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However, revealed in a tiktok and then written in countless publications since - it was never real. Instead the shirt said "stop being desperate". However, with this only being debunked years later, the photoshopped version is accepted as fact by many people.

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You've likely seen the image of Paris Hilton wearing a shirt that says "Stop Being Poor." It's always been a cheeky analogy for the excess of the early '00s: Here is Hilton, credit card-swiping heiress-socialite, known for all of those trips to Kitson and hauling Louis Vuitton monogrammed bags, telling the world to just stop being poor. But it never existed.

This week, Hilton took to Instagram Reels to set the record straight. In classic Paris form, complete with a crown emoji, her caption reads: "Debunking the #STOPBEINGPOOR myth. Don't believe everything you read. #Iconic" In the clip, she says, "I never wore that shirt. This was completely photoshopped. Everyone thinks this is real." Then, Hilton reveals a picture of her and her sister Nicky, in which the actual shirt reads "Stop Being Desperate." The design was actually from the 2005 launch of Nicky's line Chick.

Hilton's reveal comes as she has been reclaiming her image during the past several months. In September 2020, she released the raw documentary This Is Paris about the abuse she suffered at a boarding school for troubled teens that focused on behaviour and mental health. She's also joining celebs like Emily Ratajkowski in taking more control of the media surrounding them. In late April, Ratajkowski listed an NFT version of a photograph herself at Christie's that had previously been appropriated and sold by Richard Prince for $90,000 (£65,000) as a piece of art. In doing so, Ratajkwoski symbolically takes back an image and gives a voice to a situation that she once didn't have control over.

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You've likely seen the image of Paris Hilton wearing a shirt that says "Stop Being Poor." It's always been a cheeky analogy for the excess of the early '00s. But this week, Paris Hilton took to Instagram Reels to set the record straight.

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A reflection of the public image of Paris comes in the form of this viral image. Widely believed to be real, it caused controversy and more fuel to the "love to hate her" fire, while also highlighting her often brazen displays of wealth, superiority and unintelligence

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In her documentary, Paris discussed her experiences at an abusive boarding school for troubled teens that she attended against her will. In an effort to stop her partying at a young age her mother organised for Paris to be taken in the middle of the night. She was forced to do labour and follow a strictly religious regime that involved physical and emotional aabuse. She kept this secret for many years, which made her crying and telling her story in the documentary appear extremely vulnerable and touching.

This links back to one of her earliest steps in her career - The Simple Life. In her breakout reality TV series, her entire character was based off the spoiled rich girl who didn't know how to mop a floor, cook for herself and was scared of mud. In reality, she had experienced all of this from her time at Provo Canyon School. Playing the part of the dumb blonde socialite was key to her success at the time.

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In this interview with Billboard about her DJ career, Paris notes that she loves "blowing people away, just changing people’s minds and showing them that I’m more talent than name". It appeared that in the period of 2009-2020 she wanted to make a name for herself in music, as opposed to being best known for her teenage antics. This was successful in part, as she had various DJ residencies, however later she shifted back into reality TV.

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As her run in Ibiza hits the five-year mark, the original socialite-turned-DJ Paris Hilton shares the secrets that have helped her thrive on the ones and twos around the world.

Paris Hilton says she "loves changing people's minds" when it comes to her music. The 36-year-old business mogul and former Simple Life star celebrated the five-year anniversary of her Foam & Diamonds party at Ibiza's Amnesia in July, extending her run as the island's sole American female DJ with a residency.

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Meanwhile, Hilton is staying active in the pop world: This month, she announced a new single titled "Summer Reign," announced work on a long-overdue remix of her 2006 hit "Stars Are Blind" and showed up in pal Demi Lovato 's music video for "Sorry Not Sorry." Eight years after first dabbling in the DJ booth, Hilton reflects on her continual DJ career, her standing with Cash Money Records and what to expect from "Summer Reign."

Hilton, Lovato and Wiz Khalifa in the "Sorry Not Sorry" video. Courtesy of Universal Music Group

You made your DJ debut in June 2012. When you first started out, did you envision that you'd still be DJing at this point in your career?
I started DJing like seven years ago. My first show was in Brazil. Like 30,000 people, closing for Jennifer Lopez, it was so much fun. I loved it so much that after that I really just got more into it and really just learned the technique and now I'm on the new Denon [turntables], which just came out and are amazing to play on. I've just been having the time of my life. I didn't realize what a huge success I would be.
Since that first show, how do you think you've grown as a DJ?
So much. The first time I ever played, I was so nervous, shy, but now I've been doing it for so long that I feel so comfortable on stage. I just love feeling the vibe and the energy and the people and I've been studying with some of the best people in the world. I really just learn the craft so much more. I just feel like every day I grow more and more.
How have the shows been so far out there?
Amazing. Totally sold out, like the room is so packed with people, all fully booked, dancing round and round the clock. Every year it's just been such a step forward.
What does it mean to you that you're basically the only American female DJ who's had a residency in Ibiza for this long?
It's a huge honor, it means so much to me [to be] the only female DJ from America who has a residency at the best club here, one of the best spots in the world. I'm proud to say I've gotten so many compliments and so much credibility from it and I feel like I've worked so hard. I'm proud I do so many things with my work and my job, but this is the one I'm most proud about.
When it comes to a setup, what do you think is important for people to have in their arsenal to ensure they are going to have a successful set?
I always like whatever is the most up-to-date technology and most innovative. Before things come out, I get them. When I first started DJing, I did it on a Pioneer and then I moved over to the Traktor S4 and Traktor Kontrol S8. Denon just came out I've been playing on those and I love it, they are just like putting Pioneer CDJs mixed with Traktors in one. It's an incredible setup. I think it's really important to know what you're doing, it's very technical, because a lot of people don't know that a lot actually goes into DJing. And, making a set, you just have to know the crowd and kind of do your research and figure out what are the top songs in the country and what kind of age group you are playing in front of. I put together at least six hours of my favorite songs. I've never played the same set twice. I just watch and feel the crowd and just pick out songs just by looking at people and feeling them.
Do you premeditate everything? Because it sounds like you do things on the fly.
Yeah, I do everything on the fly. Amnesia, I know the crowd, I know the people, I know how they're gonna be, so it's basically me picking out all of my favorite songs, whatever the hottest, most popular track that's happening right now and then I will either make my own remix, find a bootleg or just different remixes that no one's ever heard before, or get them from my friends who are DJs. I actually really like to play a variety of music, I'm not gonna stick to only one genre.
Do you slip your own songs into your sets ever?
Yeah, of course. I will usually start with whatever single I have out at that point. I perform that first on the set and then maybe "Turn It Up" and then at the end I always end with a "Stars Are Blind."
A lot of people have that one go-to song where if the crowd really isn't feeling it, you know that you can depend on that one song to really lift it. Do you have one of those songs?
There are so many. One of my favorites that makes people go crazy is "Bounce Generation" by TJR. And "Rattle" by Bingo Players. "Opus" by Eric Prydz. Anything by Calvin Harris, like "Feel So Close" and "Summer." But yeah I love music, so I always try to play new songs.
You must be aware that there's always detractors, people who doubt you or don't take you as seriously as a musician. Do you find that people are still doing that with you?
Yeah, of course. In the beginning, I think when everyone heard that Paris Hilton was gonna be a DJ, people were like, what? And I understand-unless you knew me, because I've always loved music. Of course I don't blame them. I would have thought the same thing, but over the years I've really driven myself, having my years as a DJ at Amnesia, touring on the world, and that's a huge, huge success that, you know, numbers don't lie. I think I've really driven myself in that area. I've had some of the biggest DJs in the world come to the booth and they watch me just being like, "Holy shit, you're actually playing live." I'm like, yeah... "So you actually know what you're doing, you're actually better than most guys I've seen play." I love blowing people away, just changing people's minds and showing them that I'm more talent than name.
What are your DJ goals in the future?
I love doing it and I'd love to keep playing and I would love to put together my own music festival one day, something that's really special and fun and something that involves charity.
"Summer Reign" is the new single. What can you tell me about that?
"Summer Reign" I did with Chris Daniel and DJ Suri. They are amazing, they remixed half of my last single [ "High Off My Love "] and that's how I met them and they sent me this track and I loved it so I started writing up my own with my writing partner. I really wanted to write a song about summer and how I feel like it's just my summer, and having fun and being in love and the song when you put it on.
There was talk of you doing a sophomore album with Afrojack, who was going to handle the majority of the production. What resulted from that?
I've worked with so many people. The sound is so different now. Back then, when we were doing the album together, that sound was amazing but now the sound has changed so much that I wasn't really feeling the songs anymore. Music moves so fast nowadays that if you do a song a year ago, it's going to be not the same as something that you do right now. Those songs are just unusable because we recorded them so many years ago. I want a newer, more fresh, like futuristic sound.
Are you recording another album?
I'm mostly focused on just singles, I think that's just how it is nowadays with the music industry. It's not really about albums. So yeah I've been working on my second album forever, but I'm also running a huge business and doing a million other things.
Whatever happened to the original version of "Screwed"?
When I was with Warner Bros., they had me working with Rob Cavallo and we had like this entire rock album. So the first version I did with him, and it was more pop-rock. There was a cover of "Heart of Glass" by Blondie. I wrote a bunch of other rock-pop songs. Maybe I'll put them up, but again that sound, it's not the future.
What was the reason that you pivoted from that first version to what eventually became your debut?
We were doing so many songs and then we went over to Dr. Dre's studio and they started playing me just all these amazing tracks and beats and I just felt like I need to switch my entire direction from pop-rock to kind of pop/hip-hop, less of pop, and just change the whole vibe of the whole album. I recorded a few different songs pop-rock-based and then after meeting with Scott [Storch] and going to Miami, we started doing the whole album together and just basically redid the whole album.
Are you still currently signed to Cash Money?
Um... yeah.
They've had some issues recently with their artists. What's your relationship like with them?
Birdman has always been great with me and I've got no problems. Um, yeah, I'll leave it at that.
Is "Summer Reign" coming out through Cash Money?
I don't know. I'm gonna have to figure that out. But right now for "Summer Reign," it's not even an official release yet but I am kind of by myself.
You know Lindsay Lohan tweeted asking you to come to Mykonos for her birthday. Did you see that?
I didn't see it, but I was at the airport like so many paparazzi and they are talking about it and asking me if I was going. I just have the residency in Ibiza, so it's okay. I like, doubt that Britney or Beyonce are either. I think that was a little bit random but you know, trying to promote the club over there or whatever.
It must feel full circle for you to have the respect that you do now when you know you're so removed from when you put out your first album.
It's like I've always believed in myself and I've always been ahead of my time in a lot of ways. There's a lot of people who weren't doing anything I'm doing now. A lot of people are doing the same thing, but I just... Back then people didn't get it and now it's like, I don't know. It feels good being an inspiration to people and you know just in the beginning when people still had not understood it and now they are getting it, I feel just very proud.
A version of this article originally appeared in the August 5 issue of Billboard.

