Paris Hilton

2023 - 3 - 19

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Paris Hilton Book Review (BuzzFeed News)

Paris: The Memoir offers an intermittently compelling but ultimately frustrating look at the aughts It girl.

It’s the same diversion tactic she used when she was a little girl, who didn’t know she had ADHD, to when she was a celebrity in her early 20s, clowning the public with her act of the ditzy bimbo. In her memoir, Hilton demurs: “I said the worst things to and about the people I love most. Maybe that’s the point: The memoir is about the horrors she suffered as a teenager, rather than the trailblazing party life she led in the middle “in the throes of PTSD.” Healing, too, is nonlinear, a constant process. In 2000, Hilton and her sister Nicky participated in a September Vanity Fair profile featuring an iconic photo taken by David LaChapelle, in which Hilton flips off the camera in her grandparents’ whitewashed living room, channeling all her rage, the snarl of “fuck you” forming on her lips. After the police catch her on a Greyhound bus, a slick wad of a couple hundred dollars she “swiped” from her mother rolled up in her bun, she reflects: “Money meant hope. After the Vanity Fair photo shoot, Hilton channeled the unresolved anger and suffering of her past into a mysterious party-girl persona, a trashy hotel heir who’s gone off the rails, a silly blonde rich girl who has no idea of what’s going on in the world. Hilton’s parents decide to enroll her in a reform school in the wilderness in Utah. Eventually, she moves to New York City, where her family is living in the Waldorf Astoria hotel, and discovers her voracious desire for partying and the ecstatic and creative nightlife of the city. And yet, as someone who is both the product and creator of the influencer model of marketing and promotion, every word Hilton writes on the page is deliberate and calculated, vying to showcase her image to a complicit audience. “Given the choice between victim and influencer, Marilyn and I embraced our siren selves,” she writes, as it’s more appealing to think of oneself as an alluring femme fatale than a girl used and discarded for her inherent charm and beauty. In the book, Hilton writes that when her parents spotted their middle school–aged daughter kissing a grown man in the front seat of his SUV, they sent her to live with her grandmother in Palm Springs at the end of her school year. When Keeping Up With the Kardashians premiered in fall of that same year, the curvy and brunette Kim Kardashian replaced Hilton as the starring queen of reality TV.

Paris Hilton was the center of it all. Now she's shedding the ... (NPR)

Before the word "influencer" was a household term, before Instagram and TikTok allowed users to document every moment of their life in real time, ...

"I feel so lucky that I found him," Hilton told NPR of Reum, whom she married in 2021. She says it was the first time she "began a relationship of full disclosure." In the book, Hilton describes being dragged out of her bed in the middle of the night by two men and being flown across the country to attend a "therapeutic" school run by the now-defunct CEDU Educational Services. "When I got out of there, I made a promise to myself that I was never going to tell anyone about it. "I think it's so important for people to come out and be vulnerable and tell their stories, because life isn't perfect," said Hilton. "That was the first time that I really let those walls down that I had around my heart. Students were forced to participate in what Hilton called "raps," a nightly ritual where they were forced to insult and denigrate one another for hours. Hilton also shares more fond memories of her adolescence and tales that set her on a path that the culture would later deride as being "famous for being famous." "I've been doing this so long, even before there was a name for it," Hilton told NPR. In it, Hilton details an inappropriate relationship with a teacher when she was underage; sexual assault; and the abuse she experienced during years spent at boarding schools that were allegedly for "troubled teens." "And I feel that the past over two decades in this industry, my story has been told by other people. Hilton also gives her take on the modern day influencer, a title for which she thinks she deserves a fair share of credit.

'They stole my childhood': Paris Hilton on teenage trauma, sex tapes ... (The Guardian)

From the outside she was a flighty socialite living the easy life. But the It girl was a troubled teen who was sent away to 'behaviour modification' schools ...

