For several years people have been arguing over just how much Paris Hilton is actually worth. I would say not much, but that’s more from a moral perspective. There have been reports that the famous heiress would get anywhere from nothing to upwards of $100 million when Barron Hilton, her 80-year-old grandfather passes. There were also reports that Barron had cut Paris (and sometimes her parents and Nicky depending on the article) out of the family inheritance since they were so materialistic and embarrassing. But then another story would come along reassuring us all that the Hiltons are in fact legitimately, unfairly, wealthy. But now People is reporting that Barron Hilton has chosen to give the majority of his fortune to charity.

Paris Hilton’s future bank account has just taken an enormous hit – on account of her grandfather. Barron Hilton, the 80-year-old son of the founder of the worldwide hotel chain that carries the family name, has earmarked 97 percent of his vast fortune – nearly $2.3 billion – to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, to help the homeless with housing, find safe water in developing countries and assist other good causes around the world, it has been announced.

To Barron’s heirs – who include Paris – will go the remaining three percent: some $69 million, which is said to be taxable. According to calculations by New York’s Daily News, Paris, who once foresaw a $100 million inheritance, is now likely looking at $5 million.

In a statement, Barron Hilton said that his father, Conrad, had set the example and bequeathed 97 percent of his money to the charitable foundation, which the elder Hilton founded in 1944, “and I am proud to follow my father’s example.”

[From People]

Yay! There are good Hiltons after all! That’s amazing that Barron Hilton is following in his father’s footsteps and giving away so much of his money. Warren Buffet did the same thing a few years ago – giving away 85% of his $44 billion fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation – angering some of his relatives quite a bit.

Paris will certainly be set, either way. Not only is $5 million nothing to sniff at, but the actress is quite the savvy businesswoman herself. Much as we mock her, she’s constantly working, promoting various products and sticking her name on nearly every perfume and dog collar she possibly can. While it may not be upper crust classy in the traditional “old money” way, Paris has made a good deal of money on her own, and certainly doesn’t need to rely solely on her inheritance. No word yet on whether Barron Hilton donated his money because he was embarrassed by his family’s younger generation, as suggested by previous articles. We’re going to assume he’s just an awesome guy, who knows no one needs $100 million less than Paris Hilton.

Picture note by Jaybird: Header Paris and Nicky Hilton having lunch with the always attractive Brandon Davis at the Four Seasons yesterday in Maui. And here’s Brandon Davis chewing, just because I’m mean like that. Images thanks to Splash Photos.

Recently knocked-up Jessica Alba may be engaged. I’m allowed to say “knocked-up” because it was a movie and is now part of the lexicon, and is no longer disrespectful. Right? Okay let’s go with that. Though Alba loudly proclaimed that she wasn’t getting married anytime soon (Us Weekly reported, “She doesn’t want to be pregnant in a dress!”) it appears she’s at least gotten engaged. Photos were taken of Alba driving in her car with a very large engagement ring on her left hand.

Mom-to-be Jessica Alba was seen leaving the gym earlier today with what seemed like a huge rock on her finger.

Could her beau Cash Warren have proposed over the Christmas holiday? That rock is wayyyy too big to be a gym ring, and she wouldn’t be wearing it unless it was a new engagement ring right?

The couple had initially broken up over the summer because Alba reportedly wanted to get married and Cash wasn’t ready. Three months later, they’re back on and there’s a baby in the oven.

Alba has said that she doesn’t want to be pregnant in a wedding dress so don’t wait for a shotgun wedding, but it looks like Cash is going to make an honest woman out of Alba after all.

[From Hollyscoop]

If Jessica and Cash are engaged, I will point out that she’s also making an “honest” man out of him as well, since they’re both going to be parents soon. The couple has been dating since they met in 2004 on the set of “Fantastic Four,” where Cash was a director’s assistant. They broke up briefly this summer, reportedly because Jessica wanted to get married and Cash wasn’t ready. I don’t want to be totally obnoxious, but Cash Warren could do a lot worse than Jessica Alba. Have you seen her butt? I would give both my eyes and at least one leg for that butt. Granted it wouldn’t be nearly as sexy strapped to one leg, but I think I could make it work. If they are indeed engaged and Jessica isn’t just pulling a Britney Spears/Lindsay Lohan by wearing a huge ring on her left hand, congrats to them both!

