Following the collapse of an earlier planned trip by Hotel heiress Paris Hilton to Rwanda, UK-based Aegis Trust announced on Friday that it has stepped in to rescue the visit.
The heiress's original plans with the 'Playing for Good' charity were sunk after a restructuring of the organization led to cancellation. The organization said the much hyped trip would be moved to a later date.
Now she has been invited by Aegis to see first hand the suffering caused by the 1994 genocide, which saw one million Tutsi and moderate Hutus murdered in 1994, the joint statement from Kigali Memorial Center and the British organization said.
The Kigali Memorial Centre is modeled in approach on the UK Holocaust Centre, where Aegis is based. Aegis works in Rwanda to provide dignified remembrance for the victims of genocide, support for survivors and education to help prevent future acts of genocide.
"We decided to invite her as her previous arrangements to visit had fallen through", Mr. Craig Cowbrough from Aegis told RNA in separate interview.
He added: "Our reasoning being that it is important that as many high profile people as possible should come and learn from Rwanda's experience to help avoid similar catastrophes elsewhere and also to educate the wider world about how the country has changed since 1994 and what some of the issues are that still need to be resolved."
Earlier this month, the millionaire hotel heiress turned TV personality said in an interview in Newsweek magazine that she hoped to shed her party-girl image and leave a mark on the world. The Rwanda trip was to be a first step on that journey.
Monday, 26 November 2007
Rwanda: Aegis Trust Takes Over Paris Hilton Trip
Following the collapse of an earlier planned trip by Hotel heiress Paris Hilton to Rwanda, UK-based Aegis Trust announced on Friday that it has stepped in to rescue the visit.
The heiress's original plans with the 'Playing for Good' charity were sunk after a restructuring of the organization led to cancellation. The organization said the much hyped trip would be moved to a later date.
Now she has been invited by Aegis to see first hand the suffering caused by the 1994 genocide, which saw one million Tutsi and moderate Hutus murdered in 1994, the joint statement from Kigali Memorial Center and the British organization said.
The Kigali Memorial Centre is modeled in approach on the UK Holocaust Centre, where Aegis is based. Aegis works in Rwanda to provide dignified remembrance for the victims of genocide, support for survivors and education to help prevent future acts of genocide.
"We decided to invite her as her previous arrangements to visit had fallen through", Mr. Craig Cowbrough from Aegis told RNA in separate interview.
He added: "Our reasoning being that it is important that as many high profile people as possible should come and learn from Rwanda's experience to help avoid similar catastrophes elsewhere and also to educate the wider world about how the country has changed since 1994 and what some of the issues are that still need to be resolved."
Earlier this month, the millionaire hotel heiress turned TV personality said in an interview in Newsweek magazine that she hoped to shed her party-girl image and leave a mark on the world. The Rwanda trip was to be a first step on that journey.
The heiress's original plans with the 'Playing for Good' charity were sunk after a restructuring of the organization led to cancellation. The organization said the much hyped trip would be moved to a later date.
Now she has been invited by Aegis to see first hand the suffering caused by the 1994 genocide, which saw one million Tutsi and moderate Hutus murdered in 1994, the joint statement from Kigali Memorial Center and the British organization said.
The Kigali Memorial Centre is modeled in approach on the UK Holocaust Centre, where Aegis is based. Aegis works in Rwanda to provide dignified remembrance for the victims of genocide, support for survivors and education to help prevent future acts of genocide.
"We decided to invite her as her previous arrangements to visit had fallen through", Mr. Craig Cowbrough from Aegis told RNA in separate interview.
He added: "Our reasoning being that it is important that as many high profile people as possible should come and learn from Rwanda's experience to help avoid similar catastrophes elsewhere and also to educate the wider world about how the country has changed since 1994 and what some of the issues are that still need to be resolved."
