For these infamous households, drama runs in the family like a bad gene. Here is Scandalist‘s Top 10 Most Effed Up Celebrity Families featuring The Lohans, The Spears, The Hiltons and more!
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Hiltons
Members: Paris, Barron, Nicky, Kathy and Conrad
Dinner Table Topics: Preposterous Wealth, Drunk Driving, Fame Whoring
Quite possibly the most famous family on this list, if not for their dysfunction, then certainly for their vapid fame. It's hard to know what might have denigrated the good Hilton family name the most: Paris' 2003 sex tape, her DUI charges, or her recording career. Needless to say, Paris introduced America to the uber-decadent, socially irresponsible lifestyle she grew accustomed to living as an heir to the Hilton hotel legacy. Along with sister Nicky, Paris appeared to be everywhere -- but with greater presence comes greater scrutiny. After her sex tape was released, the contents of a storage space were sold on Ebay, and a tape of Paris using religious and racial slurs was all over the press. The culmination of the Paris frenzy happened when she was arrested for DUI, and was forced to serve a jail term of 22 days. Not to be outdone, little brother Barron, just 18, blew a .14 (almost twice the legal limit) when he was pulled over on suspicion of DUI. Though definitely the most private of the Hilton children now (it's as though she realizes how embarassing sister Paris is), Nicky had her own brush with tabloid fame when she inexplicably married old, bald dude Todd Meister in a quickie Vegas wedding just shy of her 21st birthday. Pepper in mom Kathy's desperate attempts at fame (ill-fated reality television I Want To Be A Hilton, hocking products on QVC), and we're pretty sure that Conrad kid hasn't got a shot at normalcy.
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