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Kathy Hilton, whose given name is Kathleen Elizabeth Avanzino, is a well-known American fashion designer, philanthropist, actress, and businesswoman. She is also known by her stage name, Kathy Hilton. Her daughters Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton are both well-known figures in the entertainment world.
Paris Hilton is a performer and actor, and Nicky Hilton is known for her work as a fashion model and designer. In spite of the fact that Kathy Hilton is best recognized as the spouse of the well-known billionaire Richard Hilton, her impact and career extend far beyond this one aspect of her life.
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Kathy Hilton Early Life
Kathleen Elizabeth Avanzino was conceived on March 13, 1959, and delivered into the arms of Kathleen Mary and Laurance K. Avanzino. Kathy’s maternal grandpa was of Italian origin, and she also has Irish and Scottish ancestry. Her paternal grandfather was of Italian descent.
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After their marriage ended in divorce, Hilton’s mother remarried an older man named Kenneth E. Richards, who already had three grown children from a previous marriage. Hilton is Hilton’s only child. After that, her mother gave birth to Kathy’s half-sisters, who are the actresses Kim Richards and Kyle Richards.
As a result of her father’s subsequent marriage, Hilton also has five paternal half-siblings. Kathy went to a private secondary school in Los Angeles, and it was there that she met Michael Jackson, who would go on to become one of her greatest friends. She and Michael remained very close friends until his passing in 2009.
Kathy Hilton Career
Kathy’s profession got its start when she was still a youngster, long before she even met her future husband, Richard Hilton, heir to the Hilton Hotels fortune. She began her career as an actor when she was only 9 years old, and she has since been in a variety of television episodes, including “Bewitched,” “The Rockford Files,” “Nanny and the Professor,” “Happy Days,” and “Family Affair.”
In addition, she had roles in the films “The Dark” and “On the Air Live with Captain Midnight.” It was about the time that she “retired” from acting that she met Richard Hilton when she was 15 years old. After another 5 years, in 1979, the couple tied the knot. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Paris Hilton was the proud owner of her own antique and novelty gift shop in Los Angeles known as The Staircase on Sunset Plaza.
Kathy has toyed with the idea of going back to her roots in the entertainment industry ever since she married into the Hilton family. In 2002, she started working as a host on the home-shopping network QVC, and in 2005, she began hosting the reality television program I Want to Be a Hilton on NBC.
Both of these programs are broadcast on television. After waiting another year and a half, she started selling skincare goods on the competing home shopping network HSN. She had a brief appearance as herself on the soap opera The Young and the Restless in the year 2008 as a cameo appearance.
She made an appearance on The World According to Paris in the year 2011. Kim Richards and Kyle Richards, who are Hilton’s half-sisters, also appear on the critically acclaimed reality series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which is produced by Bravo.
In 2012, Kathy made the comment that she will not watch the show if her sisters are on it because they make her feel like she is going to “fall apart” and “burst down in tears.” Since 2012, she has been the designer of the party gowns for the Kathy Hilton Collection, which can be found in over four hundred stores across the world, including Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, and Saks Fifth Avenue.
Kathy Hilton’s Personal Life
Her four grown children, two daughters named Paris and Nicky as well as two sons named Barron and Conrad, all live with her and her husband, Richard Hilton, in Bel Air. Through their daughter Nicky and her marriage to James Rothschild, the Hiltons are the proud grandparents of two grandchildren. In addition, she is the proud grandmother of a granddaughter who was born to her son Barron and his wife Tessa. The pair makes their home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Hilton is well-known for the charitable work that she has done. In 2007, she solicited celebrities to auction off their personal items and contribute the revenues to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. In doing so, she was able to raise funds for the organization. She was honored by the Starlight Children’s Foundation at their “A Stellar Night” gala in Los Angeles in 2011, along with her two kids, and received the award on their behalf.
Kathy Hilton’s Net Worth
Kathy Hilton is a well-known philanthropist, fashion designer, and actress from the United States. Her net worth is estimated to be $350 million. This is a joint net worth with her spouse Rick Hilton, to who she has been married since 1979. The fact that Paris and Nicky Hilton are Rick and Kathy Hilton’s children is undoubtedly the thing that brings them the most fame.
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