Earlier this month, the millionaire hotel heiress turned TV personality said in an interview in Newsweek magazine that she hoped to shed her party-girl image and leave a mark on the world. The Rwanda trip was to be a first step on that journey.
Paris Hilton Launches 'Can Can' In Fishnet Stockings, Frilly Dress
Paris Hilton has launched her new perfume with a staggering £500,000 advertising campaign.
The hotel heiress oozes sex in a frilly dress and fishnet tights for a series of adverts to promote her latest scent, Can Can.
The name of the fragrance was inspired by a raunchy dance associated with Parisian club Moulin Rouge at the turn of the century.
Paris recently spoke of her love for her perfume, saying: "I love fragrances - this is my fifth fragrance now. As women, I think it's great just to smell nice.
"It feels good when people are always complimenting me, and I believe smell is a very signature thing - it is something you're going to remember somebody by."
'The Simple Life' star - who published her autobiography 'Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose' in 2004 - also wants to become a respected author.
Paris' literary agent Dan Strone said: "She is thinking of doing a new book. I don't believe at this time it's going to be a prison diary. I don't think that's the direction she's heading in."
The 26-year-old - who recently spent 23 days behind bars for driving with a suspended licence - has already tried her hand at modelling, acting, singing and fashion designing.
The hotel heiress oozes sex in a frilly dress and fishnet tights for a series of adverts to promote her latest scent, Can Can.
The name of the fragrance was inspired by a raunchy dance associated with Parisian club Moulin Rouge at the turn of the century.
Paris recently spoke of her love for her perfume, saying: "I love fragrances - this is my fifth fragrance now. As women, I think it's great just to smell nice.
"It feels good when people are always complimenting me, and I believe smell is a very signature thing - it is something you're going to remember somebody by."
'The Simple Life' star - who published her autobiography 'Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose' in 2004 - also wants to become a respected author.
Paris' literary agent Dan Strone said: "She is thinking of doing a new book. I don't believe at this time it's going to be a prison diary. I don't think that's the direction she's heading in."
The 26-year-old - who recently spent 23 days behind bars for driving with a suspended licence - has already tried her hand at modelling, acting, singing and fashion designing.
So that's what Paris Hilton has been doing since she got out of jail
So that's what Paris Hilton has been doing since she got out of jail.
She's been so busy picking out a multitude of risque Halloween costumes that she hasn't been able to follow through on her much-publicized promise to Larry King to use her celebrity for good work.
In the past week, Hilton has been photographed in no fewer than four different costumes: a naughty sailor and Alice in Wonderland on Saturday and a soldier girl (to 'support the troops,' she insisted) and -- OK, I admit this is funny -- jail bait on Halloween night.
First sign you don't have enough to do: the biggest challenge of your day is to narrow down 14 short-skirted Halloween costumes to two, as one gossip Web site reported Paris had done.
Just a reminder, Paris. We'll never forget that Larry King interview.
She's been so busy picking out a multitude of risque Halloween costumes that she hasn't been able to follow through on her much-publicized promise to Larry King to use her celebrity for good work.
In the past week, Hilton has been photographed in no fewer than four different costumes: a naughty sailor and Alice in Wonderland on Saturday and a soldier girl (to 'support the troops,' she insisted) and -- OK, I admit this is funny -- jail bait on Halloween night.
First sign you don't have enough to do: the biggest challenge of your day is to narrow down 14 short-skirted Halloween costumes to two, as one gossip Web site reported Paris had done.
Just a reminder, Paris. We'll never forget that Larry King interview.
Paris Loses It in a Porn Shop -- Exclusive Video
Paris Hilton, in a scary skeleton sweatshirt, flips out at an adult video store in Toronto -- and it's not over their steep rental fees!
Paris goes ballistic after seeing how the shop is hawking her sex tape. TMZ has obtained the surveillance video which shows the confrontation, start to finish.
Paris goes ballistic after seeing how the shop is hawking her sex tape. TMZ has obtained the surveillance video which shows the confrontation, start to finish.
