(1981- ) Paris Hilton is an American businesswoman and media personality. She is one of the great-granddaughters of Conrad Hilton (founder of Hilton Hotels). She is famous for her participation in a sex tape (2003), and for appearance on the television series The Simple Life. She is also known for her minor film roles (the most well known in the film House of Wax in 2005) and for her music album Paris (2006). She has also worked as a model and as a designer for several firms, and she has launched six different perfumes.

Paris has starred in a number of her own produced reality shows such as Paris Hilton's My New BFF (MTV), and the Oxygen Channel has broadcasted The World According to Paris a new TV series.

Hilton began modelling when she was a child and at the age of 19, she signed with Donald Trump's modelling agency, T Management. Hilton has also worked with Ford Models, Models 1 Agency , Nous Model Management and Premier Model Management.

In 2004 she released an autobiographical book, Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose.

In 2008 Hilton appeared in a 1 minute 50 second online video("Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad)" in response to a television campaign advert "Celeb", by the 2008 John McCain presidential campaign.