I think I’m starting to have a better understanding as to how and why Paris Hilton is the way she is. A lovely tidbit of gossip has just popped up, from a highly reputable source: the cowboy from the Village People, aka Randy Jones. Jones tells an interesting story of meeting Rick and Kathy Hilton at Studio 54 in 1977. For you youngins out there, Studio 54 was a famous New York City nightclub in the late seventies through the early eighties. Go rent the movie, totally worth it for the music alone. Though sadly, Rick and Kathy Hilton aren’t in the film. They probably wouldn’t have wanted anyone to know they snorted blow off the dirty floor. At least put it on some Waterford first. The Hiltons are classy people.

The “‘Y.M.C.A.” singer claims he shared a table with hotel moguls Rick and Kathy Hilton at New York’s famous Studio 54 club in 1977, where they indulged in some recreational drug taking.

Jones told the New York Daily News newspaper, “There was one rock of cocaine left, and it rolled off the table. They just didn’t even bother bringing it back up to a hard surface – they just crushed it into the carpet and snorted it off that. Whatever Paris Hilton is, she came by it honestly.”

Paris’ parents vehemently deny the incident ever took place.

Rick said, “Never happened. We didn’t move to the city until 1979.”

[From All Headline News]

Not to blow a hole (so to speak) in your alibi, Rick Hilton, but you don’t actually have to be a full-time resident of New York City in order to go to Studio 54 and snort some cocaine. I’m pretty sure they let the outsiders snort too. Though that does raise some suspicions as to WHY you moved to New York. We obviously hear a lot of gossip here, and you take it all with a grain of salt. But after a while, you can kind of tell when things have at least the possibility of truth. And such a lame excuse as to why they didn’t do cocaine (“we didn’t live there”) is ridiculous. Look, I can fly down to Los Angeles, rent a car, and run over a squirrel tomorrow. Someone could then come along a few years later and say that I ran over a squirrel in L.A. in 2007. If my only reason why I didn’t do that was to say, “That’s impossible, I didn’t live in Los Angeles in 2007…” well that’d be some pretty back asswards logic, don’t you think? But I might be giving Rick Hilton too much credit. He is genetically related to Paris Hilton, thus there’s a chance he’s simply not that smart and doesn’t realize what a shitty argument he just made. Or maybe he’s all kooky from the blow. Who’s to say?