Paris Hilton is out of selfie and has landed in reality. A bit like Margot Robbie when she leaves Barbieland and lands in the world where women are not genetically gifted with pointed feet and wear Birkenstocks. The wild billionaire, influencer, actress, social media and reality TV star, entrepreneur and creator of unmemorable brands and perfumes (one always gets the feeling that behind such a long list of activities lies a substantial idleness) landed yesterday on the benches of an American Congressional commission as a witness to denounce the abuse and mistreatment she was a victim of as a girl in a boarding school for troubled adolescents and to ask for a change in the law that regulates the operation of these structures. Normally, Paris Hilton is found on the other side of the bench, with complaints and arrests for drug possession, drunk driving, speeding and more. From the news, it appears that she also spent a few hours in very harsh prison, like all the celebrity of a certain lineage.
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Instead, yesterday in Washington she appeared before the Committee on Economic and Social Issues of Congress to tell what happened to her when her parents were 16 years old, unable to contain her exuberance, her rebellious soul and above all her ADHD hyperactivity syndrome ( very serious thing here, there’s nothing to joke about) they sent her to a recovery center for minors. The story seems very much that of rich parents who get rid of their problematic and low-achieving children in the most convenient of ways: tuition of 800 to 1000 dollars a day, as long as someone else takes care of it. Then the doors of the boarding school, the Provo Canyon School in Utah, opened for the teenager Paris, where Hilton said she was sexually abused, held down with violence and forced to take drugs for years. She said she was “violently held down and dragged through the corridors, stripped and thrown into solitary confinement.” She was prevented from notifying her parents, her few phone calls were monitored and they disconnected her if she said too much.
At 43, having put her Chihuahua in her designer handbag, together with her five glittery cell phones, leaving her children Phoenix (male) and London (female) to the nannies, generated in a test tube so as not to waste her precious time and little body, the billionaire influencer now dresses the role of the champion of the rights of violated adolescence. You spoke of your experience as a “kidnapping approved by parents” who fell, like many others, “into the industry’s deceptive marketing of problem teenagers.”
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A $50 billion business that includes, according to Hilton’s lawsuit, therapeutic boarding schools, military-style boot camps, juvenile justice facilities and behavior modification programs, Hilton has accused the multibillion-dollar industry of being more interested in making money than protecting and caring for the vulnerable children it serves.
“Is it more important to protect corporate profits or to protect the lives of young people in foster care?” he said in support of the law that tightens controls.
He had already spoken about abuse and mistreatment in 2020 in the documentary “This is Paris”. And then in his 2023 autobiography “Paris: The Memoir”.
A just and sacrosanct battle. Which I admit, it is difficult to clean up the image of the character Paris Hilton as we know her, with the nothingness of what she represents, with the inconsistency of her creams and her beauty routines (“skin care is sacred” she wrote in ‘autobiography). Or maybe it was precisely to escape from those experiences of being an abused teenager that the character Paris Hilton we know was born? They are unsolvable dilemmas, just as the human soul is unsolvable.
