The Beautiful People (professional wrestling)
The Beautiful People was a stable known for the time with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) where Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, Madison Rayne, Lacey Von Erich and Cute Kip were all members throughout its several incarnations. The team are known for their narcissistic gimmick, and holding the TNA Knockouts Championship and the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship simultaneously. Their characters were portrayed as arrogant blonde Barbie dolls, whose main goal as a team was to "cleanse" the TNA roster "one ugly person at a time", based on the belief that their physical attractiveness was greater than that of others in the company, however various incarnations have portrayed them as faces. Original members Angelina Love and Velvet Sky came up with the characters, inspired by Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. Love and Sky formed a new version in Ring of Honor with Mandy Leon, called The Allüre.
The Beautiful People (professional wrestling)
The Beautiful People were vain and narcissistic prima donnas. After a brief initial period without these traits, they became villainous characters who emphasized an interest in looks and created the motto "cleansing the world, one ugly person at a time." The team was created by then-TNA booker Vince Russo, with Love and Sky drawing inspiration for their performance from celebrities like Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie and the movie "Mean Girls".
Paris Hilton
Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American media personality, businesswoman, socialite, model, musician, and actress. She is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Hotels. Born in New York City and raised there and in Beverly Hills, California, she began her modeling career as a teenager when she signed with New York-based modeling development agency Trump Model Management. David Lachapelle soon photographed her for the September 2000 issue of "Vanity Fair". Her late-night persona made her a fixture of tabloid journalism, and Hilton was proclaimed "New York's leading It Girl" in 2001. In 2003, a leaked 2001 sex tape with her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon, later released as "1 Night in Paris", catapulted her into global fame, and the reality television series "The Simple Life", in which she starred with her socialite counterpart Nicole Richie, started its five-year run with 13 million viewers, on FOX.
Paris Hilton
In 2004, Hilton published her book, "Confessions of an Heiress", which became a "New York Times" Best Seller, in 2005, she starred in the horror film "House of Wax," and in 2006, she released her self-titled debut studio album, "Paris," which reached number six on the "Billboard" 200, and respectively produced the successful single "Stars Are Blind". Hilton returned to reality television in 2008 with the "Paris Hilton's My New BFF" franchise, in 2011 with "The World According to Paris", and again in 2018 with "Hollywood Love Story". She has played small roles in Hollywood films and television series, produced several of her own projects and recorded a line of standalone singles. She was a subject of the documentaries "Paris, Not France" (2008), "Teenage Paparazzo" (2010) and "The American Meme" (2018). In 2012, Hilton made her debut as a DJ at Brazil's Pop Music Festival. She held her own residence at the Amnesia nightclub in Ibiza between 2013 and 2017, was the highest-paid female DJ in 2014, and has performed in festivals such as Summerfest and Tomorrowland.

Question: Who was an inspiration for characters in The Beautiful People, and was "New York's leading It girl" in 2001?
Answer: Paris Hilton