Jennifer Lopez - Looking PETArrific (you know they're gonna get you, right - LOL). Nice dresses, though:

Victoria Beckham - The road is your runway, girl (finger snaps). That hat was fun, I like it:

Halle Berry - Halle and her boyfriend at a function, both looking great again. Somewhere Eric Benet is heard crying...:

Tamia - looking great:

Tara Reid - Nice makeover, very flattering:

Michelle Pfeiffer - She still looks the same 20 years later - very pretty: 

Bryan Greenberg - Cleans up very nicely. Very cute:

Sean Patrick Thomas and wife Aonika Laurent-Thomas:

Maddox and Zahara (in unison): Oh no they didn't!:

Maddox: Don’t worry Z, I’m gonna go old school and get all "Home Alone" on them. Teach these punks a lesson:

Photo of soldiers in Irak Iraq, in response to John Kerry's comments, is absolutely hilarious!

CELEBRITY Jay-Z Outed On Cheating On Beyonce...Twice In One Month

Rapper Jay-Z (left) Rihanna (right)

An entertainment news site and Foxy Brown have separately outed Jay Z this month for cheating on his girlfriend singer Beyonce. I think his deeds in this and other things, and in clear sight of the public, are very shady. However, this is who Beyonce has chosen and she has used and dropped others as well on her way to becoming famous.

Singer Beyonce

What's funny is that it appears Rihanna,18, is pimping Jay-Z, 38, for all it's worth. He has given her projects more attention than all the other artists he works with, some of whom have left the label and complained that he is not doing enough to promote them. Ok, there's a reason for that. He's not a real record executive.

As a result, Rihanna has gotten the kind of exposure she needed to become famous with mainstream audiences, and in a short space of time, even rivaling his girlfriend, Beyonce, who took years to do the same thing. Both have nice voices, but both have become too raunchy. Certainly they didn't have to go that route.

Once again, Jay-Z isn't really a record executive. He is rapper (not that you can't be both, but in this case he is not). He's no Russell Simmons and he's certainly no Clive Davis. There's an art to it, that he just doesn't know.

He got the job and the staff that comes with it due to being a famous mainstream rapper with a famous girlfriend, and this enabled him to play a record executive. They've had some success due to the exposure they can grant artists (like Rihanna), but several noted failures as well.

Even at Rockafella Records, the label Jay-Z started with Damon Dash, anyone could see Dash was the driving force behind it - and Jay-Z burned him too.

Rapper Foxy Brown

CELEBRITY Justin And Nelly Fartado Talking Too Much

Can You Tell Which One’s The Dummy?…Oh, It's Justin. Read On And See Why I Wrote That…

Did Nelly Fartado and Justin Timberlake slam Prince and Janet in a cruddy song called "Give It To Me"? Are they nuts. Neither one of them can hold a candle to the latter two.

The latter two are the bigger talents. Typical of arrogant stars, they get a little fame and think their doo doo don’t stink and that they are the best thing since sliced bread.

Lyrics from the disillusioned via "Give It To Me":

Could you speak up and stop the mumbling
I don’t think you’re getting clear
When you’re sitting on the top
It’s hard to hear you from way up here
I saw you trying to act cute on TV
just let me clear the air
We missed you on the charts last week
Da* that’s right you wasn’t there

If sexy never left then why's everybody on my s
Don’t hate me because you didn’t come up with it
So when you see us in the club
Go ahead and walk the other way
Our run will never be over
not at least until we say

If I were Prince I’d slap you with my purple mic.

The hypocritical line that makes me laugh is, "If sexy never left then why's everybody on my s***. Don’t hate me because you didn’t come up with it." OK, he did come up with it...then you jacked it. You need to give Prince his stuff back. 

You need to remember, in the entertainment industry, what goes up usually comes down, Justin. You’ve only had 2 solo albums and your material with N-sync, will not become legendary either, as it is in the white boyband genre, which never become classics. Music history has shown that for decades.

I don’t believe Timberlake or Fartado will become legends. They have a basic amount of skill and are very trendy. They are not showing the signs of people who become legends.

There are artists out now that I think, based on how music history has gone, will become music legends, but not those two. I’m not trying to be mean, but I'm being realistic based on the works they've put out.

As the phrase goes, instead of being legends in their own time, they are legends in their own mind.