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Paris in Love follows Paris and Carter in the planning of their wedding. The tone of the entire series revolves around the idea of "who would have thought it?", as her early life and career would never suggest that she would ever "settle down"

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In 2021 Paris married Carter Reum, and kept almost the entirety of their relationship out of the public eye. This reflects the growth in Paris' image, as she leaned away from publicising her struggles. The change in perception of her from the peak of her fame (sex tape, public drug fuelled fights) to a more mature, adult person.

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Paris Hilton got her fairytale ending with husband Carter Reum.

The socialite and entrepreneur have known each other since their mid-20s, but didn't strike up a romance until late 2019. And although they kept the dating portion of their relationship mostly out of the public eye, Hilton and Reum have been vocal about their life together since their engagement and opulent wedding in February and November 2021, respectively.

"I can't wait to grow our family," Hilton told PEOPLE following their three-day wedding weekend in Los Angeles. Both the extravaganza as well as the intricate details that went into planning the nuptials were documented in Hilton's reality series, Paris in Love.

Hilton added, "I feel like Carter and I are puzzle pieces getting connected. I never thought I'd meet a man like him, who loves me for Paris and not Paris Hilton. He's going to be the best husband - and the best dad."

Ahead of their vow exchange, the DJ and activist shared that she and Reum were in the process of in vitro fertilization and hope to welcome twins.

From their luxurious vacations to their sweet social media tributes, here's everything to know about Paris Hilton and Carter Reums's relationship.

November 2019: Paris Hilton reconnects with Carter Reum

While it is unknown how Reum and Hilton first met in their twenties, the two friends did reconnect in 2019 thanks to Reum's sister, Halle Hammond. Hammond invited both the entrepreneur and The Simple Life star over for Thanksgiving that year and they two hit it off.

"I've known him for 15 years," Hilton exclusively revealed to PEOPLE. "Then [Reum's sister Halle Hammond] invited us to Thanksgiving and we just had this incredible chemistry. We had our first date and haven't spent a night apart since. It's pretty amazing."

January 5, 2020: Paris Hilton and Carter Reum kiss at a Golden Globes afterparty, sparking romance rumors

The pair were first romantically linked after they were seen sharing a kiss at a 2020 Golden Globes afterparty hosted by Warner Bros. & InStyle. A source confirmed the dating news to PEOPLE, saying, "They are dating and happy."

April 29, 2020: Paris Hilton and Carter Reum go Instagram official

Hilton confirmed the romance rumors between her and Reum by posting a cute photo of them sharing a kiss on Instagram.

"Happy Anniversary my love. My favorite thing to do is make memories with you," she wrote. "Your kisses are magical.⚡️ I love being yours and knowing you're mine. 😍😍."

June 2020: Paris Hilton and Carter Reum vacation in the Hamptons

After going public with their relationship in April, the couple enjoyed a wine-filled weekend in the Hamptons in June 2020. The two spent time with family and toured the Wölffer Estate Vineyard.

"Paris has never been happier and finally met her match. They are head over heels in love with each other," a source told PEOPLE.

September 3, 2020: Paris Hilton opens up about her life with Carter Reum

For Hilton, the best thing about quarantine was being able to spend time with then-boyfriend Reum. "This is the first time I've actually been forced not to travel and stay home," she told PEOPLE, noting that pre-COVID she'd travel upwards of 250 days a year. "The silver lining is that I get to be with my pets and my boyfriend. We have gotten so close. The amount of time we've had together is what would normally take five years!"

She added, "I just always wanted what my mom and dad have. They're best friends, he's so loyal. I was always looking for that, but I was looking in the wrong places."

December 5, 2020: Paris Hilton wishes Carter Reum a happy one-year anniversary in a sweet Instagram post

Hilton shared a video montage of her and her "other half" in honor of their one-year anniversary. The sweet Instagram tribute included snapshots of the couple's adventures from the previous year with Hilton's 2006 track "Heartbeat" playing in the background.

January 26, 2021: Paris Hilton discusses her IVF journey

During an appearance onThe Trend Reporter with Mara podcast, the socialite revealed that she and Reum had started the in vitro fertilization process.

"We have been doing the IVF, so I can pick twins if I like," Hilton explained, adding that she hoped to have "twins that are a boy and a girl." She also said that her close friend Kim Kardashian educated her about the option. "I'm happy that she told me that advice and introduced me to her doctor."

"It was tough, but I knew it would be worth it. I did it a couple of times," Hilton continued. "Just doing it together and having a partner that is just so supportive and always makes me feel just like a princess all the time ... that it wasn't that bad," she said of her "dream guy."

February 9, 2021: Carter Reum accompanies Paris Hilton as she testifies against her old Utah boarding school

Reum appeared alongside Hilton as she testified to the Utah Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee regarding the emotional, physical and psychological abuse Provo Canyon School inflicted upon her during her years there as a teen.

A source told PEOPLE, "Paris is so grateful that Carter joined her on the trip to Utah. She was so nervous to get up there and say her testimonial, but having him by her side made her feel much more comfortable."

February 10, 2021: Paris Hilton gifts Carter Reum a life-sized portrait of the two of them

Hilton went all out for Reum's birthday in 2021. The activist gifted her then-boyfriend a life-sized portrait of Reum giving her a kiss on the forehead, which was inspired by a real-life photo of the two taken by friend Paris Jackson in 2019.

"It's a nod to Schitt's Creek," a source told PEOPLE. "It's their favorite show they've binged during quarantine."

February 13, 2021: Carter Reum proposes to Paris Hilton

While vacationing on a private island for Hilton's 40th birthday, Reum proposed. Paris' sister, Nicky Hilton, was there to celebrate with the newly engaged couple as was Reum's brother Courtney.

"This past year with COVID has accelerated so many things. As someone who traveled constantly, I had a chance to stay home and reevaluate what was important to me. My relationship and the time I spent with Carter was a gift," Hilton told PEOPLE following the engagement. "I'm excited for our next chapter."

Reum chimed in: "I have gotten the unique opportunity to get to know the real Paris on a daily basis just the two of us during these past 15 months and I couldn't be more excited and lucky to have her as my future wife and partner. She shines with her kindness, work ethic, authenticity and her voice in making the world a better place and she will do the same as a future mother and wife."

In honor of their love story, Hilton filmed a music video with Reum for her 2006 hit "Heartbeat." "It describes the way I feel for him so much that I was like, 'I have to do a music video,' " Hilton told . "I thought it'd be perfect to release around Valentine's Day, just as a celebration of finally having true love."

February 21, 2021: Paris Hilton and Carter Reum share their engagement story

Hilton launched her iHeartRadio podcast, This is Paris, with a buzzy first episode in which she recalled all the dreamy details from Reum's beach proposal.

"I just started shaking and crying because I was so excited, so happy," Hilton reminisced. "It was so nice that he thought to have our families there to celebrate the moment." The entrepreneur revealed that she also planned on hyphenating her last name to include both of their surnames "because my name is just my name. I like it."

March 1, 2021: Paris Hilton shares the story behind her engagement ring

While appearing on On Air with Ryan Seacrest, the activist gave the origin story behind her massive diamond, which is "inspired by the Grand Palais in Paris." Reum designed the sparkler with jeweler Jean Dousset, the great-great-grandson of renowned French jeweler Louis Cartier.

"It's called The Paris," Hilton said. "I'm so obsessed with it ... it has like 15 diamonds going around and then inside it has a 'P' with a sapphire."

March 1, 2021: Nicky Hilton reveals Carter Reum asked for her blessing prior to proposing

Before getting down on one knee, Reum popped a big question to future sister-in-law Nicky. While chatting with Hilton on her podcast,This is Paris, Nicky recalled that Reum asked for her blessing the morning of the proposal.

"So, we were at lunch and you got up from the table to go and use the bathroom, and he got up and came and sat next to me and said, 'I have two quick questions,' " Nicky began.

"Number one: Will you give me your blessing to marry Paris?" she said, adding that Reum went on to ask if the Hilton family - including Nicky's husband James Rothschild - would celebrate with them on the beach afterward.

"I quickly said yes to both and we got dressed and we were down hiding in the beach," Nicky recalled.

May 13, 2021: Paris Hilton announces her new docuseries Paris in Love

Peacock's 2021 docuseries Paris in Love marked Hilton's return to reality TV. Speaking with Jason Gray for the Wall Street Journal's The Future of Everything Festival, the DJ and entrepreneur said she was ready for fans to see "that I did finally get my happy, fairytale ending" following her 2020 YouTube Originals documentary, This is Paris.

"So, I just feel now I'm an open book, I've put it all out there," she said. "I have nothing to hide and I'm just so proud of how everything is today and I just feel like my fans will really enjoy just seeing this like, maybe one of the most special moments of my life."

