Paris Hilton:

I don’t want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

Hilton, whose great-grandfather Conrad started the global Hilton Hotel empire, was thrown to worldwide fame in 2003 when a video of her having sex with a former boyfriend was exposed all over the internet.

Paris Hilton’s latest biographer, spent more than a year studying the world’s most famous “celebutante”, says he just feels sorry for her.

She began to make a name for herself as a model, soon appearing in shows for designers such as Marc Bouwer and Catherine Malandrino.She is well known for her reality TV show The Simple Life.

Biographer Jerry Oppenheimer, author of House of Hilton - From Conrad to Paris: A Drama of Wealth, Power, and Privilege, said:

Hilton has made herself into the IT girl of this decade, attracting scores of admirers. Legal warnings from Hilton’s mother failed to stop the book and prompted family and friends to come out of the woodwork with their stories. He was surprised to find that Hilton’s grandmother was the “stage mother from hell”, pushing her daughter into a modeling and acting.

Paris Hilton has a knack to attract attention and always seems to be at the center of things. Sure, some people might feel that this isn’t much of a virtue, but Paris is a born self-promoter -despite her occasional disapprovals to the contrary.

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