a foremost little one of Hilton Hotel founder Conrad Hilton and Mary Barron. Whilst Conrad Hilton died around 1979, he left nothing in his will to his children or even more descendant. Barron Hilton contested this, & won around 1988. Based on data from Forbes magazine within 2005, the nett worth of Barron Hilton is forecasted at simply all over US $1 billion, of which Paris is expected to inherit a bit all over United states $20 million.

Hilton moved between many exclusive range in her youth, including the suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and the Hamptons. Presently, her parents have the $10 million mansion inside Bel Air, a $6.3 million estate in the Hamptons, likewise when $3 million home in the Hollywood Hills where she & her sister stay to give the children privacy & easily access to LA clubs.

Fallowing attending senior high school at a Dwight School in New York, however dropping out & in time earning the GED, Hilton decided not to attend the university. Instead, she worked as a fashion model for Catherine Malandrino and Marc Bouwer, and in an ad campaign for Italian label [http://www.iceberg.com Iceberg]. She appeared inside cameo roles in Zoolander (2001), The Cat in the Hat (2003) and Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004).

What really shot Hilton to fame/notoriety was the sex video of her with her so-boyfriend Rick Salomon, which was leaked onto the Internet shortly before The Simple Life debuted, causing the sensation. In June 9, 2004 it was released as a DVD titled 1 Night in Paris which was hosted by Salomon. Hilton sued Salomon for releasing the tape, however the lawsuit was settled, sustaining Hilton getting Me $400,000 & a percentage of the successfully.

Around recent years Hilton has gained ill fame by appearing around television, picture show, commercial message, & modeling. Based on data from Forbes magazine, within 2003-2004 she earned some Me$2 million for her television & flick roles, however in 2004-2005 her earnings from television, motion picture, modeling, & family appearances keep close at hand earned her even more, an extra $6.Five million. When you took this time period Forbes Magazine hwhen ranked Hilton as one of a top C celebrities in the globe.

She likewise appeared in the short cases 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 and Nine Lives. She landed her number one lead role inside the theatrical release sustaining ''National Lampoon's Pledge This! (2005).

Hilton & Nicole Richie (daughter of Lionel) starred in the 2003 FOX hit reality series The Simple Life, inside which it swallow the personal in their domestic in rural Altus, Arkansas. Highlights of a indicate involved a girls performing ill at various jobs, making retired sustaining the local boys, & many cases of the babies shown when "fish out of water." In March 19, 2004, Hilton suffered a horseback riding accident when filming A Elementary Life Two, requiring coarse of action at the hospital. As a consequence a profits of the number one year of the indicate, Hilton is today existence paid in the area of America$3 million by the year.

Within April 2005, however, Hilton announced that she severed each individual & agent ties by having Richie[http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=690937]. Neither person has commented on the understanding how come, though Hilton has alluded that these are due to actions on the section of Richie. Unconfirmed reports indicate that Hilton hosted the person to observe her performance when persons of Saturday Night Live'', but that Richie switched the SNL tape sustaining a tape of Hilton's notorious sex streaming. Even so, earliest reports mentioned that Richie became furious by using Hilton because she reportedly referred to African Americans as "niggers" (though not before of Richie.) This was besides documented around the eventually to exist as freed DVD which Richie reportedly viewed.

She was too the subject of a South Park episode entitled "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" in which she opens a store known as "Stupid Spoiled Whore" selling girls all about it require to emulate her.

Within November 2004, Hilton participated in Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' Vote or Die campaign, to encourage youths to vote in the Presidential election. She drew criticism after it was revealed she did non vote, nor got she potentially registered to run sol. Ironically, she would somewhat fulfill her theoretical obligation to "die" whenever a promoters of her film, House of Wax, employed the ill-famed "See Paris die" advertizement campaign, highlighting a demise scene of her character in the film.

In top of her acting career, she has too helped to project purses for Samantha Thavasa and Toys for Tots, and has created her have jewellery line for Amazon.com. Presently, her project act earns around America$250,000 by the season. Despite her successes, Hilton's recent tries to run the modeling company & the makeup line seem to keep close at hand been stillborn.

