The "unauthorized" sex video

An unauthorized sex video of Hilton with her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon, who leaked it onto the Internet, was released shortly before The Simple Life debuted, causing a sensation. On June 9, 2004 it was released as a DVD titled One Night in Paris. Hilton sued Salomon for releasing the tape. In July, the suit was settled, with Hilton receiving $400,000 and a percentage of the profits. The original video, and a rip of the DVD, are still circulating on the Internet.

There has been speculation that Hilton may be gay. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Hilton stated that she did not receive much enjoyment from sex with men. It has also been rumored that there exists a video featuring Paris in a lesbian sex romp with her friend Nicole Lenz, a Playboy Playmate. In February of 2005, she admitted in an interview that she has a crush on Jennifer Aniston. [1] (http://sify.com/movies/hollywood/fullstory.php?id=13673478), [2] (http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/25742004.htm)

Hilton owns a teacup Chihuahua named Tinkerbell. In August 2004, Tinkerbell was reported lost and a $5,000.00 reward was offered for her safe return. Tinkerbell was found a week later.

In the fall of 2004, Hilton released a book, Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, which brings full color photographs of her and gives her tips on the dos and don'ts of living as an heiress. The writing was panned as amateurish, and was parodied by Robert Mundell on The Late Show with David Letterman.

On February 19, 2005 conceptual art outlaws the seahorse liberation army.com posted the contents of Hilton's personal T-Mobile account [3] (http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000540032549) to the internet: phone numbers (which included many celebrities such as Christina Aguilera, Fred Durst, Eminem, Lindsay Lohan, Jay-Z, Anna Kournikova, Avril Lavigne), notes (with even more numbers and email addresses, and reminders such as her date to host Saturday Night Live), and thirty-five digital snapshots. In two of the leaked photos, Hilton is standing topless next to the MTV Latin America's VJ Eglantina Zingg, whom she kisses. This further added to the speculation that Hilton might be gay or bisexual. Many of her notes showed heavy usage of child-like Internet slang.

Within days, it was revealed [4] (http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/01/01/paris.html) that Hilton's account could be accessed by anyone guessing the answer to the "forgotten password" challenge question she chose: "What is your favorite pet's name?". As the answer to this question is a matter of public record, [5] (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1560250/) an anonymous party was able to guess it and notify the press.