May 10–By now you may have heard that the little brother of notorious socialite Paris Hilton's younger is in trouble with the law — again.
Conrad Hilton, 23, was charged Tuesday with violating a restraining order obtained by his ex-girlfriend and stealing a Bentley that belongs to her father, professional poker player Rick Salomon — who happens to be the same guy that Paris made a sex tape with back in 2004.
Of course, the plot thickens — as it inevitably does with the Hilton family, whose dynastic reach over a global hotel empire and jet-set high society was started by the young defendant's great grandfather Conrad Hilton.
Over the decades, the Hilton name has become less synonymous with luxury hotels than with Paris' adventures in sex tapes, reality-TV and now, due to 23-year-old Conrad, with stalking, break-ins, grand theft auto and homophobic, entitled rants to police.
"I'm (expletive) Hilton. Don't you forget it!" the scion said to police Saturday morning when they came to arrest him at the Hollywood Hills home of his ex-girlfriend's mother, E.G. Bailey, according to a video obtained by TMZ. Conrad, like his older sister, Paris, has a history of run-ins with the law.
Conrad has previously been arrested for violating his retraining order obtained by ex-girlfriend Hunter Bailey, and has done jail time or been placed on probation for, among other things, resisting arrest, drug-related offenses and attacking several flight attendants on a British Airways flight in 2014.
As news filters out about how Conrad's parents, Rick and Kathy Hilton, are hoping to force him to get mental health help in exchange to helping him get out of jail, we revisit the famous and infamous cast of characters who populate his family tree and who could claim a six-degrees kind of connection to the famous Hilton family. This famous cast includes Elizabeth Taylor, Zsa Zsa Gabor as well as some "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," a Rothschild family member and 1990s TV babes Shannen Doherty and Pamela Anderson:
Conrad Hilton, Conrad's great-grandfather: The New Mexico-born business tycoon opened his first hotel in Cisco Texas in 1919, then expanded to hotels throughout Texas and then throughout the world, with Hilton Hotels becoming the first international hotel chain and facilitating both American tourism and business and around the world. Conrad Hilton was married three times, including to Zsa Zsa Gabor, and had four children, including a daughter with Gabor. When Hilton died in 1979 at age 91, he left the bulk of his estate to a foundation in his name, a move that was later contested by his second son Barron who ran the hotel business and expanded the Hilton family fortune.
Zsa Zsa Gabor, second wife of Conrad Hilton: The Hungarian-born actress and socialite helped pioneer the "occupation" of being famous for being famous — an endeavor taken to new heights by Paris Hilton's reality TV pursuits in the 2000s. Gabor was known for her extravagant Hollywood life-style and nine husbands, of which Conrad Hilton was her second. She and Hilton were married from 1942 to 1947. Hilton also was the father of her only child, Francesca. In her 1991 autobiography, Gabor claimed that Francesca was the product of a rape by the hotel magnate. But during her marriage to Hilton, Gabor also claimed to have had had an affair in 1944 with Hilton's oldest son Conrad "Nicky Hilton. Gabor died last year at age 99.
Elizabeth Taylor: The screen legend was 17 and had just starred in "Father of the Bride" when she married Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Jr., the oldest of Conrad Hilton's four sons in 1950. For her wedding and iconic $3,500 gown, her studio MGM footed the bill. But the marriage was doomed from the start. Nicky was a hard-drinking playboy and gambler and became abusive during the eight-month marriage, Taylor later said. Nicky Hilton died at age 42 of an alcohol-related heart attack in 1969.
Richard Howard Hilton, Conrad and Paris' father: "Rick" Hilton is the grandson of Conrad Hilton and the sixth son of Barron Hilton, the retired chairman, president and CEO of Hilton Hotels Corporation. Rick owns a real estate brokerage firm that specializes in high-end properties in and around Beverly Hills, Bel AIr and Malibu. He married Kathy Avanzino in 1979 and together they have four children, Paris, Nicky, Barron II and Conrad.
Kathy Hilton, In addition to being the mother of Paris and Conrad, the former Kanthy Avanzino is the half sister to former child stars Kim Richards and Kyle RIchards.
Kim and Kyle RIchards: Both are former child actresses, with Kim Richards, 52, starring in the 1960s family sitcom "Nanny and the Professor," then in Disney's "Witch Mountain" movies, and Kyle, 48, having a recurring role on "Little House on the Prairie" and appearing in the cult horror film "Halloween." Kim and Kyle both enjoyed a resurgence of fame, reality TV-style, when they became cast members on Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills." However, Kim was let go as a full-time cast member in 2015, following arrests for public intoxication, trespassing, resisting arrest and, in a separate incident, shoplifting.
Nicky Hilton: Paris and Conrad's 33-year-old sister is a former model and fashion designer whose most scandalous act may have come when she, Paris and an entourage of fabulous friends — including Nicole Richie, Tara Reid, Bijou Phillips, Lindsay Lohan and Wilmer Walderama, went to Las Vegas to party in 2004 and Nicky impulsively married Todd Meister, a New York money manager and Hilton family friend. The marriage was annulled three months later and Nicky in 2015 married James Rothschild, a member of the famous European banking family. This high-society wedding took place at Kensington Gardens London with a guest list that included Chelsea Clinton, Kate Beckinsale, Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece and Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece.
Rick Salomon: The 48-year-old celebrity poker player is best known for releasing "One Night in Paris," the erotic film he made with Paris and released in 2004, as well as his marriages to celebrities Shannen Doherty, Pamela Anderson (twice) and "Rugrats" and "Powerpuff Girls" voice actress E. G. Dailey. Salomon and Dailey are the parents of Hunter Dailey, Conrad Hilton's estranged girlfriend.
