Perez Hilton

• Birthplace: Miami, Florida, USA
• Birthday: March 23, 1978

One of the Internet’s most polarizing figures, Perez Hilton took a very simple and overdone idea – celebrity gossip – and turned it into a one-man empire. In 2004, after spending several years on the outskirts of the entertainment world, Hilton started a blog, PageSixSixSix, where he posted pictures of celebrities, adding crude doodles and scathing captions. What began as a simple release for the celebrity-obsessed Hilton soon snowballed into one of the most visited sites on the web. By 2007, the site, now titled PerezHilton.com, was gene…more