# Paris Hilton

Advocate against deepfakes. TIME100 AI 2026, Shapers. Paris Hilton says more than 100,000 fake explicit images of her are online, and she took that fight to Congress. ([19thnews.org](https://19thnews.org/2026/01/paris-hilton-aoc-deepfakes/))

- Born: 1981-02-17, New York City, U.S. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton))

- Career: 11:11 Media (Founder, Chairwoman and CEO, 2021 to now); Paris Hilton Entertainment (Chairwoman and CEO, 2006 to now) ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paris-hilton), [parishilton.com](https://www.parishilton.com/pages/11-11-media))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/paris-hilton/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/paris-hilton

- Told a Capitol Hill news conference that over 100,000 nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfake images of her have circulated online. ([19thnews.org](https://19thnews.org/2026/01/paris-hilton-aoc-deepfakes/))
- 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](https://19thnews.org/2026/01/paris-hilton-aoc-deepfakes/))
- 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](https://19thnews.org/2026/01/paris-hilton-aoc-deepfakes/))
- Before her advocacy work she lobbied Congress for the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, which passed both chambers in 2024. ([cnn.com](https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/entertainment/paris-hilton-stop-institutional-child-abuse-act))
- Her perfume line alone had brought in more than $2.5 billion in revenue by 2020. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton))