this newly minted real housewife has
been skulking in her daughter's shadows
for years from high profile gold digging
to stirring up drama with her famous fam
it's kathy hilton's world and we're all
too broke to live in it
if we know anything about the hilton
family it's that they don't exactly have
a reputation for passing on a big
inheritance to their kids according to
reuters hotel founder conrad hilton
famously left nearly all of his fortune
to the conrad and hilton foundation when
he died in 1979 so i says i'd like to
buy your hotel here's where i don't
become a banker and i'm going to become
a hotel man
son baron didn't get any special
treatment from his dad either as forbes
noted baron started out as an elevator
operator in one of conrad's hotels he
eventually took over the empire breaking
in 800 million dollars in 2007 after
selling hilton hotels to the blackstone
firm despite getting the short end of
the stick from his own dad baron did the
same thing to his kids and he moved 97
of his fortune to the conrad n hilton
foundation baron's son richard faced the
same tough love he was passed over in
favor of son stephen who became
president of the foundation apparently
richard missed out because the family
thought his wife kathy was a little too
eager to grab that hilton cash in the
book house of hilton baron is quoted as
saying of richard if he can't control
his wife how can he run my hotels
richard and kathy had four kids paris
mickey baron and conrad and by all
accounts they looked like a happy family
but insiders have reported that kathy
hired help and enlisted relatives to
pitch in too often farming out the child
care at any chance she got uncle eric
hilton's first wife patricia had a lot
to say about kathy's mothering in house
of hilton she recalled a time when kathy
asked if patricia wanted to hold baby
paris and when she said yes she said of
kathy she took off until that evening i
wanted to kill her she didn't leave any
instructions on what time paris had to
be fed there weren't any diapers she
just left me in the lurch in the midst
of all of it apparently richard's mom
marilyn advised patricia well i guess
you're it for the day kathy does this
all the time she just wants to go out
and she knew you'd take care of the kid
kathy definitely had early aspirations
of becoming famous as a close friend
once told vanity fair of course kathy
wanted to be a star who didn't
apparently kathy's mom big kathy
hammered it into her kids heads that
wealth and success were the ultimate
goals but according to house of hilton
when kathy didn't hit it big she placed
those heavy ambitions onto her own
children especially paris both kathy and
her mom determined that paris would be
famous big kathy used to call her
marilyn monroe and the duo almost
immediately tried to turn paris into a
child bottle house of hilton author
jerry oppenheimer recalled his study of
the family telling vanity fair i came
away with sympathy for paris when she
was a kid she thought about becoming a
veterinarian but she had no chance to do
anything but what she has done my mom
just wanted me to be a hilton
and i just wanted to be paris
reportedly paris lost interest in the
profession when she discovered that she
could just buy animals instead conrad
hilton was famous for his work ethic and
shrewdness in his first ever hotel he
slept in the office so that every bed
could be used for a profit this
entrepreneurial tactic meant that even
hilton family members didn't get special
treatment in the hotels but apparently
kathy expected something a little extra
a manager at the time revealed in house
of hilton that richard once demanded a
special sweet recalling him saying we
like a nice california red wine and
something white and my wife liked
seafood and then he demanded a
babysitter i had to convince the hotel's
elderly german seamstress to do the
sitting the same thing happened at the
other hotels one staffer claimed kathy
pulled the do you know who i am card
often adding the spotlight always had to
be on kathy
kathy had a reputation for being overly
demanding and entitled especially
towards hilton employees as one former
staffer explained in house of hilton
kathy and rick and the girls looked down
their noses at the help and were very
judgmental paris and nicki were running
loose in the hotel were always trouble
and the mother always seemed to be
coaching them kathy was absolutely pushy
arrogant condescending and presumptuous
and paris picked that up from her well
do you really better think twice
there were endless reports from hotel
staff about the struggles of dealing
with the family and based on those
accounts it seems the socialite apples
didn't fall far from the tree
when the hiltons moved to new york paris
and sister nikki quickly became famous
for their partying and the press was all
over it some outlets even blamed the
wild behavior on a lack of parental
guidance not only that but there were
claims that the girls were tarnishing
the hilton name too an insider told the
new york post in 2000 it's disgraceful
the way most of them act these days if
they had any respect for their families
they would keep their noses clean i mean
i had to do what i had to do
kathy says it was tough keeping tabs on
her daughters as she became worried
about the growing fame surrounding paris
kathy recalled to the lunch with bruce
podcast when i saw all of this happening
it scared me especially in new york i
used to call the city desk at the new
york post at one in the morning excuse
me hi it's kathy hilton uh do you by any
chance no paris where she is right now
as was portrayed in the 2020 documentary
this is paris cathy and richard sent
their daughter paris to the provo canyon
boarding school in utah in 1996. the
experience was traumatizing for paris
and it altered her relationship with her
parents especially kathy on paris in
