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NBC to pay Paris Hilton $1M+ for exclusive interview

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MassiveAttack

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/0621200...r_paris_chat_nationalnews_marianne_garvey.htm

June 21, 2007 -- LOS ANGELES - NBC has agreed to pay as much as $1 million for Paris Hilton's first after-jail interview, which will appear on the "Today" show, The Post has learned.

Sources told The Post the sit-down will be conducted by Meredith Vieira the day after the heir-head is sprung some time next week.

The deal has infuriated ABC executives, the sources said, because they were banking on Hilton's first remarks as a free woman going to Barbara Walters, who has become close with Hilton's mom, Kathy.

ABC was the front-runner until NBC Universal boss Jeff Zucker personally called Hilton's father Rick and made the pitch, the sources said.

Hilton agreed to the interview, but said she'd only speak with Vieira because of "disparaging" remarks her co-host Matt Lauer made about her.

A spokeswoman for NBC did not return a call for comment.

Hilton's spokesman Eliot Mintz said he "can't confirm or deny" the report.

If Hilton's jailhouse fan mail is any indication, the interview will fetch great ratings. She has received almost 5,000 pieces during her three weeks behind bars and she's writing back to her admirers, authorities said yesterday.
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X26

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And so her fame grows. No matter what she does, she can't lose. It's frustrating, but I can't say I don't wish I was in a similar position.
 
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'paris hilton to get huge cash money reward 23 days in jail'

****ing hell, so she takes what, maybe a mild paycut for being a dumb drunken driving slut who doesn't learn?

god. I'm glad she's got herpes.
 
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Socreges

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im gonna go out on a limb here.... cuz im crazy like that... and say she cries during the interview

i wont watch it though. i respect my self
 
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Brobzoid

how do I slip unnoticed out of a gloryhole booth?
just so you all know... You're all gonna watch it. NBC is winning, Paris is winning, they're all winning.
 
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MassiveAttack

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Brobzoid said:
just so you all know... You're all gonna watch it. NBC is winning, Paris is winning, they're all winning.
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Yup. And further, she really deserves eveny penny she earns from this. She played her role perfectly with the media, put in an Oscar-winning performance and got millions of people to waste countless hours devoting time and energy to this. Was it a con? Sure. But the fact that so many people fell for it doesn't take away from the fact that is a master stroke of modern, albeit perverted, capitalism. She's really a hero for Wall Street more than anything else.
 
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MassiveAttack

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Paris Hilton’s neighbours try to kick her out of her home
Thursday June 21st, 2007

Paris Hilton’s neighbours are reportedly taking Paris’ prison break as an opportunity to lobby local officials to force Paris to move.

In a flyer circulated around the neighbourhood, those living near the heiress in the exclusive Hollywood Hills area have described the situation as “intolerable” and they have seen their “quality of life deteriorate”.

A spokesperson for Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss told Us Weekly that they received “more than 50 formal complaints” over the last few weeks as Paris was reassigned to house arrest then sent back into jail: “They were about the helicopter noise and about the street being too narrow and crowded with people.”

“The neighbors all feel this has had nothing but a negative impact and they expect more of it when she is released.”

But it’s not just the noise: other neighbours have complained about Paris’ pet handling skills. Shelby Segall, who owns an adjoining property, told the New York Post: “[Paris] treats her animals horribly. They are always getting out and running around the neighborhood. She had a little orange kitty about a year ago that kept getting out and we kept telling her it was outside. She didn’t seem like she cared, and then one day the cat got run over in the middle of the street and died.”

“Not long after, little [Chihuahua] Tinkerbell came to my door and I left a note on her gate. Her assistant came over frantic and tried to offer me a $40 reward. I said, ‘Don’t insult me.’”

Another neighbour added: “I found two little Chihuahuas of hers running up and down the street with cars and people going up and down. I put them in my bathroom and called Paris. Her assistant answered and said, ‘You can’t drop them off! Miss Hilton isn’t home!’ She took three hours to come get them. Meanwhile she lives five houses away.”
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Timedog

good credit (by proxy)
X26 said:
I hear there's a war going on in some desert
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Who cares, I meant like did some star die of a drug overdose, not boring shit. Everything's a cover-up nowadays.

Also what a bitch neighbor, she could have given the 40 dollars to me, i'm starving right now.
 
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MassiveAttack

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My son had sex with Paris Hilton, says Ozzy Osbourne

London, June 20: Rock couple Ozzy and Sharon Osboune have claimed that their son Jack once bedded jailed socialite Paris Hilton.

Ozzy and Sharon leaked the news of the romp, which supposedly happened several years ago, during a recent interview.

"Paris was always hanging around our house. I'm not sure if she was a friend of Kelly or Amy - which one was it, Sharon?" The Sun quoted Ozzy, as saying.

To this, Sharon added, "She was Jack's... erm... friend." Ozzy continued, "He didn't shag her, did he? Well done, my son."
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Nick

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TheKingsCrown said:
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Don't got any. I just remember reading a few months back that a company paid to fly her out to some party in Australia for a cool 1 mill. I know Japan has done the same for her at least once or twice.
 
