Simone: Let me take you back to the early 2000s. Simone: After the break, we’re time traveling to Y2K … so get in, beeyotch! Simone: And so much has changed since then: the nature of fame… the way we talk about young women, their bodies, their agency. And the beginning of intimate moments gone public. Simone: Today on the show, we’re revisiting Paris Hilton’s scandal. Every episode, we take a moment from that very same week in history - and tell you the story of how it shaped our world.
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Simone: From Gimlet Media, this is Not Past It, a show about the stories we can’t quite leave behind. Can you imagine how they must have felt? That she did a porno film in a Marriott Hotel?!] Simone: On June 15th 2004, 17 years ago this week, the sex tape 1 Night in Paris, featuring Paris Hilton and her then-boyfriend - was released commercially by an adult film distributor. Simone: A few weeks after this Grammys party, even more fuel was added to the Paris paparazzi fire - because… Simone: “We just want to look at you… We don’t want to talk.” Wow, cool guy. But she declined to talk to the photographers. On this day, she was all smiles in her pink ruffled dress and matching headband. Simone: It was Paris Hilton: socialite and heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune. And when she finally did, they erupted in shouts to get her attention. Simone: At a Los Angeles Grammy Awards party in 2004, photographers gathered around the red carpet, hungry for the IT girl to arrive.