PARIS’S NOT-SO-SIMPLEX L I F Ex

Includes pop, cops, feuds and dudes (same, tbh…)

February 2002

Juicy Couture tracksuits and Von Dutch trucker hats. Hilton’s looks are so iconic she could open a museum. Of course, the most unforgettable of them all was the Julien Macdonald chain-mail dress she wore to her 21st birthday.

December 2003 – August 2007

Somehow, it’s been 17 years since The Simple Life first aired and heiresses Hilton and Nicole Richie – whose adoptive father is singer Lionel – were stripped of their cash and sent to live and work in the real world. The ultimate ’00s LOLs.

August 2006

When Hilton shared her self-titled debut album, some saw it as a joke. But the joke was on them when the record reached number six on the US Billboard charts and sold over 600,000 copies worldwide.

August 2010

Only Hilton can make a mugshot look like a cover shoot, as proved here in 2010. She was first arrested in 2006, for driving under the influence, before subsequent arrests in 2007 and 2010. She’s been on good behaviour ever since.

November 2019

Hilton and Chris Zylka were caught up in the Great Celebrity Engagement Movement of 2018, but after around two years and a $2 million rock, she called it off. “I’m just really having my ‘me’ time,” she said. “It was [a] whirlwind romance.”

June 2003

Hilton appeared in early ’00s films such as Zoolander, but it was her starring role in leaked sex tape “1 Night In Paris” alongside ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon that skyrocketed her to fame. Ooh la la.

July 2004

After seven months together (and hisand-hers tattoos), Hilton and former Backstreet Boy Nick Carter parted ways. “Our relationship totally was based on distrust,” said Carter. “She didn’t trust me. I didn’t trust her.”

November 2006

Fourteen years later and we are still living in the midst of a Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan feud. In 2018, Hilton threw fresh shade at LiLo claiming she gatecrashed the now-legendary photo taken of her, Lohan and Britney Spears affectionately known as “The Holy Trinity” back in 2006.

August 2019

Kim Kardashian, whose friendship with Hilton goes way back to the mid-’00s, admitted that Hilton launched her career by taking her under her It-girl wing on red carpets and the Hollywood party circuit during a 2019 series of KUWTK. “I really would wanna do anything for her,” Kim told sister Khloé. “She literally gave me a career, and I totally acknowledge that.”