The Secret Life of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee

Hilton's sex tape provided a blueprint for how to turn a malicious leak to your advantage. In public she was blind, cameoing in a sketch about it on Saturday Night Live. She emerged both more famous and more in control of her own sexual objectification. Kim Kardashian did with her own sex tape three years later. Public shame has quite a short attention span - Hilton enjoyed an uncomplicated popularity.