Nicole Richie appears to take an unsubtle swipe at former friend PARIS HILTON in her semi-autobiographical novel THE TRUTH ABOUT DIAMONDS, basing a character on the hotel heiress.
The pair, co-stars in reality TV show THE SIMPLE LIFE, are no longer friends, and are currently embroiled in a mystery fued.
Richie seems determined to have the last word – making the book’s villain SIMONE WESTLAKE the spitting image of Hilton.
Richie, who calls Simone “an all-around professional fake-rich girl” admits, “Simone and Paris have similarities” – but the likenesses are uncanny.
In one excerpt Richie describes how Simone used the word n**ger after a row with a black man – a reference to a similar incident last August (04) when Hilton was accused of using the word.
Another section of the text describes Simone boasting about having a strain of marijuana named after her. A friend tells Inside TV magazine, “Paris always bragged about how she had a type of weed named after her back in high school.”
Other similarities include a mockery of Hilton’s habit of stealing catchphrases from other people and the way she allegedly tried to hog the camera on the set of The Simple Life.
In the book, Richie appears to base the heroine CHLOE PARKER on herself. Chloe is a beautiful Los Angeles socialite with a rock star father – Richie’s father is singer LIONEL RICHIE.
