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4[[quoteright:303:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Paris_Hilton_21_8505.jpg]]
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6->''"Dress cute wherever you go, life is too short to blend in."''
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8Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981 in New York City, New York) is... well, that's the thing. ''How'' did she become famous? Hell, ''what'' is it precisely that she's famous for in the first place? Seeing as how she served as [[TropeCodifier the model]] for the modern ideal of the "[[{{Socialite}} celebutante]]", those are questions that beg to be answered.
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10Paris was born into the multi-billionaire Hilton family, owners of the hotel chain bearing their name. She was, by all accounts, [[RebelliousPrincess fairly troublesome in her youth]], spending a year at the Provo Canyon School, a residential school for "troubled teens" in Utah[[note]]Paris would later in life speak extensively of her experiences with the place; much classifying it as a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors, saying that her stay at the facility only made her worse and saddled her with a case of PTSD to boot. She further claimed that the traumas she suffered from her time there, combined with lack of treatment for said traumas, was at least partially the cause behind much of her controversial public behavior in her youth.[[/note]] and getting kicked out of a Connecticut boarding school before dropping out of high school altogether and getting a GED. Afterward, she became a fairly standard model/socialite/"it girl", serving as a regular fixture of tabloids and the New York nightclub scene. In 2003, Creator/{{Fox}} approached her to star on a reality show called ''The Simple Life'', in which [[CityMouse she and another big-city socialite]] (they eventually decided on Nicole Richie, adopted daughter of Music/{{Lionel|Richie}}) would be sent to [[TheCityVsTheCountry live on a farm in Arkansas]] where hijinks would presumably ensue. The two accepted.
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12And then came [[HomePornMovie the tape]]. [[BestKnownForTheFanservice You know which one.]]
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14The scandal that erupted from Paris's sex tape (retroactively known as ''[[{{Pun}} 1 Night in Paris]]'') [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity turned her into an overnight celebrity]] and ''The Simple Life'' into a smash hit for Fox. She leveraged that fame to appear in a whole slew of films and TV shows, many of which either went DirectToVideo or were small cameos (apart from ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'', ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'', and ''Film/TheHottieAndTheNottie''), as well as record an album, create several reality shows, and write a bestselling, tongue-in-cheek autobiography. When she wasn't working, she was frequently running afoul of the law, most often for reckless driving of very expensive cars (often while [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl inebriated]]) and for carrying and using drugs. Her list of arrests and fines is too long to list here, so go check elsewhere if you care about that.
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16Between her behavior and the auspicious beginnings of her career as a celebrity, Paris earned many detractors, frequently topping lists of the most disliked celebrities in America for much of the mid-late '00s. Most people wondered just ''how'' it was possible for a person to become a media fixture as big as Paris merely by appearing on a single reality show and making a single sex tape, and the fact that Paris was seemingly only the first of many such celebutantes to take this route to fame made them fear for the future of popular culture. Of course, the phenomenon of being "FamousForBeingFamous" is [[OlderThanTheyThink a bit older than people realize]] -- the term "celebutante" was [[TropeNamer coined]] as far back as 1939, and many of the "[[Creator/AndyWarhol Warhol]] Superstars" of TheSeventies fit the bill as well as any [[Creator/KimKardashian Kardashian]]. Plus, she seems to at the very least be fully aware of how she got famous. But then again, none of the celebutantes of days past ever reached anything close to the level of media saturation as Paris Hilton and those who followed in her footsteps. Does her success say something about the state of our society? If so, what?
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18Needless to say, Paris Hilton is a ''very'' controversial figure.
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20As far as what she has actually done and ventured into, it includes everything from perfumery, music, acting, and authoring to RealityTV.
21!!Releases:
22!!!Music
23* ''Paris'' (2006)
24!!!Movies
25* ''Film/{{House of Wax|2005}}'' (2005)
26* ''Bottoms Up'' (2006)
27* ''Pledge This!'' (2006)
28* ''Film/TheHottieAndTheNottie'' (2008)
29* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' (2008)
30!!!Perfumes
31* Paris Hilton (2004)
32* Just Me (2005)
33* Heiress (2006)
34* Can Can (2007)
35* Fairy Dust (2008)
36* Siren (2008)
37* Dazzle (2012)
38!!!Books
39* ''Confessions of A Heiress'' (2004)
40!!!TV Shows
41* ''The Simple Life'' (2003-2007)
42* ''Paris Hilton's My New BFF'' (2008-2009)
43* ''Paris Hilton's British Best Friend'' (2009)
44* ''Paris Hilton’s Dubai BFF'' (2009)
45* ''The World According to Paris'' (2011)
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48!!Tropes:
49* AdamWesting: Many, and perhaps most, of her acting roles played off of her public image.
