Paris Hilton’s Poem On ‘Larry King Live’ Allegedly Plagiarized

After hearing Paris Hilton read a poem the heiress claimed she wrote on ‘Larry King Live’, Joel Stein called his friend Scott Brown and asked him to set her words to a rocking ’80s power ballad. After submitting the completed product to Will Ferrell’s website, FunnyOrDie.com, it received more than 200,000 views. Stein then writes in a op-ed to the LA Times that Judi DeBella, a 43-year-old chef, contacted him claiming that she wrote Hilton a fan letter in jail that started with the exact 13 lines Hilton uttered to King. Read more.