Will Paris Hilton prison sentence affect her career? Why or why not?

Question

In your opinion, do you believe that Paris Hilton going back to prison will hurt her career and reputation? Who or why not?

I do not believe that Paris Hilton's career will not be ruined because when celeberties get arrested and go to prison, it does not have any major impact on their career and reputation but when the Average American citizen does what Hilton did, it can damage their reputation and their career because they could lose their job as a result.

Paris Hilton has a modeling and acting career. What she does for work she does for enjoyment.

Answer 1

That's pretty much the main issue. If finding a job is important, then the criminal record has an impact. Other than that, it's just more free publicity, and is probably positive for a celebrity. I think Martha Stuart's stock is higher than ever now.

Answer 2

What career? She is a professional brat who is squandering her time and is very selfish. She should be using her undeserved, inherited wealth to ease the way for others less fortunate by starting a fund for impoverished black American youth or housing for the poor in New Orleans or anywhere else. Instead she opts to become a media queen in Hollywood where any kind of publicity is good. What a shame. But I don't want to be too hard with her, because it's difficult to think clearly when you're always high or hung over.

Answer 3

No, it will not affect her career negatively. I think what the judge's and many persons of the public's issue has been is the affect of the law. The law has to be fair for all. It should not discriminate between race, religion nor social standing in society. If you are a repeat offender, you should do the time like everyone else. If us 1st world democratic nations are going to preach it to dictatorships across the world, then we should be practising it too!

Answer 4

No, nothing will ever hurt Paris' career. I mean what career. She doesn't really do anything that would make her a real celebrity. She just poses and makes sex tapes. I don't think her "career" will be ruined. If anything it will boost it. You can't really hurt a career that came from a sex tape. That's the lowest you can go.

Answer 5

What career? She had none before this and will never have one afterward! If she wasn't connected to money she would have had to get married to a rich idiot that wanted some arm candy a long time ago! But we'll always have Paris!

Answer 6

Contrary to the popular view, I think Paris is an overachiever who works and plays hard because she thinks she has to prove herself.

The best thing she could do is take a sabbatical from the "Paris Life" and learn that she doesn't have to try so hard.

Lots of people can have their repuations damaged -- a la Princess Di -- and come back stronger than ever once they get the medical and psychiatric support they need.

She has nothing to prove to the American people. However, she has everything to prove to herself. Someone once gave me a poem by Marianne Williamson. If you love someone who is in a dark place in their lives, please print it out and pass it along:

Our Deepest Fear
By Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.

We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small
Does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
So that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine,
As children do.
We were born to make manifest
The glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us;
It's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.

Note: This inspiring quote is taken from Marianne Williamson's book A Return to Love. Though often quoted as part of Nelson Mandela's moving inaugural speech, "Our Deepest Fear" does not appear in the speech.

Answer 7

Just this one week alone in her entire life will haunt her forever. When she had the chance to do right and be brave and do her time like anyone else(like she so boldly said she would last Sunday night) she blew it. She has really shown her true colors(especially in court on Friday) and the fascination over her is going to fade quickly. She has done one good thing though--she has provided more fodder for comedians than just about anyone else in recent history.

Answer 8

What career? What reputation? She is an heiress that plays all the time, that's no career. AS for reputation, she ruined her reputation a long time ago. I have very little sympathy for her. Like the old saying goes, If you cant do the time don't do the crime!

Answer 9

You mean her career of ruining the Hilton name? No, she'll probably keep that one going.

Answer 10

She only has a trillion dollars. She would have to get a career and a job to lose them. If you don't do what she did you will never find out how you would be treated. And you'll never have a Trillion dollars.

Answer 11

Oh yeah, it will "affect" her "career". She will emerge from this more popular than ever. For some of us, it is like that car accident that you can't look away from. For others, she is an addiction, beautiful, rich, notorious. Bottom line though, while Nobel Prize winners and heroes go unsung, we memorialize and worship "celebrities" whose only claim to fame is to be born rich, beautiful, and bored.