June 22, 2021: Paris Hilton says her mindset has shifted from making money to making babies

While Hilton previously revealed in her 2020 This is Paris documentary that she wanted to become a billionaire, she said on the Just for Variety podcast that her goal had shifted.

"It was such a goal of mine before because I wasn't happy in my personal life," she said. "And also just going through what I went through, I always saw money as freedom and independence, and not being controlled. And I think that's why I just had that as my focus in life."

She continued, "And now that I am so incredibly happy and in love in my personal life, I'm not really interested in billions anymore. I'm more interested in babies," she explained.

September 23, 2021: Paris Hilton shares what kind of mom she thinks she'll be

Nicky only had wonderful comments to say about her older sister as an aunt, but Hilton feared she'd be a "strict mom" to her future daughter, whom she wants to name London.

"I'm probably going to be a strict mom," the DJ . "I'm just worried for when my baby London says, 'Mom, I want to go on a date, I want to go to a club,' and I'm going to go, 'No.' "

October 8, 2021: Paris Hilton and Carter Reum host a joint bachelor and bachelorette party in Las Vegas

Hilton and Reum touched down in Sin City on Oct. 8, 2021, for their joint bachelor and bachelorette party. The celebration kicked off with an immersive experience at Area 15 and the night concluded at Zouk Nightclub. Their guests were gifted "Paris & Carter That's Hot" embroidered tote bags and canned rosé that featured Hilton on the label.

November 11, 2021: Paris Hilton marries Carter Reum in an extravagant Bel Air wedding

On Nov. 11, 2021, the couple tied the knot in a lavish ceremony and reception at Hilton's late grandfather's former Bel Air home - all of which was planned by Mindy Weiss. The bride had three outfit changes; she wore two Oscar de la Renta dresses and one by Galia Lahav, a source told PEOPLE.

Kardashian, Ashlee Simpson, Nicole Richie and Paula Abdul were just a few of the celebrity guests in attendance. Hilton's aunts, Kim and Kyle Richards, who stars on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, were also there, while her sister Nicky served as maid of honor. Kim Petras performed during the ceremony and Demi Lovato took to the mic during the reception.

The couple treated guests to an exquisite dinner menu, including a caviar station, tuna tartare and oysters Rockefeller as well as a 6-ft.-tall wedding cake.

November 12, 2021: Paris Hilton shares the special meaning behind her and Carter Reum's wedding date

Hilton intentionally wanted to get married on November 11, or "11:11" as she refers to it. "11:11 has always been my favorite time of day," she told . "It's my reminder to make a wish and be open to miracles."

"This date is special to Carter and I - it represents our love story, which both of us knew was meant to be," she continued.

The timestamp is also the moniker of her new media business. "On top of wedding planning, I launched my new media company, 11:11 Media, this year and am in the process of filming and producing a TV show with Peacock called Paris in Love," she said. "Thankfully, my mom and groom had a lot of opinions on the planning, so I let them take the reins."

November 12, 2021: Paris Hilton and Carter Reum continue their wedding weekend with a neon carnival afterparty

The wedding festivities continued with a neon carnival-themed party at the Santa Monica Pier on Nov. 12, 2021. The couple made quite an entrance in coordinating pink outfits. Hilton was dripping in neon pink from head to toe and accessorized her look with hot pink heart-shaped sunnies and a pink veil by Maison Ava. Guests included Lance Bass, Lovato and Diplo.

The newlyweds concluded the weekend with another formal dinner the following evening.

November 14, 2021: Paris Hilton calls Carter Reum "my missing puzzle piece"

Before setting sail on their honeymoon, the new bride shared a sweet note to her now-husband on Instagram. "Standing hand in hand at the altar, my heart skipped a beat. It was one of the most incredibly magic and loving feelings I've ever felt in my life," she captioned a wedding photo gallery.

"I had found my missing piece. To me, you're more than my husband. You're my best friend, my teacher, my lover, my confidant, and the father of our future children. I am so proud to stand beside you as your wife," she continued. "There was a piece of me that always felt I had to go on this journey of life by myself, but now I know the stars were just aligning for us to find each other again. I'm so excited for the future we will create together."

November 17, 2021: Paris Hilton and Carter Reum reflect on their "fairytale wedding"

Hilton and Reum were blissfully in love after their three-day wedding celebration. "This is the most magical feeling in the world," the Cooking with Paris star told PEOPLE at the time. "Knowing that I officially get to spend the rest of my life with the love of my life is a dream come true."

"Paris is the love of my life," Reum chimed in. "That is one thing I know without a doubt."

The cherry on top was being able to exchange their vows at Hilton's late grandfather's former Bel Air estate. "It was so meaningful because the home holds so much significance," she said. "I always imagined having my fairytale wedding there since I was a little girl. There are so many memories at the estate that I hold dearly, so to be able to celebrate my love story there was amazing."

November 22, 2021: Paris Hilton and Carter Reum embark on their five-destination honeymoon

The couple kicked off their "honeymoon world tour" with a trip to Bora Bora. Hilton documented their boating and swimming adventures on Instagram.

"First stop on our Honeymoon ☀️ world 🌎 tour... Bora Bora 💕✨💕 Swimming in the South Pacific oceans 🌊 with my love 🏊‍♂️🐠🐟," she wrote alongside the gallery, adding the hashtags #ParisAroundTheWorld #MyDreamHoneymoon and #ParisInLove.

November 30, 2021: Paris Hilton and Carter Reum spend time on a private island during their honeymoon

The pair continued their honeymoon with a getaway to Moskito Island in the British Virgin Islands, and PEOPLE shared exclusive photos from their secluded oasis. They vacationed at a friend's private six-bedroom estate with luxe amenities including oceanviews, retractable glass walls and an infinity pool, a source told PEOPLE.

December 27, 2021: Paris Hilton and Carter Reum continue their honeymoon with a Christmas celebration in London

London was stop number three on the newlywed's five-destination honeymoon tour - and PEOPLE shared exclusive photos from their U.K. holiday.

"Spending Christmas during my honeymoon with Carter has been my favorite so far because this is our first Christmas being married. I love being a wife," Hilton told PEOPLE. "We met back in 2019 during the holidays so this time of the year has always been important for us. Looking back, it makes me think of how far we've come as a couple."

"I've had so many family memories in the past celebrating the holidays in London," she continued. "It's such a magical city and really gets you in the festive spirit."

January 24, 2022: Paris Hilton says motherhood is a "top priority" for her

During a Jan. 24, 2022, episode of , Hilton told the hosts that becoming a mom was "definitely one of my top priorities."

"I cannot wait," the entrepreneur said, adding "two or three" kids is the dream.

Hilton continued, "I would want twins first. I don't know it's hard to say. I always wish I had an older brother because I feel like if I did then he would protect me and things like that in school." After mulling over the idea, she tweaked her answer: "Maybe a boy first."

January 27, 2022: Paris Hilton shares the name and meaning of her future daughter

While appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Hilton said she already has her future daughter's name picked out.

"The girl is gonna be named London Marilyn Hilton Reum," Hilton said. "Marilyn after my grandmother and London because it's my favorite city and I think Paris and London sound cute together."

The DJ kept quiet about her future second child's name, adding that she hopes to "trademark it."

"I'm not gonna say yet because I'm scared someone will steal the name," she told DeGeneres. However, she did confirm the moniker takes after another country or city.

January 27, 2022: Paris Hilton opens up about married life

"I love being a wife," Hilton told PEOPLE following her honeymoon with Reum.

She continued, "We had the most amazing honeymoon for seven weeks around the world, but I'm so glad to be able to be at home with my husband. It's the best feeling to get to build these new adventures in life with my person."

"Being married is such a great new chapter for both of us," Hilton said. "We've been so close and inseparable the past two years together so it's always felt like we're married. Only that it's felt I'm so excited for this next chapter in our life and to start a family together. [He's] my best friend so it feels so safe getting to grow together."

February 3, 2022: Carter Reum reveals the one thing he'd change about Paris Hilton

During a Paris in Love episode that aired on Feb. 1, 2022, Hilton raised a big question to her then-fiancé: "If there was one thing about me that you could change, what would it be?"

Reum responded, "Well, there's one thing. You're a little less organized than I'd like." He quickly added, "I just blame your creativity on that."

"Life could be worse," Hilton quipped back.

"It would be way worse," Reum continued. "I always tell people if you weren't messy, if there wasn't one small thing not perfect about you, I wouldn't believe you were true myself."

February 13, 2022: Paris Hilton and Carter Reum cheer on their home team at the 2022 Super Bowl

The pair showed their hometown pride at the 2022 Super Bowl in which the L.A. Rams faced off against the Cincinnati Bengals. "Me & My Forever Teammate #Team1111. Who are you rooting for today's Big Game?" Hilton captioned a photo collage of her and Reum in matching Rams jerseys. They both sported the number 11, a nod to Hilton's favorite number and their wedding date.

April 23, 2022: Paris Hilton and Carter Reum walk the red carpet

The newlyweds stepped out at the Collectors Committee Gala event in Los Angeles in April. Hilton wore a baby blue dress and kitten heels while Reum sported a dark blue blazer over a black button-down shirt and matching trousers.

Earlier in the month, Hilton opened up about married life with Reum and the couple's desire to have twins during an appearance on Nikki and Brie Bella's podcast, The Bellas Podcast. "I love being married. I just feel like I finally found my perfect match," the Paris in Love star said. "I finally have my home and I just can't wait to start a family and have kids."

She added that she and her husband have "been talking about kids since the beginning - since the first couple, like, months of dating. ... I would like a twin boy and girl just to, like, get both, but whatever happens happens. But I would love that or twin girls, because I love girls."

November 5, 2022: Paris Hilton and Carter Reum attend the LACMA Art + Film Gala

Hilton and Reum, who is a LACMA trustee, were all smiles as they walked the red carpet at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's 11th annual gala.

The Simple Life star wowed in a black cutout gown by Jasmin Erbaş, and Reum looked handsome in a black tux.

