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Paris Hilton: My Fragrances Made $1.3 Billion Since 2005

The Huffington Post   First Posted: 01/05/2012 2:05 pm Updated: 01/05/2012 2:09 pm

Love her or hate her, you can't change the fact that Paris Hilton is a rich lady.

While most of us have been snickering, Paris Hilton has been quietly making bank on her perfume line.

Paris adds to her recent Vanity Fair Spain cover (we KNOW) with a turn on the front of that scholarly journal FHM magazine.

She tells the mag in the interview:

"My fragrances are doing really well at the moment. They've produced more than $1.3 billion in revenue since 2005," Paris says.

Dang! Who is shelling out their hard-earned cash for Eau de Paris?

Whoever it is, they've got a lot to choose from: Paris' perfumes include Tease, Passport South Beach, Passport Tokyo, Passport Paris, Can Can, Siren, Just Me, Heiress and Fairy Dust, including the original one she released in 2004, Paris Hilton (the one with the pink and black bottle). At least Paris has something to fall back on, now that her reality show has tanked.

Check out Paris' cover below, and to read more about how Paris is occupying her time these days, click over to CBS and FHM.

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billsowlesforjohnmccain
02:59 PM on 01/28/2012
While most of the sophisticated NY liberal trust babies have been sitting on their behinds collecting trust checks, this entergetic young lady has made herself a fortune, far beyond the ability of any trust offer in the land could hope to do. Go Go Go Paris!
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jagrmeister721
Independent; I critique all
11:39 PM on 01/07/2012
Net margin in retail is typically 5%.  My guess is that the perfume company keeps about 3/4 of profit, gives Paris a 1/4.  Total profits for Paris (over 7 years) would be: $15M ($2M/yr).
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Eric Graff
All LIBERAL ALL THE LIBERAL TIME
08:47 AM on 01/07/2012
The PERFECT 1%er to offer proof that these folks need to pay more taxes......................
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qsfoxx
still chasing the wascally wabbit...
05:31 PM on 01/06/2012
Too bad good money cannot buy good character.
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tincup2005
04:04 PM on 01/06/2012
I hate Paris' smug attitude, detest the golden spoon in her mouth, abhor her better than thou demeanor. But no, I would not hate myself in the morning if I spent a night in Paris.
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03:09 PM on 01/06/2012
Some body should look up the dirt on her fragrance manufacturing practices. If she uses cheap labor over seas and they test the stuff on animals, i say BOYCOTT!!!

If the research turns out clean good for her!! NOT!!! But good for the honest paid factory workers and the animals that didn't get mistreated!!!
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belldn3
Fascinated by red polish on women
03:00 PM on 01/06/2012
1.3 billion? Why do you women but it? Paris will never go broke, will someone put her down already.
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Dede Eagleburger
Beauty is in the eye of the makeup brush holder
03:15 PM on 01/06/2012
because it smells nice..."put her down"?????
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csunbean
02:37 PM on 01/06/2012
I have always liked Paris. She has a unique look and isn't all big fake boobs.. and her perfume smells GOOD. So she was born with a silver spoon ... she is independent now... not like the Trumps who are all in Daddy's reality t.v. show. or the Kardashians in their t.v. show.. she is doing her own thing..
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Dede Eagleburger
Beauty is in the eye of the makeup brush holder
03:15 PM on 01/06/2012
perfectly said!!!!
02:30 PM on 01/06/2012
I rank Paris right up there with that Dance Mom's woman. Both a waste of skin.
02:14 PM on 01/06/2012
I think Paris's perfumes are for a youth market......and her image of "in your face" type of glamour, "latest with the hottest" fashion and blatant rich and sexy persona sells to young women and probably a lot of young men buying gifts for young women. She has taken that "famous for being famous" status and launched it into a lucrative business. She could not do it unless there was a market for it....and while I may find her tiresome, at least, financially, young women appear to rather immulate her "haute couture" style than Snookie's Jersey Shore trash appeal.
01:33 PM on 01/06/2012
I don't care much for her, but she seems to be doing well. She used to worth a mere $250 million. That brings up the question.... how can she be so rich and yet so cheap?
01:41 PM on 01/06/2012
Paris understands the difference in "Visiting Our Level" to make MONEY and make us laugh at her, and not staying "At Our Level", While she laughs her cheap butt ALL THEY WAY TO THE BANK.
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visconti24
See everything; overlook much; correct a little.
02:10 PM on 01/06/2012
Read the story: her fragrances have made a combined $1.3 billion. That does not mean she earned that amount, however. She receives a small fraction of that as royalty payments. The company that makes, distributes and markets the stinkies own the brands and have to pay a huge amount in packaging, promotions and so forth. A 5.00% top royalty in perfumes is customary, which would give Ms Hilton an income of $65 million in 6 years, minus taxes, which would leave her around $35 to $40 million. Still not bad.
03:49 PM on 01/06/2012
I did read the story!!! Read my comment! I didn't say she made 1.3 billion! I said "she used to be worth 250 million"!
Most of that would have to be her inheritance. Now with her perfume and her other products she has made over 100 million so now she's worth close to 360 million depending on which website you check.
01:27 PM on 01/06/2012
Made in a foreign country by cheap labor? How pure are the ingredients? Ridiculous. I guess someone has money to spend.
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visconti24
See everything; overlook much; correct a little.
02:20 PM on 01/06/2012
Had they been made in a foreign country, France, for example where the best perfumes come from they would have a chance of being acceptable. But Parlux, the company that owns, manufactures and sells the perfumes is an American company which makes third rate stinky water-alcohol. Ms. Hilton received a small percentage of the sales total as she licenses her name to Parlux. And NO perfume is made with entirely natural ingredients now, even the best ones. As for the cheap labor, it is found right in New Jersey, where Parlux manufactures their stuff. They can't afford the real parfumiers in France.
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Dede Eagleburger
Beauty is in the eye of the makeup brush holder
03:16 PM on 01/06/2012
American company, American workers...she's helping the economy!!!!!!
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Jimmy 61762
01:21 PM on 01/06/2012
Sex sells,from caveman days til forever,that will never change.She is good at promoting her brand as is Jessica Simpson.
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Ed Baggett
Havana Cruise
01:10 PM on 01/06/2012
I demand an audit !
01:07 PM on 01/06/2012
This must be one of those Republican job creators,that work so hard to earn so little for there efforts.
01:20 PM on 01/06/2012
Please try to learn how to spell. There??? Where? Try their!
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James Ortegard
If we can't agree then let's at least be civil
01:54 PM on 01/06/2012
Maybe the spelling is wrong but the point is valid.
02:25 PM on 01/06/2012
Only to a liberal.