A rip-roaring feud flared up AGAIN between NICOLE RICHIE and PARIS HILTON – who kinda-sorta patched things up since Nicole went mommy-mode, as The ENQUIRER reveals in this issue, but a new catfight’s raging because Nicole hates Ms. Copycat dating BENJI MADDEN, twin bro’ of her fiance JOEL MADDEN…but here’s the OMIGAWD part (if you can still breathe!): Paris’ mom, KATHY HILTON, is actually on Nicole’s side!
Kathy – who’s grown very fond of the poor little Richie girl over the years, cheering on her uphill fight to get straight – “had a talk with Paris about it, questioning her motives for dating Benji,” says a family friend. “Kathy flat-out asked her, ‘Are you doing this just to rile Nicole?’ Kathy loves her daughter, but knows the girl doesn’t have an earnest bone in her body – she’s always up to something, and it would be like her to date the brother of Nicole’s future husband just to get her goat!” Enraged, Paris warned Mom: If you repeat that crap to Nicole, I’ll never speak to you again! (Oh, as IF!)