She is the founder of Heiress Records, the label inside which she plans to release her debut album in 2005, tenatively titled Paris is Burning. Her 1st lone entitled 'Screwed' has been leaked to the Internet & has been remixed by Alex G. Her producer for the album is Jane Wiedlin from The Go-Go's. Hilton might as well become working by owning Scott Storch. She is covering Blondie's hit 'Heart of Glass' for her album. She describes a album when pop, rock & hip hop, she says it sounds prefer Blondie & Madonna.

Hilton is typically photographed using her teacup Chihuahua, Tinkerbell. Based on data from Tinkerbell's memoirs A Tinkerbell Hilton Diaries, Hilton has owned her since October 31, 2002. But, in the summertime of 2005, Hilton reportedly gave Tinkerbell to her mother, in favor of the little pooch known as Bambi, fallowing Tinkerbell got be as well heavily. [http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-08-19/].

These are rumored that Hilton has booked the $200,000 flight aboard the Virginside Galactic ballistic capsule, which in 2008 will take her to suborbital space, so making her a immature astronaut in history. Numbers of more celebrities, like William Shatner and Sigourney Weaver, have too been booked to exist as among a foremost riders in the exciting occident of space tourism.

Celebrity
Hilton & her sister, Nicky, come known for their jet-placed lifestyles, though Paris has additional readily sought a spotlight as a celebrity.

She has been widely discussed by tabloids. Around 2000, the National Enquirer reported a casual friendly relationship sustaining Leonardo DiCaprio as something far more intimate. She has, nonetheless, besides been linked using many others, including actor Edward Furlong, boxer Oscar De La Hoya, model Jason Shaw, Chicago Bears football player Brian Urlacher, and singers Rob Mills, Deryck Whibley, and Backstreet Boy Nick Carter. When Hilton was dating Carter, she sported contusion, which stimulated hearsay that Carter will develop beat her. This hearsay was neither confirmed nor denied by Hilton at a instance. Two or three months late, she announced that victims "bruises" were from either a magazine photograph shoot (upright once the magazine was coming out.) She was besides blamed per media for breaking higher a relationship between Australian tennis player Mark Philippoussis and singer Delta Goodrem.

Hilton has besides received the great deal of click for a kind of more incidents, chiefly person trick. She has been said to keep close at hand pushed ahead of others within line for the public bathroom, saying she simply wanted to view herself in the mirror. She has reportedly danced on the top of bar banquettes, worn shirts reading "Got Blow?," and more days worn there are no top in the least. One of her extra illustrious quotes is: "What's a soup kitchen?" Her most famous quote, notwithstanding, is "That's hot," which she has utilized within numberless situations.

Within August 2004, Tinkerbell was reported lost & the America$5,000 reward was offered for her safe link to. Tinkerbell was observed a week late, with been left at the residence of Hilton's grandparents.

Hilton received an offer from either a German version of the reality TV indicate "Big Brother" to participate in their indicate. Rumour said she has been offered to a higher degree Me$1.8 million. Whenever she might agree to exist as in the reality-indicate, “she may join the flakey b& of ex-strippers, beauty queens, the married few and the virgin, world health organization come dwelling under Twenty-four hour scrutiny on the placed".

Paris has also been featured in several television commercials including a T-Mobile commerical for which she was paid $250,000 and her Carl's Jr. commercial (see more below) for which she was paid $400,000 according to Forbes Magazine.

Hilton is also a spokesmodel for various products, including in 2004, GUESS clothing. Photos of her have also been published in several magazines, including ''GQ, Vanity Fair and FHM.

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. Hilton was reportedly given a $100,000 advanced 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. Still, it became a New York Times bestseller.

She has a new book that will hit shelves in September

Hilton as sex symbol
There has been speculation that Hilton may be lesbian or bisexual. In an interview with the Rolling Stone, Hilton stated that she did not receive much enjoyment from sex with men. It has also been rumored that there exists a video featuring Paris having sex with her friend Nicole Lenz, a Playboy Playmate. In February 2005, she admitted in an interview that she has a crush on Jennifer Aniston. [http://sify.com/movies/hollywood/fullstory.php?id=13673478], [http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/25742004.htm].

