Summary of Jerry Oppenheimer's House of Hilton

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Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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 "e;celebutante."e;The cast of characters includes Paris's maternal grandmother, a materialistic "e;stage mother from hell."e; There is Paris's maternal grandfather, who became an alcoholic housepainter.

The life of Paris's mother, Kathy Hilton, groomed by her mother to be a star and marry rich, is candidly revealed, too, as is that of Paris's father, Rick, Conrad's grandson.