AKA: Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr, Mario Lavandeira
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 03/23/1978
Birthplace: Miami, Florida, USA
biography
One of the Internet’s most polarizing figures, Perez Hilton took a very simple and overdone idea – celebrity gossip – and turned it into a one-man empire. In 2004, after spending several years on the outskirts of the entertainment world, Hilton started a blog, PageSixSixSix, where he posted pictures of celebrities, adding crude doodles and scathing captions. What began as a simple release for the celebrity-obsessed Hilton soon snowballed into one of the most visited sites on the web. By 2007, the site, now titled PerezHilton.com, was generating millions of page views a day, and Perez himself