In the March 2005 issue of Playboy, she was named the "Sex Star of the Month" in their list of the 25 Sexiest Celebrities, she posed for the cover of the issue.

Hacked address book
On February 19, 2005, the contents of Hilton's personal T-Mobile account were posted to the Internet. They included phone numbers (which included many celebrities such as Christina Aguilera, Fred Durst, Eminem, Lindsay Lohan, Jay-Z, Anna Kournikova, Snoop Dogg, Andy Roddick, Benjie Paras, Avril Lavigne, Frankie Muniz, Ashlee Simpson, Jerry Yan), notes (with even more numbers and email addresses and reminders such as her date to host Saturday Night Live), and thirty-five digital snapshots. In two of the leaked photos, Hilton is standing topless next to the MTV Latin America's VJ Eglantina Zingg, whom she kisses. This further added to the speculation that Hilton might be gay or bisexual. Many of her notes showed heavy usage of Internet slang.

Within days, it was revealed [http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/01/01/paris.html] that Hilton's account could be accessed by anyone guessing the answer to the "forgotten watchword" challenge question she chose: "What is your systems special favourite's title?" As the answer to this question is a matter of public record, [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1560250/] an anonymous party was able to guess it and notify the press.

In September, it was reported that a 17-year old teenager in Massachusetts, known by his online alias Cam0, plead guilty to accessing Hilton's account and making bomb threats. He was sentenced to 11 months in a juvenile detention center and prohibited from using computers or other devices that can connect to the internet for two years. [http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,17366,00.html][http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/15/content_3493123.htm]

"That's hot"
"That's hot" is a phrase used by Hilton (although an earlier usage is attributed to her Simple Life co-star Nicole Richie [http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/9/emw157359.htm] and has been used by others for many years). The catch phrase, a synonym for "That's cool" or "That's awe-inspiring," has since been parodied in pop culture outlets such as Saturday Night Live [http://snltranscripts.jt.org/04/04chilton.phtml] and even by Hilton herself, on The Late Show with David Letterman.

In 2004, Hilton filed a successful request to trademark the phrase. She wishes to market clothing with the phrase prominently emblazoned on the garments; she felt it was time to trademark the phrase because "We've been saying it forever. We obviously put it in T-shirts & stuff such as that." [http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2004/09/18/story167128.asp]

Advertisement controversy
Another controversy involving Hilton was her appearance in a Carl's Jr. television advertisement, originally broadcast in May 2005. In the commercial, which introduces the restaurant's "Spicy BBQ Six Dollar Burger", Hilton wears a provocative swimsuit and soaps up a Bentley automobile and herself before taking a big bite out of the burger.

This has drawn criticism from television watchdog groups, including the Parents Television Council. The research director for the PTC, Melissa Caldwell, says; "This commercial message is fundamentally soft-core porno. A way she moves, a way she puts her finger around her mouth - it's super suggestive & super titillating." The Los Angeles, California based group says they plan to mobilize their more than 1 million members to contact the restaurant chain and voice their concern.

Andy Puzder, CEO of Carl's Jr., says the group needs to "getThe life...This international relations and security network't Janet Jackson; there is no nipple in this. No nudity, there is no sex acts; it's a beautiful model in a bathing costume washing a car." Puzder was referring to the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy. According to Forbes Magazine, Carl's Jr. paid Hilton $400,000 for filming in this commercial.

FOX News host Bill O'Reilly speculated that Hilton did not in fact eat the burgers she endorsed and was therefore dishonest, inviting her to come on his show ''The O'Reilly Factor'' and eat one of the burgers on the air, thus proving him wrong. Hilton has not thus far acknowledged the invitation.

In addition to featuring the ad on their website, Carl's Jr. has also built a separate site to play a longer version of the commercial. A similar ad with Hilton for Hardee's hamburger chain (also owned by Carl's Jr. parent corporation CKE Restaurants) is expected to air June 2005.

Before this deal with Carl's Jr., Hilton lost out on a $750,000 multi-commercial deal with Burger King because the company did not feel her sexy image was a good fit with their brand..