"Lovely night in LA at @LACMA with my love," Hilton captioned a carousel of images on Instagram.

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Paris Hilton and Carter Reum's Relationship Timeline

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Paris Hilton got her fairytale ending with husband Carter Reum. The socialite and entrepreneur have known each other since their mid-20s, but didn't strike up a romance until late 2019. And although they kept the dating portion of their relationship mostly out of the public eye, Hilton and Reum have been vocal about their life together since their engagement and opulent wedding in February and November 2021, respectively.

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In a less publicly disastrous relationship, from 2016-2018 Paris was dating Chris Zylka. During thus period, Paris began trying to clean up her image. Their relationship reflected the "instagra perfect" effect Paris wished to had. Even after they cancelled their engagement and went separate ways, Paris kept most public comments about him respectful and vague - not like the smack talking Paris of the early 00's.

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'I have never felt so happy': Paris Hilton flashes $2 MILLION engagement ring after Chris Zylka proposes during Aspen ski trip

Paris Hilton is engaged to boyfriend Chris Zylka after nearly two years of dating.

The 36-year-old heiress confirmed the news on Tuesday on social media after the actor got down on one knee during a romantic trip to Aspen, Colorado over the weekend.

'I am so excited to be engaged to the love of my life and my best friend. I have never felt so happy, safe and loved. He is perfect for me in every way and showed me that fairytales really do exist!' she gushed.

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In pictures Paris posted to her Instagram Chris - an actor who has starred in The Leftovers and The Amazing Spider-Man - can be seen bending down on one knee on a picturesque ski slope.

The leggy blonde wears a star spangled ski suit and metallic beanie for the moment as Chris, 32, presents her with the $2million pear-shaped diamond.

Beaming a big smile the 5ft 8in star can't hide her joy as she gazes down at her husband-to-be.

The pricey piece of jewelry features a 20-carat center stone set on a platinum split shank halo band which boasts another two carats of smaller diamonds, according to People.

Jeweler Michael Greene and his team designed the ring in two days, a process which normally takes several weeks.

'Paris was not involved. Chris did it all,' Greene told People, explaining that Chris wanted it ready before Aspen.

When the actor came to pick up the ring, Greene recalled: '[He] opened up the box he literally started shaking. He said, "I can't stop shaking.".

Greene added: 'He told me he had to set up a time to meet up with Paris' father to ask for her hand in marriage. He did the whole thing. All the traditions.'

Before the news was announced Paris sparked rumors of an engagement as she was spotted out in Aspen on Monday with the huge rock on her left hand.

She also proudly showed off the sparkler in a New Year's Eve photo alongside pal Sofia Richie, 19.

Who is Chris Zylka?

Zylka, who is from Ukranian descent, was born Christopher Settlemire and was raised in Ohio and took on his mother's maiden name as he tried to carve out a career in acting.

He attended the University of Toledo before kickstarting his career with a guest appearance on 90210 in 2008.

Since then, he has enjoyed a recurring role on Everybody Hates Chris, the sitcom by Chris Rock, and enjoyed guest appearances on Hannah Montana, Luther and Cougar Town.

His biggest acting job to date was as Joey Donner on the TV version of 10 Things I Hate About You while his movie jobs include The Amazing Spider-Man and cult B-list movies Shark Night and Piranha.

In July he got a large tattoo of Paris' name in Disney font on his forearm.

In 2014 he proposed to model Hanna Beth, before they called off the engagement the following year.

Prior to Beth, Zylka dated actress Lucy Hale from 2011 to 2012.

Captioning the snap 'Ready to rock 2018!', Paris held her gloved hands in the shape of a gun, with the large diamond nestled between her fingers.

'The ring was so gorgeous and sparkling. I was shaking as I put it on. It is the most beautiful ring that I have ever seen.' she told People.

Chris also talked of his excitement at Paris becoming his fiancee as he told the magazine: 'I feel like the luckiest man in the world to be marrying my dream girl. I can't wait to spend the rest of our lives together.'

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The couple first met eight years ago at an Oscars party at Chateau Marmont but didn't start dating until 2016, finally making it official on social media in February 2017.

And Paris hasn't shied away from gushing about her man on social media.

On Sunday, alongside a black and white image of the duo, she wrote: 'Never in a million years did I think I would find someone so completely perfect for me. Someone who would make me happier than I ever dreamed I could be.

'Someone that would touch my life so profoundly & give me a whole new reason to breathe. But then I found you & realized that everything I anticipated you to be doesn't even compare to how incredibly amazing you are...'

The same day she gushed in another tweet: 'One day, someone will walk into your life & make you see why it never worked out with anyone else...'

In recent years Paris, who has made a name for herself as a global DJ, has been linked to billionaire Thomas Gross as well as DJ Afrojack, nightclub owner Cy Waits, former The Hills stars Doug Reinhardt and Brody Jenner, actor Jared Leto and rocker Benji Madden among others.

In 2006 the Simple Life star split from on-off boyfriend Greek shipping heir Stavros Niarchos.

Before that she was engaged to another shipping heir, Paris Latsis, from May 2005 to October 2005.

She was also engaged to model Jason Shaw who she dated from 2002 to 2003.

She talked of her dream of getting married in 2016, telling Closer: 'One day I'd love to get married and have kids,

'I see how happy Nicky is. That's the true meaning of life: to find the love of your life and start a family.'

Paris' younger sister Nicky, 34, married banking heir James Rothschild in 2015 and they have two children together; daughters Lily, one and Teddy born December 20.

Paris Hilton - a dating timeline

Chris Zylka (actor) - 2016 to 2017

Thomas Gross (businessman) - 2015 to 2016

Josh Upshaw (model) - 2014

River Viiperi (model) - 2012 to 2014

Afrojack (DJ) - 2011 to 2012

Todd Phillips (director) - 2011

Cy Waits (nightclub owner) - 2010 to 2011

Doug Reinhardt (baseball player) - 2009 to 2010

Cristiano Ronaldo (soccer player) - June 2009

Simon Rex (actor) - 2004 to 2008

Benji Madden (musician) - 2008

Jared Leto (actor) - 2008

Brody Jenner (reality star) - December 2007

Alex Vaggo (model) - 2007

DJ AM (DJ) - September 2007

Tyler Atkins (entrepreneur) - July 2007

Josh Henderson (actor) - March 2007

Andy Roddick (tennis player)- October 2006

Travis Barker (musician) - September 2006

Brandon Davis (oil heir) - July 2006

Stavros Nicharos (shipping heir) - 2005 to 2006

Paris Latsis (shipping heir) - 2004 to 2005

Fred Durst (musician) - 2004

Nick Carter (singer) - 2003 to 2004

Joe Francis (entrepreneur) - 2003

Deryck Whibley (musician) - 2003

Vincent Gallo (actor) - 2002

Jason Shaw (model) - 2002 - 2003

Rick Salomon (poker player) - 2000

Edward Furlong (actor) - 1999 to 2000

Randy Spelling (actor) - 1996

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Paris Hilton is engaged to boyfriend Chris Zylka

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Paris Hilton is engaged to boyfriend Chris Zylka after nearly two years of dating. The 36-year-old heiress confirmed the news on Tuesday on social media after the actor got down on one knee during a romantic trip to Aspen, Colorado over the weekend.

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This relationship was on/off over a number of years, startging in 2006. This report from Stuff.co was published in 2009. Tabloids revelled in the ups and downs of their partnership, as well as the discourse that came from frenemy Lindsay Lohan dating Stavros while he and Paris were on a break. Paris was still in her era of partying, public feuds and rumours of promiscuity.

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Paris Hilton is back with on/off boyfriend Stavros Niarchos.

The 26-year-old hotel heiress and the Greek shipping heir, 22, were spotted canoodling at various Miami Beach nightspots over the weekend.

A source who saw the lovebirds kissing at SET nightclub said: "They were all over each other. Paris looked like the cat that got the cream. She couldn't keep her hands off him."

The pair were also seen at Cameo nightclub on Friday and enjoying a romantic dinner at Forge restaurant.

Paris and Stavros are in Miami to attend the annual Art Basel art festival, while Paris has also been promoting her new fragrance Can Can at Macy's Dadeland mall.

It has also been reported Paris got into fights with fellow clubbers while out at SET and Cameo, but no police charges were filed.

A representative for The Simple Life star said: "Paris did not slap anyone in Miami."

Last week, it was claimed Paris was desperate to win back Stavros after it was reported he was dating her rival Lindsay Lohan.

Last year, Lindsay infuriated Paris after she was seen "making out" and "dirty dancing" with Stavros soon after he split from the hotel heiress.

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Paris Hilton is back with on/off boyfriend Stavros Niarchos. The 26-year-old hotel heiress and the Greek shipping heir, 22, were spotted canoodling at various Miami Beach nightspots over the weekend. A source who saw the lovebirds kissing at SET nightclub said: "They were all over each other.

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Paris' professional career is linked closely to her personal life. Her dating history was widely publicised during this period of her life, as she was focussing more on her music career, so reality TV and interviews took a backseat. The coverage of her dating history was expansive even from the start of her career as a teenager (especially Rick Salomon, who released 1 Night in Paris). Her other notable relationships were with Stavros Niarchos, Chris Zylka and Carter Reum.

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An impression of Hilton was performed on RuPaul's Drag Race,  touching on many of the more iconic and recognisable features of her star image. Notably her high-pitched babyish voice, which has been rumoured to be fake, and various catchphrases like "That's Hot", "Loves it" and "Sliving". These phrases were extremely marketable and recogniseable, as Hilton used them excessively from the very start of her career.

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Gottmik Paris Hilton - Snatch game (Rupaul's Drag Race season 13 episode 9)

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For years after there were numerous court battles, as Hilton stated she was "out of it" during the filming and that she did not approve of it being sold to the public. There was a settlement and in 2007 she was awarded $400,000 - reportedly she donated a percentage of this to charity. As Paris got older, she tried to distance herself from the tape - and the star identity that was built around it - and her maturity was only highlighted by her start in charity work, which she would begin to lean into more over the years.

