Prestigious Paris
Paris Hilton was born on February 17, 1981 and she is an American socialite, singer, actress, fashion model and author. She is an heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, as well as her father, Richard Hilton’s, real estate fortune.
Hilton is the oldest of four children of Richard Hilton and Kathy Richards. Her younger sister is Nicky Hilton and she has two younger brothers, Barron Hilton II and Conrad Hilton III. Hilton’s paternal grandparents are hotel chairman Barron Hilton and his wife, the former Marilyn Hawley and her paternal great-grandparents were Hilton Hotel founder Conrad Hilton and his first wife, Mary Barron. When Conrad Hilton died in 1979, he left nothing in his will to his children or other descendants, Barron Hilton contested this decision and won in 1988.
Paris moved between several exclusive homes in her youth, including a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, Beverly Hills and the Hamptons. Currently her parents own a $30.5 million mansion in Bel Air, a $12.3 million estate in the Hamptons, and a $10 million house in the Hollywood Hills in which she and sister stay to give them privacy and for easy access to clubs in Los Angeles.
Paris attended her freshman year of high school in Rancho Mirage, California at the Marywood-Palm Valley School and her sophomore and junior years of high school at the Dwight School in New York, but dropper out and eventually earned her GED. Hilton did not attend college.
Hilton first came into the public eye as one of the more famous New York socialites and heirs. Along with her sister, she has made countless appearances in the party section of New York society magazines.