It's easy to rationalize Paris Hilton's success as little more than a by-product of an iconic last name and an an inherited fortune. But underneath all the tawdry late nights, the boozy posturing and the blue-eyed boyfriends lies a shrewd businesswoman who has managed to transform her name and persona into a money-making machine. In just a few short years, Paris Hilton has graced screens both big and small, released an album and hit single, been the face of luxury brands and tabloids alike, and captivated a public hungry for celebrity and scandal. In an industry where over-exposure has replaced drug addiction as the new career killer, Paris has walked a fine line on her way to an eternal relevance that eludes even the most talented public figures. It really is amazing what some night vision and a little oral sex can do for a career.
Paris Hilton Quote
" People think I'm stupid. But I'm smarter than most people."
84 Sex Appeal
Calling Paris Hilton "gross" is such a popular activity it might as well be an Olympic sport. The gold medal would go to all the jealous girlfriends who wish their skin were that tanned, their stomachs that flat, their breasts that perky, and their boyfriends that fit. Silver would go to all the boys who claim that she's too fake, too ditzy and too loose for their high standards and steadfast morals. Bronze would go to all us realists who would clear our bank accounts, sell an organ and disown our family for just one night in Paris. Of course we'd get the medal just for showing up.
67 Success
Paris Hilton is a business woman for the blog generation, and her yoga pants-and-bikini top combo is the new pantsuit. Or something like that. Regardless of what we say about Paris or how many clever(?) insults we hurl her way, she's still the spoiled club girl who built a media empire founded on a sex tape, and that's more than we can say for her many imitators (we're talking to you, Kardashian). Paris Hilton the model has appeared in ad campaigns for Guess, Tommy Hilfiger, Christian Dior, and Marciano. Paris Hilton the television star brought us the Paris-centric reality shows The Simple Life and My New BFF. Paris the movie star (we use that term loosely) has appeared in House of Wax, The Hottie and the Nottie and a few other debacles not worth mentioning. Paris the singer released a self-titled pop album that featured the hit single "Stars are Blind" and silenced her critics, if only a second. She's sold perfume, hawked books and charged club owners thousands of dollars just to lick her Christian Louboutins. She's an ex-convict, an inadvertent porn star, a cunning ingenue, a villain to some, and a hero to others. She's the American dream on steroids, and we just can't seem to get enough.
Paris Hilton Biography
Paris Hilton Paris -- along with her sometimes-partner in crime, Nicky -- is the heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune estimated at $300 million, and was raised accordingly. Growing up the oldest of four siblings, Hilton moved between several homes, including a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in her native Manhattan, Beverly Hills and the Hamptons. She attended schools in Manhattan, California and Conneticut and befriended the likes of Nicole Richie and Kim Kardashian along the way. As a child, she always craved the spotlight and began modeling at charity events before signing a contract with Donald Trump's modeling agency, T Management when she was 19. She's been affectionately making us cringe ever since.
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