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Paris Hilton is just a modest girl with a horrible case of bad luck.

So goes a federal lawsuit she filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, seeking to shut down the parisexposed.com Website and recoup the personal possessions-the very personal possessions-the owners are flogging online.

As of Tuesday morning, the nonsubscription areas of Paris Exposed remained accessible. However, several users who forked over the $39.97 membership fee report they have been unable to log in and view the bulk of the material.

Since launching Jan. 23, the site has offered looky-loos the chance to rifle through Hilton's diary entries, view her passport, check out phone numbers and email addresses for her A-list pals, peruse her medical records and credit card receipts, flip though personal photos of the heiress in various states of undress alongside Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis and model Jason Shaw (Hilton's former fiancé) and, of course, see more selections from her salacious videotape library.

Within the past week, many clips and images from the site, which Hilton's lawsuit called "one of the single most egregious and reprehensible invasions of privacy ever committed against an individual," have proliferated online via blogs and video-sharing sites.

Per a statement on Paris Exposed, the collection was purchased for $2,775 in November 2005 in a public auction after the heiress failed to pay a $208 monthly fee for the storage facility where her belongings were being kept.

At the time, Hilton's rep, Elliot Mintz, argued to no avail that the items were "illegally seized" due to a "bureaucratic foul-up" and that a moving company, not the 25-year-old tabloid fixture, was supposed to pay the fee.

In her lawsuit, Hilton claims that Nabil and Nabila Haniss snapped up her wares at auction and eventually sold them to Badria Persa, the creator of the offending site. The deal, worth a reported $10 million, was brokered by so-called sultan of smut David Hans Schmidt, who is not named in the complaint.

Hilton also claimed her representatives attempted to buy back her belongings for "generous" sums "over and above" what the Hanisses originally paid, though in her suit claims that each of her offers were rejected.

Attempts to reach the three defendants were unsuccessful. The Culver City-based Hanisses have an unlisted phone number and Persa has not responded to emails sent to him via the Paris Exposed site.

Hilton's suit says that she opened the 6,000-square-foot storage unit in 2004, shortly after she and sister Nicky (whose marriage certificate from her short-lived union to Todd Meister is available for viewing on the site) moved out of their L.A.-area home following a burglary.

To minimize interest in the sensitive materials contained in the unit, the storage container was placed in the name of a moving company. Hilton's accountants set up a deal in which they would write monthly checks to the movers, who would then hand off the rent to the storage facility.

When the checks failed to make the final trip between moving company and storage facility, Hilton's belongings were auctioned off.

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E! News - Paris Sues to Cover Exposure - Paris Hilton | Nicky Hilton

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Paris Hilton is just a modest girl with a horrible case of bad luck. So goes a federal lawsuit she filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, seeking to shut down the parisexposed.com Website and recoup the personal possessions-the very personal possessions-the owners are flogging online.

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However, as time went on, Paris and Perez began a public friendship. This in turn sparked gossip of the popular page being biased and being too kind to Paris. TheHollywoodGossip.com reports "When you name yourself after a promiscuous waste of space celebrity, what happens when that individual breaks the law and endangers fellow motorists? You ignore morality and defend her, of course. So is the case of gossip-monger, attention-starved Perez Hilton".

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When you name yourself after a promiscuous waste of space celebrity, what happens when that individual breaks the law and endangers fellow motorists?

You ignore morality and defend her, of course.

So is the case of gossip-monger, attention-starved Perez Hilton.

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The man (pictured with the felon, left) and his website came to the aid of Paris Hilton by backing up the drunkard's story that she only had a single margarita before being pulled over for drunk driving this week.

What Paris and close pal, Perez, fail to point out, however, is this: who cares?!? She registered a .08 blood-alcohol level, above the legal limit in California. That figure exists because it's proven that people reaching it are intoxicated and display poor reflexes/judgment while driving.

Reiterating that Hilton had a single drink proves only one thing: she's a harlot AND a light weight.

Don't get us wrong, Perez, we're all for the Firecrotch shirt and anti- Lindsay Lohan sentiment, but show an ounce of journalistic integrity please. Call out your idol when she messes up.

We'll be the first to do so if Britney Spears ever stops looking ugly.

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Biased Perez Hilton Defends Paris, Drunk Driving

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When you name yourself after a promiscuous waste of space celebrity, what happens when that individual breaks the law and endangers fellow motorists? You ignore morality and defend her, of course. So is the case of gossip-monger, attention-starved Perez Hilton.

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In her documentary, she bravely came out about the abuse she experienced at the Provo Canyon School.  Since its release, she has worked on supporting the charity Breaking Code Silence, supporting other survivors from the troubled teen industry. She has also used her name, power, and connections to begin to change laws on the issue.

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Paris had brief cameos in films like Zoolander, The Cat in the Hat, Wonderland and Snakes on a Plane. While these performances revealed little acting talent, this appeared to not be the aim of these cameos. As she continued her "famous for being famous" persona, her face in a film and her name in the credits kept her in public view.

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At 16 walking into the club with my fake ID. ⚡️ #TeenParis

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While the book mostly celebrates her money, what she does with it, and how the reader can find their "inner heiress", Paris also hints at what is behind the mask - and what would later be revealed more difinitively. She notes at the end of the introduction that to succeed one must “act

ditzy. Lose things. It throws people off and makes them think you’re ‘adorable,’ and less together than you really are". People underestimated Paris' work ethic, however the same year Confessions of an Heiress was released, Paris released a perfume line, a nightclub franchise and hair extensions. She was expanding the Paris Hilton Empire.

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Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Cheek Peek Behind the Pose by Paris Hilton with Merle GinsbergA Learjet's view of the fast, fun world of PARIS HILTON -- packed with enough photos, advice, and inside scoop to help anyone live a glamorous life.Paris Hilton has a lifestyle most girls dream about.

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In 2004, Paris' then partner Rick Salomon released a sex tape of the couple. This came out shortly after the first season of a simple life debuted, and affirmed the idea that Paris was promiscuous, vapid and talentless.

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DVD cover for Paris Hilton's sex tape 1 Night in Paris

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"I never received a dime from the video. It's just dirty money and (Salomon) should give it all to some charity for the sexually abused or something. To be honest, I don't even think about it any more."

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Shy, abstemious and industrious are not the adjectives most readily associated with Paris Hilton, international It girl, heiress and star of the most notorious home video ever made. But, she protests, why must she always be so misunderstood? On the release of her 2006 debut album, Piers Morgan found out...
Paris Hilton is the second most talked-about human being on the planet after President George W Bush. Fact. I know this because I spent an hour Googling people's names to see how many hits they get. Bush is way out in front at 362 million, Tony Blair 45 million, Nelson Mandela, Adolf Hitler and Princess Diana just over ten million each. And Paris Hilton gets 76 million. Think about that for a moment. More than Blair, Mandela, Hitler and Diana combined. How. Scary. Is. That? I didn't know what to expect when I was granted an audience with this global icon.

An American version of Jordan I guess, someone who makes millions of pounds without having any discernible talent other than a fit torso and an awesome ability for self-publicity (two traits that I can empathise with, obviously). Oh, and someone famous for that video of course - the one of her having sex with her then-boyfriend. In the flesh, Paris is as petite, pretty and impeccably well-mannered as one would expect of a Hilton heiress. We met in Beverly Hills, ostensibly to discuss her latest career move as a singer. A condition of the interview was that I heard her debut album first, which I did amid extraordinary security at Warner Records earlier that day.

"Can I have your mobile phone please," demanded a PR woman when I arrived.

"Why?" I asked.

"Because this is the most wanted album in the world and we don't want you secretly recording it."

I laughed, but on reflection perhaps it is - after all, 76 million hits on Google suggests that young Paris is definitely popular. The music is fairly bland, quite catchy, Eurotrashy stuff, mildly irritating but definitely not as annoying as Coldplay. And Paris was nowhere near as annoying as Chris Martin to speak to either. I mean, you have to love a woman who can look you straight in the face and explain why she deserves nine times as many hits on Google as Nelson Mandela. Don't you?

Piers Morgan: I looked your name up on Google this morning and you have more than 70 million hits while Nelson Mandela has ten million hits. Discuss.
Paris Hilton: Oh? The last time I looked I had over 90 million hits.

Either way, you appear to be bigger than Mandela. What do you think of that statistic?
Erm... [Looks very serious] I feel proud of myself actually that I have accomplished so much at such a young age [Paris is 25].

Yes, but come off it, Paris, Nelson Mandela is an iconic world figure. Is that how you see yourself?
I don't see myself as a world figure.

Well, you are internationally famous, aren't you?
Yes, but that's my job.

No offence, Paris, but I'm not entirely sure what you do.
I have my brand.

You have your what?
My brand. My fragrance line, my make-up, shoes, hotels. Products I design under my name. And I've made, like, $200m in the last year, while J-Lo's only made $150m so it's doing pretty, like, well.

So just to clarify, if I want to define your job I say you're a brand?
And a singer.

A singer? Is that what you'd put down under "occupation" on your passport application?
Yes. I love singing. I've been a model, and then an actress, and now I'm a singer.

Does it worry you that your job seems to change every five minutes?
No. I'm an Aquarius. And there's no one really like me.

Well there is actually - in Britain we have someone just like you called Jordan.
Looking completely disgusted] I am nothing like her.

What do you mean?
I'm completely flat-chested and she's got huge breasts. And I don't know what she does...

She was a model, sings a bit, goes to parties, has her own product lines and makes shedloads of cash.
OK. Well, she does a great job at what she does but we're not the same at all. [Long uncomfortable silence] I read some nice stuff she said about me so I don't want to criticise her. She seems to be a nice person who has a nice family, and these, like, huge breasts, which I definitely don't.

Do you admire her, then?
Erm... [Longsilence, stares at her salad] Well, it's great that she's a mum and has her brand.

