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Posted on 31 Jul 2007 by Paris

Paris Hilton is $60 million out of pocket after her billionaire grandfather - appalled by her jail term for drink-driving offenses - reportedly axed her inheritance.

Family patriarch Barron Hilton was already embarrassed by his granddaughter’s wild behavior - notably when her home sex video was leaked on the internet.

But the 79-year-old considered her 23-day sentence last month the last straw, a Hilton biographer says. “He was, and is, extremely embarrassed by how the Hilton name has been sullied by Paris,” says Jerry Oppenheimer, who wrote a biography of the clan called House Of Hilton. “He now doesn’t want to leave unearned wealth to his family.”

Hilton senior, the only member of the family left with a sizeable stake in the huge hotel chain, has let it be known that he intends to donate to charity the $2.4bn he will gain from this month’s sale of the company to private equity firm Blackstone. The money will go to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the charity set up in the name of the founder of the family business.

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Posted on 30 Jul 2007 by Paris

Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are out of a job after news their hit reality show The Simple Life has been axed. The wealthy socialites proved a huge hit trying their hand at manual labor on the program - which spawned five series - but The Insider reports network E! has dropped the show from next year's line-up.

Rumors of an imminent end began when Fox dropped the series in 2005 and Hilton and Richie became embroiled in a mystery feud.

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Posted on 28 Jul 2007 by Paris

Paris Hilton is moving! 
Paris has put her Hollywood Hills home on the market for a massive $4.25 million.

Paris isn't moving to make things easier on her neighbors.  The Simple Life star wants a home in a gated community or one with a longer driveway.

The house is about 3,000 square feet and Paris bought the home back in 2004 for about $2.9 million.  Her family's real estate firm will take care of selling it for her. 

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Posted on 28 Jul 2007 by Paris

NICOLE Richie will spend four days in jail after pleading guilty in a Los Angeles court yesterday to driving under the influence of drugs.

The reality TV star, who has not yet commented on reports she is pregnant, was also fined $2400 by a judge who said she was lucky no one was killed when she drove the wrong way on a freeway.

Richie, the adopted daughter of 1980s pop star Lionel Richie, was sombre as Superior Court Commissioner Steven Lubell lectured her in front of a court full of media.

"You are very lucky no one was hurt or killed as the result of this incident," he said.

"You need to understand that driving under the influence is extremely dangerous."

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Posted on 28 Jul 2007 by Paris

Hotel heiress and ex-con Paris Hilton is on her way to Canada.

Sources told canada.com that producers are about to announce they have cast Hilton in Repo! The Genetic Opera, a rock opera/horror film that begins a six-week shoot in Toronto on Sept. 10.

The movie, based on a successful theatrical production by Terrence Zdunich and Darren Smith, is about an organ failure epidemic in 2056 that forces people to purchase genetically perfect ones from Geneco, a biotech company committed to collecting regular payments.

“The idea is that everybody is buying up organs, and they cannot afford to pay for these organs,” director Darren Lynn Bousman recently told MTV. “Thus, legalized organ repo-men come into the picture. Murder becomes sanctioned by law. So, if you buy a heart and can't afford it, someone can burst through the door and take your heart out… and they don’t get in trouble for it."

Bousman, who made the last two Saw films and the upcoming Saw IV in Toronto, will direct Repo!, in which the dialogue is completely sung.

At a fundraising event in Hollywood on Tuesday night, Hilton declined to reveal specifics but admitted she is in rehearsals for a “very cool and unique project.” She told E! Online: “”We’re just in the studio. We’re doing dance and singing.”

Paul Sorvino will play Geneco owner Rottismo Largo and Alexa Vega (Spy Kids) has been cast as Shilo, the daughter of repo man Nathan. Tobin Bell, who plays the evil Jigsaw in the Saw movies, also stars.

Sources claim Hilton will play Heather Sweet, the daughter of Largo.

Hilton, who starred in the 2005 remake of House of Wax, released her first album last summer. The 26-year-old finished a 23-day jail sentence on June 26 for driving on a suspended license and violating the terms of her DUI probation.

Just days after Repo! The Genetic Opera wraps up filming in Toronto, cameras will roll in the city for The Repossession Mambo starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker. The sci-fi feature follows an organ repo man who must go on the run when he is unable to make the payments for his new heart.

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