
None of Big Kathy’s marriages and her often bizarre lifestyle made it into Paris’s book. They followed those lessons to the letter, later leading Big Kathy to boast, “My daughters are married to men who have a total net worth of $13 billion.”īut, in Paris’s telling, Big Kathy was simply the “single mom of three extraordinary daughters.” The three daughters were taught to marry rich men and have lots of babies. She become a driven and obsessive stage mother, quickly pushing her girls into show business careers - in Little Kathy’s case when she was just two years old. īig Kathy would subsequently give birth to two more daughters, actresses Kyle and Kim Richards, also “RHOBH” stars, with her second husband. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Kim Richards with Kyle Richards and their mother, Sharon Kathleen Dugan (left). She would be known in the family as “Little Kathy,” while her mother was “Big Kathy.” Kathleen Dugan Avanzino Richards Catain Fenton (left) once allegedly tried to push her second husband - the father of daughters Kyle (right) and Kim Richards - down a flight of stairs.

That’s how Kathy Hilton - Paris’ mother and a star of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” - was conceived. In Paris Hilton’s just-released “ Paris: The Memoir,” the bad girl of the early 2000s paints a glowing, saintly portrait of her late maternal grandmother as a major influence in her life.īut Kathleen Dugan Avanzino Richards Catain Fenton was more sinner than saint.Ī high-school dropout at 16, Kathleen grew up in a raucous, well-to-do Irish-Catholic family in upscale Manhasset, in Long Island, and later had a reputation as a man hunter and a wife from hell, first revealed in my 2006 bestselling biography, “ House of Hilton.”ĭugan was her maiden name the other four names came from the men she had married - including a well-connected mobster chased by the feds and a handsome alcoholic who got 20-year-old Dugan pregnant in the back seat of a Chevy convertible.

The dark and tragic side of golden girl Paris Hilton’s billionaire life
