by Paris Hilton has revealed that Playboy published a racist photo of her without her permission.
After turning down a seven-figure offer from Hugh Hefner, Hilton detailed the exchange between her and the Playboy mogul. He admitted that he tried desperately to convince her to appear on the cover of the infamous magazine.
“Hef really wanted me to do a Playboy cover,” Hilton recalls in her new book, “Paris: The Memoir.”
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“He offered me more and more money, saying I shouldn’t be completely naked, just topless. And then he would say, I didn’t have to be topless, just clean. And then she said I could wear whatever underwear I wanted.”
Paris Hilton has revealed that Playboy published a racist photo of her without her permission. (Getty Images)
“Even when he offered me seven figures, I turned it down because I knew my mom would lose her mind and because I’d already been branded a slut after the sex tape,” she pointed out. “I felt like a Playboy pictorial would just cement that in people’s minds.”
Once Hilton saw her risqué photo front and center in Playboy’s 2005 Sex Star of the Year issue, she broke down in tears, claiming she never consented or agreed to be on the cover.
“No one was terribly surprised to see me on the cover of Playboy,” she wrote. “Besides me. I was surprised. And not in a good way.”
Paris Hilton claims she turned down Hugh Hefner’s seven-figure offer to be on the cover of Playboy. (Getty Images)
The “Stars are Blind” singer noted that she had discovered her cover photo through a friend and explained how Hefner had ignored her request not to appear.
“Hef had ‘honored’ me with the Sex Star of the Year award, which means they can claim it’s ‘news’ and not pictorial. He got a picture from an old test shoot with a female photographer… It’s kind of a old school pinup-girl vibe: red bustier and heels, black fishnets, very little real skin.”
However, a spokesperson for Playboy told Fox News Digital that Hilton’s claims do not represent the “values” of their brand.
“While current management is unaware of what transpired surrounding this cover, the allegation does not reflect our values or the way the company operates today. Playboy today is a global lifestyle brand with a variety of consumer products and digital offerings. We encourage you to visit Playboy.com to learn more about today’s redesigned Playboy brand.”
Meanwhile, Hilton went on to say that “guess it sold well” since fans were expecting to see her naked, but there were no nude photos of her inside.
Paris Hilton has claimed she found out she was on the cover of Playboy through a friend and explained how Hugh Hefner had ignored her request not to appear in the magazine. (Getty Images)
“Surprise, mockingbird. They got nothing. Same with me.”
She admitted that her family was not happy with this decision, but did not bring the matter up with Hefner.
“My parents were pissed and I cried, but none of us confronted him because you just don’t do that,” she continued.
Paris Hilton has admitted her family wasn’t happy about her Playboy cover, but she didn’t bring it up with Hugh Hefner. (Presley Ann via Getty Images)
PARIS HILTON SAYS SHE WAS PRESSURED TO MAKE A CASTLE, GOT DRUNK AND MADE REMARKS TO FULFILL IT
The pop culture icon’s accident in Playboy happened in the wake of the leaked sex tape in 2004.
In “Paris: The Memoir,” Hilton claimed she was pressured by her then-boyfriend into recording the tape in 1999, despite persistently “making excuses” as he “kept pushing.”
In her book, Hilton shared that she was 18 when she first met the man, who she does not name and refers to by his nickname: “Scum.” Hilton was famously in a relationship with Rick Salomon at the time.
Paris Hilton first met Rick Salomon in 1999 when she was 18 years old. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic,)
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“He told me if I didn’t do it, he could easily find someone who would, and that was the worst thing I could think of — to be thrown away by this adult because I was a stupid kid who didn’t know how. to play grown-up games,” Hilton claimed of Salomon, who was 10 years her senior.
The hotel heiress wrote that she was “useless and tired” and said the intimate video would be “only for us”.
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Paris Hilton and her husband Carter Reum recently welcomed their first baby via surrogate on January 24, 2023. (Paris Hilton)
Hilton added that even before her relationship with Salomon, she “hated the idea of sex.”
“I avoided sex until it was absolutely unavoidable,” she wrote.
In November 2021, Hilton married her now-husband Carter Reum at her grandfather’s estate in Bel Air.
Hilton and Reum they recently welcomed their first baby via surrogate on January 24, 2023.
Fox News Digital’s Janelle Ash contributed to this report.