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Ripclawe

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http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...?coll=la-headlines-entnews&ctrack=3&cset=true

Is Paris really worth a million?
NBC reportedly may pay the heiress for a post-jail interview, but it alarms media ethicists and rankles employees.
By Matea Gold, Times Staff Writer
3:12 PM PDT, June 21, 2007

NEW YORK -- The no-holds-barred competition for television exclusives ratcheted up another level this week as Paris Hilton's representatives told networks bidding for the first post-jail interview with the heiress that NBC was considering paying as much as $1 million for the scoop.

The massive payment — purportedly a license fee for the use of personal video and images of the 26-year-old — succeeded in boxing out NBC's competition, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. The deal was first reported Thursday by the New York Post.

However, it remains unclear whether the interview, reportedly to be conducted by "Today's" Meredith Vieira, has been finalized. Allison Gollust, a spokeswoman for NBC News, said the news division has no commitment from Hilton for an interview, adding that "NBC News has not and will not pay for an interview."

But NBC's entertainment division has been in discussions with Hilton's camp, according to network sources, and could compensate Hilton through a development deal, effectively circumventing the news division's policy prohibiting payments for interviews.

Elliot Mintz, Hilton's publicist, said he couldn't comment on whether Hilton had struck a deal with NBC.

"I simply at this moment in time don't know," he said.

The report of the hefty fee — coming at a time when NBC Universal is undergoing companywide cost-cutting — spotlights how the television networks regularly skirt their own ban on checkbook journalism. The practice, a badly kept secret in the industry, takes many forms: free hotel rooms and entertainment while interview subjects are in New York, payment for the "licensing" of home videos and photos to illustrate the story, and other incentives, according to industry veterans. If the costs are too egregious, often the project is shifted to a network's entertainment division, which can pay subjects through production contracts.

CBS News offered Jessica Lynch possible movie and book deals through its sister corporate divisions in an effort to land an exclusive with the former U.S. Army private in 2003. ABC News paid Steve Irwin's widow hundreds of thousands of dollars to use footage of the late naturalist in a prime-time interview with Barbara Walters last fall. (ABC executives said the license fee was necessary because Irwin's widow, Terri, owned all the footage of the "Crocodile Hunter," who died in September.)

This spring, NBC agreed to pay a reported $2.5 million for the rights to air a tribute concert in July marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana. Subsequently, Matt Lauer landed an exclusive with Princes Harry and William, which aired in prime time Monday.

"It seems like there are end-runs all over the place, and they are being done in the name of competition," said Al Tompkins, who teaches broadcast ethics at the Poynter Institute, a media resource and school in Florida. "I don't know what transpired here, but what I do know is that any compensation that comes through a network — whether it's a book deal or movie deal or offering special access — none of that has any place in news.

"In the end, that is not what builds network credibility. People are not going to tune into any network based on who gets Paris Hilton. It just adds an even more unseemly element to a story that seemed like it couldn't get more unseemly."

In the fiercely fought battle for television exclusives, the Hilton interview is a substantial "get," coming after the socialite's controversial stint in a Los Angeles County jail for violating terms of her probation on alcohol-related reckless driving charges. Hilton is expected to be released Monday from a Lynwood jail.

Still NBC's aggressive bid for the interview with Hilton surprised its competitors. Given the ubiquity of the oft-photographed heiress, rival networks had contemplated paying no more than $100,000 for new images of her. (The California law that makes it difficult for criminals to financially profit from their crimes applies only to felons.)

"We were told NBC was in another galaxy," said one network executive.

The move outflanked ABC's Walters, a friend of Paris' mother, Kathy, who had helped her score a phone interview with Hilton from jail earlier this month. Walters was seen as the front-runner to get the first sit-down with Hilton after her release and had been lobbying hard for the interview.

Instead, the heiress apparently agreed to sit down with Vieira, nixing Lauer, who recently told CNN's Larry King that the ruckus over Hilton was "not the kind of story that gets me out of bed in the morning."

"What has she done except, you know, get in her car drunk one time and then go get in the car again with, you know, an expired license?" Lauer asked King last week.

The report of NBC's payment rankled many news division employees, already demoralized by a round of layoffs and other cost-cutting mandated by a corporate restructuring effort dubbed NBCU 2.0. But others saw the move as a necessary one to bolster "Today," the division's biggest moneymaker, which has suffered rating declines this season. The program drew an average of 5.6 million viewers through mid-June, down 6% from last season.

"The 'Today' show is in the fight of their lives," said one high-level editorial employee. "We've got to win."
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Mau ®

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TheKingsCrown said:
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Its actually true. Most clubs pay celebrities for just showing up at their parties, gives them standing.

I remember that when her "club" (not really hers, she just lent her name) opened she was paid higher than 1m to just show up. She showed up alright, after 6 hours...
 
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ghst

thanks for the laugh
Can't someone just maybe shout something, throw a bottle, film it on a cameraphone and Youtube it for 1 millionth of the cost?
 
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