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June 12, 2006 | celebrity | editor | 0 Comments
Two years ago, Paris Hilton stood in front of cameras during a visit to Paradise Kids, an Australian charity that supports seriously ill children and their families, and pledged to organize a benefit concert in Los Angeles to help raise money. Shockingly, the charity is still waiting. Hilton made the pledge after filming ‘House of Wax’ in Australia in 2004, and at the time said:
“I’ll get a few friends together. I know the Backstreet Boys will help out for sure and I talked to Blu Cantrell last night. My grandmother died of cancer and I almost lost my cousin to leukemia. It’s just something very important to me. I love kids and I just feel it’s the right thing to do. It makes me feel good about myself and it helps other people.”
Efforts by Paradise Kids to reach Hilton have been ignored. It was hoped the money raised from Hilton’s concert would help complete an on-site hospice, but instead the charity has actually lost money because of Hiltons self serving claims. Three months after Hiltons promise, she told an Aussie magazine that the publicity she gave the charity boosted public awareness, which resulted in $500,000 in new donations. Paradise Kids co-founder Reverend Dr. Ian Mavor says that claim is not only false but has greatly damaged the group’s fundraising activities.
“The impact is people think we don’t need their help and we do.”
I guess the only faint silver lining here is that people get yet another glimpse into what a contemptuous, vile bitch Paris Hilton truly is, and the little kids with cancer are actually spared more trauma since her trampy ass won’t show up in a six inch skirt and they won’t be two inches away from something that smells like an open grave. That’s probably not the life empowering jubilee you might think it is.
Source = News.com. Thanks to Batesy for the link here, although