Paris Hilton 'Cried' When She Saw Herself On Cover Of Playboy After Refusing To Appear On It

Paris Hilton says that she ‘cried’ when she realized that she’d been featured on the cover of Playboy magazine without her knowledge.

Hilton was all over the news at the time because of her sex tape that was released by her ex Rick Salomon, and had been asked in the past by Playboy head honcho Hugh Hefner whether she’d appear.

After she turned down the offer, Hilton says he created an award to give her so that her pictures could be used without her consent. 

The 42-year-old has just released a book titled Paris: The Memoir, in which she says she turned down seven figures from Hefner to feature in the magazine.

She explained: "Hef really wanted me to do a Playboy cover,

"He kept offering me more and more money, saying I wouldn't have to be totally naked, just topless.

“And then saying, I didn't have to be topless, just sheer.

“And then saying I could wear whatever lingerie I wanted.

"Even when he offered seven figures, I turned it down, because I knew my mom would lose her mind, and because I had already been branded as a slut after the sex tape.

"I felt like a Playboy pictorial would just cement that in people's minds."

Back in 2000, Hilton was living with two Playboy bunnies in Los Angeles and had considered that the idea of shooting for the magazine ‘would be awesome’.

But her mom considered the idea 'trashy' and so she didn't dare to do it.

But, four years later she was on the cover.

"No one was terribly surprised to see me on the cover of Playboy," she said.

“Except me.

“I was surprised, and not in a good way.

"Hef had 'honored' me with the Sex Star of the Year Award, which means they can claim it's 'news' and not a pictorial.

"He got a picture from an old test shoot with a woman photographer who was really great. It's kind of an old-school pinup-girl vibe: red bustier and heels, black fishnets, very little actual skin — nothing as sexy as the Carl's Jr. shoot.

"I imagine it sold well because people expected to see me naked inside the magazine.

"Surprise, suckers. They got nothing. Same as me."

After the fact, Hilton said that he ‘parents were p***ed, and I cried’.

Though they didn't go after Hefner for this. 

“None of us confronted him,” she said.

“Because you just didn’t do that.”