Six Degrees of Paris Hilton: Inside the Sex Tapes Scandals and Shakedowns of the New Hollywood

In the burgeoning Hollywood club scene where ecstasy dealers dine alongside celebrities and illicit money bubbles up from below like the La Brea Tar Pits a handsome double-murderer and ex-con of refined wit and taste charmed his way into young Hollywoods most elite social circles. Serving as their hired muscle and arbiter of street justice he ultimately went on to expose their scandalous hard-kept secrets -- all the while waging a criminal campaign against the ill-deserving rich and famous. Filled with sex drugs and sudden violence Six Degrees of Paris Hilton: Inside the Sex Tapes Scandals and Shakedowns of the New Hollywood is the shocking true tale of Darnell Riley a well-mannered middle-class kid from Los Angeles who reinvented himself as a stone-cold gangster in the boxing gyms and bruising streets of South Central before serving seven years for a double homicide at fifteen. Released at age twenty-three he infiltrated a far more decadent crowd whose privileged lifestyle is familiar to most only in weekly magazines. During his six-year stab at Hollywood Darnell ran with its It girls and bully boys: He befriended Paris Hilton; was associated with multiple sex tapes; held Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis at gunpoint and humiliated him on camera; dated models; ran numbers; trafficked in drugs; carried out contract beatings; and possibly staged a daring series of home-invasion robberies many of which were attributed to the infamous Bel-Air Burglar. In a potent real-life mix of Entourage and The Wire award-winning journalist Mark Ebner follows Darnells riveting story from exclusive interviews conducted inside Corcoran State Prison through the mean streets of Los Angeles employing a Rogues Gallery of characters unrivaled in modern crime. The ultimate exposé of the greed hypocrisy and vulgarity behind Hollywoods new breed of feral rich and illicitly famous Six Degrees of Paris Hilton is a front-row seat to the best show in town.