Picture note by Jaybird: Header image of Jessica Alba leaving the gym yesterday wearing what appears to be a very large engagement ring. Images thanks to WENN.

Update: Alba’s rep confirms that she is engaged to Warren.

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You know the hot guy from those “Mummy” movies? I don’t know if it was just the lure of the sexy leather bracelet he wore or that he pretend scored with Rachel Weisz. Either way he is back on the bachelor market. He and his real life wife have confirmed that they are splitting up via Fraser’s rep.

“They continue to maintain a close and caring friendship,” the actor’s publicist, Ina Treciokas, said Wednesday in a statement.

[Associated Press]

The couple has been married for 9 years. They also had three kids, which kinda makes me feel bad for circling like a vulture. He and soon to be wife Afton met at a barbeque hosted by Winona Ryder. They then fell in love and married in 1998. Currently reasons behind the parting are still a secret.

I am guessing it his obsession with his male pattern baldness. He had a full thick head of hair in his heart throb days following his “Mummy” movies success. But in 2003 his hair tragically vanished only to reappear last month for the new installment of his claim to fame, “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.”

I bet he went the route of Nicholas Cage. He went and got himself some wicked hair plugs and willed himself back to hotness.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Brendan Fraser and his wife Afton Smith and 2/3 of their kids (the last one wasn’t born yet) are shown at the Halloween Carnival at Universal Studios on 10/23/05. Brendan and Afton are also shown at the Critics Choice Awards on 1/10/06 when Afton was pregnant. They have three boys, Griffin Arthur, 5, Holden Fletcher, 3, and Leland, 20 months.

Professional Hot guy, Josh Duhamel, is reportedly engaged to singer, rapper, and part-time Pea, Fergie. Duhamel’s press agent announced the couple’s engagement Thursday.

Stacy Ann Ferguson, the singer Fergie’s real name, has been nominated for a Grammy in the best female pop vocal category for her debut album “The Dutchess.” Fergie’s solo album, as well as her work with rap mega-group The Black Eyed Peas, has catapulted her to pop-superstardom and led her to challenge Gwen Stefani for the title of “Funkiest White Girl in California” in the 150lb and under division.

Josh Duhamel’s big break came when he out-prettied Ashton Kutcher at an IMTA modeling contest. Duhamel might be most recognized for his part in Transformers, but he also appeared in the 2006 movie Turistas and in the NBC show Las Vegas. Duhamel won a daytime Emmy for his role as Leo du Pres, a handsome and debonair scammer, on the ABC soap opera All My Children.

Given Duhamel’s romantic history, you might wonder if du Pres was really an act. The AP article says Duhamel told interviewers that he and Fergie have been dating for “about three years,” yet Duhamel’s wikipedia entry claims that in 2004 he “was engaged to his girlfriend of several years, fashion model Kristy Pierce”

At this rate, we predict all those women warm for Duhamel’s form may have to wait several months before he is officially back in circulation.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Josh Duhamel and Fergie are shown on 12/2/07 outside Katsuya restaurant in LA, thanks to WENN.

Sean Connery portrayed the suave James Bond with a license to kill in the last century, but neighbors and a State Supreme Court judge are portraying the actor in this century as sue-happy jerk with a license to renovate.

Associated Press reports that Wednesday, State Supreme Court Justice Marcy Friedman “slammed” the ancient star of such classics as “Darby O’Gill and the Little People” and “Highlander II: the Quickening.” Officiating a particularly nasty dispute between Connery and his New York Neighbors, the judge called Connery’s “blunderbuss” legal maneuverings “slash and burn litigation”

Neighbor Burton Sultan and family allege the 77-year old Connery ruined their furniture, and filled their apartment with noxious fumes while Connery engaged in lengthy renovations to the six-story town house they co-occupy. Sultan described the maker of such box-office magic as “Meteor” and “League of Extraordinary Gentleman” as “a bully who ignores norms of neighborliness and decency”.