“I was so grateful, and I just made a promise to myself that I was never going to talk about this. She explains that she was young and drunk at the time the slurs were recorded, and she has a later DUI conviction – with a short prison sentence – to back that up. “That was not the original premise of the film,” she says. She remembers it in a sweet detail, the waiter asking whether there was something wrong with her untouched food, and her saying: “Nothing, I just don’t like to eat in front of cute guys.” It’s so on-brand, the flighty, socialite shtick, but it also happened to be true – she thought he was cute, and then they ended up married. “So I opened up to her about it, and she just didn’t understand. When she was 14, she was groomed by a teacher at her school, and her parents came home to find her in a car on the drive, kissing a grown man. By the time she arrived at the final school, in Utah, it was routine for the kids to be given invasive and painful cervical exams as punishment; to be locked naked in solitary confinement for 24 or 48 hours; to be sedated on a whim, beaten on a pretext. “Move past the easy assumption,” she writes in her memoir, “that men are pigs and models are dumb. Hilton escaped three times: each time, she was caught and sent to a new institution that was worse. She’s speaking to me over Zoom from Los Angeles, and we’re talking about Paris: The Memoir – she looks on the screen much as she does on its cover: blond, glossy, flawless, features so strong and symmetrical that it makes her seem self-possessed and a bit remote, irrespective of what she’s actually saying. It would be natural to assume this was just the opportunity cost of her fame; the Shirley Temple of partying, she’s been red-carpeting so long that even if she’s younger than you – she’s 42 – it probably feels as if she’s lived longer. She was “going out, travelling, doing all these things just to not have to think about what I had been through”.

Paris Hilton Details Damage South Park Had On Her Mental Health (Screen Rant)

Socalite Pari Hilton opens up about the serious damage that South Park parody had on her mental health, even making her feel sick about one part.

[edgy gags, South Park's](https://screenrant.com/south-park-season-26-trailer-pilot-gag-return-explained/) Paris Hilton episode was a step beyond what the show typically explores. For South Park to mock her love of her dog is unfair, but going on to insult her sexuality is also insensitive. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hilton was severely impacted by the episode, and it even made her feel sick. After it aired, Hilton spent years pretending she hadn't seen the episode, but in her new book, Paris: The Memoir, she admitted to having watched it. After leaving in a limousine, Hilton's dog proceeds to shoot itself in front of her. [South Park](https://screenrant.com/tag/south-park/)'s parody of Paris Hilton had an effect on her mental health.

Paris Hilton breaks silence on her 'inappropriate relationship' with ... (Hindustan Times)

Paris Hilton has broken silence over his relationship with an eighth grade teacher in her book, Paris: The Memoir. She said he came to her home, and kissed.

Denying that would have jeopardized the family I hoped to have in the future at a time when I was healthy and healed." She expresseed her love and admiration for him, and their joy was multiplied when they welcomed their son Phoenix Barron via surrogate in February. In one particularly disturbing chapter, Hilton revealed an inappropriate relationship she had with her eighth-grade teacher at a Catholic school. During an appearance, she shared that she was anxious for her mom Kathy Hilton and dad Richard Hilton to read ‘so much of the book.’ In the book, she shared her inappropriate relationship with an eighth grade teacher, relationship with Jason Shaw and infamous sex tape incident with then boyfriend Rick Salomon. Trying to continue that pregnancy with the physical and emotional issues I was dealing with at the time would have been a train wreck for everyone involved. While the book has been well-received, Paris has admitted that it wasn't easy for her parents to read it.

Paris Hilton says Demi Lovato inspired her 'self-acceptance' journey (INSIDER)

Demi Lovato's candid documentary "Simply Complicated" inspired Paris Hilton to open up about her own life in both a documentary and her new memoir.

