Paris’ publicist, Elliot Mintz, has a great job. He has to come up with creative ways to lie and spin shit whenever Paris offends someone or is generally inconsiderate or dumb. Since she leaves the house nearly every day, he gets a lot of work. Last month he spread the unlikely story that a thief snatched a bagful of high end Mother’s day gifts for Kathy Hilton that Paris was never seen shopping for. He was spotted in the firecrotch video trying in vain to do on-scene damage control. Now he’s saying that Paris never left the scene of the crime after backing her Range Rover into a Honda in a parking lot, even though there’s a video of the incident that shows her doing it.
Since he doesn’t have much to go on, he uses the tried and true “paparrazi defense” favored by Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears:
Hilton backed into a parked Honda Civic on Thursday. A videotape on the TMZ.com Web site showed Hilton getting into the car, saying goodbye to someone and backing up. The sound of a crash followed.
The video showed scrapes on the bumpers of both vehicles.
The Range Rover stopped briefly then continued on toward the exit of the parking structure.
TMZ.com indicated Hilton failed to leave contact information for the Honda’s owner and thus may have violated laws against hit-and-run. Her publicist denied that.
“Did she commit a crime? No,” Elliot Mintz said.
“She was swarmed by paparazzi,” he said. “The intensity of the lights, flashbulbs, momentarily disoriented her. She backed up, there was a minor fender-bender. No injuries. She then told me she notified one of the parking people at the facility how to contact her and asked the person to please pass that along” to the owner of the struck car.
“She did the correct thing and she would not leave the scene of a crime,” he said.
Mintz said Hilton is insured.
“Paris is a very responsible and a very good driver. … She takes her driving seriously,” Mintz said. “This was unfortunate … it will be handled appropriately.”
Notice that Muntz doesn’t state Paris’ actions as fact, he said she told him that she left her contact information, which is different than saying she actually did it.
To be fair to Paris, a paparrazoa was asking her one of those dumb questions they always shout at celebrities to get their attention when she had the accident. Something like “Did you have fun shopping?” This actually works, because Jennifer Love Hewitt and Denise Richards answer those fools and have been videotaped having conversations with them.
Here’s the video. She is seen saying goodbye to Kim Kardashian, Nick Lachey’s new girlfriend, before getting into the car.
(This title is a play on Paris’ song “Stars are Blind,” and no offense is intended to our visually impaired readers - not that anyone would actually visit this site for the writing. We are also sorry that we don’t use image alt tags because we’re too lazy.)
Here is Paris in a “Stars are Blind” promo photoshoot and at the unveiling of “Idols Of Gay Hollywood” on June 8th. [via] Notice that this site has been relatively Paris Hilton-free for over a week.
