Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American celebrity, socialite, business woman, model , actress and recording artist . She is an heiress to a share of both the Hilton Hotel fortune and the real estate fortune of her father Richard Hilton.

Hilton rose to fame when an amateur sex video depicting her was leaked onto the Internet in late 2003. The release of the tape , later titled 1 Night in Paris (2004), attracted worldwide publicity and helped the success of Hilton's Fox reality series The Simple Life. As an actress, she has appeared in several minor roles, most notably in the horror film House of Wax (2005), and in 2006, she released the self-titled album Paris. Hilton has since garnered greater notoriety as a result of several legal incidents, the repercussions of which have caused Hilton to receive a short jail sentence while being the subject of intense media attention, public controversy and parody .

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