Stars Are Blind
The pop-star turn — a debut single that goes top-10 worldwide and a self-titled album — colliding with the most-televised legal saga of 2007: the DUI, the mugshot, jail, the early release and the courtroom order sending her right back.
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16 moments in this segment.
- — Paris Hilton in 2006. The year of her debut album, at the height of her fame.
- — 2006 — "Stars Are Blind" goes top-10 in 17 countries. Released June 5, 2006 on Warner Bros. Records, her reggae-pop debut single was a genuine international hit, charting in the top ten across seventeen countries.
- — Paris Hilton — "Turn It Up". Paris Hilton Screwed Lyrics Please don't let it begin You're under my skin Same old story Boys meets girl and she falls much harder than him
- — 2006 — the self-titled debut album Paris. Released August 22, 2006, the album reached number six on the Billboard 200 and sold more than 600,000 copies.
- — Paris Hilton — "Nothing In This World" (audio). A cut from the surprisingly well-reviewed "Paris" album.
- — 2006 — a DUI arrest begins the legal saga. Hilton was arrested in Hollywood on suspicion of driving under the influence in September 2006, the first step in a sequence that would dominate the news a year later.
- — Paris Hilton — "Nothing In This World" (music video). The third single from her 2006 debut album "Paris."
- — 2006 — the "Bimbo Summit" with Britney and Lindsay. On a single late-November 2006 night out, Hilton was photographed with Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan — the paparazzi swarm that the New York Post immortalized on its November 29 front page as the "BIMBO SUMMIT," the defining image of mid-2000s celebrity chaos.
- — 2007 — jail, release, and the courtroom order sending her back. Sentenced to 45 days for violating probation, she was released early to home confinement and then ordered back to jail by a judge in a heavily televised hearing. She served 23 days before her release on June 26, 2007.
- — 2008 — Paris Hilton's My New BFF on MTV. Her friend-search competition show premiered September 30, 2008, topping cable in its time slot and spawning British and Dubai spinoffs.
- — Paris Hilton — "Good Time" (ft. Lil Wayne). The 2013 comeback single, produced by Afrojack.
- — Paris Hilton — "High Off My Love" ft. Birdman. The 2015 single marking her dance-music pivot.
- — Paris Hilton — "I Need You". A gospel-tinged 2018 single — Paris the recording artist, still going.
- — Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike vs Paris Hilton — "Best Friend’s Ass". The 2019 EDM collaboration — Paris fully in dance-pop mode.
- — Paris Hilton — "I Blame You". A 2020 single from her DJ/producer era.
- — Paris Hilton — "Welcome Back" (Infinite Icon era). From her 2024 album "Infinite Icon," her first full LP since 2006.
