Paris Hilton fights court case (From Bury Times)

Paris Hilton fights court case

11:21am Friday 10th July 2009

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Paris Hilton has flown in to Miami to fight a court case which claims she refused to promote her 2006 film Pledge This!

The heiress flew from Dubai, where she is filming a new series of Paris Hilton's Best Friend Forever, to fight her corner against the film's investors in the eight million US dollar court case.

Lawyers for the filmmakers have argued that Paris hated the movie and refused for months to make promotional appearances for it despite a contract requiring her to do so - claims Paris denies.

"During the six-month period, at no time would she take 10 minutes to do a phone interview," a lawyer representing the investors said.

Paris, 28, who is expected to take to the witness box today (Friday), was wearing a sleeveless black-and-white dress with a large bow on the back.

She nodded vigorously from her defence table seat while her lawyer insisted she did numerous appearances for the movie but was unavailable to meet many requests by the film's producers because of her extremely busy schedule.

She also had the right to refuse some promotion events that might harm her "brand" and never agreed to plug the DVD release of the movie from December 2006 through May 2007, the lawyer said.

Paris' lawyer admitted that she wasn't pleased with the final cut of the film, which concerns the antics of a fictional sorority at equally fictional South Beach University, but he said she did what she could to plug it.

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