ParisHilton

    By Lynnette Khalfani-Cox

    | 8:00AM 6/06/2011
    Reality TV star Paris Hilton has made her latest stunning revelation – and, no, it doesn't involve photos of herself or any homemade videos. The celebrity heiress actually revealed during an interview on CNN with Piers Morgan that she makes more than $10 million a year from selling 17...

    By Tom Barlow

    | 1:30PM 2/26/2010
    Brazil, home of the bikini and the wax, has a more prudish side, represented in the ad world by Conar, it's self-regulating taste police. When a Brazilian beer company hired the notoriously immodest Paris Hilton to film a spot promoting Devassa Bem Loura (very blond) beer, the regulators opened an...

    By Bruce Watson

    | 5:15PM 4/08/2009
    While details of the lifestyles of the formerly rich and famous have started to leak into the news, it has, in many ways, been easy to pretend that the recession was only happening to middle class people. Recently, however, in what is either the most desperate moment of the recession or a sign of...

    By Bruce Watson

    | 12:00PM 3/12/2009
    Cash and clothing have gone hand-in-hand at least since the first dancing girl put on a veil of coin-accented chain mail. However, the last few years have taken legal tender out of the realm of fetish and into the world of fashion. With that in mind, it's worthwhile to take a peek at the changing...

    By Zac Bissonnette

    | 9:00AM 2/05/2009
    In the 1930s there was Roosevelt and in 2009, there's Paris Hilton. That's right: The heiress best known for reality television and jail has vowed to do all she can to save the economy. SFGate.com reports that Ms. Hilton told a British magazine that "It's really scary about the economy right now....

    By Bruce Watson

    | 4:00PM 1/16/2009
    At the end of the movie Kingpin, Bill Murray's character, Ernie "Big Ern" McCracken wins a million dollars. Talking to a reporter, he crows "I've finally got enough money that I can buy my way out of anything [...] finally, Big Ern is above the law!" Kingpin is a comedy, and the line is obviously...

    By Lan N. Nguyen

    | 9:00AM 11/03/2008
    Most parents want to leave their kids with a safety net. And for some, that net could be several million dollars strong. But a growing number of parents are afraid inherited wealth could damage their children. So rather than letting their children enjoy the laurels of their drive and perseverance,...

    By Bruce Watson

    | 5:30PM 2/27/2008
    Don't like your job? Tired of flipping burgers? Thinking about hooking up with the Department of Sanitation? Boy, have we got a job for you... According to Us Weekly, Paris Hilton is on the hunt for a new best friend. I would say "best friend forever," but, let's face it, her friendships with...

    By Tom Barlow

    | 12:00PM 12/27/2007
    A policeman friend of mine dreads working Christmas, which he spends breaking up fights between drunken family members forced to spend time together for the holidays. I bet he's glad the Hilton household isn't on his beat this week, as Grandpa Conrad Hilton announced he was giving 97% of his...

    By Tom Barlow

    | 10:45AM 12/07/2007
    The new "I'd rather go naked than wear fur," campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals featuring Eva Mendes in the buff has captured a great deal of attention for its cause. Since the ad trade is very lemming-like, I wouldn't be surprised to see other causes glom onto the idea, until...