Paris Hilton is living up to her promise to become a better person, after making an “extremely generous” donation toward the construction of a medical building at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, hospital officials said Thursday.
Hilton, 27 made a financial contribution towards the 460,000-square-foot Childrens Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases, which is expected to open in 2010 - however, officials will not reveal how much she donated.
“The children I have met through my involvement with Childrens Hospital have truly touched my heart,” Hilton said in a statement.
“I am proud to make a donation and lend my name to the fundraising effort to help children who are facing terribly serious illnesses.”
The socialite has been criticized in the past year over failing to put action behind her comments made to CNN’s Larry King, after she spent 23 days in jail last year for violating probation on alcohol-related reckless driving charges.
Hilton told King that the experience caused her to reevaluate the role partying played in her life, and that she wanted “to help raise money for kids and for breast cancer and multiple sclerosis”, however, once released from prison she appeared to return to her previous lifestyle.
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