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PARIS’S NOT-SO-SIMPLE LIFE

Includes pop, cops, feuds and dudes (same, tbh…)

February 2002
Juicy Couture tracksuits
and Von Dutch trucker hats. June 2003
Hilton’s looks are so iconic Hilton appeared
she could open a museum. in early ’00s films
Of course, the most such as Zoolander,
unforgettable of them all but it was her starring
was the Julien Macdonald role in leaked sex tape
chain-mail dress she wore “1 Night In Paris”
to her 21st birthday. alongside ex-boyfriend
Rick Salomon that
skyrocketed her to
December 2003 fame. Ooh la la.
– August 2007
Somehow, it’s been
17 years since The
Simple Life first aired July 2004
and heiresses Hilton After seven months
and Nicole Richie together (and his-
– whose adoptive and-hers tattoos),
father is singer Lionel Hilton and former
– were stripped of Backstreet Boy Nick
their cash and sent Carter parted ways.
to live and work in “Our relationship
the real world. The totally was based on
ultimate ’00s LOLs. distrust,” said Carter.
“She didn’t trust me.
I didn’t trust her.”

August 2006
When Hilton shared
her self-titled debut November 2006
album, some saw it Fourteen years later
as a joke. But the and we are still living
joke was on them in the midst of a Paris
when the record Hilton and Lindsay
reached number six on Lohan feud. In 2018,
the US Billboard charts Hilton threw fresh
and sold over 600,000 shade at LiLo claiming
copies worldwide. she gatecrashed the
always say the best things.” Such as? “When I was a baby, a now-legendary photo

psychic told my grandmother that I was going to be one of taken of her, Lohan
and Britney Spears
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one day.” Fair enough.“Other psychics have said I’m related Only Hilton can make as “The Holy Trinity”
a mugshot look like a
to Marilyn Monroe and things like that. My mom just cover shoot, as proved back in 2006.
did one of those 23andMe DNA kits and I am related to here in 2010. She was
Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth. That’s what it said!” first arrested in 2006,
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for driving under the
Growing up in a dynasty like the Hiltons, she must have influence, before August 2019
met some amazing people. Hilton looks nonplussed. Wasn’t subsequent arrests Kim Kardashian,
whose friendship
in 2007 and 2010.
her mum friends with Andy Warhol? “Yeah, my mum was She’s been on good with Hilton goes way
friends with him and they would go out. I was one or two behaviour ever since. back to the mid-’00s,
admitted that Hilton
and I used to sit on his lap and draw. My nanny used to call launched her career
me Star and he loved that. He’d always go,‘This girl is a star.’ by taking her under
“I’ve met everyone, so no one has made me star-struck,” November 2019 her It-girl wing on
red carpets and the
she muses.“Except Madonna. I was in London at an awards Hilton and Chris Hollywood party circuit
show and she tapped on my shoulder and said,‘I’m with Zylka were caught up during a 2019 series
in the Great Celebrity
the same record label and I love Stars Are Blind; I love your Engagement of KUWTK. “I really
would wanna do
.
music’ I almost fainted. She’s been my idol since I was little. Movement of 2018, anything for her,” Kim
but after around two
That was the only time I’ve ever been nervous over anyone.” years and a $2 million told sister Khloé. “She
I’d almost forgotten about her stint as a pop star.Sadly we’ve rock, she called it off. literally gave me a
run out of time because, true to form, Hilton has a party to “I’m just really having career, and I totally
acknowledge that.”
go to – a dinner for Diddy’s 50th birthday, with the rest of the my ‘me’ time,” she
said. “It was [a]
,
Hilton clan. If that’s not “sliving it” I don’t know what is. ◆ whirlwind romance.”

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