It is great finally to be able to say something nice about Paris Hilton. After last year’s stint in the pokey, her inability to come up with one single Bible passage for Larry King, and the misstep of providing comfort to well-fed, middle-class African schoolchildren, Paris seems on the road to fulfilling her promise to start helping people.
The rebelle in search of a cause has landed upon Multiple Sclerosis. She lent her future good name to promote the Nancy Davis Foundation’s 15th Annual Race to Erase MS, which was held Friday night in Los Angeles. Hilton was even able to employ her only arguable talent: wearing clothes. She modeled the new “We Heart to Erase MS” orange t- shirt designed by event co-chair Tommy Hilfiger. Orange is the new MS awareness color, which makes the act even more selfless since Paris is a Summer and looks better in pastels.
Event proceeds went to The Nancy Davis Center Without Walls program, a collaboration of doctors and scientists on the cutting edge of MS treatments. Nancy Davis is a Los Angeles wife and mother who founded the organization after being diagnosed with MS in 1991. At that time, it was a mystery disease with no drugs and no cure. Today, there are six FDA approved drugs on the market and several more in the pipeline.
Others at the event include Paris’ lil’ sis Nicky Hilton, mom Kathy Hilton, Anne Heche, January Jones, Shannon Elizabeth, Forest and Keisha Whitaker, Natalie Cole, Sharon Osbourne, Ray Romano, Teri Garr, Rachel Hunter, Harry Hamlin, Lisa Rinna, Danny Masterson, and Daisy Fuentes. You can find more info at erasems.org.