Exclusive: Paris Hilton Calls This Fight Her “Purpose In Life”

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Exclusive: Paris Hilton Calls This Fight Her “Purpose In Life”

When Paris Hilton began speaking out about the alleged abuse she endured at a supposedly rehabilitative boarding school, it’s not hyperbolic to say that she changed and saved lives. It was 2020, and the unregulated troubled-teen industry — a network of private, for-profit schools, wilderness programs, and institutions to reform “troubled” youth — was still largely in the shadows. Since it was formed in the ’60s, more than 145 children have died …