Short answer: No. No reputable source documents Jewish parentage on either side of Paris Hilton's family, and Jewish outlets have stated in their own voice that she is not Jewish. Her family is a well-documented Roman Catholic dynasty, and she has never claimed Jewish identity.
What the record actually shows
- A Catholic dynasty at the root of the family fortune. Conrad N. Hilton, Paris Hilton's great-grandfather and the founder of the Hilton hotel fortune, was a Roman Catholic whose last will and testament directed his foundation to "Give aid to their protectors and defenders, the sisters, who devote their love and life's work for the good of mankind, for they appeal especially to me of being deserving of help from the Foundation." The Conrad N. Hilton Fund for Sisters, established in 1986, has awarded more than $175 million to Roman Catholic sisters worldwide over 30-plus years.
- Catholic schooling, in her own account. In Paris: The Memoir, Hilton describes an eighth-grade teacher at her Catholic school, roughly 1994-95, writing that everyone loved him, "including the nuns," as quoted by PAPER.
- Her own religious language is Christian, not Jewish. In June 2007, calling from jail, Hilton said "I have become much more spiritual," "God has given me this new chance," and "God has released me," in remarks Barbara Walters read on ABC's "The View" on June 11, 2007. She was also photographed carrying a Bible before reporting to jail. (CBS News, Newsweek)
- December 2014: targeted by an antisemitic stalker who believed the family was Jewish. An unidentified man sent the Hilton family antisemitic death threats on Instagram and Facebook, including the messages "I know ur Jew family gives nothing" and "KILL JEWS FOR FUN." Threats were also directed at her father, Rick Hilton, and the LAPD obtained a search warrant for the accounts. Hilton told Entertainment Tonight: "We recently filed a police report because the threats were getting out of control, getting more frequent and more intensive each time." (The Times of Israel)
- Two Jewish outlets have addressed the question directly. The Times of Israel, on December 4, 2014, described the Hiltons in its own subhead as the "Hotel heiress's non-Jewish family." JTA, on July 14, 2015, wrote of her sister Nicky, who shares both parents with Paris, "While Hilton is not Jewish," while noting that Paris and Rick Hilton "last year were the target of anti-Semitic death threats."
- July 10, 2015: her sister married into the Rothschild family. Nicky Hilton married James Rothschild, of the Rothschild banking family, at Kensington Palace in London. Paris Hilton was maid of honor and posted on Instagram, "So happy that my sister found the man of her dreams." (JTA)
- Nothing has changed since. Hilton married Carter Reum on November 11, 2021, at her late grandfather Barron Hilton's Bel-Air estate, and they have two children, Phoenix and London. No reputable source indicates a conversion, a change of religion, or any Jewish identification at any point through August 2026.
Why people ask
The single biggest driver is the Rothschild connection. When Nicky Hilton married James Rothschild in 2015, the family name alone was enough to attach a Jewish association to the entire Hilton family. That marriage is Nicky's, and it confers nothing on Paris Hilton's own background. JTA also added a caveat about the groom himself, writing, "To be sure, James is not strictly Jewish in this late stage of the Rothschilds' diaspora history. However, he still has Jewish roots."
The 2014 stalking case pushed the question further into search results, because the coverage centered on a man who was targeting the Hiltons precisely because he wrongly believed they were Jewish. The Forward covered it under the headline "Paris Hilton Threatened by Man Who Thinks She's Jewish", and Tablet covered the threats as well. A smaller factor is the mid-2000s celebrity Kabbalah wave, when paparazzi photographed Hilton wearing the Kabbalah Centre red string bracelet alongside Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie, as Vice reported. The Kabbalah Centre is a celebrity spirituality organization, and wearing its string is not conversion, not Jewish identity, and not a religious change. No source documents her joining or converting to anything. One more curiosity feeds the query: a 2009 My Jewish Learning post headlined "Paris Hilton Is Responsible (and Jewish)", which promotes a Matthue Roth poem set in an alternate universe and makes no factual claim about her.
Paris Hilton and Israel
Her only documented public engagement came on May 16, 2021, during that month's Israel-Hamas fighting, when she posted on Twitter, "This is so heartbreaking. This needs to stop! #SavePalestine #GazaUnderAttack #stopthegenocide," and, sharing a video of a Palestinian girl, "This hurts my heart. No one should have to live in fear. My heart goes out to the little girl and the other children around her." As reported by Middle East Eye and Arab News, both posts were deleted hours later and replaced with, "Sending love and light around the world. Praying for peace to make the world a better place for all." She gave no explanation for the deletions. Full details in our companion piece Does Paris Hilton Support Israel?
The bottom line
Paris Hilton is not Jewish. The documented family background is Roman Catholic, from Conrad Hilton's will through her own account of a Catholic school upbringing, and the Times of Israel described the family flatly, in its own subhead, as non-Jewish. She has never claimed Jewish identity, and no reputable source documents Jewish parentage on either side.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
