Paris Hilton Short Bio
Paris Hilton was born February 17, 1981 in New York City, New York, U.S. She is a socialite, model, actress, author, recording artist and a fashion designer. Paris stands 5′8″ in height and weighs 114 lbs.
Paris Hilton is the oldest among fours siblings and a daughter of Richard and Kathy Hilton. She has a sister Nicky and brothers Barron and Conrad. She is mainly of Norwegian-German descent on her father’s side and Irish-Italian on her mother’s.
On the maternal side of her family, she is a niece of two child stars of the 1970s, Kim Richards and Kyle Richards. Hilton was related by marriage to Nicole Richie’s godmother, Nancy Davis, when Nancy’s brother, Greg, was married to Kim Richards.
Hilton’s paternal grandparents are hotel chairman Barron Hilton, and his wife, the former Marilyn Hawley; Barron Hilton’s parents were Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton and his first wife, Mary Barron.
Hilton moved between several exclusive homes in her youth, including a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and the Hamptons. She attended Marywood-Palm Valley School in Rancho Mirage, California her freshman year of high school; Dwight School in New York for her sophomore and junior years; then a few months at Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut before dropping out.
In December 2007, Hilton’s grandfather Barron Hilton pledged 97 percent of his estate to a charitable organisation founded by his father, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. An immediate pledge of $1.2 billion was made, with a further $1.1 billion due after his death. He cited his father’s actions as the motivation for his pledge. According to reports, the potential inheritance of his grandchildren is sharply diminished.
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