50** On ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', she played an ancient goddess whose personality is that of a spoiled celebrity.
51** Her character in ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'', a famous socialite and heiress who is literally addicted to plastic surgery.
52** In a ''WebVideo/FunnyOrDie'' video where she announced she would be running for president in 2008.
53* AffectionateParody: Her video for "Nothing In This World" is one of ''Film/{{The Girl Next Door|2004}}''.
54* ApprovalOfGod: She lent her support to Sofia Coppola's ''Film/TheBlingRing'', allowing the production to film in her home and having a cameo AsHerself. She admitted to tearing up when seeing the finished film.
55* BillingDisplacement: Is on the DVD cover for ''Film/NineLives2002'' and gets third billing (the cast is billed in alphabetical order) when she only has roughly 30 minutes of screen time.
56* CreatorBacklash:
57** She was troubled by her depiction on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', although she at first opted to pretend that she hadn't seen it. After the 'Me Too Movement', she admitted to finding it hurtful, especially the part where her dog committed suicide just to get away from her. She has however affirmed that she loves the show.
58** In her memoir, she slammed the {{Music/Pink}} video for the song "Stupid Girls", where her sex tape was parodied. As the tape was leaked without her consent, she was "disappointed" by the video.
59--> "The whole video is a not-at-all-subtle send-up of 'porno paparazzi girls' in general and, specifically, me, in a parody of my infamous sex tape...Pink sang about 'outcasts and girls with ambition' and said, 'That's what I wanna see.' But she chose not to see it in me."
60%% * BreakUpSong: Jealousy is one between friends.
61%% * CoverVersion: "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy"
62* DevelopmentHell: Her second album has been delayed since her first one... by eight years and counting.
63* DumbBlonde: Adopted this persona for ''The Simple Life''
64* EveryoneLovesBlondes: The marketing for ''House of Wax'' played on this, with a promotional T-shirt that read [[http://www.freddyinspace.com/2012/02/cool-promotional-shit-woman-stress.html "See Paris Die May 6"]]. What better way to promote a film than by casting an actress with substantial haters just so that haters can see her get killed off onscreen?
65%% * HoodOrnamentHottie: Her car-washing ad for the Carl's Jr./Hardee's fast food chain.
66* IAmNotLeonardNimoy: In her first few film roles, she played herself or characters who evoked the public's image of her (''Nine Lives'' for instance has her as a spoiled rich socialite). Even when promoting ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'' she marketed a range of t-shirts with a slogan "See Paris Die", and a track on the movie's score album[[note]]not the ''song'' album - they both have the same cover art)[[/note]] on Creator/VareseSarabande is called "Paris Gets It" - even though she's playing a character called Paige.
67* IdenticalStranger: Invoked for her part on the hidden camera series ''I Get That A Lot''. She pretended to be a gas station attendant who simply had a resemblance to herself.
68%% * InDaClub: Some tracks of her album and of course, she gets paid to go to them!
69%% ** Since the early 2010s, she has begun [[ElectronicMusic DJing EDM]], which is this trope from a slightly different perspective.
70%% * IntercourseWithYou: The basic theme of the "Paris" album.
71* MsFanservice: Many of her TV and film appearances have her as eye candy.
72%% * ObsessionSong: "I Want You" "Nothing In This World" "Screwed"
73* PlayingAgainstType: Along with Chad Michael Murray and Elisha Cuthbert in ''House of Wax''. Paris had previously only done cameos as herself or played characters that were basically herself (''Nine Lives''). Her character Paige is a small-town teenage girl who worries about an unplanned pregnancy.
74* RealityTV: Most of her work has been in this field.
75%% * SelfTitledAlbum: "Debut"
76* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: Critics have praised her performances in ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' and as a villain in an episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''.
77* ShoeSizeAngst: She admitted in her biopic that she hates her size 11 feet.
78%% * SillyLoveSongs: "Heartbeat"
79* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''The Simple Life'' was first envisioned as having her and Nicky Hilton starring. Nicky didn't want to do it, so the second slot was given to Nicole Richie, who had been best friends with Paris since childhood.

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