As multi-millionaire hotel heiresses they could have sat back and enjoyed the room service, but Nicky and Paris Hilton are busy making their own fortunes without the help of mum and dad. The famous siblings have both been promoting new projects this week with their own brand of celebrity charm.
"I've been around hotels my whole life, and I know a good hotel when I see one," says Nicky who is launching her own boutique hotel chain. The 22-year-old entrepreneur, who held a preview party in Miami for her Nicky O hotel in South Beach on Thursday, is clearly keen to enter the family trade. "I think the business is just in me" says Nicky who lived in the luxurious Waldorf Towers in New York as a child.
With her long blonde hair and stylish wardrobe she's outwardly similar to her famous older sister, but, says Nicky, they couldn't be more different. "We're super close, but we're like night and day," she told a US newspaper. "We're trying to achieve totally different things. She's into the music and acting and the Hollywood thing and that's really cool. And I'm into the fashion and hotel thing, and she thinks that's cool, too."
Nicky, who says she's "too shy to want to be famous", is taking a hands-on approach to her new Nicky O hotel chain – the "O" stands for her middle name Olivia. "I'm designing the staff uniforms, the linens, the pens, the matchboxes, everything" she declares. Her South Beach hotel is set to open in November followed by one in Chicago. "Miami will definitely be a party destination, and Chicago will be a little more calm," she says.
Meanwhile, Paris has been publicising her self-named album and hit single Stars Are Blind which has already been well received Stateside. A multi-millionairess in her own right with a successful TV and modelling career and perfume brand, the business-savvy A-lister is now hoping to make her mark in the music industry.
The 25-year-old was joined by her supportive mum Kathy in New York on Wednesday where she held a release party for her first album Paris. And the Simple Life star says music has always been a passion. "I've been singing and playing the piano and violin since I was six years old," she said.
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