Alleged discriminatory remarks
In January 2007 a video surfaced on the commercial website ParisExposed.com in which Paris Hilton uses homophobic and ethnic slurs. Hilton mocks African-Americans and Jews at a party during the song “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge, apparently referring to two African Americans as “dumb niggers”. The video was found among Hilton’s personal and medical documents auctioned off after she allegedly failed to pay the bill on a storage facility. Hilton’s publicist Elliot Mintz confirmed to the New York Post its authenticity, saying she had obviously been drinking. On February 3, 2007 Hilton obtained a temporary injunction against ParisExposed.com, closing down the website for a short period of time before it went back online.