Dude, it was a bad move to slam them in a song because:

a.) You've ripped off Prince so much on your album that it sounded like a guest appearance. He had a right to comment on that mess that you tried to take credit for when it is his style and voice you imitated to the tee. Many people commented on it.

b.) People are also saying that whole SexyBack thing is too much like Prince's LoveSexy.

c.) You copped out on Janet, bragging at first when you thought the public approved of the Super Bowl incident, then got angry at her when the backlash showed up the next day. You deserved to get slammed for that. The blame should have been equal.

d.) You and Nelly Furtado have passable voices and your musicianship is weak. Prince would stomp you both with his purple platforms in that arena. So would Janet.

e.) There are artists who came before you, who were much more talented, sold far more records, had far more #1’s and due to industry fads, you know, like you, don’t have deals anymore. So you need to thank hell, cause heaven sure didn't come up with "Promiscous Girl" or "SexyBack" that you got anywhere with what you’re working with and the questionable music you put out, because it certainly wasn’t because you or Frittata are talented. You’re both passable.

Put your works next to Sam Cook, Sinatra or Marvin Gay and you sound bad. Humble yourselves before you embarrass yourselves anymore than you already have. 

Have Whitney Houston sing first then Furtado second…yes, embarrassment.

Play a Justin Timberlake record then a Sinatra record...yes, more embarrassment.

Neither of you are the best and never will be. Be thankful you got anywhere in the industry.

Don’t diss people who are more talented than you with the I’m-on-top-of-the-charts line and I’ve-sold-many-records line. William Hung went gold. The Teletubbies went platinum.

What Furtado and Timberlake did was arrogant and clearly shows they are people who don’t know the history of music. Do you know how many men came before you who were greatly talented and faded away, just like you will too one day.

Even men like Ray Charles had incredible runs in music, greater than anything either of you will gain, setting records you will never touch, but had low points in their careers as well as time progressed. Do you think you’re better than musicians like him too, because you had one number one album this year?

You think people are gonna be singing “SexyBack” in 20 years like it’s a classic the way they do “Georgia On My Mind” now. Not gonna happen. If they remember it, it will be camp and sung like “I’m Too Sexy.”

Do you think people will be singing Fly Like A Nerd "I’m Like A Bird." Clearly fame has gotten to your heads and you’ve embarrassed yourselves. You both need to sit down.

It’s amazing how fame and a few platinum albums makes the most average believe they are kings.

People who barely have any talent, some with none, walking around thinking they are better than other people because they show their butt on TV.

And another thing...everybody's on this hater stuff. Everybody’s a hater. Did you stop to think that maybe you just suck and that’s why people have the stuff to say about you that they do. I don’t just mean that towards Timberlake and Furtado, I mean in general in the entertainment industry.

Everybody thinks everybody is envious of them, when a lot of the time people just don’t check for something the person does and voices their displeasure about it.

Justin Timberlake Slams Kanye West

Justin slammed Kanye West again, but this time, for being a sore loser at the MTV Europe Awards.

Pat your fur, baby, everything is going to be alright (is Kanye really wearing a stole!?):

"At the EMAs, Justin mocked Kanye for his outburst when he did not win the Best Video Award, "After the show, Kanye will be in the parking lot accepting awards he did not win. Seriously though, I've got sexy covered, it's good to see someone's doing crazy." - Contact Music

CELEBRITY Whitney Houston And Bobby Brown

An ironic, unfortunately timed Vibe cover that went to the presses right before the announcement of he and Whitney's separation and pending divorce:

Allegedly, Bobby Brown and the woman he is having an affair with, Karrine Steffans, are going to star in a new reality show on BET, in the vein of the show he did with Whitney Houston, "Being Bobby Brown." This is just distasteful.

 Karrine Steffans 

Reports of Whitney's home in Atlanta, that she shared with Bobby, also featured in the show "Being Bobby Brown," being auctioned off in a foreclosure sale were false. Retractions were issued over that article. The corrections reported the payments on the home are now current and the property is up for sale by Houston and was not sold at the courthouse last month.

It was reported that they bought the house in the Country Club Of The South 3 years ago. I visited the Country Club Of The South with my mom and a few friends about 9 years ago and can tell you, it is a really nice place.

But clearly Whitney has her reasons for selling. Probably wants a fresh start, which is understandable. However, I think Atlanta is good for her (anybody, really), as it is very beautiful and modern, but away from the music industry and its vices.

Just because you work in the entertainment industry, doesn't mean you have to live in it, as it has been known to become overwhelming for many. Maybe she can buy a home somewhere else in Atlanta.

So if you've got roughly 1.4 million, give them a call (yes, the Sound Off Column is very versatile - not only does it touch upon world issues, health matters and discusses the latest in entertainment, it also doubles as a real estate site - just kidding, but the house really is fore sale).

CELEBRITY Reese Witherspoon And Ryan Philippe Announce Divorce

Aww they made such a nice couple. Sorry it turned out like that. And they have kids too. That’s so sad.

