‘They like to cut heads and fingers’: Paris Hilton’s ex-business partner was fooled by staged murder scene after hiring a hitman to kill documentary filmmaker, feds say

Left: Paris Hilton arrives at the Chanel Cruise 2022/2023 Fashion Show on Tuesday, May 9, 2023, at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP). Right: Fred Khalilian participates in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of Club Paris, which he co-owned with Paris Hilton, in Orlando, Fla., Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004 (AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove).

A one-time business partner to hotel heiress and anti-child abuse advocate Paris Hilton has been charged with hiring a jailed rapper’s former head of security to kill a documentary filmmaker whose movie he suspected would portray him in a negative light.

Fereidoun Khalilian, 51, who paired with Hilton to launch Club Paris in Orlando in 2004, is accused of offering a hitman $20,000 to take out a former associate who was working on a documentary about him, federal investigators said in a criminal complaint filed Thursday. The would-be hitman, identified in court documents only as M.S., appeared to go along with the plan, but instead ultimately teamed up with the target, staging a fake crime scene that appeared to depict the murder and telling federal law enforcement about the murder plot.

“They actually asked if you wanted a souvenir,” M.S. wrote Khalilian, according to court documents, after sending him pictures of what turned out to be a fake murder.

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