TIME100 AI 2026 · Shapers
Paris Hilton
Advocate against deepfakes
Paris Hilton says more than 100,000 fake explicit images of her are online, and she took that fight to Congress.
- Born
- 1981-02-17, New York City, U.S.
- Now
- Founder, Chairwoman and CEO, 11:11 Media
- Studied
- No degree listed
Interesting facts
- Numbers
Told a Capitol Hill news conference that over 100,000 nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfake images of her have circulated online.
19thnews.org - In their words
On a private video of her leaked without consent at 19, she said people called it a scandal, but 'It wasn't. It was abuse.'
19thnews.org - Turning point
Backed the DEFIANCE Act, a bipartisan bill that lets deepfake victims sue the people who made them, alongside Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Laurel Lee.
19thnews.org - Before AI
Before her advocacy work she lobbied Congress for the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, which passed both chambers in 2024.
cnn.com - Numbers
Her perfume line alone had brought in more than $2.5 billion in revenue by 2020.
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Career
- 11:11 MediaFounder, Chairwoman and CEO2021 to now
- Paris Hilton EntertainmentChairwoman and CEO2006 to now