A Web site displaying Paris Hilton’s personal belongings shut down Tuesday after she slapped it with a federal lawsuit.
Parisexposed.com, which launched Jan. 23, let visitors view Hilton’s bank records, personal diaries and home videos for a $30.97 fee.
The site claimed the items were auctioned off after Hilton failed to pay the rent on a Los Angeles-area storage facility.
In a lawsuit filed Monday, Hilton, 25, says the items went into the 6,000-sq.-ft. storage unit two years ago when she and her sister, Nicky, 23, moved out of a house that had been burglarized.
Hilton claims a moving company was to pay the storage fees.
“I was appalled to learn that people are exploiting my and my sisters’ (sic) private personal belongings for commercial gain,” Hilton says in a statement accompanying the lawsuit, according to the Associated Press.
Hilton’s lawyer, Gregory Korn, contends in the filing that “Unscrupulous individuals can use such information” – including credit card receipts and Hilton’s passport – “to steal Hilton’s identity, or even worse, to stalk and even physically harm Hilton.”
The lawsuit alleges that defendants Nabil and Nabila Haniss of Culver City, Calif., paid $2,775 for Hilton’s items and then sold them for $10 million to entrepreneur Bardia Persa, creator of Parisexposed.com.
Reads the text on the Web site: “Believe it or not, this supermodel, from one of the wealthiest families in the world, failed to pay her $208 bill. … As you probably guessed by now, the storage unit was auctioned off … the heiress lost all rights to her goods.”
The Hanisses could not be located by the AP for comment. Persa did not respond to a request for comment.
Hilton’s publicist, Elliott Mintz, tells PEOPLE she was hurt by the Web site.
“How would anyone feel if all one’s personal items were out there for all to see?” he says. “She wants her things back. Her possessions are still in the hands of strangers.”
Source: People Magazine
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I’m so glad the website is down, now, hopefully Paris will get her stuff back!
i hate this site! go paris!
…the website is definitely still running.
It’s back up. Probably from somewhere in the Middle East.
I’m sure this guy anticipated there would be a lawsuit and has some additional websites somewhere else. I feel bad for Paris being harrassed by such creeps.
doubt it.
I like Paris but I don’t feel sorry for her, especially looking at a lot of the offensive things she said in her tapes.
She should have paid her bill. She’s not 18 anymore, if she wants to be viewed as a responsible business woman, she needs to take care of her own business - including paying her own bills.
This guy is purly sick.
He is finding profit and enjoymet out of humilliating someone. Even if it wasn’t Paris’s stuff and it was some other celeb or person I would still feel bad…
Paris really hasn’t had all that many boyfriends.
And she didn’t do anything wrong.
It’s just that bad people feel they have the right to target her.
It’s such an invasion of her privacy. My heart goes out to Paris.
definetly still running
i feel so bad, that site should be gone!! can i use someones pasword/name to see what horrible shit they put on?…I LOVE U PARIS
Down last night.
Poor Paris. She is the victim here. It’s not like she published those pics and clips, she is not even partying much any more.
Here Paris is working and being responsible and this jerk publishes old crap from a locker.Most of that stuff was ancient two years ago.I sympathize with Paris.
yep..shut down the other day..Babe I agree with you, that is old stuff and by now she probably doesnt have herpes anymore she probably got them cured!!
there is no cure for herpes, lol, u just take the pills so u don’t get break outs, lol, but who cares, it’s not like it’s aids or hiv or anything like that, besides how much u wanna bet lohan and britney and every other young celeb out there has the big H, it’s just that people are focusing on paris!!! it’s not fair!!
Well, I don’t think Paris is racist. She was high and it was a long time ago she was being immature back then. I think she is a bit more grown up now. Just my 2 cents.
About the herpes, that’s just a rumor spread by haters.
No one knows for sure if Paris has or ever had herpes, since Valtrex is given for a variety of reasons - including shingles and also Cold Sores.
@ Babe.. actually ur correct.. hasnt anyone heard of herpes1 its a cold sore!! so she could of had a cold sore!!
somebody on myspace sent me some pics from this site…although they weren’t really all that bad i can’t beleive somebody would do that to paris. i mean i feel so bad for her. that’s good that the stupid site has been shut down. GO PARIS! YOU ROCK SEXY BITCH!
paris dont worry what anyone thinks. i love you. your my idol