While Paris Hilton has recently done a great job pledging to solve America’s energy crisis in her new satirical political ads, apparently she didn’t put enough time into pledging for a movie she was in back in 2006. Paris Hilton is being sued for not fulfilling her obligations to help promote “National Lampoon’s Pledge This!” Hilton starred in the film as well as received a credit as one of the film’s executive producers.
The lawsuit, filed by Worldwide Entertainment Group Inc., asks Hilton for 27,000 dollars for her failure to fulfill her promotional obligations. The lawsuit seems legit to us, as judging from the way in which this movie barely registered on anyone’s minds, a definite lack of promotion was taking place.
According to MSNBC, the company claims that it paid Paris Hilton and her company Paris Hilton Entertainment Inc. $1 million for “Hilton’s acting services” and for “reasonable promotion and publicity” for the film. The movie was released in 2006. Hilton’s role in the film was that of the president of a sorority. We’re surprised Paris Hilton even had to show up to work to make this movie. Playing a member of a sorority seems like a role that Paris Hilton could literally phone in.
We have to admit it is hard to conjure up too many memories of Paris Hilton doing interviews in which she happily recounted her favorite memories and anecdotes related to filming the classic that is “National Lampoon’s Pledge This!” A part of us can’t help but hope that Paris Hilton actually made a judgment call and decided that the movie was actually too terrible to bother promoting.
However it’s entirely more likely that Hilton was too busy buying outfits for a miniature dog, or daydreaming about her future relationship with Benji Madden to even remember that she had promotional duties, let alone that she was even in a movie in the first place.