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It’s late afternoon at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills—yes, that same Four Seasons Britney Spears checked herself into on so many subsequent nights—and Paris Hilton, perhaps herself the original paparazzi magnet, is signing her CD for an eager fan… a journalist there to interview her actually.
That’s kind of a no-no in our profession, actually.

But the hotel heiress happily obliges, despite being bleary-eyed from a day spent promoting her new film The Hottie and the Nottie. And when she sits down before a room of rabid "reporters"—and I say that because many of these so-called journalists preferred to remind Paris of ‘that time we sat together at an awards show’ or ‘the event I photographed you at in Milan back in 2003’ than to ask her any legitimate questions—it’s with all the charm of a finishing school A-lister.

It’s as if the media is powerless against her—when she walks into a room, some seem amped knock her off her game, others ponder the media giant she’s almost inexplicably become—and yet no one can take their eyes off of her.

This mini mogul (at just 26, she has movies, books, modeling gigs, a TV series, an album, a perfume line, canned wine and more to her credit) is just as famous for her jail time, sex tape and very public slips of the tongue as she is for the empire she’s built. She’s a new breed of celebrity. One minute she begs to be taken seriously as an actress, rattling off the name of her acting coach and offering a convincing sound-byte on the deeper message behind her film. The next she giggles and says ‘not sure’ when asked who she’s planning to vote for in the upcoming presidential election.

And yet the press eats it up like candy—one ‘reporter’ alludes to a scene in the film in which Christabel, Hilton’s character, slaps a restraining order against a male suitor with the demand, ‘That better be 40-feet.’ Paris laughs, remembering the moment, then proceeds to tell the room about her own stalker… the one who slept outside of her home for days on end, kidnapped her dog and then miraculously rescued it days later.

By her side, co-star Christine Lakin—the Nottie, though you’d never know it from her flawless skin and mega-watt smile—seems sympathetic to the paparazzi attention her co-star and friend has to endure. Herself a child star of the ’90s (she played daughter to Suzanne Somers and Patrick Duffy for seven seasons on Step by Step), she’s had her share of press.





And yet, simultaneously, her face hints at an air of confusion.

"( For me) it was Teen and Tiger Beat—there was none of this kind of paparazzi, because it was all planned ahead of time. There wasn’t anything like this back then", she laughs.

The actress got to further taste Hilton’s world on a recent night out on the town.