Paris Hilton at home, with new goals

This businesswoman with a dash of domesticity is the side Paris wants everyone to get to know through her new show. “The World According to Paris.”  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Hilton speaks with such self-assurance, the fluffy eccentricities of her home seem almost out of place. But that’s the heiress today — a woman in between, intent on recasting, repackaging and reinventing herself again.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Charged with felony drug possession in Las Vegas last summer, Hilton let cameras roll as she painted over graffiti and worked for homeless shelters in fullfilling her community service duties. And it was her decision to include that footage. “I wanted to show people that I understand my actions have consequences,” she said.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Paris is photographed by her pets’ house, which is a replica of her own home.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

“Everybody makes mistakes,” she said. “It’s just, not everybody has to do it in front of the world.... I can’t change the past. I can just learn from my mistakes.”  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

“I wanted to get at this whole spoiled-heiress perception,” said the great-granddaughter of hotelier Conrad Hilton. “There are a lot of heirs out there that don’t work because they don’t have to. That’s not me.”

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Paris Hilton’s higher aims  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)