The Smoking Gun reports that Paris Hilton is an overpaid media whore. Well, they didn’t exactly use those words, but they might as well have. The issue is that Hilton, an over-sexed, over-hyped billionaire heiress who can make it through life on her name alone (she doesn’t even need that body she’s got!), pulled in a full $1 million on a video movie dud. That money represents 1/3 of the production budget for the film. And she’s being sued by the film’s producers for not adequately promoting the movie. Well, imagine that. Would you?

Think about it. If you are guaranteed $1 million for just showing up and putting on next to nothing, would you do any more than you had to? The company’s contract, under the subparagraph titled “Promotion; Publicity Restrictions:”, states that Hilton shall perform “reasonable promotion and publicity services” at the company’s request “subject to Artist’s professional availability” and “Artist’s reasonable approval of behind the scenes interviews.” OK, that’s real simple. What is considered “reasonable?” And, just for the record, if promotion is subject to the artist’s professional availability, all it would take to get out of the obligation is to arrange for the artist to not be available. “Sorry, I was filming a porn flick in the jungles of the Amazon. Couldn’t make it out that night.”

It looks to me like Paris Hilton got the better end of a sucky deal. That’s a National Lampoon story in itself.