BIOGRAPHY OF PARIS HILTON

Born: Paris Whitney Hilton
Date of Birth: February 17, 1981
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation: Socialite, model, actress, singer, fashion designer
Years Active: 2003 - present
Height: 5'8
Weight: 114 lbs.
website: http://www.parishilton.com/

EARLY LIFE

Born in New York City, Hilton is the oldest of four children of Richard and Kathy Hilton. She has a sister (Nicky) and brothers (Conrad & Barron). Her father is of German and Norwegian ancestry and her mother is of Italian and Irish ancestry.

On the maternal side of her family, she is a niece of two child stars of the 1970s, Kim Richards and Kyle Richards. Hilton was related by marriage to Nicole Richie's godmother, Nancy Davis when Nancy's brother Greg, married to Kim Richards.

Hilton's paternal grandparents are hotel chairman Barron Hilton, and his wife, the former Marilyn Hawley; Barron Hilton's parents were Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton and his first wife Mary Barron.

Hilton moved between several exclusive homes in her youth, including a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, Beverly Hills and the Hamptons. She attended her freshman year of high school at the Marywood-Palm Valley School in Rancho Mirage, California followed by the Dwight School in New York for her sophomore and junior years. Famously she went to school here with Lady Gaga. She was then transferred to the Canterbury School, in New Milford, Connecticut where she was a member of the hockey team. However, in 1999, she was expelled for violating the school rules. Hilton later earned her GED.

PERSONAL LIFE

Hilton was engaged to fashion model Jason Shaw from mid-2002 to early 2003. In 2003-2004 she had a relationship with singer Nick Carter. Later she was engaged to Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis, from May 29, 2005 to November 2005. Thereafter, she began dating another Greek shipping heir, Stavros Niarchos III, before breaking up in May 2006. In early 2008, she was spotted with Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden and in May, Hilton announced her intention to marry Madden during interview with television talk-show host David Letterman. The two broke up in November 2008, and "remain very good friends". She is currently dating The Hills star Doug Reinhardt. Hilton has also refered to her intention to marry Reinhardt, saying "He's gonna be my husband."

Hilton loves small dogs, and owns a Yorkshire Terrier and a female Chihuahua named Tinkerbell. Hilton is frequently seen carrying Tinkerbell at social events and functions and in all five seasons of television reality show The Simple Life. In 2004, Tinkerbell "authored" a memoir, The Tinkerbell Hilton Diaries. On august 12, 2004, Tinkerbell went missing after Hilton's apartment was burgled, and a $5,000 reward was offered for her safe return. She was found six days later. By December 1, 2004, Tinkerbell was again spotted with Paris Hilton at various events. Hilton was also purchased a make Chihuahua on July 25, 2007 from Pets of Bel Air in L.A.

A homemade sex video of Hilton and then-boyfriend Rick Salomon was leaked on the internet in 2003, later released as the DVD 1 Night in Paris despite attempted legal action. It appeared a week prior to the premiere of The Simple Life.

On December 20, 2008, around 4am, a man in hooded sweater and gloves entered Hilton's Mulholland Estates, Los Angeles home and stole $2 million dollars worth of jewelry and other items from her bedroom. Hilton was not home at the time and nobody was injured in the home invasion. There is speculation that it was an inside job.

DRIVING VIOLATIONS

In September 2006, Hilton was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol with a bloog alcohol content of 0.08%, the level at which it is illegal to drive in California. Hilton's drivng license was subsequently suspended in November 2006, and in January 2007 she pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge. Her punishment was 36 months probation and fines of about $1,500. On January 15, 2007, Hilton was pulled over for driving with a suspended license and signed a document acknowledging that she was not permitted to drive. On February 27, 2007 Hilton was caught driving 70 mph in a 35 mph zone, agsin with a suspended license. She also did not have her headlights on even though it was after dark. Prosecutors in the office of the Los Angeles City Attorney charged that those actions, along with the failure to enroll in a court-ordered alcohol education program, constituted a violation of the terms of her probation.

On May 4, 2007 Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in jail for violating her probation. Initially, Hilton planned to appeal the sentence, and supported an online petition asking California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for a pardon. The petition was created and organized on May 5, 2007. In response, various opponents started a counter-petition to maintain the sentence. Both petitions attracted tens of thousands of signatures. Hilton later switched lawyers and dropped her plans to appeal.

Hilton was required to begin her jail term on June 5, 2007 and checked herself into the Century Regional Detention Facility, an all-female jail in Lynwood, California after attending the MTV 2007 Movie Awards on June 3, 2007. With credit for good behavior, it was anticipated that Hilton would only serve 23 days of her 45-day sentence, however in an unexpected turn of events, L.A. Country Sheriff Lee Baca signed orders on the morning of June 7, reassigning Hilton to 40 days of home confinement with an electronic monitoring device due to an unspecified medical condition. On the same day that Hilton was released from jail, Judge Michael Sauer summoned her to reappear in court the following morning as the sentencing statement had explicitly said she would serve time in jail with "no work furlough. No work release. No electronic monitoring. At the hearing he declined to be briefed by Hilton's attorney in private chambers on the nature of her condition and sent her back to jail to serve out her original 45-day sentence. Upon hearing the sentence, Hilton shouted "it's not right!" and started screaming, requesting to hug her mother who was present int he courtroom. Concern about Hilton's condition led to her being moved to the medical wing of the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in L.A., and she was moved back to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood on June 13.

While in jail, Hilton was influenced by the clergyman minister Marty Angelo: Hilton referred to starting a "new beginning" during her interview with talk show host Larry King on June 28, 2007, two days after being released from jail. On June 9, 2007, Marty Angelo petitioned Sauer, asking to serve our the remainder of Hilton's jail sentence if the judge would release her to an alternative treatment program, but the petition was turned down.

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