Paris Hilton Biography
Name : Paris Hilton
Birth Date : 17 Feb , 1981
Birth Place : New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name : Paris Whitney Hilton
Height : 5' 8
Nationality : American
Profession : Model/Singer/Actor
Best Known As : Party-hopping Hilton Hotel heiress and star of TV's The Simple Life
Paris Whitney Hilton is the eldest child of real estate developer Richard Hilton and socialite Kathy Richards Hilton. Along with
sister Nicky and brothers
Barron and
Conrad, Hilton is one of multiple heirs to the
Hilton hotel fortune.Given the childhood nickname "Star" by her mother and grandmother, Hilton, who began modeling as a child at charitable functions, was born into acting stock. Her maternal grandmother was actress "Big"
Kathy Dugan, and aunts
Kim and Kyle Richards continue to earn film and television roles. Hilton is also related to
Zsa Zsa Gabor (who wed her great grandfather
Conrad Hilton), and can claim ties to
Elizabeth Taylor, who was briefly married to Hilton's great uncle
Conrad Nicholson Hilton Jr.Hilton spent her childhood moving from one luxury home to another. While living in the family's Beverly Hills mansion, she attended her freshman year of high school at the Marywood-Palm Valley School in California. When the Hilton family relocated to New York City in 1996, she continued her studies at the Dwight School. At this time, the family took up residence in a suite at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, and frequently vacationed at a
multi-million dollar home in the
Hamptons.
As East Coast transplants, Hilton and her sister regularly attended society functions, charitable events, fashion shows and A-list parties. The two soon became regulars on the red carpet, and a titillating 2000
Vanity Fair spread shot by famed photographer David
LaChapelle cemented their burgeoning fame.
Around this time, Hilton signed with
Donald Trump's modeling agency, T Management. She was soon seen in a flurry of campaigns for leading clothing designers such as Christian Dior and Tommy Hilfiger, as well as national publications. Hilton has since worked with other top agencies, including Ford Models Management and L
ondon's Model 1 Agency.Hilton, who courted regular media attention for her outrageous lifestyle, was
christened "New York's leading IT girl" in 2001. Short-lived romances with actor Leonardo DiCaprio and boxer Oscar de la Hoya—as well as callous comments directed at her peers—earned Hilton bad press, and further fortified her reputation for careless jet setting and hard-partying.
Hilton soon tried her hand at acting, making a cameo in
Zoolander, Ben
Stiller's feature-length spoof of the
modeling world. Over the next few years, she continued split her time between runways and movie sets, appearing in the 2002 horror flicm
Nine Lives. The following year, she acted in the feature films
Wonderland and
Cat in the Hat, and began work on her own small-screen reality series.
