Nicky Hilton

Socialite Nicky Hilton has sold her house in Hollywood Hills West for $2.625 million. The traditional-style home features a den, a gym, a formal dining room, three bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms. The eat-in kitchen has an island, four ovens and a large pantry. There are 4,072 square feet of living space. Hilton, 29, is the great granddaughter of Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton. The former model  has her own clothing lines.   She bought the property in 2007 for $2.8 million, public records show.

Socialite Nicky Hilton has sold her house in Hollywood Hills West for $2.625 million. The traditional-style home features a den, a gym, a formal dining room, three bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms. The eat-in kitchen has an island, four ovens and a large pantry. There are 4,072 square feet of living space. Hilton, 29, is the great granddaughter of Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton. The former model  has her own clothing lines.   She bought the property in 2007 for $2.8 million, public records show.

3 p.m. Three hours before her Chick line makes its Los Angeles Fashion Week debut, Nicholai Hilton is perched cross-legged on a bar stool getting a half-inch gash over her left eyebrow camouflaged with concealer. She suffered the cut the day before when she bent to grab a CD for the show soundtrack.

As the doting wife of hotel and real estate scion Rick Hilton, the mother hen to tabloid darlings Paris and Nicky Hilton, and the aggrieved childhood friend of Michael Jackson, Kathy Hilton has always been one step to the left of the spotlight. Half sisters Kim and Kyle Richards struck reality show gold with Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," but Kathy Hilton's own turn at reality TV, "I Want to Be a Hilton," lasted just one season on NBC. Now she's trying out a new starring role - aspiring lifestyle mogul - beginning with the Kathy Hilton Collection of party dresses.

The Hollywood home shared by celebrity socialites Paris and Nicky Hilton has been burglarized, police said Friday, with thieves taking jewelry, watches and a laptop computer. Nicky Hilton returned home early Thursday morning to discover the break-in, which apparently occurred sometime after 9 p.m. Wednesday, a police spokeswoman said. Police did not place a dollar value on the items stolen except to say it was "substantial, a high amount."

As the doting wife of hotel and real estate scion Rick Hilton, the mother hen to tabloid darlings Paris and Nicky Hilton, and the aggrieved childhood friend of Michael Jackson, Kathy Hilton has always been one step to the left of the spotlight. Half sisters Kim and Kyle Richards struck reality show gold with Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," but Kathy Hilton's own turn at reality TV, "I Want to Be a Hilton," lasted just one season on NBC. Now she's trying out a new starring role - aspiring lifestyle mogul - beginning with the Kathy Hilton Collection of party dresses.

Paris Hilton Watch continued Sunday outside Twin Towers Correctional Facility as reporters waited for someone, anyone, related to Hilton to show up for visiting hours at the downtown Los Angeles facility. Starting about 7 a.m., a dozen reporters from outlets such as Access Hollywood, People magazine, the New York Post and, well, um, the Los Angeles Times, staked out a strip of sidewalk in front of the visitors' entrance to the jail.

A Pussycat Dolls lingerie show, a photo op with former porn star Jenna Jameson and the runway debut of "The Hills" star Lauren Conrad's new collection can mean only one thing: Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Los Angeles is back at Smashbox Studios. Like a television network shuffling its fall lineup for maximum effect, event organizers IMG Worldwide and Smashbox continue to dispense with the drama in favor of sizzle. The result? A week long on sex and celebrity, but short on the sort of bankable -- or even recognizable -- designers needed to give the week resonance beyond the next cycle of supermarket tabloids.

Chris Evans, a.k.a. Captain America, touched down in Las Vegas for some partying with guy friends from his early days in Boston. Evans and his men carbo-loaded at a private dinner with dishes like cowboy steak and Dover sole before hitting Marquee at the Cosmopolitan, where bottle service flowed to the sounds of DJ Chuckie?. The same night, Nicky Hilton came through with childhood friend and bad boy Brandon Davis, who waved hello to Jermaine Dupri?. In Los Angeles, fashionistas like Drew Barrymore, Malin Akerman, Garcelle Beauvais and Anna Kendrick toasted Rag & Bone designer David Neville at Robertson Boulevard's Intermix boutique?

Actress Elizabeth Taylor and her seventh husband, construction worker Larry Fortensky, reportedly are separating after nearly four years of wedded bliss, according to syndicated columnist Liz Smith. The 63-year-old actress, with one of the most enduring faces on the Hollywood screen and an equally enduring reputation for running through husbands, told Smith that she and Fortensky had decided to separate. "Larry and I both need our space now," the actress said.

A Pussycat Dolls lingerie show, a photo op with former porn star Jenna Jameson and the runway debut of "The Hills" star Lauren Conrad's new collection can mean only one thing: Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Los Angeles is back at Smashbox Studios. Like a television network shuffling its fall lineup for maximum effect, event organizers IMG Worldwide and Smashbox continue to dispense with the drama in favor of sizzle. The result? A week long on sex and celebrity, but short on the sort of bankable -- or even recognizable -- designers needed to give the week resonance beyond the next cycle of supermarket tabloids.

3 p.m. Three hours before her Chick line makes its Los Angeles Fashion Week debut, Nicholai Hilton is perched cross-legged on a bar stool getting a half-inch gash over her left eyebrow camouflaged with concealer. She suffered the cut the day before when she bent to grab a CD for the show soundtrack.

Paris Hilton Watch continued Sunday outside Twin Towers Correctional Facility as reporters waited for someone, anyone, related to Hilton to show up for visiting hours at the downtown Los Angeles facility. Starting about 7 a.m., a dozen reporters from outlets such as Access Hollywood, People magazine, the New York Post and, well, um, the Los Angeles Times, staked out a strip of sidewalk in front of the visitors' entrance to the jail.

The Hollywood home shared by celebrity socialites Paris and Nicky Hilton has been burglarized, police said Friday, with thieves taking jewelry, watches and a laptop computer. Nicky Hilton returned home early Thursday morning to discover the break-in, which apparently occurred sometime after 9 p.m. Wednesday, a police spokeswoman said. Police did not place a dollar value on the items stolen except to say it was "substantial, a high amount."

Frank Parker Austin, 65, an interior designer and antique dealer who helped Hugh Hefner decorate the Playboy mansion, died Nov. 20 of cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. A native of Montclair, N.J., Austin earned a degree in design from the University of Cincinnati and worked briefly in Scottsdale, Ariz., before settling in Los Angeles in 1960. His first design firm, with Bill Lane, was Austin-Lane, with a showroom on La Cienega Boulevard. In 1969, he formed F.P. Austin & Co.