Would you say you're a professional celebrity?
I don't like that word.

What, professional?
No, celebrity. It sounds lame. I guess if people recognise you and write about you, and talk about you, then you are. I've always been quite shy...

Is that supposed to be a joke?
I am shy, very shy.

But you dance on tables in nightclubs...
I don't dance on tables.

Yes you do, I've seen you.
No, I dance on the banquettes, just below the tables, because I don't want to be on the dance floor with everyone sweating on me. It's gross.

I thought the whole point of clubbing was to get horribly sweaty?
No, I hate sweat. It grosses me out.

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Born an heiress to the Hilton fortune, Paris Hilton started being recognised as a regular at popular and exclusive New York clubs, A-List parties and the general social scene. This began as early as 14, but towards the late 1990's she garnered more attention from the tabloids.

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Gisele was there, lounging up in the V.I.P. section, neon lights from the dance floor flickering off her long brown body. Ben Stiller was filming her with a digital camera, part of research, he said, for an upcoming part as a male model. Carmen Kass and Frankie Rayder were laughing.

The hip-hop kids were dancing. It was the night of the awards ceremony for the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and the after-party was at Saci, the new nightclub near Times Square. The place was full of models and the beautiful kids who make the scene, all planning on blowing up like their friend James King; they were talking about how she's starring in a Jerry Bruckheimer film with Ben Affleck that's being shot this summer. "She still talks to us, so far," one kid said, "but we'll see." "She's going to hook me up with her agent," said another. They danced, throwing their hands around like rappers. About one o'clock, a tall, blonde, ghostly girl with haunting blue eyes was seen drifting around in what looked like an expensive costume for an Austin Powers movie. It was a sequined Union Jack skirt, a micro-mini. Everyone looked. "Nicky!" said the paparazzi. It was Nicky Hilton, heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune, age 16. The photographers swarmed over her. "Isn't it a school night?" someone said. "She's trying to be Paris," observed one girl. Paris was Paris Hilton, Nicky's 19-year-old sister.

Someone asked her what she was wearing. "It's all Dolce," Nicky said, smiling, showing off the matching heels. Underneath a tight white button-down she wore a black bra. "Nicky!" said the paparazzi. "Here!" Hand on hip, Nicky did a runway turn, like some schoolgirl in front of her bedroom mirror-except this was real. Flash. Nicky's sidekick for the evening, heiress Casey Johnson-as in Johnson Johnson-stood nearby, managing to look like a character from Dynasty. "If I were their parents, I would kick their ahsses," said an older Italian gentleman in Aristotle Onassis eyeglasses. He mentioned that he recently spent time with Paris Hilton in Paris. "She said to me, I am American royalty!' This is the seester? She is 16? She looks 26! She learns everything from ... the seester!" People whispered. Nicky held up a bottle of Piper-Heidsick champagne, then took a sip of it through a shiny straw. The photographers loved it. Her picture from that night turned up a few days later in the "Styles" section of the Sunday New York Times, surrounded by shots of models and movie stars and fashion designers.

On a very hot day in June, the Hilton sisters are having lunch with their parents at the family house in Southampton. It's down a long road flanked by white potato fields-a giant Dutch Colonial home inside a gated development, with a yard bigger than a prep-school playing field. "It's the big boys with the new green stuff out here," says a social-minded taxi driver. Conrad Hilton, the Hilton girls' great-grandfather, bought his first hotel in 1919, but the Hilton family seems forever plagued by a crisp taint of new money. Conrad was the son of a general-store owner from San Antonio, New Mexico. His first hotel was nothing more than a flophouse for oil-field roustabouts. Even after his success, he never did well in society. A Trumpian figure, he palled around with celebrities (he seemed close to Ann Miller) and went dancing with assorted L.A. showgirls. He opened his new hotels by dancing something called the varsoviana in the ballrooms. His second wife was Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian beauty queen. Everybody told him she was a gold digger. "Glamour, I found, is expensive," wrote Conrad in his autobiography, Be My Guest, which graces the nightstand of every Hilton hotel room in the world. Rick Hilton-grandson of Conrad, father to Paris and Nicky-is sitting on the wide wooden side porch, staring hard at some begonias. He has a glass of ice water in his hand; he looks a bit sunstruck. He's a tall, athletic man in a pair of khaki shorts and a wild print shirt, like a college boy. At 43 years old, he has the air of a character from Hemingway, angered by something. He tries to smile. "Hello." He stands and grimaces resignedly. "I'll go get them." There's the smell of smoke. Someone named Paul is cooking chicken on an outdoor grill. Someone named Josie brings a bowl of ice and puts it on a picnic table next to Key-lime pie and fruit and salad. Everybody moves slow, and looks a little tired. Now the mother, Kathy Hilton, bursts through French doors, clicking across the porch in a cheek-high Lili Pulitzer skirt and Sergio Rossi sandals. She has on a kooky, flowered hat. "You're here!" She's trying to seem upbeat. She's a chronic good sport. Kathy Hilton is only 39 ("I've been doing this kid thing a long time!") and has the toned, cute look of a former head cheerleader to Rick's football captain. They met through friends in L.A. when she was 15 and he 19. "Yap! Yap!" The two champagne-colored Pomeranians start barking in unison for no apparent reason. "Dolce!" says Kathy. "Sebastian!"

The first Pomeranian is named after the fashion designer; the second one is named after the boy in Cruel Intentions who takes a girl's virginity in order to win a bet that will allow him to sleep with his stepsister. The dogs belong to Paris. We sit down at the porch table, set for five, and Kathy says she doesn't like having reporters around. (Later she'll mention that there's a security guard waiting to remove me if at any time that becomes necessary.) Paris Hilton alights on the porch. She has sleepy, unnaturally blue eyes, and looks as if she'd be hot to the touch. She looks like a 1930s movie siren, all sparkly warm blonde glow. She sits down and smiles wanly, winningly. She's wearing a white T-shirt, jeans, and a pair of four-inch-high Lucite sandals that look as if they would be worn by streetwalkers on the planet Zorg. The topic of Leo comes up. "We hang out at parties," Paris says softly. "He's a nice guy, but as far as the story that I-" Kathy interrupts: "Did you see the story? I mean, a full page in the National Enquirer? We were harassed! We had camera crews waiting downstairs"-at the Waldorf Towers, the Hiltons' home in New York City-"because it said that he"-he is Leonardo DiCaprio-"would come up to the apartment and whatever. The paparazzi stand outside Paris's house in L.A.-they waited for her at the airport! "It said they had a big fight in a taxi, so I called Paris and said, What's this?' And she said, (A) I have not been to New York in nine months, and (B) I have never had a fight with him, and (C) I have never been in a taxi with Leonardo DiCaprio!' Now, what does that tell you?" Kathy giggles; she giggles a lot. "Paris the Heiress,'" says Kathy, mentioning one way the press refers to her daughter. "I tease her about that. My friends call and say, Is this Mrs. It?' because they call her the It' girl." Her sons, Barron, 10, and Conrad, 6, were excited to see Paris in the Enquirer. "The boys said, Paris is marrying Leonardo DiCaprio?' And I said, No, no. Where do you think they get their stories from?' I guess everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame, and they want to be heard, and they wanna talk and chat, and I see people at parties doing this and I think to myself, What are you doing?" "People think I'm just this party girl," says Paris. "Well, I'm not like that. I don't just go to parties. I wake up in the morning and go to auditions. I was going to go to college, but then I decided to take a year off. They were mad." Her voice trails off, and she wears a little smile. "She knows she's going to have to start supporting herself," Kathy says. "She's finally figuring that out." In fact Paris has just finished shooting an independent feature called Sweetie Pie, a teen thriller. She plays Sweetie Pie. "Basically, I'm killed, like, right in the beginning.... But what I'd really like people to know is that I'm working on fund-raising for breast cancer," Paris continues softly, "'cause my grandmother is sick." "Well, then, speak up!" Kathy says, her voice suddenly tremulous. She has been devastated by her mother's illness. "I'm trying to," Paris says smoothly, "but you're always interrupting me." Kathy grows quiet. The Hilton boys are in the living room blasting a CD. "Do you believe in life after love?" asks Cher.

Of all the girls in gossip land, people gossip the most about the Hilton sisters. Perhaps that's just the price of being blonde, beautiful, rich, and spirited. "They live very colorful lives," says Jason Binn, who, as publisher of Hamptons magazine, knows some of the social territory occupied by the Hilton sisters. "They're little stars. They've become names. To them it's like a job. I believe they wake up every morning and say, O.K., where am I supposed to be tonight?'" Maybe Paris's habit of being out there has helped her professionally: she has just signed with T Management, Donald Trump's modeling agency. A friend describes how Paris behaves when she enters a hotel belonging to the family, which includes the Waldorf-Astoria: "She'll, like, roll up to the Waldorf like snap, snap to the desk clerk: You give me a key' ... with that glare in her eye, like she's Zsa Zsa Gabor or something. Grabs the key out of their hand, like: Tell them to send up room service right now!'" And then there's the supposed rivalry with the Schnabel sisters-Stella, 17, and Lola, 19, daughters of the painter Julian Schnabel. It's like something out of Edith Wharton. "She and Nicky are like partners in bitch crime," the friend continues. "They have an ill competition with the Schnabel girls. They do not like each other. It's like battle of the society sisters: Oh, we both had our pictures in the Post by the time we were 14!' ... It's a notorious rivalry, like: Can you believe the dress she's wearing? I would not be caught dead in that.' It's like, who looks the oldest at the youngest age, and who got into Spy bar first, and this and that ... " "There are people that get jealous and they say Nicky is a snob or Paris is a snot," says Kathy Hilton. "I know I've heard it, but I think they're pretty sweet kids." And while the girls may be sweet, their mother also sees something else: "Star is her nickname," Kathy says of Paris. "We call her Star." "Paris is a little lost," says a friend of Kathy's. "Paris is a good time," says Asher Levin, the director of Sweetie Pie. "Her character was close to home for her," says Cisco Adler, producer of Sweetie Pie. "She's a young party girl who gets sucked into the L.A. party scene and grew up a little too fast." "I've seen them out at night, and it's not something their parents would take well," says one girl socialite.

