Paris Hilton, an American actress and heiress, was born in New York City in 1981.
Paris Whitney Hilton, born February 17, 1981, is a media personality, socialite, entrepreneur, model, singer, DJ, and actor from the United States. Hilton was born in New York City and reared in Beverly Hills, California. She is the great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Hotels. She originally came to the notice of tabloids in the late 1990s, when she became a regular in New York City's late-night scene. She began modelling at the age of 19, when she signed with Donald Trump's firm, Trump Model Management. Hilton was dubbed "New York's Leading It Girl" in 2001 after David LaChapelle shot her and her sister Nicky for the September 2000 issue of Vanity Fair.&
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