[testified on Capitol Hill](https://www.insider.com/paris-hilton-was-strangled-slapped-in-troubled-teen-facilities-2021-10) in favor of a bill that would give children more protection at "troubled teen" facilities, saying she had been "strangled, slapped across the face, and watched in the shower by male staff" during her time at Provo Canyon School, which is based in Utah. [ documentary](https://www.insider.com/celebrity-documentaries-stream-watch-online) featured emotional interviews with the [Grammy-nominated singer ](https://www.insider.com/demi-lovato-albums-ranked-worst-best-2021-7)about navigating childhood stardom in the public eye. But then Demi Lovato rocked my world," Hilton wrote in her autobiography, " [Paris: The Memoir,](https://www.insider.com/paris-hilton-wig-nose-ring-tattoos-after-boarding-school-escape-2023-3)" released on Tuesday. [its website](https://hotline.rainn.org/online) to receive confidential support. [recent mom](https://www.insider.com/paris-hilton-carter-reum-shares-name-baby-boy-phoenix-barron-2023-2) said in the documentary that she and other students [were victims of physical and mental abuse](https://www.insider.com/paris-hilton-says-was-abused-at-boarding-school-utah-2020-8) and that the school was a "terrifying" place to live because the staff were "sadistic" and "wanted to torture and hurt children." [wedding to Carter Reum](https://www.insider.com/paris-hilton-carter-reum-3-day-wedding-celebration-photos-2021-11). [series of abusive boarding schools](https://www.insider.com/paris-hilton-wig-nose-ring-tattoos-after-boarding-school-escape-2023-3) a secret. [Provo Canyon School](https://www.insider.com/kat-von-d-alleges-abuse-boarding-school-provo-canyon-paris-hilton-2020-10) until 2020 in a documentary — also released on YouTube — titled "This Is Paris." [Simply Complicated.](https://www.insider.com/demi-lovatos-eating-disorder-recovery-photos-2017-10)" It covers her breakup with actor [Wilmer Valderrama](http://www.insider.com/demi-lovato-purging-eating-disorder-breakup-wilmer-valderrama-2017-10), her complicated [sexuality](https://www.insider.com/demi-lovato-pansexual-fluid-sexuality-coming-out-interview-2021-3), her ongoing [eating disorder](http://people.com/music/demi-lovato-simply-complicated-documentary-highlights/), and her [drug use](https://www.insider.com/demi-lovato-legally-blind-after-overdose-stroke-2021-3) while acting on Disney Channel. ['boarding school' years](https://www.insider.com/paris-hilton-abducted-by-strangers-taken-to-abusive-treatment-center-2023-3). [Paris Hilton](https://www.insider.com/paris-hilton-cried-over-playboy-cover-she-didnt-agree-to-2023-3) has said [Demi Lovato's](https://www.insider.com/tiktok-demi-lovato-song-relationship-age-gaps-2022-8) decision to candidly open up about the difficulties she's faced inspired her to do the same.

Paris Hilton reveals she was 'kissed' by eighth-grade teacher who ... (silive.com)

The hotel heiress' tell-all book, 'Paris: The Memoir,' dropped March 7.

Upon arrival, she was forced to drink wine and one of the men raped her. Paris, 42, who was a teen at the time says it has taken her “decades” to view herself as a “victim,” in the hands of a “handsome young” teacher she nicknamed “Mr. Abercrombie” visited her at home and “kissed” her when her parents, Kathy and Rick Hilton, were not home.

Paris Hilton's path from party girl to icon of 'extra' (Chicago Daily Herald)

Dubbed the "OG Influencer," club kid-turned-mogul Paris Hilton pioneered becoming "famous for being famous" in the early 2000s, which she recounts in ...

Hilton says she appreciates how Reum accepts the "endless spin cycle" of her life. "Where most people see a dumpster fire, Carter sees Burning Man," she writes. Since then, she's become an advocate for reform in the "troubled teen" industry, testifying before Congress about her experience. Locked away at the schools for nearly two years, Hilton says she was psychologically and physically abused and sexually assaulted during sham gynecological exams. But a diagnosis of ADHD put a damper on the idyllic childhood, making it difficult to focus in school. She didn't open up about the abuse for 20 years, finally discussing it in her 2020 YouTube documentary "This is Paris."

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