She'll Always Have Paris

Sometimes, the copy just writes itself.

There's been a rash -- okay, two a trend does not make, but work with me here, people -- of celebrities and their storage lockers. For someone like Whitney Houston, that which has been consigned to the dusty bins of a storage facility for years can, in fact turn out to be a boon. Don't we all wish we could scrounge up some serious cash by auctioning off our unmentionables and forgottens and left behinds? Okay, maybe not so much the unmentionables. But don't tell that to Houston, who did all right earlier this month selling off such items. And talk about about the sisterhood of the traveling pants -- the National Enquirer got its grubby little hands on some of the  clothing and is going make it available as a prize in a contest!

But now we have Paris Hilton. As you've likely heard, she -- or her moving company -- failed to pay a storage locker fee of around $200, and so her personal belongings, including diaries and photos, were sold off. To two folks. For around $3,000. Who then sold them again. For $10 million.

Jeez, I'm in the wrong business.

The new owner, Bardia Persa, cataloged and scanned every bit, and put them up at ParisExposed.com. To view, you're gonna have to fork over $40. That's a lot of subscriptions before you get to $10 million, so I have to wonder.

But now, if Paris has anything to do with it, nobody will get to see anything. And herein lies the humor.

In a lawsuit filed today, Hilton and her lawyers are trying to get the site shut down. From the Reuters article:

"This action seeks to enjoin perhaps one of the most single egregious and reprehensible invasions of privacy ever committed against an individual," Hilton's attorneys wrote in the lawsuit, which claims copyright infringement, invasion of privacy and violation of her right to publicity.... I was appalled to learn that people are exploiting my and my sisters' private personal belongings for commercial gain," Hilton, star of the reality TV series "The Simple Life," said in a declaration attached to the lawsuit.

This may be the first case thrown out of court based on the fact that, through the plaintiff's own choices and actions, she can be said to have absolutely no right to privacy. The only reason anyone has any interest in Paris is to see what oopsie she's going to make next in the name of exploiting her privacy.

But maybe that's the point: Paris wants to reserve the right to exploit herself at her leisure.

-- Randee Dawn

Comments

[Bec]

well, i just have to say it never ceases to amaze me how someone so rich could still be suuuuuuuuuch white trash. the girl just oozes sleaze, despite however many millions she was born having in her trust fund. and she somehow seems comfortably clueless to this fact, which is almost (almost) sad. why anyone wants to pay any amount of money for anything having to do with her is beyond me. personally it pains me just to pay her any attention. gross. (think about that, britney, before you go and get yourself a storage locker like your icky new galpal.) on to much more important matters...what happened to ray richmond, for goodness sake? who is randie dawn?