CELEBRITY Anna Nicole In A Hole

I wrote about Anna Nicole in the Column last year, September, and what a sad difference a year can make.

Anna Nicole Smith has been having a annus horribilis (horrible year). Her son passed away from an unintentional drug overdose, the paternity of her newborn daughter born days before her son's death is being questioned, she was criticized for marrying her lawyer before she buried her son and now she has been ordered to vacate a home in the Bahamas loaned to her by real estate developer Gaither Ben Thompson. Ana is refusing to give up the home, stating it was a gift, which Thompson disputes.

Her residency in the Bahamas is also being called into question, as she presented the home as her own, when it was actually that of the real estate developer. Bahamian officials are also concerned about her character, in her bid for residency. However, as her child is buried there, they should and have been, dealing easy with her. Her life has been turned upside down through choices she has made.   

Real estate developer Thompson reportedly stated that Anna lied to him about her newborn being his, which he automatically discounted, as he'd had a vasectomy years prior. People believe the true father of the child is photographer Larry Birkhead, with a friend of Anna's even attesting to this in sworn testimony.

It was also reported that Anna has now dyed the child's hair to a dark shade from blonde, which is the shade of Birkhead's hair, to look more like new husband Howard Stern, who has black hair. I don't think that was wise or safe. Stern is now claiming to be the father. He seems to care for Smith, but true paternity needs to be established.

A judge in California has ordered Anna to submit her child to a paternity test, and rightfully so. People keep talking about the father's rights, which I agree should not be denied, but the child will need to know the truth as well. That is important too.

Anna has recently appeared in television interviews clearly, heavily sedated. She has had serious drug problems as well, which sadly carried over to her son, whose autopsy revealed he had been taking different drugs, among them methadone.

My condolences to her on the death of her son, Daniel.

She has further had problems in the decline of her modeling career and the well publicized, contentious battle between her and the family of her late husband billionaire J. Howard Marshall. She is still fighting for hundreds of millions from his estate on a very shoddy premise. In my humble opinion, the bulk of the money, if not all of it, belongs to Marshall's family. 

That's a beautiful baby:

[Bahamas pics from People]

Money has ensnared Anna in a lot of bad situations that have turned around to greatly harm her. She is very money oriented and it has not helped her in life.

Anna is a pretty woman with personality and should look for a new beginning by asking God for forgiveness, getting into and completing rehab, then using her own talents to support herself and her daughter, in a respectable way. Because the path she has taken has darn near destroyed her:

Anna Nicole Baby Shocker

"Sources tell TMZ that late last year, Anna Nicole began having sexual relations with Gaither Ben Thompson, a wealthy real estate developer in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. We're told that Howard K. Stern, the lawyer who claims to be the father of Anna Nicole's newborn baby, was in Myrtle Beach during the time Anna Nicole was seeing Thompson. Remember, Stern has said he had a long-term relationship with Anna Nicole, which seems odd given that Stern accompanied Smith to Myrtle Beach.

Sources say in May of this year, Anna Nicole contacted Thompson to say that he was the father of her soon-to-be-born baby girl. It's especially interesting because we're told that Anna Nicole had contacted people familiar with Thompson inquiring about his wealth. That's when Thompson dropped a bombshell -- that it was impossible for him to father a baby because he had already had a vasectomy. Days later, sources say Anna Nicole confessed to Thompson that Larry Birkhead was the father. Birkhead, an entertainment photographer who had a relationship with Anna Nicole, has filed legal papers in Los Angeles to establish paternity.

And there's a new twist to this story. Anna Nicole and Howard K. Stern have been staying in one of Thompson's houses in the Bahamas. Anna Nicole has established legal residency in the Bahamas under the premise that she owned a home. Tracy Ferguson, Thompson's lawyer, tells TMZ that her client sold one of his homes to Anna Nicole on credit, but has never paid a cent. Ferguson says Anna Nicole is in default and Thompson wants her out.

If the Bahamian government believes the alleged home purchase was a scam to gain residency, Anna Nicole could be deported.

Howard K. Stern, Anna's lawyer and rep, could not be reached for comment."

Smith accused of dyeing infant daughter's hair

"Just when you thought it couldn't get any stranger, Anna Nicole Smith has been accused of dyeing her infant daughter Dannielynn Hope's hair in a bid to make her look more like Howard K. Stern - the man Smith claims is Dannielynn's father.

Debra Opri, attorney for Smith's former boyfriend Larry Birkhead, told Associated Press she believed the platinum-blonde reality star may have darkened her child's hair to look like the raven-headed Stern. Photojournalist Birkhead, who claims to be the baby's real father, has sandy blonde hair.

