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Paris Hilton Reflects on 2004 Tape in 'This Is Paris'

Where is Paris Hilton's ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon, after he leaked their tape in 2004? 'This Is Paris' adds context to the scandal.

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This Is Paris, a brand new documentary about socialite Paris Hilton which was once launched on the superstar's YouTube channel on Sept. 14, delves into her childhood and adolescent trauma, discussing the abuse she underwent at Provo Canyon School in Utah.

It additionally offers some way for audience to contextually reframe the now-infamous 2004 sex tape that her ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon leaked as what would now, in 2020, be termed revenge porn. Back then, the media construed the narrative as although Paris was once the one responsible.

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So, where is Rick Salomon this present day?

Paris finds she felt "pressured" when her "first real boyfriend," Rick Salomon, intimidated her into filming the 2 of them being intimate while Paris was once handiest 18. 

"It was my first real relationship," she says in the movie including that she was once "so in love with him" and just "wanted to make him happy."

"And I just remember him pulling out the camera," she recalls in the movie. "And he was kind of pressuring me into it. It was like being electronically raped." 

Throughout the documentary, the 39-year-old reflects on how that "private moment of a teenage girl, not in her right headspace" would by no means have come about if she hadn't suffered such abuse and trauma during her boarding school experience, which left her and not using a correct sense of self, consider, or barriers.

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Rick Salomon and Pamela Anderson

These days, while Paris is with regards to reaching her function of changing into a billionaire, Rick is a poker participant whose claim to reputation used to be and stays having leaked the intercourse tape, titled 1 Night in Paris, of his relationship with Paris. 

According to Gambling Times, filmmaking stays Rick's interest. The 52-year-old has acted in 4 different movies, and he additionally produced the TV sequence First In as well as the 2018 movie Gotti.

The outlet writes that his estimated web price is with regards to $30 million. In the previous, Rick has had different high-profile relationships with female celebrities like Pamela Anderson, Shannen Doherty, and voice actress Elizabeth Daily, with whom he has two daughters, Hunter and Tyson.

On Instagram, the "poker bad boy" describes himself as a "shy freak that's why I used to do drugs," and cautions users to not follow him "if you got no freak moves." 

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While both Rick and Paris have obviously moved on from the sex tape, the DJ and Hilton heiress describes the tape as "something that I will regret for the rest of my life." 

"I think a lot of young girls, especially when you're in a relationship, just want that love so bad and you trust that they're going to keep something private, but you never know what's going to happen, because people change, and some guys are not good people," she said.

"If that happened today, it would not be the same story at all, but they made me the bad person," The Simple Life big name continues in the film. 

"I was just so lost and desperate for love that I found the worst possible person," she adds. "I trusted the wrong person. And I let that happen."

Watch the rest of Paris Hilton's heartbreaking documentary on her YouTube channel these days.

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