The Fur Flies off Paris

Paris Hilton is officially off fur, and Paul McCartney's soon-to-be ex is the reason.

We're told that Hilton -- who has been known to wear fur in the past -- became alarmed after watching a gruesome PETA video at Heather Mills' home, showing dogs being skinned alive for their fur.  Mills told Hilton that going the "fake fur route wasn't foolproof, because some high-end department stores labeled certain garments "artificial fur" when in fact they were the real deal.

Apparently Hilton vowed on the spot never to wear fur again.

TMZ checked with Paris' rep, Elliot Mintz, who said, "Paris does not wear fur, nor will she wear fur described as artificial fur knowing it came off the backs of animals."   Mintz say he and Hilton are "greatful to Heather for educating us on this terrible subject."

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31. If we had doubts before, now we know for sure what an airhead she is to believe PeTA's lies. She fits right in with bimbo Pamela. Notice that PeTA doesn't have any spokespeople with REAL talent, just media whores.

Posted at 8:35AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Pearl Cunningham

32. If we had doubts before, now we know for sure what an airhead she is to believe PeTA's lies. She fits right in with bimbo Pamela. Notice that PeTA doesn't have any spokespeople with REAL talent, just media whores.

Posted at 8:41AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Pearl Cunningham

33. Good For Paris. Fur sucks and I would never date a chick who wears it. Nor do I support the few in the Hollywood crowd who wear or design with it. Jen Lopez and Beonce are really the two last biggest fur hags in hollywood, and they look ugly to me in it.

Posted at 3:47PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Mark

34. Come on folks, this is a huge step forward for a girl whose
personal closet in only ONE of her LA homes looks like
the top floor of Barney's department store. She has a huge
media platform, and who cares about her reasons, it's
a wonderful step in the right direction.

It's FANTASTIC that Paris HIlton is willing to take a stand and reverse
the hideous efforts of the amoral fahion queens to bring back fur.
For you young folks, you may not remember that people worked long
and hard to enlighten the world about wearng dead animals in past years.
It was considered really gauche and immoral to wear fur for many years.
Amoral entrepeneurs have desperately tried to reverse this trend, and us
these former blue collar wannabe divas that got rich as advertising shills.
The nouveau riche pop stars try hard to emulate the truly mega-rich like the HIltons. Brooklyn trash Jennifer Lopez and Texas haridresser's daughter Beyonce are trying to get richer by selling preposterously ugly pretentiously pseudo""classy" garments in their silly clothing lines that try to emulate Paris
couture. These people with no training and education make truly ugly clothes
that not only feature loads of dead dog fur from China, but are manufactured by slaves in the Honduras. These people don't have class. The are lowest class of all. They prove the old adage, "The oppressed take on the worst characteristics of their oppressors".

Beyonce, Sean Combs, Russell Simmons....all of them who are descendants
of slaves have no compunction using slaves in other countries to whip up these
stoopid clothes. How any sane person would watch a German shepherd
being skinned alive and not respond to the immorality and inhumanity
of people who would wear fur is beyong my comprehension. I could also discuss
the atrocities committed in South Africa and Angola to supply the De Beer cartel with diamonds for these classless, clueless "bling" wearers which also involves
slavery and lots of murder, but that's another subject. People will be discussing it soon when the DiCaprio movie about diamonds comes out next year. Get
educated people! Who wants a rock procured by chopping off the arms of a teenage Angolan slave or the fur of an animal who chewed its own leg off to get out of a trap? This is status? This is stupid. This is cruelty. It's pathertic how stupid and ignorant most celebrities really are. The empty tin can rattles the loudest.

The videos that changed Paris' mind are available not only on PETA, but
websites from all over the world in many, many languages from human
beings who are outraged by such insane cruelty.

For the poster who calls PETA terrorists, I suggest they look at some
of these videos of these animals being tortured. Wake up, world.
So what if PETA throws a little red paint around to get the attention of folks
who are unaware of these gruesome practices? Instead of playing video games all day, write some petitions, write the Chinese embassy in you city or state,
send letters to Chinese and Korean businesspeople in your communtiy asking
how you can organize people to stop the torture of dogs and cats in their
countries and start educating others about what's going on. That next pair
of fur-lined gloves you put on just might be Fido, and was sewn together
by Usher's long-lost cousin in the Dominican Republic.

Thank God people like Paris HIlton are FINALLY coming around.

P.S. Ralph Lauren saw the same tapes and has banished fur from
his clothing line permanently and forever on ethical grounds.

Posted at 4:43PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by judith

35. Accept the fact that you ... no matter how much tofu you eat and how low your iron levels become ... are an ANIMAL too. Those foxes would eat you in a second.

I suppose it's better that those baby seals starve to death - which is what would happen [natures so warm and peta-fuzzy] if there wasn't the seal-hunt. Or that a tribe of native canadians has survived thru this for thousands of years. Tell them to get a job at the GAP, right!??

Seriously pop-politics.

Posted at 12:43AM on Jun 24th 2006 by ruckus

36. Paris is an idiot. She is a hypocrite and a waste of camera flash. She won't wear fur, but she can wear snake-skin shoes, leather bags and belts, and she can down hamburgers, and all this was after she claimed to be an animal rights activist on The Simple Life quite a while ago. You've gotta be kidding me! Can she just go away already?

Posted at 12:32AM on Jun 26th 2006 by PJ Girl

37. Ok ruckus,
Let's say the seal hunt is there to keep the seals from starving; couldn't it be done in a more humane way, or are you some dumbass 20 year old frat boy who skins live rabbits for fun? Believe it or not, there is a difference between Native tribes killing a few seals to survive and people killing thousands for "fashion". And I happen to have high iron levels, thank you.

Posted at 12:39AM on Jun 30th 2006 by Adrienne

38. LOL I cant belive ppl belive this Just wait till the Winter Collection Comes around Paris will be in Sun Valley & Aspen Rocking the Minks!!!! GO FUR WEARS Peta is to much like a communist party.

Posted at 12:20AM on Jul 1st 2006 by Jesse J.

39. Good job Paris!!!-i've always liked ya-now i love ya!!!--too bad not everyone can connect the dots like you!!!

Posted at 2:07AM on Jul 2nd 2006 by kim

40. Good for her! Fur is murder and anyone who wears it should be skinned alive!

Posted at 10:34PM on Jul 10th 2006 by Daisy

41. she is just an egosentric bitch.

she dosen't care about animals she just wanted media attention i mean

COME ON!!!! she watches one little video and drobs one little thing and suddenly she is a saint

I watch tons of video's from peta and no one writes a thing about me.

I bet thats all she did.

she'll give up fur but she wont give up.........

leather meat fish lopster snake-skin being a bitch eggs milk making a complete mockery of herself and everyone else aound her i can go on and on

I just hope that her sister can run away befor she is fully draged into the bitch pool

Peace

Posted at 4:37AM on Jul 16th 2006 by emily skaggs

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