"It's horrendous," Opri told Associated Press."We are calling our experts right now to see if dyeing an infant's hair is any way toxic or harmful to a child." - New Zealand Herald

From Larry Birkhead

"In a statement posted on Larrybirkhead.net, he blasts the Trimspa Ma, saying, "I constantly wonder what kind of person would steal a child from another. I thought at first maybe because your brother was taken from your mom was the reason, but then I realized she started planning on keeping you from me all the way back in May." - TMZ

CELEBRITY Lindsay Lohan CRACKing Up

Lindsay has been trippin’ this month. Last month, it was cars following her, walking with a pizza box over her face then bumping into her own car and feuding with Paris "lip sync" Hilton.

This month it’s more feuding with Paris Hilton and going on camera stating Paris hit her with a drink, then the next day saying someone is lying that she said Paris hit her with a drink. There’s only one problem with that Lindsay. You were the one who said it on camera. Well I guess you're the liar then Lindsay

"Lindsay Lohan is upset at whoever is spreading rumors Paris Hilton hit her with a drink over the weekend. Unfortunately, that a** clown would be herself. As she was getting into a car with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears on Sunday she told paparazzi:

"Paris never hit me. She's my friend. Everyone lies about everything. ... Please, stop trying to make us hate each other." Yet only twelve hours earlier she was telling the paparazzi:

"[Paris Hilton] hit me last night for no reason, apparently, at my friend's house, and I didn't know she'd be there, and she hit me, and she hit me with a drink and poured it all over me, and it hurts, and it's not okay."

I've known mice that are smarter than this. And I'm not talking about super genius mutant mice either. I'm talking about the stupid ones. The ones who couldn't make it through the maze and decided they'd just lie there and try to eat their own tails instead." - The Superficial

Lindsay Called "Illiterate"

Lindsay wrote a bizarre tribute to Robert Altman on the net that was called "Illiterate" by numerous press outlets. Among the errors she posted included the line "be adequite."

That wasn’t a typo, that was a cracko. Girl, stop beaming up then posting on the net. That’s not very "adequite."

Lindsay Constantly Walking Around Looking High

She wanders around looking high all the time. It has become noticeable to many. Lindsay needs rehab. It has also overshadowed her work now. Recently, while I was in a store, I saw a doll made up after her and all I could think is the only thing missing is the stash. 

Lindsay’s Wrist Cuts Caused By "Attempted Suicide" Or Kabbalah String?

Lindsay Lohan was pictured recently with severe wrist cuts on her hand, which led many to question her mental state.

She keeps saying nothing is wrong, but all the signs are there that something is indeed adequite amiss.

"Lindsay Lohan scoffed at her party girl label on Tuesday's "Oprah," telling the talk queen, "I'm twenty years old! Is it a crime to go dancing with your friends?" With the legal drinking age at 21, depending on the club, it might be! – TMZ

CELEBRITY Britney Spears

Britney Divorcing K-Fed - And She Left Justin Timberlake For This...

Boy, a brotha’s album doesn’t sell, and he gets dropped on the charts and by his wife. She’s treating you this way because you’re black, Kevin. Keep hope alive, K-Fed. The white man is always trying to hold the black man down. Joking.

A badly weaved Spears (did Tinkerbelle do her weave too, like I asked about Hilton last month):

Best commentary on the situation:

“I don't know why the nannies and Britney's mom aren't filing for custody...even Jamie Lynn, for that matter. Those are the only people we saw holding and feeding Sean Preston since he was born.

All Britney did was try to kill Sean P. a few times and I'm not sure K-Fed even knows his name. Kevin went to his lawyer yesterday and said, "Yo, yo, yo, I want custamody of my little ni**a' and dat other one that was just bornded." - IDLYITW

“First Bobby now K-Fed! Triflin brothers are getting kicked to the curb EN MASSE! TOUGH BREAK NI**A! AH AH AHHHH! U MAD, K-FED????!! developing like a mug!” – A Hot Mess

K-Fed Reportedly Finds Out About Divorce Through Text Message

Pimp Federline

A few months ago in this Column when I said he is a pimp, pimping Britney, a month after, during an interview he said he's "not no pimp" and "not pimping" Britney. Yet this month: 

Britney Pulled A Whitney

Britney’s marriage kicked the bucket and now she's dropped her husband and came out in a black dress (but on Letterman) like Whitney had done. But when Whitney did it, it had class to it. Britney looked like a streetwalker.

Not to mention, Whitney didn't deliberately flash people several times in one week under the advice of a stupid set of Kaballah cult members. That has irreparably harmed Spears' name and image with the public, who were disgusted and posted about it all over the internet in droves. It was a stupid idea. Full stop.

