2023-08-15 00:31:01
With a spatula
August 14 2023, 6:31 pm
Paris Hilton and her husband Carter Reum pictured on Saturday enjoying the beach in Wailea, Maui
Hawaii is going through one of the worst, if not the worst, times in its history. The archipelago is far from being the paradise on earth, immortalized in legends and movies, which it had become in the collective imagination in the last century. A series of raging fires have ripped through its islands, especially Maui and the historic city of Lahaina, the former capital, which has been reduced to ashes. Maui adds almost 100 deaths and a thousand missing, making this fire the deadliest in the history of the United States. The entire country has turned to help the survivors, be it by volunteering, sending water and food, or making donations. There is an enormous awareness of what has been suffered by this place, emblem of the nation, among all its inhabitants. Or in almost all. Because Paris Hilton seems to stay away from the pain and camaraderie emanating from compatriots and tourists.
By The country
The heiress to the hotel empire that bears her name has decided to go on a family vacation to Hawaii. There the paparazzi have captured her precisely on the island of Maui, and not far from the flames: on Saturday she dipped her feet on the beach less than 50 kilometers from the area most affected by the fires, as published by the British newspaper Daily Mail, which has captured it on the shores of Wailea. Hilton has walked around the island this past weekend with her husband, Carter Reum, with whom she has been married for almost two years, and her son, Phoenix, who was born in January through a surrogate.
Reum, a venture capitalist, also has a daughter with former actress Laura Bellizzi.
The fires on the island began on Tuesday and have already become the deadliest in the country’s history. Although the main one is extinct, there were still blazes in Kihei on Sunday, just five miles away from the area where the Hilton family bathed. Paris, 42, arrived on the island precisely on Tuesday, when everything was burning. On Wednesday, a few hours later, the island authorities asked the tourists to please leave. There is a housing shortage, so tourist accommodation goes to the many island residents who have lost everything; In addition, many areas do not have electricity or water (which should not be drunk, not even boiled); Those resources, when they arrive on the island, are made available to locals, not tourists.
The couple, both 42, brought their seven-month-old son Phoenix with them.
But it doesn’t look like Hilton has learned her lesson. At the moment, she has posted a couple of Stories on her Instagram profile (with more than 24 million followers) where she asked for support for Maui, as well as donations for one of her foundations. As she has told a source close to the British newspaper, she “has been helping a lot.” “Maui has always held a special place in her heart, she has been stockpiling supplies and getting them to shelters and to those who need them. She has done it and continues to do it ”, they affirm. Even so, her criticism of her has been constant on social networks.
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