love the star recalled provo
stripped of all of my human rights cut
off from the outside world i wasn't able
to speak to my parents for months
but that silence seemed to be an ongoing
theme when paris released her
documentary kathy didn't know what was
coming when she was asked if she knew
about the experience being portrayed in
the film kathy told bustle no i kept
thinking to myself why wouldn't she say
something why would she not say
something i also got into such a
depression i didn't want to talk to
paris about it too much until i had
talked to a therapist i felt like i was
just kind of just sent away to be hidden
the mother and daughter have continued
therapy together much of which paris has
chronicled on her reality show
we are going to have fun tonight and
anyone that isn't you can just watch us
have fun
kathy joined the real housewives of
beverly hills for season 11 to the
surprise and shock of her daughters
paris and nicki didn't know that their
mom was even on the series until after
she started filming nikki recalled on
the podcast this is paris first of all
my mom was so shady about the whole
thing pretty much every year this rumor
surfaces kathy hilton is joining the
real housewives of beverly hills and
we're like no she's not this year was no
different apparently when nicki asked
kathy directly about it kathy denied it
she only later admitted that she was
interested but it looked like a long
shot nikki added cut to paris and i in
soho walking down the street and our
friend facetimes us being like i see her
mom is on the real housewives people
magazine just confirmed it for kathy's
part she didn't understand why her
daughters would be so concerned telling
entertainment tonight i know that i'm
not going to go and be cursing and
starting fights with people
kathy has been part of a highly
publicized feud with her sister o.g
beverly hills real housewife kyle
richards and much of their interaction
is literally documented on the show
along with their sister kim but oddly
enough it was bravo that mended their
relationship kathy confessed to people
my sister kyle and i had our ups and
downs so it was nothing that i wanted to
watch but kyle convinced me to do it and
i was flattered i thought it would be an
opportunity for us to spend time
together i really missed her in july
2021 kathy opened up about her decision
to join her sisters on the show telling
bustle kyle and i had issues for a long
time but we started getting in a better
place it was always maybe never yes then
i finally thought you know what what do
i have to lose i know i'm not a fighter
unless i get pushed and i'm not going to
cuss or make a ridiculous fool out of
myself
thankfully kathy and kyle have been able
to mend their relationship and this gift
is not lost on kathy she shared with
people it takes time but it feels so
good to be where we are now and i've
really appreciated this time life is a
poker game
and everybody's got to show their cards
kathy shut up
if there's one driving motivation in
kathy's life it seems to be money and by
some accounts she's been pretty clever
and even cutthroat about how to get it
of course that's in light of marrying
into a very wealthy family who were
ruthless about sharing the dough but
apparently this initially created a
problem for kathy she had a sterling
last name and cultural cachet but she
didn't have the money to back it up a
friend close to her dish to vanity fair
it's why they cultivate friends that
have jets and yachts they like to hitch
rides if any more proof was needed when
the friend divorced her wealthy husband
kathy cited with the money even if she
did have to befriend the new wife the
relentless desire for wealth also
created some awkward social situations
as house of hilton portrayed it the
entire family was pleased with the
intense attention that paris was
receiving no matter how she got it
alleging they are proud of everything
she has done even the video when kathy's
mother died the family hosted a wake at
their home and the friend who spoke to
vanity fair also recounted paris had
just turned 21 and the hiltons had a
running loop of footage from paris's
21st birthday party up on their big
screen tv rick was running around going
look at paris it was a promotion but
from what we know of big kathy she
probably wouldn't have minded that her
favorite granddaughter stole the
spotlight at her own wake
in 2005 paris got engaged to greek
shipping heir paris latses the
engagement lasted just five months but
came with a whopping 24-karat sparkler
apparently it was so valuable that paris
had several copies made so that she
could wear replicas while jet skiing for
example in case it fell off but when the
couple broke up a different side of
kathy and richard hilton became apparent
as jerry oppenheimer wrote in house of
hilton they were hopeful such an
alliance would secure the family's
fortune instead the wealthy greek family
ignored paris's parents when they
traveled to visit them in greece to make
matters worse the latses family felt
that paris wasn't good enough for their
son reportedly the rumors were that it
was his family who urged him to call off
the wedding of course cappy wasn't one
to take this lying down later in the
hamptons people overheard her saying
that her daughter's former fiance was
quote lazy and spoiled and that he
lacked the gumption that paris had to
succeed on her own clearly these two
just were not meant to be paris then
auctioned off her massive engagement
ring to support the victims of hurricane
katrina not spending any time crying
over lost greek dynasties harris has
since gone on to marry venture
capitalist carter reim the couple tied
the nod in 2021 much to the delight and
approval of one kathy hilton well as
long as she got to do everything her way
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