The estimated nett worth of American socialite, model, fashion designer, actor, and media personality Paris Hilton is $100 million. Paris receives anywhere from $25,000 to $100,000 for appearing at events and clubs. The hotel industry provides the family’s income, but Paris is also actively involved in many other businesses. Shoes, perfume, CDs, and movie revenues all belong to Paris. In addition, she makes money from things like book publishing, clothing, and hair accessories. “Party girl,” “high-ranking socialite-cum-model-cum-actress,” or even “American royalty” may not do for a woman whose breakthrough role required less money to produce than a night in a cheap room at the nearby Hilton hotel. “Career heiress” and “party girl” are also inadequate. She is the heiress to Hilton Hotels founder and hotel master Conrad Hilton.
Paris rose to prominence for having all the necessary components for fame, despite without a resume. She became skinnier, blonder, wilder, and richer, and society happily accepted her as gossip fodder, letting her take on the mystique of a movie star without the annoying need of having appeared in a real movie. This is not to argue that Hilton has no filmography. She appeared as herself in a cameo in Ben Stiller’s Zoolander in 2001. She soon honed her acting skills by portraying a raucous clubber in The Cat in the Hat (2003).
Unfortunately for Hilton, a larger role in an explicit home-made sex film that her ex-boyfriend quickly sold to the drooling Internet hordes eclipsed her modest part in James Cox’s criminal drama Wonderland.
Through her roles in television shows, motion pictures, advertisements, modelling, and court disputes, Hilton has grown more well-known over the years. Her earnings from television, movies, modelling, and personal appearances totalled an additional $6.5 million between 2004 and 2005, according to Forbes magazine, up from her estimated US$2 million in 2003–2004.Forbes Magazine listed Hilton as one of the top 100 global superstars at this time. She is a prime example of the ‘celebutante’, a modern phenomenon that describes a celebrity who gains notoriety due to labour or talent but rather due to inherited fortune and a contentious lifestyle. Hilton was given a well publicised prison term in a Los Angeles County Prison in 2007 as a result of various legal problems. Paris Whitney Hilton was born in New York City, New York, in the United States on February 17, 1981.
STATISTICS
Source of Wealth:
Modeling
Age:
40
Birth Place:
New York City, New York, United States
Height:
5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
Weight:
110 lbs (50 kg)
Marital Status:
Single
Full Name:
Paris Whitney Hilton
Nationality:
American
Date of Birth:
February 17, 1981
Ethnicity:
Irish, Italian, Norwegian, German, French, Swiss
Occupation:
Businesswoman, Producer, Socialite, Fashion designer
Education:
Canterbury Boarding School
Children:
None
