Mirrored disco balls, chandeliers you could swing from and a large neon Ernest Hemingway quote that reads, “I drink to make other people more interesting.” I’m in Club Paris, the exclusive yet infamous party room at Paris Hilton’s multimillion-dollar Beverly Hills mansion that’s played host to hundreds of revellers over the past 15 years.
But the biggest surprise is that Club Paris is no more. Her home, bought in 2008 and located in a gated community off iconic Mulholland Drive , recently underwent a two-year renovation. And what I’m seeing today are merely the remnants of the decadence and debauchery that once went on here.“I’m grown-up now, so this room is a movie theatre,” she says, reaching for a cashmere blanket to wrap herself in. “I’m so over going to parties. I never thought I would say that.
“I invented getting paid to party,” she told me proudly, back then, along with how she felt “forever 21″. But that was before her extraordinary feature-length YouTube documentary,Whether you have long dismissed her as a poor little rich party girl, or recognise her as a business mogul with a multibillion-dollar empire , the documentary, which has had more than 23 million views to date, will make you question everything you thought you knew about Paris Hilton.
“When I got out of the school, at 18, I didn’t want to think about [the abuse] so I invented this whole new persona: a Barbie doll with a perfect life,” she explains. She adopted the voice forand found herself having to do it again and again when the show kept being recommissioned. “I’m definitely an undercover nerd. I’ve always been like that. I’m really into video games, crypto, tech and gadgets. A lot of people don’t believe it but I’m very shy.”
Details are top secret but she mentions “wedding gowns”, so we can safely assume there’ll be a few costume changes on the big day. Her dream dress “used to be very princessy”, she admits, “now, I’m thinking more elegant, but still like, Paris-ised”. And anyone hoping for diva moments will be disappointed: “I’m the opposite of a Bridezilla,” she promises.
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