Web sites who posted the pics probably got venereal disease or cholera. Just kidding. However, on countless sites people slammed her and her appearance, with Spears being called every name in the book. People are now sympathizing with K-Fed, some even saying he was apparently the one who kept her calm.

It's amazing, the week after the divorce she looked sad, but coherent enough. Then she starts hanging out with the Kaballah cult members Paris and Lindsay and she starts to look absolutely high, depressed and disoriented. She can currently be seen partying at all hours of the day and night.

Never mind she has a new born at home that needs attention and feeding. Scores of people have condemned her for this, wondering what the effects will be on the baby.

She is out drinking, smoking, flashing her vagina and looking very high, while her new born is at home. Nice! You really are awful, as you know better. But obviously your pseudo-singing career or what's left of it and being seen with the official drug abusing town whores is more important than giving care to your new born and toddler.

After what I have seen of her this past week in the press, I kind of understand why he is filing for custody, because she has shown herself to be an unfit parent. I think money is apart of it and another part of it is Britney's ridiculousness and carelessness with the kids. I can just imagine the stuff she does when no one's watching.

What happens if while high or drunk she drops the new born and causes him damage. Then what. She's shown before that she's careless, with the incidents that occurred with the first child, but now she looks more wasted than ever. What's that going to mean for the new baby.

You need to keep your butt at home and stay off the inebriants. You aren't 18 anymore. You aren't a so called pop princess anymore. You are a selfish, careless, "overt the hill lolita" with two children that need your time and care. Do them a favor and get in rehab and stop making a fool of yourself deliberately showing everybody your crotch.

It leads people to believe that you are very desperate, with no morals and will do anything for attention.

At the rate you are going, you will fully self-destruct by next year.

Britney And Paris Looking Like Lesbians

Tacky and nasty. Spears with a devilish look on her face:

Her ex-husband and current husband both claim that Britney is bi-sexual. That's what comes of being under the brainwashing tutelage of nasty, washed up hookers like Madonna.

When I saw the pics I thought "is it April fools again already" because Britney is playing the fool right now and irreversibly damaging what's left of her career.

Two lesbians out on the town. PETA, oh wait, wrong organization, GLADD must be happy (I confuse PETA and GLADD sometimes. I just know they both complain a lot and send out more press releases and alerts than the Pentagon).

I’m starting to think Britney Spears is not so bright. Ok, so I’ve thought that for sometime.

I don’t think she is any better or different than K-Fed. K-Fed pimped himself to her to get into a life of luxury and she pimped and prostituted herself to get that life of luxury - for further reference, Brit appeared in her drawers on the cover of Rolling Stone at age 16. Not cool…and where was your mother?

I know none of us are perfect and as people we make mistakes, but they were just cruel to Shar Jackson and both have done things for money that were unbecoming - him marrying her when he clearly wasn’t in love with her and she marrying him after being married to a childhood friend for all of 2 minutes 2 days.   

Either way, you reap what you sow in life. They devastated his former girlfriend and her family while she was pregnant with his child, in him cheating on her with Britney, who knew about her and her condition, but didn't care. Now it is being said K-Fed cheated on her while she was pregnant a few months ago. What goes around comes around.

Now as Shar said “he is the national joke” and so much damage has been done to Spear’s career and name. She went around like a mess for two years. I’ve seen many pregnant women and they didn’t go around looking like that. It left a bad impression in the public’s consciousness.

However, true to celebrity form, they believe they are to get anything they want, when they want it, at anyone’s expense, when God Himself promises that people don’t mock His principles in this world as, “the deeds of a man’s hand’s come back to him.”

Translation: you dish it out and you yourself will live through it as punishment. God forgives when people ask, but every man’s unethical choices has consequences. Don't kid yourself that you are an exception to the rule. However, the good deeds bring back around good to us.

Judge Tells Britney Case Dismissed

Britney was unable to bribe a judge this time and lost in court recently to magazine US Weekly. The judge decided in favor of US Weekly regarding an article they ran regarding Spears and her husband having made a sex tape and acting goofy while watching it with her lawyer.

I remember a few years ago a similar article ran in another publication about a break-in to Spears' property and a sex tape with Spears and Justin being stolen. Why didn't that one result in litigation.

US Weekly pimp slapped her again with their new issue:

"Shakira: I'm Not Britney Spears, OK"

"Columbian singer Shakira recently revealed that she is horrified when she gets compared with the pop tart Britney Spears.  Sure, they both have blond hair - but - that's about where it ends.

Shakira, 28, declares that her videos represent her as an artist, unlike Britney's.

She said: "My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am. When they watch my videos, people might think that I'm very sexually aggressive person, but I am completely the opposite." – Post Chronicle

"Walk of Fame or Walk of Shame?"

