Paris Hilton has been a pop culture fixture for more than two decades. After rising to fame as a socialite in the late 1990s, the heiress turned reality star, DJ, and businesswoman has lived much of her life in the public eye — including her high-profile love life. Fans have followed Paris’ romances, breakups, and multiple engagements over the years, many of which played out on the world stage.
After several well-documented relationships, Paris found lasting love with her husband, Carter Reum. The couple married in 2021 and went on to grow their family, welcoming a son via surrogate in January 2023 and a daughter, London, later that year. Now, we’re taking a look back at Paris’ most famous and talked-about relationships before her marriage.
Early in her career, Paris had a handful of relationships that drew attention, but her relationship with professional poker player Rick Salomon was one of her first that received a lot of coverage, in part due to the release of the 2003 sex tape, 1 Night In Paris. The infamously leaked sex tape gave the heiress trust issues, she told News47.us in September 2020. “When the tape [with Rick] happened, that just made me never able to trust another man again. That [sex tape] was the biggest regret of my life, and I wish I had never met him,” she said.
Paris spoke about how the experience affected her in her 2020 documentary This Is Paris. “That was a private moment with a teenage girl not in her right head space,” she said. “But everyone was watching it and laughing, like it’s something funny.”
Besides Paris, Rick has had an extensive romantic history of his own and has been married to multiple A-list celebrities. Shortly after he split from Paris, he married actress Shannon Doherty in 2002, but the couple annulled their marriage nine months later. He also married Pamela Anderson on two separate occasions. The couple married for the first time in 2007, only to divorce in 2008. The couple married again in January 2014, only for Pamela to file for divorce in July 2014.
The first time Paris got engaged it was to model Jason Shaw. Paris and Jason were engaged from 2002 to 2003, and they even reportedly re-sparked their old flames together back in 2010, according to Us Weekly. When the pair were rumored to be getting back together in 2010, a source close to the couple revealed to E! that the pair were still friends after breaking up. “Paris has always loved Jason and cared about him deeply. But when they were together she was just a kid and not ready for such a commitment,” the source said at the time.
One of Paris’ most high profile relationships was while she dated Backstreet Boy Nick Carter for seven months in 2004. The relationship was incredibly turbulent. There were rumors that the singer was abusive towards The Simple Life star, but Nick denied any allegations. “My family, friends and fans know that this is not my character and I would never hurt someone that I cared for or do anything like the malicious things they are claiming,” Nick said in a statement to MTV in 2004.
