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PARIS HILTON WORKS FOR LEGISLATIVE CHANGE

By Caleb Cunningham , Esq .
A world-famous advocate for treatment center reform , Paris Hilton addressed an audience of nearly 2,000 mass tort attorneys at the opening session of MTMP on October 11 , 2023 , in Las Vegas . She discussed the abuse she experienced in the 1990s at four youth residential treatment programs to which she was sent , including the infamous Provo Canyon School . She also talked about her strategic efforts to end the abuse , neglect , and exploitation of youth at such facilities .
“ I have made it my personal mission to help the hundreds of thousands of youth who today are still enduring the same forms of abuse I experienced ,” Hilton said . “ Since sharing my story publicly in my 2020 YouTube Originals Documentary This is Paris , I have partnered with passionate legislators at the state and federal level to introduce and pass legislation that prevents these acts from repeatedly occurring .”
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