Perez Hilton Hospitalized After Reports of Livestreamed Self-Harm
The blogger had recently returned to his native Miami after years in Las Vegas
By Roxanne "Flashbulb" Starr
Perez Hilton, the blogger who built an empire chronicling other people's business, is now the subject of an alarming report about his own.
NBC News reported Tuesday that Hilton was hospitalized following reports that he livestreamed an act of self-harm. The outlet's brief item did not detail the circumstances further — the platform involved, his current medical condition, or who first raised the alarm — and we don't have independent confirmation beyond that single report.
What we do know: Hilton, who rose to fame in the mid-2000s as founder of PerezHilton.com, one of the first celebrity gossip blogs to marry tabloid speed with an unapologetically confrontational voice, had recently moved back to Miami, the city where he was born and raised, after a stretch of years living in Las Vegas.
Hilton became as much a fixture of the entertainment press he covered as the stars he wrote about, later expanding into reality television, podcasting and music commentary.
[Editor's note: This item is built on a single wire report from NBC News with limited detail. We do not have confirmation of Hilton's current condition, and no representative for Hilton has been quoted on the record. We are not naming a hospital or location beyond what NBC News reported, and we will update this story as verified information becomes available.]
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Flashbulb here: this one stings to write, because Perez Hilton spent two decades on the other side of stories like this. We're keeping it short and sourced because that's the respectful thing to do when the facts are still thin. If I can't source it, you won't read it here.
— Compiled from reporting by NBC News.
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