Ebook: House of Hilton: From Conrad to Paris: A Drama of Wealth, Power, and Privilege
Author: Hilton Conrad Nicholson, Hilton family., Hilton Paris, Oppenheimer Jerry, Hilton family., Hilton Paris, Hilton Conrad Nicholson
- Tags: Hilton Conrad N. -- (Conrad Nicholson) -- 1887-1979., Hilton family., Hilton Paris -- 1981-, Hotelkeepers -- United States -- Biography., BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Rich & Famous., BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Small Business., Hotelkeepers., United States.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Crown/Archetype
- City: New York, United States
- Edition: Unabridged
- Language: English
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This intimate, shocking--and thoroughly unauthorized--portrait of the Hiltons chronicles the family's amazing odyssey from poverty and obscurity to glory and glamour.
From Conrad Hilton, the eccentric "innkeeper to the world" who built a global empire beginning with a fleabag in a dusty Texas backwater, to Paris Hilton, his great-granddaughter, whose fame took off with a sex video, House of Hilton is the unauthorized, eye-popping portrait of one of America's most outrageous dynasties.
If you want to know how Paris Hilton became who she is, you have to know where she came from. From scores of candid and exclusive interviews, from private documents and public records, New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer has dug deeply into her paternal and maternal family roots to reveal the often shocking, tragic, and comic lives that helped shape the world's most famous and fabulous "celebutante."
The cast of characters includes Paris's maternal...