it comes in pints?

I have no idea how she made her money, aside from parents and videotapes. I do know, however, that despite the ignorant mouthings of class warriors, she is not an heiress (yet - maybe someday).

I think (but I'm not certain) that she had some measure of celebrity before the videotape hit the public domain because I heard of her before I heard of the videotape. I happened to see the names "Paris and Nicky Hilton" in the TV listings and thought "Gee, I thought Nicky Hilton was dead but he's on something with his daughter or maybe granddaughter". It was months later that I found out that (a) Nicky was her sister, and (b) she made the videotape at some point (possibly before I saw the name in the listings but I really have no idea).

As near as I can tell, the Nicky Hilton I was thinking of (who married Liz Taylor) was her grandfather's brother. I still think he's dead but damned if I know for sure.

Ken,
If I knew the answers to those questions, I'd be smart enough to pretend not to. Those Hilton kids could have been so much, been afforded the best educations on the planet, but the whole family has kind of conspired to take advantage of cheap celebrity in lieu of being people that contribute more than an overpriced stay at an average hotel. And a porn tape, for pervs that have less discriminating tastes than a true perv like you.

That reminds me, aren't we due for a new perv-off? I think we should involve everyone this time.

Oh yes, past time indeed. Perhaps we should, er, solicit a theme.

Paris and Nicky made some money designing handbags, I think - supposedly really big in Asia. Plus she had the TV show. Otherwise, don't know much - though I'm guessing there was a trust fund.

Perhaps I'd have a little more respect for those like Paris Hilton and Gloria Vanderbilt, who also claims her inheritance was not a factor in her success, if their success was not built over a safety net as big as all outdoors.

Huh.

Guess I'm gonna have to stop making the joke, "You can't say "parasite" without saying "Paris.""

Rob, no argument on the safety net (or trust funds). But I object to the killing of the death tax being called the "Paris Hilton tax cut".

Please, what is a perv-off? Because, um, I think I want to, um, participate.

YIPPEE! I just like the *sound* of it!

KG,
Paris has also worked as a model, too. She does earn her own money, but she acts like her family has nothing to do with it. And of course you don't have to rely on your parents for money when a trust fund is dumbed in your lap on your 18th birthday.

Susanna - After doing a search of this site for the word "pervert," which turned up an alarming number of entries, including one about Simon Wiesenthal (?), I can direct you here.

Susanna: a reference

another

And you'll have to get used to Ken coming second after me. That's just the way things work around here.

"coming second after me"

It's what we sensitive, gentlemanly guys do, after all.

It's also what losers do, Nancy Kerrigan.

You complain if we come first, you complain if we come second. Make up your mind.

Ken,
You'd think a man with two daughters who's been married as long as you have would have learned by now what a monumental waste of time it is to tell a woman to make up her mind.

We never learn. That's the problem.

It's what we sensitive, gentlemanly guys do...

"Why me???!!!"

"Ouch! My shin!"

"Bingley, you BASTARD! I said 'you *rick', not 'the stick'!!"

Let's see, became 'famous' because her family is rich and liked doing things in front of papparazi to get her picture taken, which got her notice when her homemade porn tape 'got out', which got some idiot to put her in a tv show, etc.

Yeah, you can still say 'parasite' in there.