The River Club in New York hosted a sweet-16 party in 1998 for debutante Marissa Bregman, a friend of Nicky's. It was covered by a reporter from the New York Times "Styles" section, and the whole story ended up as a star vehicle for Nicky. It seems that Nicky and her good friend Olympia Scarry took over, grabbing boys off the dance floor and kissing them. And not everything made it into the Times's account, says Patricia Eden, the River Club's membership secretary. "There were a lot of other things that took place that I'm not going to discuss on the phone," she says, hanging up. Kathy doesn't like such talk, and she doesn't quite believe it when the Post's "Page Six" runs an item saying Paris was doing a karaoke version of a Madonna song at the Moomba club in Manhattan wearing a coat over fishnet stockings, a see-through camisole, and a thong. "Oh, absolutely not!" Kathy says. "The girls were singing Madonna at one of the new places in the city, and it was a lingerie party, and I know exactly the outfit Paris was wearing, and it was a little short thing with a little fur that goes around it and little shorts that go under it. It wasn't a G-string! Paris is the most modest girl." "It's like all she wants to do is become famous," says one friend, "to wipe out the past, to become somebody else." "That's every night for Paris-jump up on a table and dance, go to Dublin's Monday night, go to Guy's Bar on Tuesdays, Playboy Mansion all the time, Las Palmas on Wednesday.... At some point you must not be having fun, but I think she is, glittering like a disco ball. She's ambitious for attention," says another friend. Causing talk in polite society is something of a Hilton-family tradition. Everyone talked in 1941, when Conrad Hilton tried to buy the Plaza-only to find himself squeezed out by competitors who couldn't bear to see the place go to a "tumbleweed." (He showed 'em eight years later, when he purchased his dream property, the Waldorf-Astoria on Park Avenue.) And in 1950 and 1951, there was more talk, with the scandalous eight-month marriage of Conrad Nicholson Hilton Jr.-the son of Conrad-known as Nicky, and beloved 18-year-old movie star Elizabeth Taylor. At the time of their divorce proceedings, she said he had told her to go to hell; later, she said he had abused her, physically and mentally.

Back at the house in Southampton, we're eating chicken. We're all at the table, Rick, Kathy, Paris, and Nicky, whose long pale legs flow out of a pair of tiny dark shorts. She's picking at a huge plate of food. "Right now I'm also working on recording an album with this guy Romeo in L.A.," Paris is saying. "He likes to just go by Romeo,'" Kathy interjects. "That's L.A. for you!" Romeo is Ray Antonio, a producer who has worked with Prince, Mariah Carey, and Christina Aguilera. He was introduced to Paris by the people in L.A. who are making an independent documentary film called Guest List Only. It started out being about a bunch of L.A. club girls, but now it's mainly about Paris. And now Romeo is in the film. Rick Hilton looks up from his plate and asks, "What are Eminem's big songs?" Paris brightens. "Eminem? He's so funny-he's hysterical." "Eminem?" Kathy says. "Conrad has the CD, Dad," says Nicky. "Remember? You got mad." "No one has a style like his, and no one's gonna copy him, either, 'cause he will totally embarrass them!" says Paris. "Well, I guess I missed all that," Kathy says. "Does Puff Daddy perform a lot?" Rick ventures on. "What is his big song?" Kathy looks exasperated. "Well, would ya know him if you tripped on him?" Rick thinks a moment. "No." Next topic of conversation: Puffy's legal troubles-the gun charges, bribery, assault. "Well, just because you're a celebrity doesn't mean you shouldn't get in trouble if you do something," Paris says. Nicky laughs. "Oh, yeah, celebrities think that all the time," Kathy says quickly. "You keep interrupting me," Paris tells her mother. There's a long silence. Nicky laughs again, dryly and somewhat mysteriously. "There are some people, I guess," continues Paris, "who feel they can get away with anything-" "This is just so ironic," scoffs Nicky. Kathy giggles nervously. "We were having this conversation last night," she says. No one says anything for a while. The silence is deafening. I say, "Your eyes are so blue, Paris." "Yeah," says Paris. "They're contacts." Nicky says, "Mine are real." "We're doing a cosmetics line together," Paris says. "We're calling it Paris and Nicky. My mom is really handling all that." "Well," Kathy says, "they were always beading bracelets and jewelry and doing T-shirts; then they started seeing people were really out there going ahead and going for it! And I said, Look, people are out there doing it,' and the girls would be like, But, you know, I'm embarrassed,' and I'd say, Look, if you don't take your art and go and show it off, then nobody's ever gonna see it!'" Nicky laughs again. "Are you and Paris close?" I ask her. Nicky nods a little. Paris says, "Very." "What do you like to do together?" "Paris and Rick and I play a little golf in Los Angeles," says Kathy. "Nicky and I are more the shoppers. Ice-skating and skiing-we like to go skiing, we like Tahoe-" Rick says, "Vail." Paris says in a baby voice, "I like going to pet stores with my dad, ever since I was little." Her unreal eyes are fixed on her father. "We go in and we buy a puppy." Suddenly Nicky shrieks. She jumps up and starts flailing all over the porch like a pony that's been shot with a BB gun. A dark beetle has landed on her.

When the Hilton sisters moved from L.A. to New York in 1996 (their father was opening a New York branch of his real-estate office, Hilton Hyland), the transition wasn't easy. "New York and L.A. are very different," Paris says. "I cried. I thought I was gonna hate it here." "I cried," Nicky says gloomily. "Everything was, like, different. Like when I was in L.A. in seventh grade we would just all sit home on a Friday night and watch movies and, like, make up dances, and in New York there's, like, house parties and boys ... " Friends from L.A. say Paris started going out when she was 13, claiming she was 22 and getting away with it. Her friends were what someone calls other "kids of": Nicole Ritchie, daughter of Lionel; Kidada Jones, daughter of Quincy; Brent Shapiro, son of Robert; Bijou Phillips, daughter of John. In New York, at 15, she persuaded her parents to put her in the Professional Children's School alongside Macaulay Culkin and Christina Ricci. "Paris went to interview at Sacred Heart," Kathy says, "and said, Mom, I'm not going to an all-girl school!'" Something didn't work out at the P.C.S. "There were kids there who were serious ballerinas," says Kathy, by way of explanation-and so in her junior year Paris transferred to Dwight, a private school on Central Park West. (Certain Manhattan private-school kids joke that Dwight is an acronym for "Dumb White Idiots Getting High Together.") Paris didn't like Dwight either. "She knew no one at that school," says her mother. "I am telling you, I don't think she bonded with one person. She had us, she had people from L.A." "Paris was sort of more sophisticated. She was different from everybody else," says a Dwight classmate. "But she was always, like, really nice. Her parents were always traveling. She looked like a Barbie doll, and other kids didn't know how to react to it." The kids she seemed to bond with in New York were a different crowd-"much richer," says one of them, who refers to his circle as "the trustafundians." "You're talking about Sokoloffs, Radziwills, Steinbergs, Tisches, and Saudi princes' kids." Toward the end of her senior year at Dwight, Paris "vanished," says a classmate. "No one saw her anymore at school and there was no explanation." So people started to talk. Saying that she had run away. It seemed that Kathy Hilton preferred to answer some of the more delicate questions about Paris on her daughter's behalf. Asked about Paris's quick exit from school, Kathy says in a phone interview, "Well, you know what?" A pause. "She never got friendly with anybody at Dwight. And Paris had a 3.8 average. She's very, very smart.... We left that school because we had a stalker," she says, now with some anger creeping into her voice. "That's why we decided to stay at the hotel"-the Waldorf Towers-"because the security's so good there. That's why we have the security we have, because, you know, she's an attractive girl being followed, being stalked, and I think when you're attractive and people recognize you and your picture comes out here and there -it was the most frightening thing I've ever gone through. It was so scary. He was a random guy that waited. "And literally it started happening two months before school was out, and we did everything you could think of. It was her senior year, yep, she graduated with homeschooling. We pretended that we went here and there. We said, Oh, she went off there,' and the truth is, we spent some time in London, at the London Hilton. We brought the tutor with us.... "We were getting really weird things in the mail, things are being sent to the corporate office, things are being sent to our old address in Los Angeles.... It was very, very scary, and Paris is a sweet kid.... It's just been awful, it's been awful." She sounds very upset. "You have no idea the security we have around. We never let people know what we have had to spend on security on top of the wonderful security the Waldorf has ... O.K.?" She sounds determined. "We have people trailing everywhere the girls go. There is no way for one second that people are not trailing them and watching every single move they make. We know exactly who, what, where, when." Now suddenly, again, she's talking about Leo. "We got called by Inside Edition, or one of those crazy TV shows, on how he's been up to the apartment, and I said, Let me tell you something: my husband and I spend a fortune to know exactly what's going on, and I have never met this kid, I don't know him, he's never been up to the Waldorf Towers.' Nobody gets in my apartment that it's not written down, the time that you walked in, the time that you leave. We go though a drill like you have no idea, because I am so scared."

