Paris Hilton Rattles Cages

Paris Hilton pissed off a UN wild animal conservation group by posing with a dressed up orangutan while visiting Dubai. Rich people in the Middle East are especially fond of purchasing wild animals and turning them into cocktail party ice breakers. So exactly what The Hamptons would be like without some supervision from U.S. Customs. 

Paris Hilton and Khloe Kardashian and other TV famous western women travel to Dubai regularly to host nightclub and store openings in exchange for goats wrapped in gold by the foot. Once in Dubai, why not hug a monkey in an adorable dress or pet a chemically sedated lion wearing a sombrero?

The conservation groups point out that every time a celebrity poses with one of these animals it sets the cause of conservation back several years. Every rich girl wants an okapi in a Vera Wang for her petting zoo. You carbon offset that moral indifference with a check to the DiCaprio Elephant Foundation. The UN group notes that somewhere on the order of ten orangutans were probably killed in an effort to steal the baby Paris Hilton is now kissing on the head. If animals could talk. But they can’t. They can’t even shit on you. Not in pants. 

Paris Hilton brushed off the charges and dressed up for the NYC Spring Gala. That takes tremendous focus.

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