In the early aughts, Paris Hilton briefly dated poker player Rick Salomon. But while their relationship in itself was pretty much unremarkable, their break up was highly publicized after Salomon leaked a sex tape of himself and the hotel heiress. “I just felt so betrayed. This was not some random guy; this was someone I was with for a few years,” Hilton told CNN of the incident in 2011. “I can’t believe that he would do something like that to me. It’s something that changed my life forever.”
Hilton, who was only 19 when the tape was made, later accused Salomon of manipulating her to agree. In her 2023 book, “Paris: the Memoir,” she shared that despite initial hesitation, she eventually agreed after breakup threats from the poker player. Unable to loosen up, Hilton downed alcohol and Quaaludes, which helped her relax. “I needed to prove something to him and to myself, so I got hammered, and I did it,” she wrote, according to the Daily Mail.
But while Hilton might have agreed to make the tape, the socialite says she didn’t agree to share it — making Salomon’s release to the public distressing for Hilton and her family. The famous poker player admitted he holds no regret for his actions. “I don’t feel bad. It’s not ruining her life and it sort of ruined my life and now I’m capitalizing on it,” he said in a 2004 interview with NBC News.