At the Southampton house, on the porch in the sun, we've finished eating Key-lime pie. "It's just so nice," Kathy's saying, "because the girls didn't used to get along that well, and now they really love each other. They'll run up to each other's room and say, Oh, let me share that T-shirt or that hair gel-" Paris and Nicky look at their mother. "Hair gel?" says Nicky. And she laughs her arid laugh. Kathy says, "You know, Nicky's at this point in life where she's embarrassed by everything. She looks at me like I'm crazy, she gets embarrassed." "You embarrass me," says Nicky. I mention that Nicky seemed very poised at the party at Saci the other night. "Well, you know, I always raised them to be exposed, and to be a part of everything," Kathy says. "They'd come down in their pretty little pink dress with the ribbon and say good night." Paris says in her baby voice, "I used to say, How is your sir?'" Kathy and Nicky start laughing. "Why are you guys always laughing at me?" says Paris, wounded. "Did you hear what you just said?" says Nicky. "How is your sir?' " "I said that when I was, like, three years old!" says Paris. "Honey, I love you, oooooh!" says Kathy, watching Paris pout. She adds, "Star just does what she wants." Paris frowns. "I don't even care." Nicky's still laughing. "Mom told me I said that-I can't even remember it!" says Paris. "Ooooh," says Kathy, still laughing. "Mom," says Paris. Paris tells me then that she has to pay her own parking tickets out of her allowance from her parents, while "some kids are like, Oh, I sent it to my grandparents' office.'" "There's too much money given to these kids these days and it spoils 'em," says Kathy, "and some of these parents have big problems! And you know what? They wonder why. Whoever reads this is gonna know exactly what I'm talking about."

Everyone else goes inside to cue up a video of Paris as a baby, leaving Nicky and me on the porch. "Are there videos of you too?" I ask. She shrugs. "What kind of music do you like?" She says, "Hole." The two little Hilton boys, Conrad and Barron, come up to the table. They're blond like their sisters, tanned and red-lipped and slightly sweaty from running around barefoot in the sun. "What do you think of your sisters?" I ask 10-year-old Barron. "Mean," he says, picking at grapes. Nicky laughs. "Mean?" "One is, one isn't," says Barron. "Which one?" "Nicky." Nicky shrugs. "Nicky's not mean," I say. "Yes, she is," says Barron. "Because on the phone," says Conrad, the six-year-old, "she said that Barron's lame." "And she says bad words," Barron says. Nicky's staring at the yard. "And I saw her smoke once," says Conrad. "I saw you smoke in a picture." "In a picture?" Nicky says absently. Conrad says, "Yeah." Nicky smiles. "O.K." "She smokes," Barron confirms. "Oh," I say, "I don't believe that." "She does," Conrad says. "We saw her." "And she says bad words," Barron says. Conrad singsongs, "A lo-ot. And she says the h-word." "What's the h-word?" I ask. Conrad stage-whispers: "Hell." Nicky says, "Go away." Conrad shouts at her: "You said it." "And she beats us up," Barron says. Nicky says, "Oh!," and runs off the porch. "She always does," says Conrad. "And she blackmailed Barron." "What is blackmail?" I ask. "Like when you say, I'll tell on you if you don't do something," says Conrad. "Yeah, remember?" says Barron. "And she banged my head on the floor, and it hurt." His eyes are frank and wide. "No, really?" I say. "That's not nice." "I know," Barron says. "She always does stuff.... Would you put that in the magazine?" Nicky returns, standing behind someone named Robert, a large black man who does security for the Hiltons. "Come with me," he says to the youngsters. They scamper away. Baby Paris!" Kathy, flowered hat still planted on her head, is clapping. We're in the Hiltons' big red living room watching a grainy video of Paris toddling around in some ancient apartment of Rick and Kathy's on East 67th Street. Kathy has feathered hair. Rick is cooing. Paris leans against an armchair, rocking back and forth on four-inch heels, amused, cat-eyed, watching her parents watching her on television. "Isn't that a nice girl?" Rick baby-talks on-screen. Next comes Kathy's on-screen voice: "Get me a flower off the bed, honey. Paris, can you get me a flower, please? I want the flower, a red flower." Rick is holding the camera, and he murmurs, "She knows she's not supposed to touch it." Nicky is in the back of the living room, watching Paris watching their parents watching her ... A darling girl, platinum blonde, face a perfect cameo of innocence. She's wearing pajamas, top open; she seems to have on mdcara. "A little mdcara and a little eye shadow," says Kathy. "I was a kid." They keep fast-forwarding and rewinding, trying to find some favorite footage of Baby Paris in Central Park. "This was why we call her Star, 'cause she was the first baby," says Kathy. But they can't find it. Rick gives up and turns off the set. Kathy is looking through a scrapbook. She seems to have hit on something important. "Oh, here!" she says. "I found these for the girls." They are publicity stills of a child actress, black-and-white photos from the 1960s. "I thought these might be fun to look at," she says. It's Kathy herself, at age eight, on the set of the television sitcom Family Affair, alongside Buffy, Jodie, and Mr. French. "Remember Mr. French?" says Kathy, giggling. Long before she was Kathy Hilton, Kathy was Kathy Richards, a child actress who played Buffy's friend. Her little sister, Kim, was the star. "Kim Richards," says Kathy. "She did Escape from Witch Mountain. And Nanny and the Professor."

That night, Paris and Nicky go out clubbing together in Southampton. There's a party at Conscience Point for the rapper Jay-Z's Roc-A-Wear clothing line. They arrive dressed like blonde Barbie twins, in blue and pink satin miniskirts (Patricia Field, Dolce Gabbana), with gold belts slung low around their teenage hips. They're wearing blond ponytails and sweatbands. It's very "Let's Get Physical." "You always want to have them at your party," says Noah Tepperberg, a young Manhattan party promoter. "They're two fabulous young girls-they're little divas, they know how to work a room." "From L.A. to New York, I see you at every party," says Damon Dash, the head of Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella record label. He gives Paris a kiss on the cheek at the front door. "Are you twins?" says an attractive older lesbian, approaching. Nicky makes a face. Jay-Z doesn't show, but a selection of near celebrities do-David Charvet of Baywatch; Ted Field, the head of Interscope Records; Lulu Johnson, daughter of designer Betsy Johnson; and Shoshana Lonstein, the Jerry Seinfeld girlfriend turned clothing designer. But Paris and Nicky are the ones being followed by a camera crew, the crew from the Guest List Only documentary, which has come all the way from L.A. for this.

The camera light shines in the faces of anyone who crosses the Hilton sisters' path. People squint. Paris and Nicky take the middle of the dance floor; the light is trained on the sisters. The hip-hop kids dance around them. "Hip, hop, the hippee, the hippee to the hip hip hop-" Paris is winding her fist in the air, rapper-style, singing along with the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight," like all the other kids. The sisters are like skinny twin dancing bubble-gum Barbie-doll Marilyn Monroes, shaking it. The spotlight is on them. Nicky dances around Paris, Paris against Nicky. Noah Tepperberg comes out of nowhere and dances in between them, grinding against Nicky. Now he'll be in the documentary, too. I ask Paris what she thinks I should say in the story about her. "Just tell 'em I'm a teenager," she says, smiling. "Tell 'em I'm a normal kid."

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Hip-Hop Debs! A Night (and Afternoon) with Paris and Nicky Hilton

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Gisele was there, lounging up in the V.I.P. section, neon lights from the dance floor flickering off her long brown body. Ben Stiller was filming her with a digital camera, part of research, he said, for an upcoming part as a male model. Carmen Kass and Frankie Rayder were laughing.

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Despite receiving backlash at the time, retrospectives celebrate Paris' ability to transform her image. Of course she wasn't simply a dumb blonde stereotype. She was a businesswoman.

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Her breakout into the mainstream came in the form of an early reality tv show "The Simple Life", in which Paris and her best friend at the time Nichole Richie (another celebutante) are placed on a farm in rural Arkansas, and struggle to acclimate to the farm life - playing up fear of mud, inabilitiy to do chores, and trying to seduce all the men they encounter. This cemented Paris as an iconic representation of the ditsy dumb blonde. A large focus of her image is on her money - while some celebrities rise to fame for their talents or skill, Paris' main draw in this era was her princess attitude

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The Simple Life stopped filming after its fifth season as the two main celebutantes had a public falling out, sparking rumours and extreme tabloid attention. It was later revealed that the pair fell out after Nicole aired One Night in Paris at a party. The tape followed Paris for many years, and its existence made it near impossible for her to separate herself from the addict party girl image of her youth.

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The REAL Story behind Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie's Split: The Simple Life, Lies, and Videotapes

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She soon cemented herself as the scandalous, promiscuous and drug-fuelled celebutante that was maintained during this era

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Infamous gossip blog Perez Hilton initially focussed extreme negative attention towards Paris as well as her friends Lindsay Lohan and Vanessa Hudgens.

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I can't believe it's already been 2 years since the release of my documentary, "This Is Paris" and since I broke my silence about the verbal, mental, and physical abuse I endured on a daily basis at Provo Canyon School. It's been such a healing journey advocating for change and I will never stop using my voice and platform to end institutional abuse. Please watch my documentary on Youtube to learn more about my journey and the Troubled Teen Industry ❤️ #IStandWithSurvivors #SICAA 

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I can't believe it's already been 2 years since the release of my documentary, "This Is Paris" and since I broke my silence about the verbal, mental, and physical abuse I endured on a daily basis at Provo Canyon School. It's been such a healing journey advocating for change and I will never stop using my voice and platform to end institutional abuse. Please watch my documentary on Youtube to learn more about my journey and the Troubled Teen Industry ❤️ #IStandWithSurvivors #SICAA
♬ The People using my sound have more likes than me - Geometry Fox

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After years of public shaming and humiliation, Paris' final step to cleanse her public image was her tell-all documentary. With the release of "This is Paris", she delved into her past - the tape, her fake voice, and her past failed relationships - as well as discussing the future. Settling down, her desire for children and marriage and adopting a more wholesome attitude. She also discusses the abuse she experienced as a teenager.

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"And so rather than being an alpha female, as theorists of celebrity would have it, Paris is America’s national cartoon heroine, a caricature who allows us to mock the undeserving and decadent rich we have scorned since the time of Tom Paine."

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"In this way, Paris Hilton’s image contributes to long-standing and destructive tendencies in America that encourage people to think that they too can get access to such riches—through luck, fame, and/or hard work. It encourages people to be satisfied with the status quo for the time being, instead of inspiring people to act on and demand change in the present. "