Paris Hilton: Latest news, bio & photos

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Paris Hilton: Snapshot

Name Paris Hilton
Date of Birth February 17, 1981
Birth Place New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name Paris Whitney Hilton
Height Height 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Nickname Star, Princess

Socialite Paris Hilton is heir-apparent to the Hilton hotel and real estate dynasty.

She briefly attended the Canterbury School, a boarding school in Connecticut and Professional Children's School in New York City with fellow actors Christina Ricci and Macaulay Culkin. Her high schooling was at the ultra-exclusive Dwight School, from which she dropped out and ultimately earned her high school GED.

Paris' campaign to put herself in the public eye included extensive plastic surgery, hair coloring and tinted contact lenses.

The explicit video with her former-boyfriend Rick Salomon was possibly part of her publicity campaign. It was widely marketed as a video, 1 Night in Paris (2004).

She scored bit parts in movies - Zoolander , Wonderland, The Cat in the Hat and guest-star roles on TV shows such as The O.C.and George Lopez , and later more substantial roles in horror flick House of Wax, the direct-to-DVD Bottoms Up and her own TV show, the reality series The Simple Life.

She dabbles in designing, writing (with a professional writer on the team), nightclub management, marketing video games, and recorded an album and started her own music label, Heiress Records.

Has a clothing line, That's Hot and four perfumes - Paris Hilton, Just Me, Heiress and Can Can.

Has been romantically linked to Leonardo DiCaprio, Edward Furlong, Jamie Kennedy, Simon Rex, Australian Idol star Rob Mills, Sum 41 lead singer Deryck Whibley, producer Robert Evans, boxer Oscar De La Hoya, and nightclub owner Ingrid Casares, Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter ,Stavros Niarchos , Benji Madden and soccer stud Cristiano Ronaldo.

Engaged to Paris Kasidokostas Latsis May 25, 2005 but broke off in September 2005.

Best friend is childhood friend Kimberly Kardashian. Had a falling out with co-star and former best friend Nicole Richie. [2005]

Violated the terms of her DUI probation, driving her Bentley at 70 m.p.h. without her headlights on in a 35 m.p.h. zone and driving with a suspended license, and was sentenced to 45 days in jail [2007]. Only served 22 days, with credit for good behaviour.