Perfume and Cologne
In early May of 2004, Parlux Fragrances (who have made fragrances for Guess, Perry Ellis, XOXO) announced that they would be releasing a fragrance line created by Hilton. The perfume would be aptly named "Paris Hilton". The scent was described as "a brilliant coquettish charm, this head-turning fragrance may be dressed higher or even down for each day and evening have on." The scent consists of "an ethereal halo using delicious notes of frozen Apple & juicy Peach Nectar wrapped by using effervescent Muguet & the splash of soaked Ozone. a lucent bouquet of sensual floralcy is at the heart of this fragrance. Delicate Mimosa Blossoms are entwined using sheer Freesia and Night-Blooming Jasmine petals, while heady, rich Polianthes tuberosa will bring depth & texture."

The perfume launch was a success. Originally set to be a small release , demand became popular and they had a wide release before Christmas of 2004. The launch was a big part of the Parlux stock increasing 30%. Ilia Lekach, a CEO at Parlux, said "I am delightedUsing my record performance & I’m affirmative on final result through the prevent of my fiscal season. I have recently commenced shipments of my Paris Hilton fragrance which has surpassed my expectations."

After the success of Hilton's perfume, Parlux Fragrances had her create Paris Hilton for Men, a cologne that has a "sensual aura." The packaging states : "Paris Hilton knows how else she likes the human to smell, thus she has created the scent to part by having her male admirers about the world." The colgone is available at Lazarus-Macy's. Sales reports are not available.

On South Park, she has a perfume dubbed Skanque. Engagement
Although she has been linked to many other famous men, on May 29, 2005 it was announced that she was to marry her boyfriend of five months, Paris Latsis, son of Gregory Kasidokostas and Mariana Latsis, a Greek shipping heir.

However, on October 1, 2005 Hilton announced that the five month engagment had been called off, saying "We personally sense I'm upright non quick for marriage." Supposedly she has also implied that Latsis cheated on her during his bachelor party.

See also: [http://ourmedia.org/node/10323 Paris Hilton & Fiance Paris Latsis @ SPIDER], video (8 May 2005, ourmedia)

Filmography
Wishman (1991) (Girl on the Beach) Sweetie Pie (2000) (Girl) Zoolander (2001) (Herself) (Cameo) Nine Lives (2002) (Jo) QIK2JDG (2002) (short subject) (Strung-Out Supermodel) L.A. Knights (2003) (short subject) (Sadie) Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003) (Herself) Wonderland (2003) (Barbie) The Cat in the Hat (2003) (Female Club Goer) 1 Night in Paris (2004) (herself) Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004) (Herself) (Cameo) Raising Helen (2004) (Amber) The Hillz (2004) (Heather) House of Wax (2005) (Paige Edwards) ''National Lampoon's Pledge This! (2005) (currently in post-production) (also executive producer) (Victoria English) Bottom's Up (2006) (currently in post-production) (Lisa Mancini)

Selected TV appearances
The Simple Life (2003) (reality series regular) ... Herself Las Vegas (February 2, 2004) ... Madison ... episode: Things That Go Jump in the Night The George Lopez Show (February 27, 2004) ... Ashley ... episode: Jason Tutors Max The O.C. (March 24, 2004) ... Kate ... episode: The L.A. The Simple Life 2: Road Trip (2004) (reality series regular) ... Herself Veronica Mars (September 28, 2004) ... Caitlin Ford ... episode: Credit Where Credit's Due The Simple Life 3: Interns (2005) (reality series regular) ... Herself Saturday Night Live (February 5, 2005) ... Hosting ... American Dreams (March 16, 2005) ... Barbara Eden of "I personally Dream of Jeannie" Live at Much Music (May 3, 2005) ... With the cast of House of Wax. The Diary (May 8, 2005) ... Becky ...episode: The Truth Charmed (May 20, 2005) ... Ashley ...episode: Something Wicca This Way Goes KL Minute (June 2, 2005) ... Archive Footage as Herself/Paige Edwards of House of Wax... episode: Original One

Parodies
South Park, December 1, 2004: episode "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset." The movie White Chicks (2004) Portrayed by Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler on Saturday Night Live''

Sources
[http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/24/news/newsmakers/carls_ad/ Carl's Jr. SpicyBurger controversy] [http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/21/technology/personaltech/hilton_cellphone/index.htm Address book hacked]