Sultan further alleges that Connery’s renovations dragged on for years, causing leaks in the roof and allowing rats into the building. The judges comments were in regard to Connery’s countersuit. Friedman issued a ruling preventing either party from filing additional lawsuits in the case.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Sean Connery and his wife Micheline Roquebrune are shown at the AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Al Pacino on 6/7/07, thanks to PRPhotos. I was going to make fun of his wife’s super tight shiny silver dress, but she’s been married to a guy who thinks it’s ok to hit women for nearly 35 years, so I’ll go easy on her.

Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn have confirmed through their rep that they are divorcing, after 11 years of marriage. It’s sad that they aren’t quite managing ’til death’, but 11 years is a Hollywood lifetime, isn’t it?

One of Hollywood’s longer lasting unions, between actor Sean Penn and his wife Robin Wright Penn is over, as the couple confirmed they are divorcing.

The couple, who married in 1996, have two children together, Hopper Jack, 14, and Dylan Frances, 16.

According to People Magazine, the divorce was confirmed by the couple’s spokesperson.

The Daily Mail

Sean and Robin have acted in movies together, and started dating in the early 1990s shortly after his divorce from Madonna. They split briefly in 1996 and he dated Alaskan singer Jewel, and that relationship inspired several songs on her album Pieces Of You.

It’s always sad when a marriage ends, particularly when children are involved, the possible exception to this rule being when you hit Las Vegas and get married just for fun, and have to get an annullment. Then it is amusing for everyone, except possibly the couple who got married. For them it’s mostly embarrassing.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn are shown at the Into The Wild premiere on 9/18/07, thanks to WENN.

When it comes to Christmas I love the idea of spending time with family, and giving and receiving gifts, but I’m less fond of our Christmas tree. I much prefer a real tree but my fellow householders won’t hear of it. However, I think they might be won over by this story from George Clooney:

“Our neighbour was so proud of his garden, so when my dog got into it, he shot its butt full of pellets. Fortunately the dog didn’t die,” Contactmusic quoted Clooney, as saying.

“But in the middle of the neighbour’s garden was a manicured fir tree, so one Christmas Eve, I sawed it down and put it up in our house.

“No Christmas tree has ever meant so much to me,” he added

India Times

If only I could engineer a scenario like this one, I don’t think any Grinch could deny me my cheekily gained live Christmas tree in 2008. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I don’t have a dog, and my country frowns on casual gun ownership. The neighbours do have a few trees and I’ve got a cat, so maybe we could work something out. Or I could just buy a live tree and insist on keeping it, although that really seems to be taking the easy way out.

Note by Celebitchy: George Clooney planned to bring his new girlfriend, former Fear Factor winner Sarah Larson, home for Christmas with his family, according to OK! Magazine. They say that Sarah’s present to his father would be “a martini set with a limited-edition Rabbit corkscrew and a big bottle of wine.” Hopefully he doesn’t read OK! Magazine or he would have found out his gift ahead of time.

George Clooney is shown leaving Il Cielo Restaurant in Beverly Hills on 11/16/07, thanks to WENN.

Jason Lewis – Learn to act with his pants ON.

Ashley Olsen - Eat a Triscut

Victoria Beckham – film hardcore sex movie to raise money for Shih Tzu Rescue

Tony Parker - Catch a “Desperate Housewives” episode between games

Liza Minnelli - save the booze for when she is driving

Sharon Stone- only park in the handicap spots when she is really, really high

Kelly Ripa – Kill, eat Regis Philbin

Conan O’Brien- Keep the Beard, shave the crotch

Britney Spears – Take some time out from watching the kids for some “me” time

Carson Kressley – get lasik surgery to worsen his eyesight

Kiefer Sutherland – become the toughest guy in the yard

Lindsay Lohan – go to re-hab to find a new boyfriend

Will Smith – get his Thetan level higher

Nick Hogan - enroll in the Devry institute, move to Argentina

Paris Hilton – Find another rich Grandfather

Angelina Jolie – Adopt Brad Pitt

Demi More - get that plastic surgery on her knuckles and toes to make herself complete

Tara Ried – quit spending so much money on underpants

K Fed – put his kids on the nutritious “Lucky Charms” diet

Dave Chapelle – turn down the first eight truckloads of money, accept the 9th

Pam Anderson – Mary someone who wasn’t on a Hollywood sex tape

Sacha Baron Cohen – resist urge to punch people who come up to him and yell “verrrry Niiiiiice”

