Nicky Hilton's Ex-Hotel Designer Has Axe, Will Grind

When it was announced Nicky Hilton would be opening a boutique hotel chain, it made perfect sense to us — her sister having cornered the reality show, acting and recording artist markets. But now Nizar Idrisi, a licensed Los Angeles-based architect whose former business partner Faye Resnick (of O.J. trial fame) is Nicky Hilton’s godmother, says Hilton contracted he and Resnick in May to design the hotels “look like Paris’ house,” only to have the deal squashed after Nicky’s manager, Paul Fisher, wanted to keep Resnick’s name out of the press about the hotel.

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