Once she was released at 18, she stuck to the story concocted by her family that she’d been away at a London boarding school. Locked away at the schools for nearly two years, Hilton says she was psychologically and physically abused and sexually assaulted during sham gynecological exams.
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Fun is my jet fuel,” she writes.Īfter Hilton started sneaking out at night to go to clubs, sometimes disappearing for days, her parents took a “tough love” approach and sent her to a series of schools for troubled teens, with devastating consequences.
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Her constant need for excitement and penchant for escaping over fences and through bathroom windows branded her a troublemaker. “I was building a brand that would eventually turn into multiple income streams … but that sounds way more calculated than it was.”īorn into the family dynasty of hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, Hilton spent her childhood in a rarefied world of privilege, collecting a menagerie of animals like ferrets, gerbils and a baby goat and earning the family nickname of “Star.”īut a diagnosis of ADHD put a damper on the idyllic childhood, making it difficult to focus in school.
“I knew I wasn’t trying to build an ordinary career,” Hilton recalls of her early days of being paid to party and attract the paparazzi.
In her 20s, her fame became mainstream with the nearly simultaneous debut of her reality show “The Simple Life,” and the leak of a scandalous sex tape. Hilton became a staple on the New York City club circuit in her teens in the late 1990s, decked out in designer fashion and towering heels, an irresistible magnet for paparazzi. Books)ĭubbed the “OG Influencer,” club kid-turned-mogul Paris Hilton pioneered becoming “famous for being famous,” in the early 2000s, a playbook since adopted by everyone from the Kardashians to Housewives and countless social media influencers. “Paris: The Memoir” by Paris Hilton (Dey St.
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