"How do these stars earn a star on the Walk of Fame when they've only been around for a mere 15 minutes? - Trina

TMZ: Britney Spears is on the Walk of Fame. It's true, Trina -- more and more young stars seem to be getting their names embossed in Hollywood's Walk of Fame. (24-year-old Britney Spears already has one!) But here's what we can tell you about the growing trend: at least $15,000 is what it costs to achieve posterity on the infamous Hollywood walk, maintained by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. And that nice chunk of money can come from the star, or more likely, a sponsor (i.e., record company or movie studio)." - TMZ

Britney Spears Random Caps

CELEBRITY Paris Hilton

Paris: It’s her fault I’m a slut!
Mom: I’m a first generation slut!

The Hilton family 20 years ago:

Kathy’s Mom Paid For Sex Lessons

In all seriousness, this is really bad. This is the definition of a dysfunctional family. Paris' mom, a very promiscuous, loose woman, with no morals married into a rich family. Her mom before her prepped her for it so she could marry someone rich. This all explains the great lack of taste and decorum Paris and her mother display on a constant basis.

Amazing, her mother is a trashy gold digger whose mom paid for her to have sex lessons to snag a millionaire and now Paris walks around with her nose in the air thinking she is royalty. I don't think so. The conduct described below is very bad:

"The Hideous Hiltons"

Like any mother, Kathleen Richards wanted the best for her daughter, Kathy. Where she differed from other mothers was in the way she intended to get it. She wanted her child to know all about sex, and to learn how to perform, literally, so she asked a young man to give her teenage daughter 'sex lessons' in his van.

Kathy learned well, and hit the jackpot at the age of 20 when she married Rick Hilton, a scion of the hotel dynasty. Fifteen months after the wedding, in February 1981, Kathy gave birth to Paris Whitney.

There is a public perception that Paris Hilton is the black sheep of the family. Through the international hotel empire, the Hilton name has become synonymous with class and sophistication.

Paris, on the other hand, is the epitome of our shallow, celebrity-obsessed culture; an exhibitionist It Girl, best known for starring in a home-made pornographic video but essentially famous only for being famous.

Since the video, she has increased her notoriety by starring in a vacuous reality TV series, posing in countless modelling assignments and launching a much derided pop and film career.

But she is especially adept at being photographed falling in and out of nightclubs, often drunk, and often in various states of undress.

Last month she accidentally exposed the contents of her designer handbag at a Milan fashion show, revealing a plastic bag containing what looked suspiciously like cannabis.

When charged with drink-driving in Los Angeles a month earlier, she admitted that 'maybe I was speeding a bit'.

These are typical moments in the life of 25-year-old Paris. Yet, far from being an embarrassment, I have discovered that Paris is actually maintaining the family traditions.

Her maternal grandmother's maiden name was Dugan, but she was known as 'Big Kathy' - and over the years she had four husbands.

The first of her unions was essentially a shotgun wedding to a bad boy named Larry Avanzino, an Italian-American who had got the pretty Irish-American Dugan girl pregnant in the back seat of her 1957 black Chevrolet convertible. The unplanned bundle of joy conceived in that car would grow up to be 'Little Kathy', Paris's mother.

Big Kathy's third husband was Jack Catain, a sinister figure in organised crime whom she is said to have married and divorced twice, impressed by the big diamond he gave her and by his tough-guy persona.

But husbands number two and four, Ken Richards and Bob Fenton, were submissives to Big Kathy's dominatrix. Richards, whom she had stolen from his wife and three children, raised Little Kathy.

He was also the father of her half-sisters Kim and Kyle, who had huge success in TV sitcoms and movies in the Seventies and Eighties. Once Kim was making plenty of money from her screen work, Big Kathy gave Richards the heave-ho. As for Fenton, she boasted that she denied him sex throughout their marriage.

Big Kathy was very ambitious and obsessed with accumulating money, diamonds, fancy cars, expensive homes - and husbands to pay for them all.

Marry money and have lots of babies, that was the philosophy she sought to instill in her daughters. Sex, she believed, was one way to a man's heart.

Hence the lessons in a van for Little Kathy, who also took classes in singing and dancing. As a child, Little Kathy appeared in print advertisements and TV commercials, but her acting career failed to take off.

She was asked to pose in Playboy for £13,000. She turned down the offer. She cut a demo record, hoping to become a singing star, but that, too, came to nothing.

She was more concerned about marrying well. And finally she nabbed the rich guy that her mother had taught her to snare.

For Little Kathy and her mother it was the ultimate prize. Rick Hilton was a cute 23-year-old with a mop of blond, Shirley Temple curls and a laid-back West-Coast manner.