Lindsay Lohan has very strict requirements when it comes to dating. First, they must have drugs. Second, they must be willing to trade drugs for sex, since she’s normally broke. Third, they must be totally and completely skeezy. Luckily for Lindsay, ex-boyfriend Riley Giles completely fit the bill. The two hooked up at the posh Cirque Lodge rehab clinic in Utah, where it became readily apparent to everyone but Lindsay that Riley probably had nothing but dollar signs in his eyes. They broke up right after Thanksgiving, and not surprisingly, Riley cashed in within a month. He recently sold his story (and some slutty photos) to the always-upstanding tabloid News of the World. Here are a few delicious tidbits from his interview:

“Lindsay’s definitely a nymphomaniac. She’s wild in bed. We’d have sex a couple of times in the day and then go to it through the night.

“We once did it four times in a row straight. That was crazy. Lindsay was insatiable. She’d demand sex again and again. We’d go at it for hours. She’d have worn out most guys.”

[From News of the World]

Wow, thanks Riley. News of the World put that quote under the heading “Potent.” Kiss ass much? Riley, 24, says he met Lohan when she slipped the “ski-slope hunk” a note in rehab which asked for his number. According to Giles, Lindsay started calling him right away. I’d like to think he was flattering himself, but Lohan is all sorts of desperate and crazy, so I tend to believe it’s true.

“From that moment it was on… the chemistry between us was so strong we couldn’t help ourselves.” But once they left the Cirque Lodge— after 60 days on the program—they moved into a romantic log cabin in the nearby mountains. They locked themselves in and were at it like rabbits.

Riley revealed how Lindsay used orgasm after orgasm as a potent substitute for the huge chemical hits she was used to while partying. He explained: “When you orgasm, your endorphins shoot up and it becomes a massive natural high. If you have an addictive personality like Lindsay you need that to replace the highs you got from taking drugs all the time. Sex became a key part of her recovery. And we didn’t get out of bed for days. It was the perfect place—roaring fires with amazing views over the Sundance ski resort. The first time we had sex I couldn’t believe I was looking down at Lindsay Lohan naked. We’d barely gotten through the door when we just ripped each other’s clothes off. Lindsay is so hot. She has a great body. Her backside is fantastic, perfect, all plump and round. She has great curves but her belly is nice and flat and toned. We couldn’t get enough of each other.”

[From News of the World]

That’s all sorts of disgusting. I really don’t need to know Lindsay Lohan’s unique, messed-up, addiction-based psychological issues for having a lot of orgasms. In fact I really prefer to think of her as doing blow – and nothing else – all the time. She so skanky that even the thought of her having sex can give a person several previously undiscovered STDs.

Riley also claimed that Lindsay told him she loved him, and that he said it back – and apparently that’s quite the compliment to Lindsay, as he doesn’t say that to just anyone. Wise move dude. And I bet you really did love her with all your heart, considering how quick you were to sell her out. He’s also deeply concerned for her, and doesn’t think she’ll be able to maintain her sobriety with her “extremely addictive personality.” He also disclosed that Lindsay once almost accidentally killed herself after taking a lot of Xanax and alcohol to relax. She then passed out in a bathtub and was rescued in the nick of time by her assistant.

As important as maintaining her sobriety is, it seems to me that Lohan need to focus just as much on ridding her life of douche bags. That would include her mother, father, and 95% of her friends. And she should truly stick with that AA rule of not dating for at least a year. And because she’s Lindsay Lohan and tends to do everything to the extreme, she should probably just consider not dating at all. Ever. Because she’s clearly just dating users and publicity seekers. Daddy issues anyone?

Picture note by Jaybird: Header image of Lindsay leaving the Acona Day Spa in Santa Monica, CA, after spending the day running various errands and appointments. According to Riley Giles, she gets her hair done every single day, and has a spray-on tan twice a week. He’s diagnosed this behavior as unhealthy. I’d just call that lucky. Except that she also has to be Lindsay Lohan, which isn’t so lucky. Images thanks to Splash Photos.