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  'Simple Life' star Paris Hilton hospitalized after being thrown from horse while filming

  March 20, 2004
  Only days after the second season of Fox's The Simple Life 2 resumed filming following a temporary halt resulting from the death of series star Paris Hilton's grandmother, production of the series was once again put on hold when Paris was thrown from a horse during taping and airlifted to a hospital.

• 'The Simple Life 2' begins filming, then pauses due to death of Hilton family matriarch

  March 17, 2004
  Bunim-Murray Productions began filming the second season of Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie's The Simple Life this past weekend, but then almost immediately put production of the cross-country road trip adventure on hold so that Paris could fly to Los Angeles to attend the Tuesday funeral of Marilyn Hilton, her 76-year-old grandmother who passed away on Friday after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Production of the series is expected to resume within a day or two.

• FOX officially announces that 'The Simple Life' will return

  February 10, 2004
  A couple of weeks after Paris Hilton already revealed the second season's premise and Bunim-Murray announced upcoming casting calls, FOX has finally gotten around to announcing one of the worst kept "secrets" in Hollywood -- that Paris and Nicole Richie's The Simple Life will return for a second season.

• Paris Hilton sues Panama-based Internet company over sex tape

  February 10, 2004
  Several weeks have past since the last Paris Hilton sex tape-related lawsuit was filed, so clearly it was time for a new lawsuit in the real-life continuing saga of sex, lies, and videotape.

• Hiltons: Rick Salomon offered to drop lawsuit in exchange for Paris Hilton sex tape rights

  February 8, 2004
  In the latest development in the Paris Hilton sex tape scandal, according Hilton family lawyers, Rick Salomon, the ex-paramour featured in the now notorious film with Hilton, has offered to drop his $10 million defamation lawsuit against the Hilton family in return for the rights to distribute the film on a "pay-per-view basis." For his part, Soloman's lawyer denies that any such offer was made, terming the allegation "an absolute fabrication."

• 'The Simple Life 2' looking for host families

  February 3, 2004
  Bunim-Murray Productions, the producers of FOX's hit The Simple Life reality series, have announced that they will soon begin open casting calls looking for families that are willing to host Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie during their Simple Life 2 road trip.

• Report: "The Simple Life' sequel to center around RV road trip

  January 30, 2004
  Wondering what new outrageous premise The Simple Life producers have decided to go with for the Simple Life sequel that they've been brainstorming about since before the first season of the hit series even premiered? Well if Paris Hilton's own public comments can be believed, viewers need not wonder any more.

• The Simple Life - "Lost" Episode summary

  January 29, 2004
  "Movies Are Educational," our episode summary for the so-called "lost" ninth episode of FOX's The Simple Life, written by strid333, has now been posted.

• "Lost" 'Simple Life' episode remains lost to viewers, places fourth in timeslot

  January 28, 2004
  Perhaps FOX should have quit when it was ahead with The Simple Life. Or at least not have attempted to air the program outside its previous successful Tuesday timeslot.

• Fox to air "lost" 'The Simple Life' episode on January 26, sequel also in the works

  January 21, 2004
  Fox seems unable to let go of The Simple Life. In the latest announcement, a previously-unaired episode of the show (called "The Lost Episode"), featuring fish-out-of-water stars Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie getting jobs with a taxidermist, will be aired on Fox this coming Monday, January 26 at 8:30 PM ET/PT -- immediately before the second installment of My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance.

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