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Originally posted by Fugee
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Will Smith is a celebrity because of the work he has done. Paris Hilton is a "celebrity" because of her grandfather's money.
If her grandfather had gone the Warren Buffet route with his fortune, we'd all have been spared that exposure.
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FWIW the
Biography that I watched on the Hilton family mentioned that there isn't much of an inherited Hilton family fortune because Conrad was a self-made man who didn't want his children and grandchildren to avoid hard work. Most of Paris's money now is money she has made because we as a culture are idiotic starfuckers. There is some Hilton Foundation or similar that gets most of the family money. Her dad is rich, from inherited real estate and from his real estate business, but not as rich as he could be.
I believe that Paris and Nikki are the richest members of their family right about now. Paris from modeling, "acting" and paid appearances (she makes serious cash showing up to nightclub openings and simialr events) and Nikki from the handbag line in Japan.
Also did you know that they have 2 younger brothers? No? That is because mom Hilton shields them from the press. It seems they will be going the more traditional business route as opposed to whoring their celebrity for the anxious public. The
Biography narrator wondered aloud whether their mother learned a lesson from the girls' overexposure or if it would seem unseemly to her to have the boys be simply famous for being famous.
