Paris Hilton, liver of the simple life, the socialite who also does a little acting, just dropped the lawsuit she brought against onetime boyfriend Rick Salomon, who, you might have heard, taped the two of them having sex and put the tape on the market. Initially outraged and embarrassed by the video’s surfacing, Hilton came to her senses recently and decided to cash in and drop the suit in exchange for a percentage of the profit from sales of the tape. She’ll receive about $400,000 up front. A major portion of her take she promises will go to charity.

Meanwhile, while shopping in Sweden with her boyfriend, Nick Carter, a strange man introduced himself to Carter and started calling Hilton a whore and being verbally abusive. He managed to get thisclose to the couple. Carter, though he argued with the man, apparently proved useless and it took a Swedish bodyguard to escort the pottymouth out of the store. Well, that is what bodyguards are paid for.