He was the sixth of William Barron Hilton and Marilyn Hilton's eight children, and grandson of Conrad Hilton, patriarch of the wealthy and powerful hotel dynasty.

Rick went on to the University of Denver ) 'The Harvard of the West' - but did little to distinguish himself there, other than playing volleyball, throwing parties and chasing girls. It was while he was about to graduate in 1978 that he and Little Kathy started dating seriously.

When Little Kathy told her mother that Rick was a potential husband, big Kathy threw a party that was like a victory celebration. "Big Kathy was beside herself with joy", remembers one relative. "She had trained her daughter well."

Around that time veteran Hollywood reporter Barbara Sternig met Little Kathy for lunch. She says: "She talked all about the Hiltons and how daunting it was for her to be marrying into that dynasty, and I thought, she's a cute little nothing: nothing special, coming from a plain family.

"She was a kind of flibberty-jibberty little blonde indistinguishable from many, many other blondes in Hollywood. That's what struck me as incongruous, and made it interesting to me to see what was in her head, to see why he'd marry her over some other little blonde.

"My take on Rick was that he was enamoured of showbusiness and that's why he liked her: that she was an arm-piece who would happily hang out with him and do all the rich guy things that he wanted to do.

I thought they were not the brightest light bulbs in the chandelier, so it was a match made in Heaven. I never heard anything about Kathy again until Paris became famous."

According to Pat Hilton, a Texan beauty who also married into the hotel dynasty: "Kathy Hilton's very selfish and very spoiled and very self-centred, and that absolutely carries through to Paris."

One of their targets was the Hilton in Parsippany, New Jersey. One night, after Rick and Kathy had checked out, the manager was called back to deal with a crisis. "I go up to the suite the Hiltons were using and there's dog s*** all over the place - I mean everywhere.

"They didn't walk their dogs the whole weekend. That's where their mindset is. They act like the imperial court."

Margaret Yakovlev, a former Hilton personal assistant, says: "Kathy was absolutely pushy, arrogant, condescending and presumptuous, and Paris picked that up from her. The spotlight always had to be on Kathy. It was always, 'Do you know who we are? Do you know who I am?'"

As Paris grew older, says another observer, she and her pals "used the saunas in one hotel to go to the bathroom because they were too lazy to use the actual bathroom facilities."

She also became the co-star of the hit reality TV series The Simple Life, while her mother, Little Kathy, got in on the act with a reality TV show ofher own, I Want To Be A Hilton. It was panned by the critics.

One noted "the raw avarice displayed...you'd need a strong stomach for vulgarity to be able to stand all this for more than a few minutes".- Jerry Oppenheimer 2006, Adapted from House Of Hilton, by Jerry Oppenheimer

Nicky Hilton Lied About Creating A Hotel

"We didn't really believe that Nicky Hilton was behind everything at her Nicky O Hotels, the first of which is supposedly opening in Miami Beach on New Year's Eve.

Yes, our doubts about her hotelier skills have been growing with each news report about her hotel and now today, HotelChatter met with a man who claims that Nicky is not quite the design maven she (or her handlers) make her out to be.

Nizar Idrisi is a licensed Los Angeles-based architect who has done interiors for celebrity abodes and corporate spaces. His former business partner is Faye Resnick, she of OJ Simpson trial fame and who is also, randomly, Nicky Hilton's godmother and even more randomly, an interior designer.

Resnick and Idrisi have collaborated on various design projects for celebrities for the past seven years, including the recent design of Paris Hilton's Beverly Hills home.

According to Idrisi, When Nicky decided to get into the hotel business, she wanted the hotels to "look like Paris' house", Idrisi says. So he and Resnick were contracted in May 2006 to do the design concepts and renderings for the Nicky O Hotels.

Instead, what happened next is plain and simple: a Hollywood business deal went bad which happens about every 90 seconds in this town. Now Idrisi, with axe in hand and ready to grind, is spilling the beans about what work Nicky Hilton has actually done on her hotels.

Idrisi tells HotelChatter that he agreed to take a lesser fee for his work on the Nicky O hotels (the other one will open in Chicago) in exchange for press coverage which would mention his name in all press releases. He signed his work contract with Chris Falor of Falor Companies and Falor's brother to Robert Falor who owns the Nicky O Hotels.

Yet during talks with a Miami Beach realtor, Mark Zilbert, who was assigned to sell the Nicky O condos within the hotel, Idrisi found out that Nicky's manager, Paul Fisher of Edge Management, wanted to keep Faye Resnick's name out of all press coverage. Guess being associated with an accused killer has quite a half life. Suspecting that Fisher was going to try to keep his name out of the press as well, Idrisi approached Resnick with this bit of info.