Amy Fisher Sex Tape Online: Video Release Will Soon Be on the Web
Amy Fisher will soon be coming to a computer screen near you in all of her "glory." The Long Island Lolita sprang to infamy when she hooked up with Joey Buttafuoco and then shot his wife. The case captivated the media and observers and was turned into a movie and now we are forever stuck with her it appears.
Amy Fisher Has a New Starring Role
Amy Fisher Has a New Starring Role
Her next starring role will be a Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian style home video. For Amy's part she doesn't want the tape released but rest assured as soon as it is available it will be placed online. America loves notorious and that's Amy. She says disgusted by the whole thing but surely women know by now if you allow it to be filmed and you are even the slightest bit famous it will see the World Wide Web.
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It will be titled "Amy Fisher Caught on Tape" and was filmed by her husband Lou Bellera, who then sold the tape while the couple was split up. David Krieff, a TV executive who has produced reunion specials with Fisher, her ex-lover Joey Buttafuoco and Buttafuoco's ex-wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco told the New York Post: "I was told she was a willing participant at the time it was made, as a private video with her husband," Krieff said.
She's disgusted," Krieff said. "I'm disgusted by it, too, the whole genre. I can't believe in the United States of America things like this can be released. The DVD will cost about sixty bucks and is sixty minutes long a press release notes.
Amy Fisher Has a New Starring Role
Amy Fisher Has a New Starring Role
Her next starring role will be a Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian style home video. For Amy's part she doesn't want the tape released but rest assured as soon as it is available it will be placed online. America loves notorious and that's Amy. She says disgusted by the whole thing but surely women know by now if you allow it to be filmed and you are even the slightest bit famous it will see the World Wide Web.
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It will be titled "Amy Fisher Caught on Tape" and was filmed by her husband Lou Bellera, who then sold the tape while the couple was split up. David Krieff, a TV executive who has produced reunion specials with Fisher, her ex-lover Joey Buttafuoco and Buttafuoco's ex-wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco told the New York Post: "I was told she was a willing participant at the time it was made, as a private video with her husband," Krieff said.
She's disgusted," Krieff said. "I'm disgusted by it, too, the whole genre. I can't believe in the United States of America things like this can be released. The DVD will cost about sixty bucks and is sixty minutes long a press release notes.
Hilton Lands $1 Million for Lohan's New Year's Eve Bash
PARIS HILTON has replaced former pal LINDSAY LOHAN as Las Vegas nightclub LAX's New Year's Eve good time girl - for a whopping $1 million (£500,000).
The socialite will end a tough year, which saw her spending time behind bars, and ring in 2008 with sister Nicky.
And sources tell In Touch Weekly the 26-year-old heiress is being offered a cool $1 million to play hostess.
Being paid to show her face is nothing new to Hilton - she reportedly earned more than $2 million (£1 million) just for sitting in the front row at designer Kira Plastinina's fashion show in Russia on Monday (29Oct07).
One insider tells In Touch, "Paris is receiving the biggest payday ever for a one-night appearance in Vegas. Nobody draws a crowd like she does." Lohan was initially billed to host the LAX party, but she pulled out earlier this week (beg29Oct07) citing post-rehab sobriety concerns.
The socialite will end a tough year, which saw her spending time behind bars, and ring in 2008 with sister Nicky.
And sources tell In Touch Weekly the 26-year-old heiress is being offered a cool $1 million to play hostess.
Being paid to show her face is nothing new to Hilton - she reportedly earned more than $2 million (£1 million) just for sitting in the front row at designer Kira Plastinina's fashion show in Russia on Monday (29Oct07).
One insider tells In Touch, "Paris is receiving the biggest payday ever for a one-night appearance in Vegas. Nobody draws a crowd like she does." Lohan was initially billed to host the LAX party, but she pulled out earlier this week (beg29Oct07) citing post-rehab sobriety concerns.
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