Now this is what I would call some news!! A socialite to social worker…. It seems that U.S. socialite Paris Hilton, who has always hit the headlines for wrong reasons, is now turning over a new leaf with her new avatar as a social worker. But is it true or a hoax?
In the wake of her jail term for an alcohol-related reckless driving case, Hilton is seeking to remake her image from club-hopping party girl to world-traveling do-gooder. She announced plans to do charity work in Rwanda, but the trip was postponed until next year. With Rwanda off her charity calendar, Paris Hilton has turned her attention to the plight of … drunken elephants in India.
Paris Hilton is taking on drunken elephants. The heiress, who’s always in news for one reason or the other, is said to have been “horrified” by the news that 40 pachyderms were electrocuted during a drunken binge fueled by barrels of beer they found in northeastern India.
Then opportunity for Hilton’s “global elephant campaign” knocked last month when six parched pachyderms broke into a farm in the state of Meghalaya and guzzled farmers’ homemade rice beer. The elephants went on a rampage, then uprooted an electricity pole and were jolted to death.
“There would have been more casualties if the villagers hadn’t chased them away. And four elephants died in a similar way three years ago. It is just so sad,” Hilton was quoted as saying in last week in Tokyo, where she was judging a beauty contest.
However, the ironic twist in the story came on Nov. 13, when it was reported that ‘The Associated Press’ incorrectly mentioned that Paris Hilton was praised by conservationists for highlighting the problem of binge-drinking elephants in northeastern India. Lori Berk, a publicist for Hilton, said she never made any comments about helping drunken elephants in India.
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