This set off a firestorm between Resnick and Fisher, both exchanging unpleasant emails to each other with the cliched "you'll never work in this town again" type of threats. Yet somehow Resnick and Fisher managed to work out a nice little deal--Resnick would be the designer assigned to decorate the condos in the hotel bought by celebrities. Like baller Tracy McGrady, who bought a $3.1 million condo at Nicky O based on the colored Idrisi rendering above.

Idrisi wasn't quite offered such a sweet deal. In fact, according to him, his services were suspended. But he says Fisher promised him that many celebrity clients would seek out Idrisi for his design services if he could manage to play by their rules. Idrisi declined to do so and now he wants credit for his work which he says Nicky has been promoting as her own, as evidenced in this People magazine article.

In many media outlets, and even in front of models, Nicky's been touted as being involved in every aspect of the hotel. As for those pretty posterboards Nicky unveiled at a recent press conference in Miami, those are the works of a new designer, Thomas Schoos, who was hired to tweak Idrisi's designs. But Idrisi was still angered to see this pic below of Nicky and Shoe standing in front of the Idrisi rendering he showed to McGrady.

Not getting the promised press coverage was one thing that ticked Idrisi off but now he would also like to be paid for his services, which he claims hasn't happened yet.

So what exactly has Nicky's role been in all of this? Idrisi paints Nicky as just a 23-yr-old kid manipulated by her handlers. Although he says the more serious of the Hilton sisters ("she's more goth" and "she has a bit of a rock n'roll edge"), hence the brunette look every one in a while, did have some input on the hotel design.

Sometimes she would send me something she ripped out of a magazine, and say 'I like this'.

We had a meeting in Miami by the pool of the Royal Palm with fashion designers who were going to design some suites. It was a very important meeting. We were all going over stuff and Nicky was just out there swimming in the pool with one of her friends that came down from New York. Every so often she would look over at us and wave.

So what do you think, is Nicky Hilton worthy of the hotelier moniker, or is she simply ripping Gansevoort South hotel photos out of Ocean Drive and saying "This is hot". Send us your tips, or just comment away." - Hotel Chatter

Rockers Jett Slam Paris In Song

"Australian rockers Jet have written a song ridiculing Paris Hilton over her homemade sex tape.

Jet frontman Nic Cester revealed the song's scathing subject matter at the band's sell out concert at London's Brixton Academy last night, saying: "Here's a song we've written about Paris Hilton. It's called 'Rip It Up'."

Included in the lyrics are the lines: "Did you ever get the feeling you were born to lose, smacked in the face with a silver spoon. Skinny doll gimme your magazine queen, just spread your legs for the silver screen. From the bedroom baby to the city a' light, you look pretty good but you're not so bright. Flashin' your stash ain't nothin' new." In the song, the band also jokingly threaten to kill Paris' pet dog Tinkerbell, saying: "I'm gonna get ya my pretty - your little dog too." – PR Inside

"Rod Stewart Not Too Impressed With Hilton’s Singing Talent"

"He might have praised her by calling her polite and well mannered, but as far as her singing talent is concerned, Rod Steward has said that he is not impressed by socialite Paris Hilton’s vocal abilities.           

Stewart, who knows the hotel heiress through his daughter Kimberly said that he isn’t too pleased after hearing her version of his hit song ‘Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?’

"She's an OK singer with a manufactured voice," Rate the Music quoted him, as telling American publication Us Weekly." - ANI

"Parents Proud Of One Night In Paris"

The Hilton's love it... 

Your daughter becomes a worldwide superstar off the back of a grainy, x rated home video – how do you react? With pride apparently!

Just when you thought the life of Paris Hilton couldn’t get any weirder the wacky factor increases ten fold.

Paris’ biographer Jerry Oppenheimer has revealed that her parents are gushing with pride over how their daughter became famous.

He told the Sun: “I have family sources telling me that Rick and Kathy Hilton are proud of everything Paris has done.”

“It's a bizarre family. Behind the scenes her parents are not opposed to the video because that totally launched her.”

Reader comments (2)

 * What kind of parents would admit in being proud of their daughter making a porn movie with her boyfriend! It was crap anyway, so amateurish. Act your age girl! Get a proper job like the rest of us and stop living off your party image. by ciccone, Middlesbrough, UK

    * What else are the keeping-up-appearances family going to say to the media? That they’ve disowned her? Not to mention, they know she’s never going to be a neurosurgeon so, maybe they’re just happy she’s able to string a couple of words together here and there to make a sentence. Sigh. Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it... by Chelsea, Ottawa, CANADA - Entertainmentwise