Paris Hilton

PARIS HILTON. American media personality, businesswoman, socialite, model, actress, singer and DJ. She is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Hotels. She first attracted tabloid attention in the late 1990s, when she became a fixture in NYC's social scene and ventured into modeling aged 19, signing with Donald Trump's agency Trump Model Management. After David LaChapelle photographed her and sister Nicky for the September 2000 issue of Vanity Fair, she was proclaimed "New York's leading It Girl" in 2001. She published her debut book Confessions of an Heiress (2004) which became a New York Times Best Seller, landed her first major film role in the horror remake House of Wax (2005) and released her eponymous debut studio album Paris (2006) which reached No6 on the Billboard 200. A polarizing and ubiquitous public figure, she is said to have influenced the revival of the "famous for being famous" phenomenon throughout the 2000s