Paris Hilton Biography

Paris Hilton has gone from being merely a wealthy young heiress to the Hilton hotel chain, to becoming an entrepreneur on her own. Among other things, she is now the star of her own reality TV show and has her own line of jewelry. At twenty-five years old, she's also well known as a fashionable party girl.

Before Paris was even born, she had quite the lineage. Her great grandfather, Conrad Hilton, founded the Hilton hotel chain, and also happened to be the second of nine men that Zsa Zsa Gabor (click on link to read biography) married. His son, Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Jr., was the first husband to another actress who married often, Elizabeth Taylor. Paris's maternal side of the family offers her even more famous lineage, as her aunt and uncle, Kim Richards and Kyle Richards, were child actors, appearing in movies like Escape to Witch Mountain, and the television shows Nanny and the Professor and Little House on the Prairie.

This famous lineage came close to being worthless, since, when Conrad Hilton died in 1979, his will left nothing to his children or their descendants. Paris's grandfather, Barron Hilton, contested Conrad's will in court and eventually won, nine years after Conrad's death. Paris should be grateful, as she is expected to someday inherit a minimum of $350 million.