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LATimes: Where’s Paris Hilton been?
Busy building a global empire
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Paris Hilton already has enough job titles to dwarf other multi-hyphenated celebrities. She's a jet-setting DJ and recording artist. She designs sunglasses and shoes and formulates perfumes. She opens hotels that have nothing to do with her famous family. And, an upcoming addition to her list of business roles will be Paris Hilton, tech investor.
It’s all part of Hilton’s agenda to be more than the club-hopping socialite and heiress she once was considered to be when she was younger; her name a frequent punchline for late-night talk show hosts, especially when her reality show, “The Simple Life,” co-starring fashion designer (and fellow multi-hyphenated celebrity) Nicole Richie was still on the air.
Hilton, who’s 35, says she spends 300 days of the year on a plane, managing a global brand, which includes 50 eponymous boutiques — granted you’d have to go to Doha in Qatar or Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to shop in one of Hilton’s stores. She put her first name on a luxury beach club in Paranaque City in the Philippines, and she is working on a second in the country's Pampanga province. She says there will be branded Paris hotels in the future in Dubai, New York and Las Vegas.
The latest addition to her burgeoning empire is called Gold Rush, her 20th fragrance since 2004. Hilton reportedly has sold $1.5 billion in her perfumes alone.Gold Rush eau de parfum (3.4 fluid ounces, $60) is available now at HSN.com and starting Aug. 1 at Perfumania.com.
Aren’t the fragrances simply a small part of everything you do?
I’ve got 17 product lines — sunglasses, shoes, clothing, makeup, watches. There are 50 Paris Hilton stores now, and we’re opening 200 more. I’m getting into real estate, following [in] my family’s footsteps, but my own thing, without the Hilton name. Soon I’ll be announcing some huge projects in the tech world — really insane projects that are so futuristic and cool. It’s top secret right now, so I can’t talk about them yet.
Read rest of the interview here :
http://www.latimes.com/fashion/la-ig...nap-story.html
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