The shocking life of Paris Hilton s man eater grandma Big Kathy

In Paris Hiltons justreleased Paris: The Memoir, the bad girl of the early 2000s paints a glowing, saintly portrait of her late maternal grandmother as a major influence in her life. But Kathleen Dugan Avanzino Richards Catain Fenton was more sinner than saint. A highschool dropout at 16, Kathleen grew up in a raucous, welltodo IrishCatholic family in upscale Manhasset, in Long Island, and later had a reputation as a man hunter and a wife from hell, first revealed in my 2006 bestselling biography, House of Hilton. Dugan was her maiden name; the other four names came from the men she had married including a wellconnected mobster chased by the feds and a handsome alcoholic who got 20yearold Dugan pregnant in the back seat of a Chevy convertible. Thats how Kathy Hilton Paris mother and a star of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills was conceived. She would be known in the family as Little Kathy, while her mother was Big Kathy. Big Kathy would subsequently give bi