Paris Hilton | Do You Know Who I Am? | 44

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This season we’re looking back at the rise of America’s first influencer. How did the wild child, hard-partying heiress who was “famous for being famous” end up netting more than $300 million on her own? In this episode, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree—and that tree is Big Kathy, Paris’ grandmother, who ends up pregnant but refuses to give up her dream of being famous. Her mantra? “Marry rich and have lots of babies.” All her efforts pay off with the arrival of her granddaughter Star, better known by the name that made her famous -- Paris Hilton. We’ll dig into the fascinating story of how a woman with stars in her eyes and an iron will helped create the 2000s scene queen people loved to hate, but couldn’t get enough of… for good reason. Paris Hilton is hot.

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0:00.0	Wundry Plus subscribers can
0:01.8	convince the newest season of even the rich before anyone else.
0:04.4	Join Wundary Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:07.4	On this episode, we're going to be swearing like a hotel heiress who didn't get her side of ranch.
0:12.4	Ugh, truly the worst thing that could happen. So Brooke, have you ever been to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York?
0:25.4	No, but I've had a Waldorf salad.
0:27.6	Okay, that's almost the same thing.
0:30.0	And fun fact, it just so happens, the Waldorf salad was invented right there at the hotel in 1893.
0:35.6	But that's not what this story is about.
0:37.6	Thank God or this would be a very short series.
0:39.8	Wait, what do you mean?
0:41.2	A salad featuring grapes, walnuts, and celery? What could be better?
0:45.0	Literally any other kind of salad.
0:48.0	Okay, well let me paint you a picture of the Waldorf Hotel in 2003 because that's where our story starts.
0:55.0	The Waldorf is on Park Avenue and it was once the tallest and largest hotel in the world.
1:03.3	It's got marble floors and these long mirrored hallways
1:06.4	and fancy ballrooms.
1:08.1	And most of the people who stay there are loaded.
1:10.9	We're talking movie stars, kings queens Titans of industry in fact two past
1:16.1	presidents even lived there but now in 2003 Paris Hilton lives in the residential
1:20.7	part of the hotel along with her parents and brothers and sister.
1:24.5	But it's still pretty sweet digs for a 22 year old.
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